This Sundial Spells Solstice
Four times a year, when our planet is in the appropriate alignment with the sun, the shadow this sundial casts onto the ground spells out either “solstice” or “equinoxe.”
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Ceramic Techniques: 3D Printed Prototypes and Lithophanes
Artist Fonda Yoshimoto talks about two different ways of creating ceramic art: one modern — 3D modeling and printing a prototype in order to make a mold; and one old — etching very thin porcelain to take advantage of the translucency once fired.
The Pop Culture Paper Cuts of Olly Moss
Going through this online gallery of paper silhouettes and trying to identify all of the characters from movies, TV, and other pop culture media sources is really fun. Many of them are instantly recognizable, some of them take awhile for the “ah-ha” moment to hit. Some, for me anyway, remain a mystery. [via Blake Maloof’s […]
Best of Maker Faire Bay Area Beats: Bikes, Robots, Outdoors, and Arts
It’s hard to believe over a month has passed since Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. The Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth blew through like a tornado of inspiration, and we’re still reeling from the incredibly creative ideas and projects we witnessed and the impressive number of folks who came out in support of making. […]
Italy’s “Park of Monsters”
Il Parco dei Mostri di Bomarzo — “The Park of Monsters” — is a rock sculpture park in northern Italy.
80-Ruxpin Art Installation
TED is a large, wall-based installation consisting of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that speak emotional content gathered from the web via synthetic speech with animated mouths. The speaking of the emotional content is accompanied by one of twenty-four musical vignettes that have been paired to the emotional content being spoken. Each vignette, […]
Van Gogh’s Starry Night Made from Falling Dominoes
Check out this mind blowing dynamic domino sculpture by renegade artist FlippyCat. This time-lapse video shows his painstakingly hand-constructed Starry Night rendition. It’s an amazing sculpture in static form, but wait till he knocks over the first domino — that’s when the magic truly happens. Starry Night made from falling dominoes
