Photograph by Studio M, Tom McInvaille Stacey Lee Webber likes her work long, repetitive, and painstaking. Just look at the life-sized carpenter’s tools she silver-soldered out of pennies. Only pre-1982 coins — minted from 95% copper — would survive her acetylene torch’s high heat, so Webber spent hours flipping and sorting bucketfuls of mixed years. […]
Photograph by David Olsen Down a lonely stretch of Sonoran desert highway south of Tucson, Ariz., lies the washboarded pull-off for Interstellar Light Applications. Visitors don’t have to wait for the dust to settle to lay eyes on ILA’s majestic moonlight collector, towering 6 stories high and 60 feet across, and weighing in at a […]
‘Tech Dorm Gone Wild‘ WSJ’s Andy Jordan hangs out at a dorm at MIT, which houses a coterie of fidgeting student-technologists with a penchant for tinkering, and an eye for changing the world” – if the video doesn’t play, visit the site…
Highway to the danger zone… replica fighter jet that travels at 5mph – Telegraph… Measuring seven metres in length and four metres in width the รยฃ4,000 F-35 Lightning II Fighter Jet has been built at a scale of 1:2. Resembling Tom Cruise’s jet out of Top Gun, it took 3,500 hours to construct the model. […]
Matthias Wandel’s wasp sucking machine… He writes – This machine was the fulfillment of a childhood fantasy! Growing up in the country, wasps nests and the possibility of getting stung were a frequent nuisance. I have no sympathy for yellow jackets that do not produce honey, and sting! In the summer of 1996, opportunity presented […]
Kriร ยกtof Kintera likes to make people nervous… He installs spinning circular saws in gallery floors, and rigs the plug at the end of an electric cord to release 50,000 volts in short bursts. Artworks that, just like your neighbor’s homemade flamethrower, scream “Stay away, don’t touch!” and then, after the initial jolt of fear, turn […]
The funnel wall at the Kunsthofpassage in Neustadt plays music when it rains… via NOTCOT.
