“Aperture” is a large wall made of 130 hexagonal components, each of which contains a circular opening with a moveable iris. As the user covers and iris, it opens up, revealing the light on the other side of the wall. The work as a whole is reminiscent of Danny Rozin’s Wooden Mirror.
Artist Jeremy LeClair, of Various Artists Records, had these beautiful glass resonating phonograph horns made for him by glass artist Joe Forestall and now he can acoustically play to two different parts of a record at the same time!
Ad-cutting is a kind of guerrilla art form, in which parts of adhesive-backed subway poster ads are creatively cut, peeled, and/or mixed-and-matched with one another to subvert the message of the original ad or otherwise make an original statement. This latest offering from NYC’s Free Art and Technology collective is a tool, not just for […]
A very old idea, of course, but nonetheless awesome, and very well executed, in this case, by Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre, whose Outriders series includes deer, moose, hare, sasquatch, kodiak bear, and barefoot homo sapiens shoes. [via nerdstink] Maskull Lasserre – Outliers More:Werewolf Stilts
Part of a series of skeletal gas discharge lamps from sculptor Eric Franklin. This one is called Embodiment. Franklin’s work makes a nice compliment to Jessica Lloyd-Jones’ neon organs, which we posted about last week.
Dustin Cohen is a Brooklyn-based documentary film maker collecting rich, textural vignettes of local burough artisans passionate about their craft. In his latest Made in Brooklyn short, The Watchmaker, Cohen follows David Sokosh, a former gallery owner turned horologist.
A peek inside the mind and workshop of automata artist Dug North.
