Urban Prankster writes – Montreal group Les Fourmis came up with a clever use for campaign signs after the recent Canadian election– turn them into birdhouses and put them up around the city. I wonder how many millions of campaign signs there are in the US right now heading to a landfill? Photo set here.
Treehugger has an excellent overview of 30 non-standard ways to put a roof over your head in ‘tents times.’ Above is one of my favorite: a tent disguised as a car. Don’t worry: the article is as good as the pun is bad:)
This is some crazy chicken wing flappin’ action folks, and it looks like a lot of fun too! The system is powered by an Arduino and uses a hidden camera to analyze the players movement. There is a great flickr photo set of the build too! Existing consumer toy chickens were hacked, removing all circuits […]
Since when can fish mix music better than I can? OK, they always could! Submersed Songs is a sound installation that generates mp3 player remixes through the movements of four live fish. The animals’ movements and the proximity among them work as a parameter for mixing and spatializing the audience’s music tracks in real time. […]
Here’s a neat project by artist Nic Wiesinger: The Van That Thought Out Loud is a roaming billboard for your ideas, expression, thoughts and intentions. It is yours, a vehicle for you the individual to rant or whine, be profound or idiotic, wild or lame. Just email a post to the vehicle along with your […]
I love this installation in a subway using the moving systems to turn gears and unfold pieces of itself. It’s a cool Rube Goldberg-esque machine. Via Todd Vanderlin.
Ryan writes in about creating a handmade newspaper… The complete paper – a four page publication not far off the Berliner size – was distributed this morning at select central London locations. Every word and every image and every mark of any kind in The Manual was drawn by a team of volunteers – mostly […]
