Alan Rorie of San Francisco, CA, wrote in to share his Voronoi Bookshelf Generator software that helps you design your Voronoi-pattern bookshelf on-screen, then output files for laser cutting or...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday March 28th, 2012 11:00 AM
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Sculptor, kinetic artist, and longtime MAKE pal Alan Rorie is back with this beautiful "pressure door" built for a "Nautilus" art car project commissioned from San Francisco art collective Five...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday November 16th, 2011 1:00 PM
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The Uira Engine is a part of the guts from the Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship, which now resides in San Francisco's Embarcadero. For Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, the engine...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Tuesday October 11th, 2011 12:00 PM
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been doing a series of interviews with members of Applied Kinetic Arts (AKA), “a community of artists working within the medium loosely defined as...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Wednesday July 14th, 2010 4:49 PM
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I was thrilled to host a panel discussion yesterday at Maker Faire with some of my favorite kinetic artists: Nemo Gould, Ben Cowden, Reuben Margolin, and Greg Brotherton. I was...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Sunday May 31st, 2009 12:37 PM
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Meredith Scheff has an interview with scientist/artist Alan Rorie. Alan was involved in the Steampunk Treehouse and the Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator. To me, science is largely about taking concrete aspects...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday July 16th, 2008 12:00 PM
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Here’s a strange steam-powered kinetic sculpture by Alan Rorie, who works under the name Almost Scientific. He explains: The Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator is a kinetic, “steampunk” sculpture of a “time...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday February 27th, 2008 11:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design | 4 Comments
Xeni visits the Steampunk Tree House, a 40+-foot-tall interactive sculpture created by a group of artists in Oakland, CA, and assembled for the first time at Burning Man. More than...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday January 24th, 2008 2:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design | No Comments
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