Ok, the comments on this one will be interesting… The work is made of 21 modules of human faeces, each measuring 215 x 75 x 20cm. The faecal matter was collected in New Delhi and Jaipur, after having rested for three years, which, from a sanitary point of view, makes it equivalent to earth. It […]
An artist called “The Decapitator” is modding advertisements in London to make them more gruesome (unless you think the original ads were worse, then this might be an improvement) – Link.
kniveblock by Dutch artist Maarten Baas – [via] Link.
Our cohort at Craftzine point us to this New York Times profile of Cal Lane, the artist we blogged about a few days back, who plasma-torches delicate lace patterns into steel. Turning Steel Into Lace – Link Related: Plasma-cut lace art – Link
Spinal Rhythms by Eva Schindling – The robotic art work Spinal Rhythms investigates the qualities and dynamics of physical movement performed by inanimate shapes. Abstract stick-creature are actuated by elastic shape memory alloy springs and perform slow and noiseless movements. The movements are the subject of an embodied evolutionary computation process that controls the robotic […]
Anthony McCall’s “Walking in solid air” as io9 said, it almost like a teleporter! – In blacked-out rooms filled with dry ice, McCall’s projectors trace slowly moving white lines – an undulating wave, two lines extending and intersecting – across the walls of the gallery. The artificial smoke turns the beams of light into quasi-solid […]
Telstar Logistics writes – While paying a visit to the studio of San Francisco artist Alanna Spence recently, Telstar Logistics was introduced to a lost gem of a book called “Flight thru Instruments.” Flightthruinstr09_2 Published as a pilot-training manual by the US Navy in 1945, “Flight thru Instruments” teaches proper aeronautical navigation techniques through the […]
