A Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane that crashed in flames on takeoff from Shanghai's international airport, killing three American crew members, wasn't carrying sensitive goods, a senior executive with the plane's operator said. 上周六早间，一架在津巴布韦注册的货机在上海浦东国际机场升空时起火坠毁，导致三名美国机组人员死亡。该飞机运营商的一位高级管理人士说，
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Faces of the Chin WomenTattooed Faces of Myanmar A photography exhibition of limited edition fine prints byJens Uwe Parkitney11th – 24th November / 9am – 8pm . Starstreet UG Lobby . Three Pacific Place . Wan ChaiOPENING RECEPTIONWednesday 11th November . 6:00 to 8:00pmFor 10 years, the German photographer traveled to the wilds of West Myanmar to
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I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity-venders, who are called marchands de bric-a-brac in that Parisian argot which is so perfectly unintelligible elsewhere in France. You have doubtless glanced occasionally through the windows of some of these shops, which have become so numerous now that it is fashionable to buy antiquated furn
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She was my sister and she was sleeping late. She's a lot older than me and at the time she was about to break into films, directing them, so everybody was indulging her. She was the only girl, too. If something didn't work out in her life and she had to come home for a while, it was a big deal. It mattered more than if I fucked up in one way or another. When
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最近看大时代，里边的诗读起来很有感觉，分享给大家paper plane paple planehow soft and light you arehope to ride youin the airup to the high clouds fairpeach about ofheavenly realmpaple plane paple planhow soft and light you aregracefully flying your wings'pairlook as if to a land rareyet you are always theremission is what this plane bearso let this paple plan
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One of my fave found-object artists/kinetic sculptors, Nemo Gould, is going to be at Maker Faire again this year. He'll be there as part of the Applied Kinetic Arts group which also includes Benjamin Cowden, Jonathan Foote, Carl Pisaturo, Kal Spelletich, Greg Brotherton, Christopher T Palmer, Alan Rorie, Mark Galt, and Reuben Margolin. This is an astounding
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From the Humans since 1982 design studio comes the Clock Clock - using 24 analog timepieces to form one big digital. Hrrm ... the incredibly smooth hand movement, makes this one look a bit like a CG concept - even still, quite cool. A free font inspired by the piece is available on their site. [via Geekologie] Read more | Permalink | Comments |
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This crazy bugger is trying to tweet the Mona Lisa. He writes:Preliminary result of a little competition with the goal to write an image encoder/decoder that allows to send an image in a tweet. The image on the left is what I currently manage to send in 140 characters via twitter.He's doing it in Chinese characters because UTF-8 encoding allows him to send 2
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This crazy bugger is trying to tweet the Mona Lisa. He writes:Preliminary result of a little competition with the goal to write an image encoder/decoder that allows to send an image in a tweet. The image on the left is what I currently manage to send in 140 characters via twitter.He's doing it in Chinese characters because UTF-8 encoding allows him to send 2
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This is a well executed project and fun, poignant art piece: the Sigh Collector by Michael Kontopoulos. He writes: These are instructions for building a home monitoring system that measures and 'collects' sighs. The result is a physical visualization of the amount of sighing, for personal use in a domestic environment. The project is in two parts.
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... well it's certainly some sort of touch-sensitive plantlife with audio feedback. The above seen glimpses were recorded at the Theremin Sensors Orchestra workshop in Munich where capacitive sensors are used with non-traditional objects and later incorporated into group performance. [via Create Digital Music] Read more | Permalink | Comments |
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So often creative-reuse and found-object art has a "junky" quality that's hard to escape because...well, you know, it's basically made from junk. I always applaud the effort to turn trash into treasure, but it's rarely done so well as in the case of these amazing sculptures from reclaimed tires. That the material is such an egregious disposal problem only
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Meara O'Reilly, who works on magazine projects in MAKE Labs, is also a talented sound and visual artist. She's just completed a short video, with her friend Lisa Foti-Straus, of the Chladni music she's been working on. She built her Chladni (CLOD-knee) plate after working on the Chladni article in MAKE, Volume 16. She's been composing songs based on the imag
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Dutch artist Evelien Lohbeck's "Paper Notebook" video showcases some very clever & quirky interactions with sketchbooks. I'm pretty sure there must be a similar Firefox theme out there - just wish I could get YouTube to load up in graphite as well. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts |
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MAKE Advisory Board member Joe Grand got himself a T-Tech Quick Circuit 5000 PCB prototyping machine in the lab and has been messing around with using it to create PCB art. The third image is based on art by Neil Kronenberg, created for this year's DEFCON conference, and the last image is by our very own Phil Torrone. Circuit Board Artwork Read more |
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Ranjit Bhatnagar and Nick Yulman are working on this sound sculpture for the Coney Island Museum; I think it's coming along swimmingly! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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Wow, Jim's skull art is completely breathtaking. Via Who Killed Bambi?More: Pill head / Numb skull Latch hook skull Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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Steve Lambert has a solo show up now at Charlie James Gallery in LA, until June 6: Everything You Want, Right Now! Steve's work is generally about advertising, and this show is no exception. Using inspiration from LA and NY signage, he made illuminated signs that say something deeper than where you can find a decent taco; they're advertisements for a
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I'm particularly fond of artwork that brings the internet into the gallery in a physical way. This hand-cranked wooden automaton entitled "Andrew Meyer (Don't Tase Me Bro)" is by Jon Haddock.In the Maker Shed:Designing Automata Kit Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts |
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At last, something to do with that pile of toilet paper tubes you've been saving all these years! (There's no point denying it; we know how you are.) Then again, you'd be lucky to have the mad skillz of sculptor Junior Jacquet, who's made a career out of sculpting cardboard. His toilet paper tube faces, on display over at LOUDreams , are pretty amazing re
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Photo via the Telegraph UKSara Wilson likes to make things seem to go away. One of her recent works, an apparently invisible car, is featured at the Telegraph UK: Her work, created as part of her drawing and image making course at the university, creates the illusion that the car is see through. She speaks about her work in the Times article: "I was experime
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This is a really interesting piece of interactive art by Ellie Harrison. The Vending Machine is programmed to give out free snacks when the recession makes the headlines of the BBC News RSS feed. Also, there is a sign outside the gallery that flashed "Free Food", alerting any hungry gallery visitors. I really enjoy seeing the virtual and physical worlds int
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Bruno Mathez's striking experiment with sound and light, Beam Music -What you're seeing is a dark attic space in which the frames of wood and the pipes are being lit by a very precise ray of light, giving us the illusion that the light comes from inside the object.Each lit object has its own individual sound.This was made in the attic of The Pavilion in Bexh
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There's a growing roster of found-object artists working in what I call mechanical animism, an aesthetic world where the margins between the born and the made have become leaky and distinctions between humans, animals, and machines are fluid and ambiguous. One of the true masters of this genre is Belgian artist Stéphane Halleux. We've fawned all over
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Tomás Libertiny made this sculpture entirely out of solder, using a stationary welder setup and a welding turntable. It was at the Design/Miami Craft Punk exhibit at Milan design week, hence the Fendi welding suit. Via Cool Hunting. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts |
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Brian Dettmer carefully dissects books into these lovely sculptures that reveal their inner relationships. They'll be on display in Chicago through May 9 at the Packer Schopf Gallery. Via Cool Hunting. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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Photo from svofski on Flickr in the MAKE Flickr pool I made this from cardboard, old velvet jeans (for light-tight cover). The shutter is made from the back of an old 35mm camera. To start an exposure, you slide it down the plastic rails (barely visible). The pinhole itself is made in a foil shim.Thanks to the large format and shallow depth, this camera is e
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Image from the Library of CongressCheck out the great photos from the 1930s-40s in Color set at the Library of Congress on Flickr.These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War
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Alex and Bilal have been working on creating their part of a concert with no sound. Waves and Signs:A conference and workshop on low-frequency vibration with a performance and dance party. _A project by Wendy Jacob with students and faculty from MIT and Gallaudet University, school for the deaf.Photo from Connors934 on FlickrIf you are looking for an excitin
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Craft Cartel is a Melbourne-based craft collective for "crafty types who don't dig rose scented doilies".  Celebrating all that is irreverent, ironic, kitschy, delightfully offensive and made lovingly by hand, Craft Cartel supports craft creatives who would normally sit outside the retail space by using avant-garde techniques and recycled materials, whilst
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These paper sculptures by Jill Sylvia blow my mind. If Brian Dettmer and Jen Stark had a love-child... With all three of these artists, I just can't get over the anality involved, the obsessiveness and precision required.Jill Sylvia [via Boing Boing]More:Book Sculptures by Brian DettmerOld books sculpturesJen Stark - Construction Paper Coolness! Read
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Breeze is an incredible marquetry artist. A few years ago, he stayed with us while showing his work at the Duxbury Art Association. My mother saw his work and commissioned a custom designed table inspired by her photos of Costa Rica.T. Breeze VerDant...started his woodworking experience by building a log cabin from his own trees and rocks, hauling the logs b
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Dan is an illustrator, and shares some information on how he creates his images in a few posts on his blog:These pencil sketches mark the initial step for all my illustrations where text and concept are distilled into a visual expression.Once I settle on sketches I think work the pencil roughs are scanned from my sketchbook and cleaned up, and 'tweaked' to f
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Feast eyes on Takeuchi Taijin's "A wolf loves pork" whimsical photo stop motion odyssey. Almost hard to believe these are all individual photos! [via The Pink Tentacle] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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Intructables member Alex the Great has a clever Awesome LED Cube project.Use the cube to slow, stop, or reverse time, or even turn ordinary technology into transformers. Your choice.This project looks like a great way to introduce kids to a number of valuable skills we have covered here at MAKE Online, such as electric circuits, LEDs, resistance, ohm's law,
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Bluerain is a zillion blue LED installation based on a desktop computer running a QT app, a Make Controller (of course) and 98 x 16 LED cluster water-proof wall units running awesome TI LED PWM chips (TLC5941). Total number of LED: 23520. Total power: 50W. Levels of brightness: 4096. LED Colors: 1. BLUE.In its current incarnation, little snippets of text fro
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We make money not art covers a series of biological art projects from the recent Interactivos? Garage Science workshop at MediaLab Prado.Andy Gracie's Garage Laboratory uses homebrew magnetic field and radio wave generators and investigates their effects on the behavior of microbes found in urban environments - The project was using magnetic field data sour
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Pull out your dusty nifty knitter, some surgical tubing, a small liquid pump, and you've got yourself this mesmerizing little "fluid sculpture". I just keep watching it over and over, and thinking of new possibilities for shapes and patterns! Apparently the creators will be at Maker Faire in May; I'm looking forward to seeing it in person! Via Pixel
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The ASRD is a clever design concept project with shoes that tell you when you're near Wi-Fi... via Bruce Sterling. I fully expect someone to actually "make" these by the end of the week! Below are some links to get you started... The idea of footwear was pushed further by converging elements of digital culture with fashion and design into a wearble technolog
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This interesting art project consists of a computer speech to text loop that continually degrades over time. One machine reads text aloud that is alayzed by another computer which then speaks the text, while the next machine analyzes it and speaks the result as well. The result is printed out in real-time on a nearby printer to keep a record of the conversat
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Techdweeb has a great collection of circuit bent gadgets... I really like the "Super Ear Blaster". The bender writes-This was one of those generic chinese drum machine thingees, the kind that shares its guts with 1000s of other toys, but the external plastics change depending on who does the packaging. I really like this version of the drum toy because it ha
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Tom Eckert makes incredible wooden sculptures that often look just like draped cloth. He also made this awesome Tank Chair. From the images of his tromp l'oeil sculptures, you would never know that that satin is actually carved and sanded from wood.Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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"Shade Pixel" is a physical display that uses deformable skin to represent live information. The project was developed at the Design Media Lab at Korea's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). From the description: "The prototype display is 11 x 7 pixels large and is made up of a skeleton of 77 solenoids with frame holes. A layer of Spandex
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Ryan Frank's inkuku chair (Zulu for chicken) is constructed from recycled aluminum coated in plastic bags via Giz. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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This installation, entitled "Without Records" by Japanese experimental musicians Otomo Yoshihide and Yasutomo Aoyama employs over 100 record-free turntables to create a sound piece dedicated to the result of the dissappearing technology of LPs. Each turntable is augmented with some form of object to create a different effect on the needle arm as it passes th
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Jeffrey Augustine Songco made this rather foreboding dream catcher featuring a captcha text -I’m really interested in the relationship between my identity and the Internet. I’m interested in how I can become someone else or learn more about myself by using the Internet. Regardless of what that identity is, Dream Captcha is a work about protecting that iden
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The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating profile of Andrew Schneider, a tech artist from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.[via Boing Boing]Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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I love Kris Kuksi's church tank! via BoJ.Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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In honor of John Lennon's birthday, here's a piece of cool, inexplicable conceptual techno-art that might be right up John and Yoko's alley. It's an untitled piece by Christopher Kaczmarek and was shown at last month's ArtBots show in Dublin. I found it on the Solarbotics site. They gave it a shout out 'cause the device uses the SCC3766 Solar Cells and GM10
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Wooster Collective's review of the new Banksy show in NYC, it's a pet store with singing chicken nuggets...While New Yorkers have been consumed by the stock market meltdown, a tiny little pet store quietly opened four days ago at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village of New York City.There are no puppies or kittens in the wind
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The "Spore 1.1" project is a self-sustaining ecosystem for a rubber tree plant purchased from Home Depot where the economic health of Home Depot stock value is analyzed and used to control the watering of the plant through a custom built circuit. If the company does poorly and the plant dies, the plant is returned to Home Depot and replaced with another at n
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Who says decorating has to be expensive? This room was completely covered in amazing illustrations, all drawn with a Sharpie Marker. It's a cheap DIY project, but it's going to take a lot of time and talent to complete.When Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream. Te
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A little pricey, but I really like Bandai's Luminodot Lite-Brite HD board. It's available at Audiocubes if you're not planning on visiting Japan soon...Bandai's Luminodot is the Lite-Brite we always knew we wanted. This 70 by 50 pixelated board is supported by a bright LED backlight. With 1600 bulbs in 12 different colors, each dot is important to finish the
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The "Crackle Canvas" by Tom Verbruggen is a series of circuit bent canvas devices that when patched together with 1/8th inch audio cables produce sounds that can be manipulated in a live performance. Check out the video for the full effect of this installation.Tom Verbruggen YT Channel via Network ResearchRead more | Permalink | Comments | Read more article
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The "WowPod" by Russian media artists Aristarkh Chernyshev & Alexei Shulgin is a large-scale, iPod that actually works, although it looks like it's been through an oven or is reflected in a funhouse mirror. WowPodRead more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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Another record project! Sound Chaser by Yuri Suzuki with Yaroslav Tencer (more photos here).A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records. Read more | Permalink | Com
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I love this, Michel de Broin's dumpster hot tub.The dumpster is used to frame its contents - 1649 litres of filtered, chlorinated water. Its interior is lined with waterproof blue material while a pump and filter system ensures the purity of its contents. Powerful jets stimulate the sensorial experience. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles
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"Sound Wave" (2007) by Jean Shin @ 'Second Lives' at the Museum of Arts and Design - NYTimes via NOTCOT.Records were melted and sculpted to form a cascading wave, dotted with bursts of colorful labels. The resulting structure speaks to the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete. The piece also aims
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Embroidered text messages, received 02/06-04/07 by Ginger Anyhow via CRAFT. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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Look at the gorgeous joins on this table by Nathan Wierink! There's lots of other amazing work on his site, too. Via BloesemRead more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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