This amazing artwork, by Jason de Caires Taylor, has been making the viral socmedia rounds. Taylor casts life-size cement sculptures of people, animals, furniture, and then submerges them off the...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday November 24th, 2010 10:48 AM
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EVERYTHING MOVES by Jean Tinguely, photo by Akbar Simonse Opening today, and surviving for no one knows how long, is the Self-Destructing Art Show, at Flux Factory in Queens, NYC....
Posted by Nick Normal | Friday November 5th, 2010 10:11 AM
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Musician and musical robot maker Charlie Williams created this fun art piece with a combination of OpenCV (an open-source computer vision toolkit that provides, among many things, facial recognition) and...
Posted by John Maushammer | Tuesday August 31st, 2010 6:21 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Music | No Comments
It’s a dreary, rainy day here in Virginia. Stuck inside the house, if I had young kids, this would make a fun activity, the kids probably tittering the whole time...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday August 24th, 2010 3:12 PM
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Becky spotted this delightful improvisation from Dutch artist Helmut Smits. Now we need somebody to put a printer in a windshield wiper blade that can print out graphics across the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday August 6th, 2010 8:23 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Energy, Makers | 2 Comments
There are some great presenters and exhibitors here at HOPE. Besides the usual suspects: Adafruit, EFF, Sparkle Labs, No Starch Press, there are a number of new faces. One of...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Saturday July 17th, 2010 1:32 PM
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Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Applied Kinetic Arts (A.K.A.) is an artist collective made up of kinetic artists who each bring their own unique aesthetic and skill set...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Wednesday June 30th, 2010 5:43 PM
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Theo Jansen, the Dutch kinetic sculptor that inspired a way of mechanical walking, has done it again. We’ve seen versions of his walking machines rendered in plastic tubing, laser-cut plastic...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday June 28th, 2010 9:18 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Robotics | 1 Comment
Back in April, I posted about Charlie Visnic, a film editor from Fullerton, CA, who had chosen a unique way to try and quite smoking — creating a blog, called...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday June 10th, 2010 9:23 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Craft, Makers | 3 Comments
Raven Hanna, here, of Made With Molecules. I’m a scientist-turned-artist and longtime maker involved in a number of creative science communication projects, including molecule-inspired jewelry and the project Science Tarot,...
Posted by molecularmuse | Friday May 21st, 2010 9:45 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Craft, Makers, Science | No Comments
One of my new faves is YouTube phenoms Pomplamoose, a musical duo composed of Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte. On their YouTube channel, they post what they call “VideoSongs,” quick...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Sunday March 7th, 2010 2:27 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Music, Photography & Video | 2 Comments
Trimpin in his studio, with his kinetic sculpture “SHHH.” Photo (c) by Susanna Howe/Corbis In response to my posting about Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, the sweet-looking documentary about engineer,...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday January 26th, 2010 3:02 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Makers, Music | 3 Comments
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