RickB writes –“I wanted to do something with plastic CD’s besides adding them to the land fill – My solution was to use them build 3-D geometric constructions. I describe here how I used 12 CD’s to build a Dodecahedron. I also built a 32 CD trucated Icosahedron, 12 of the CD’s must be cut […]
Stunning photos of “Billions and billions of bacterial landscape architects” – spotted on kottke.org and pruned – here’s a round up of all the ones I could find. Gardens-in-a-Petri – Link. More More Gardens-in-a-Petri – Link. Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of the Tel-Aviv University – Link. Magnetic Liquid Weirdness (metal, not bio) – Link. Symmetric Science […]
Old hard drives with sound pickups are powered up and “played” as the hard drives boot, spin, etc. [via] Link with photos and sounds!
Chuck writes –Your post ‘Houses woven out of trees’ made me think about Axel Erlandson and his Tree Circus. I’ve often dreamed of using Axel’s techniques on banyan trees to grow house frames. Looks like someone is going to actually do it! – Link.
David writes – “Spamgraffiti is a series of online installations created from spam. Each environment is created by spooling through one email account and visually articulating the spam on a series of layers. Newer spam appears above and slowly filters out older spam below. As the rate of spam increases over time per account, the […]
Powderly writes – “This is the newest video released from the makers of LED Throwies. It is lost footage from the Graffiti Research Lab Archive. This short video documents the genesis of the LED Throwie. Watch Fi5e and Resistor get up on the highline in NYC.” Link. Previous: HOW TO – Make LED Throwies – […]
Since we posted the collector article with mention of slide rules a few of you have asked where you can find out more and if we’ll have an article in MAKE, well – we do! Pictured here, the Nuclear bomb effects calculator (1962) and the Bristol Liquids SynchroValve Capity Calculator (1943) from Calculate This! by […]
