San Francisco graffiti artist Rob Sakovich has spent the past 25 years in a world of rattle cans, and his spin on using them stacked as canvases is brilliant. His love of Northern California and the city by the Bay comes through in colors both vibrant and sublime. If you’re in the Bay Area, you […]
Artist Pavel Sinev created these whimsical sculptures of shoes from power cables and zip ties.
It took a team of four people seven hours to fold this giant, life-size origami bear.
In fact, it barely has legs at all, designer Kogoro Kurata having wisely opted for wheeled instead of walking locomotion for his extremely impressive first attempt at de-fictionalizing the ubiquitous giant fighting robot of Japanese pop culture. His project site at Suidobashi Heavy Industries has been up for more than a year, and includes an impressive “build to order” system that lets you specify factory options for your fighting machine ranging from various weapons systems, to upgraded armor, to genuine leather seats and custom paint jobs. The price is updated in real time, as you go, and the whole thing even wraps up with a buy-it-now button.
Steampunk fans won’t want to miss ‘Vintage Tomorrows’ authors Brian David Johnson and James Carrott’s webcas this Friday, November 30, at 10am PT. They’ll be talking about what Steampunk (as a genre, movement, lifestyle, and philosophy) teaches us about the ways people are thinking about their relationships with technology.
Tokyo-based artist Azuma Makoto’s works are usually of the botanical nature, but a few of his works though, like the Lego Pine, use non-botanical media to evoke visions of plant life.
Simon Park’s textile designs are created with social and antisocial bacteria. These are examples from a series of works featuring purely biogenic designs, which explore the inherent creativity of, and which use nature, to directly generate textile designs. Physarum polycephalum is an intriguing and striking microorganism that exhibits simple โintelligenceโ. In this respect, it will […]
