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Makers Market seller Kevin of kaitrees has a bunch of great videos on his market blog. They range from details of the pieces themselves, to "slap tests", and works in progress. It's a neat look at the process that goes into making these pieces.
My sculptures are an effort to distill what real trees inspire in people into something one can have inside their living or working space.
This tree in the video above will require about 500 hours to complete, stand over 7 feet tall, and will use about 1000 strands of aluminum wire. It's his largest piece to date, and looks Amazing! I wonder how much it will weigh?
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Unknown, via Reddit.
Banksy, via Flickr user goldenticket.
It's a simple idea: Find some bad art, whether original or a print, for a song at a thrift store, then modify it to make, if not "better art," then at least something that's more entertaining to look at. (Is it the same thing? Yeah, that sounds like a productive argument.)
Anyway. To quote a great sage, "there's a lot of guys doing it, but only one guy can be the best." That title probably goes to pseudonymous British graffiti artist Banksy. Most of the work presented below is his, but there are one or two gems from less-notables. I especially like the bland mountain landscape improved by the addition of an apocalyptic-scale katamari...
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I've always been a big fan of artist Jim Woodring, and I've been keeping Moleskine Cahier sketchbooks for the past four years. So, I was completely jazzed to see these pages from one of Jim's Cahiers. [via Boing Boing]
The Salt-Blarsted Moleskine
In the Maker Shed:
Pick up The Maker's Notebook ($19.99) for all your big ideas, diagrams, patterns, etc. Exclusive to the Maker Shed: Sticker sheets and a band closure to customize your book.
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The candelier was made using about 5000 gummy bears. No bears were harmed in the making, however, as the ones featured in the chandelier are actually made of acrylic. This should do wonders for the longevity of the piece, but unfortunately won't help you with your late-night hunger. [via curbly]
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Images from the McCall Studios website.
Sadly, famed science fiction and space exploration artist, Robert McCall, has died. He passed away on Friday, of a heart attack, in his Scottsdale, Arizona home.
Anybody who's paid even passing attention to sci-fi, the space program, or postage stamp art has seen Bob McCall's work. He painted the images on the 2001: A Space Odyssey poster, painted the amazing space mural at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, and created many of the images found on NASA mission patches. His friend Isaac Asimov once described him as the "nearest thing to an artist in residence from outer space."
I remember pouring over his images as a kid and own a well-traveled copy of Vision of the Future, the Ben Bova book dedicated to McCall's work. He will be sorely missed by spacey visionaries everywhere. [Thanks, Rachel!]
Famed space artist Robert McCall, 90, dies
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Apparently, New York received two feet of snow during their latest storm. We were hit a little harder here in Pittsburgh, receiving just a nose more.
Puns aside, this is a pretty funny snow sculpture. My favorite for the season has been the fire-breathing snowman, but I have been too occupied with getting the stuff out of my way to take advantage of it as a building material. Have you built anything fun out of snow this year? [via neatorama]
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If you haven't heard of 20x200, they're site that sells art prints in editions of 200 for 20 bucks each. One of their latest ones (oddly priced at $50 each with 500 printed... they should launch a sister site!) looks awesome and has a fun maker twist, created by Clifton Burt.
In April of 2007, John Maeda quietly posted a haiku he had written to his blog. It was entitled think-make-think, and to me it fulfilled the potential of Maeda's simplicity. Over the next few months, that haiku often found its way to the forefront of my mind. When our studio acquired the remnants of a discarded arrow sign, it was clear to me that think-make-think was a perfect fit, both in form and function.
Buy the print on 20x200.
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I was only peripherally interested in high-voltage electronics when I was in school, but if someone had told me I could have an awesome letterhead like this this one, it would have totally changed my career. It's said to have been used by Nikola Tesla, the brilliant and eccentric inventor that brought us everything from AC power distribution to Tesla coils. [via boingboing]
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This toothbrush holder by Dominic Wilcox may be slightly over-engineered, but it's always better to err on the side of caution when it comes to toothbrush security. Learned that the hard way.
[via Boing biggity Boing]
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MAKE, CRAFT and Maker Faire were sponsors of the Fairytale Fashion show 2010 with Diana Eng, here's my video - above in glorious HD (m4v here).
The Fairytale Fashion Collection uses technology to create magical clothing in real life. Electronics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics are used to create clothing with blooming flowers, changing colors and transforming shapes. Research and development for the Fairytale Fashion collection are shared online at FairytaleFashion.org as an educational tool that teaches about science, math, and technology through fashion. Fairytale Fashion was created with the support of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center nonprofit. Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by mechanical engineering. She is a designer from Bravo’s Emmy nominated TV show, Project Runway season 2 and author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Diana is cofounder of NYC Resistor hacker group. Diana is currently a resident artist at Eyebeam.
Great show, nice to see everyone from the maker scene in NYC at the show too!
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Skateboarder slash artist Haroshi creates art made from recycled skateboards. While his Mario art rocks, my favorites are the skateboard decks made out of recycled decks. That's like, recursive or something.
Skate decks eventually see its life shortened by snapping, cracking and/or wearing out. Purchasing new decks is a never ending cycle and this was evident by the tower of old decks that were reaching to the ceiling of my room. We can't throw away these decks because they hold sentimental meanings to us. I looked at these unusable decks every day and thought there must be something I can make with these.
I decided to make some accessories with the old decks and this was the birth of Harvest. The works of Harvest are through the perspectives of a skater and as an artist. As a skater, I want to take responsibility of reusing skateboards when they were no longer useable. Also, as an artist I want to explore the possibilities of what can be done with skateboards.
We see the care and effort that a skater can have for his/her deck and we also acknowledge the origins of a skateboard. We believe that if the small things we do can connect to sustainability then we're doing something right. We'd be satisfied in our effort when people look at products and start thinking of ways to recycle.
You can see a lot more examples of Hiroshi's art in this article -- though it's in Japanese. [via Kotaku]
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Here's a neat way to tell time. Rather than using hands or digits, the Aspiral Clock consists of a slowly-rotating spiral track with a ball inside, and the time is indicated by the position of the ball. Neat!
This would also make a pretty kicking pet feeder- load up each 'ring' of the spiral with an appropriate amount of food, and watch it slowly fall out into their feeding dish.
[thanks, Stuart!]
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Photos by Tom Little.
Michelle Stitzlein makes these beautiful giant butterfly sculptures entirely from junk, "including piano keys, broken china, license plates, rusty tin cans, electrical wire, bottlecaps, and other miscellaneous items." [via Dude Craft]
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I'm enjoying SF based Kiriko Moth's work. You might remember seeing her work from the bee post :) I think Crabfu should hang out with Kiriko and maybe that robot octopus.
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I am getting ready for my first NYC runway show, the Fairytale Fashion Show, on Feb. 24th at Eyebeam. I am writing about some of the preparations, on CRAFT and Make: Online. This show will be of the technology fashion collection developed at FairytaleFashion.org, where technology is used to turn make-believe into reality.
Last week, we looked at the Twinkle Pad circuit board that was developed for my sound reactive clothing. During the runway show, there will be a live circuit bending orchestra creating custom tunes for the sound reactive clothing. The orchestra consists of Peter Kirn, Lara Grant, Sarah Grant, and Matt Ganicheau. They will be making tunes from a hacked sewing machine and felted origami.
Sarah will be playing a felted origami "fortune teller" device. As she opens and closes the different segments, she will change the resistance across the felt. This will alter the playback speed of the sample. Lara will be playing the sewing machine pictured above. Two switches are created by wiring the needle and sewing through conductive fabric, each of the two switches triggering different sounds. These switches are connected to an Arduino Diecimila talking to Max/MSP on a computer, via the serial object. The knobs and buttons on the machine control the music loop played, the speed, and the frequency. Matt will process these sounds using a Monome, an open source controller, and the software Max/MSP to build textures and rhythms into the music. Peter will be spinning electronic beats to keep the models stepping, syncing to computers and sewing machines, and incorporating sounds synthesized from scratch and sampled from lo-fi electronics, into an electronic, synthetic fairy tale soundtrack. Using custom software he wrote from his phone, he'll be commanding the ensemble wirelessly from his hand.
About the Musicians
Sarah and Lara Grant are a sisterly team with interests in physical computing, electronic textiles, and signal processing working under the name Felted Signal Processing. Peter Kirn is a composer/musician and media artist/visualist, an electronic producer, and the editor of leading tech blogs createdigitalmusic.com and createdigitalmotion.com. Matt Ganicheau is a composer, designer and educator with a passion for exploring the boundaries of interactive audio.
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This is the work of French artist Baptiste Debombourg. Some of his other works, including one more staples piece, can be seen here. [via Dude Craft]
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This work, subtitled "Hope for the Obsolescence of War," was completed in 1977 by the late American sculptor Patricia A. Renick. There's more pictures over on Gizmodo. [via Geekologie]
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Recently, I came across photographer Michael Paul Smith, who has an online showcase of his miniature scene photographs.
I asked him to tell of his process, influences and techniques.
I first start off with some very rough sketches on the particular building I'm thinking of making. Really, they are mere scribbles, but they capture the key points of the structure. I have to ask myself questions like: when was this building built and in what style of architecture. Has this building been added to over the years and if so, in what way. If you walk down the center of town, and really study the buildings, you can see their history. For what I'm doing, my structures have to be generic enough so they don't look too unusual, yet they have to have some character to them to make them interesting. I also study photographs from the past. There are books out entitled Then and Now, which show photographs of buildings taken in the 1890's and also in the present at the exact same spot. These are very telling because you can see how drastically or subtly things have changed. I want my models to have the feeling that they have traveled in time.
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How to make a paper-based animation... not-bob writes -
Have you seen the cards where there appears to be a moving picture just by using a piece of plastic with lines on it and an image underneath? This instructable shows you how to make your own with just a computer, printer, paper and transparencies. I'm assuming that you have the Gimp image editor installed. Hopefully you can translate this as needed for other programs.
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Ceramics artist Tsang Cheung Shing created this double-take-inducing piece entitled "Ying Yeung," referencing both a beverage of mixed coffee and tea and the idea of love and marriage. [Thanks, Joe!]
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Interesting Light: A Way to See the Wind....
This experimental site-specific installation illustrates alternative, sustainable ways of harnessing energy that will explore the power of the wind in the city, visualizing it as an ephemeral cloud of light. The installation is custom built, using 500 mini wind turbines to generate power, which illuminates hundreds of mounted leds, creating firefly-like fields of light, with wind visually interpreted as electronic patterns across the installation. Wind around the southbank generates the power, creating a unique and thought-provoking light art piece that will delight all ages.
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the project "Wind to Light" at Jason Bruges studio site...
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This Transformeresque giant metal guardian, made largely of junked car parts, was reportedly built by a company called Transinvestservice (TIS) outside the city of Odessa in the Ukraine. There's more pics over at English Russia. [via Neatorama]
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This 2007 piece by Vancouver artist Steven Shearer (Wikipedia) is called "Geometric Healing Cell for Youth - Model III." It reminds me of some of my favorite work by Tom Friedman. I love art that challenges our expectations of everyday materials. [via Neatorama]
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British sculptor Tessa Farmer makes these amazing little vignettes featuring 1-cm-tall skeletal fairies made from "bits of organic material, such as roots, leaves, and dead insects" pitted against actual insects and other, larger taxidermied critters. Both creepy and awesome. Crawsome? [via Dude Craft]
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I'm digging this stop-motion music video made by British group Rex The Dog. They make it look so easy to do! Anyone want to guess how long this took to make? [via Neatorama]
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Design collective The Design Office has created kids' blocks that feature fragments of letters, allowing children to form their own characters using multiple blocks.
Children of a young age play with small wooden blocks to learn the alphabet. Letters lead to words that lead into sentences and so on. Our oversized kraft boxes reintroduce the alphabet not as 26 distinct letters, but as the result of combining geometric parts. The 4-inch cubes may be viewed and stacked from any direction, creating unexpected shapes and letterforms. The boxes are made from recycled cardboard, delivered flat.
[via Inhabitots]
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Tim O'Reilly points out this hypnotic demonstration by Lucky Dragons - "PEACE ON EARTH" brings all radio stations together via frequency modulation -
two radios with home-made autotune on every signal received. every station is in tune with every other station. even static is in tune. peace on earth.
If current trends are any indication, mainstream radio will soon sound similar to this without modification (zing!)
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Lucky Dragons' homemade sound device
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Scotch's Off The Roll tape sculpture contest ends this month, so vote early & often -- literally, you can vote for as many entries as you want, ten per day, one vote per sculpture max. The above sculpture, by Rachael J, is an example of the entries.
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The crazed DIY artisans and mischief makers at Philadelphia's Tango Echo have a new video showing one of their members, Paul Carson's, giant 12-sided die he welded together and then deployed in a vacant lot.
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12-sided die as big as your head!
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Got a great idea for an awesome project, and just need access to the tools to make it happen? Do you live in or near southeast Michigan? Then this might be just the opportunity you were waiting for. A2 MechShop is opening up their doors to one lucky artist for an artist in residency program. This could be the perfect opportunity to create some awesome to bring to Maker Faire Detroit!
A2 MechShop, a coworking facility for electrical and mechanical engineering in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is offering a three-week Artist in Residence this spring. The selected artist will have the opportunity to consult with the engineers and use machinery at the A2 MechShop to create artwork that is inspired by, incorporates, or is produced by technology. The residency does not include a stipend, and the artist should expect to supply their own materials.
Applicants can visit the A2 MechShop website for more details. Applications are due February 19th, 2010, and the artist will be notified the week of March 1.
About A2 MechShop:
A2 MechShop is a coworking facility for entrepreneurial engineers located on the west side of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Seven different businesses, mostly one or two person, have private offices surrounding a shared machine shop floor. They share knowledge and tools in a friendly and technically-oriented environment. The A2 MechShop was started in November 2008, and hosts GO-Tech, a monthly geek show-and-tell.
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Perpetual online auction, internet connection, custom programming and hardware, acrylic cube...
Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay.
Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.
If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.
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The Sleep Remaining Indicator by Nirav Patel is about the simplest alarm clock that I can think of. Rather than using a complicated display to show the current time and when the alarm is to go off, his design shows a simple laser line that grows shorter as the time runs out. Ok, it's a pretty simple concept, but it is also simple to build, using just a laser pointer and a slowly rotating servo. I could imagine a strange electromechanical hybrid of this that uses a varying water stream to make the laser line, or a more complicated one that performs a laser light show when it's time to get up.
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We're going to try something out - a lot of makers use "Processing" to make cool interactive art and projects, but there aren't the same type of high profile examples (source) in the same way there are Arduino examples, so my pal Mike Rosenthal (founder of the BLIP fest) sent along this cool example. If you folks like this we'll try to feature more Processing projects on MAKE.
Ok Code - By Jonathan Bobrow. Upon seeing the WTF music video from the band OK Go for the first time, within seconds of it starting, I said to myself, this is a very simple effect (very cleverly used btw), especially for a graphics program. Take a look at what im talking about here (video here).
The effect I'm referring to is that the screen is not refreshing or clearing itself and is only drawing the elements that are currently in the scene, creating the strong psychedelic visuals that define the video. i.e. when I am in frame and I move, instead of erasing the image of where I was, it simply draws where I am now on top of the last image -- imagine cutting out yourself from a stack of photos that were printed from a video, then stacking them on top of each other.
I decided that OK Go shouldn't be the only cool people who get to draw with their bodies and props, so I posted to twitter that I would create a version of the effect in Processing. When I woke the next morning, I was contacted by OK Go and was given the chance to make something that people will play with, explore, and hopefully become curious about.
The application, written in Processing, does just what I describe above, with a couple other features as well. First, the application takes a snapshot of the background at the end of an initial countdown, which it uses to compare to the live footage of your webcam. By doing this, the program decides to only draw the pixels that are not equal or close enough to the background, effectively serving as a green screen substitute. Since the program does not refresh the background, the images drawn get drawn on top of each other, creating these trails of the foreign objects on camera. The rest of the code is for recording the frames to a quicktime file, playing the song as a soundtrack, and creating a user interface.
The code for erasing the background is from an open source Processing example, the only modification was to tell the program to draw the different pixels but not refresh. The blurring functions were also borrowed from an open source programmer credited in the code.
From the source code you can see that this is simply a creative idea comprised of some basic original code and heavy borrowing. My code is just ok, nothing spectacular, and I think it is important to remember that great work can come from even the simplest of code. Hope you enjoy it!
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Mitchell F. Chan sent us a link to this amazing music-driven kinetic sculpture piece. He explains how it works:
The project on display in the video is titled "Visions of the Amen" by Mitchell F. Chan. It's being brought to life by the voice of talented young soprano Ashleigh Semkiw. It's a kinetic sculpture in which strings, weighed down on one end by brass bars and attached at the other end to motors, spin at various speeds to sweep out those ghostly sine-wave forms, and pull up and down on the brass rods. The resultant visual effect, overall, looks something like 16 brass rods dancing, bobbing up and down in a forest of ghostly columns.
Each string in the arrangement is activated by a different note, and spins with a velocity dependent on the volume of that note. So each song and unique delivery creates a different ballet. The microphone feeds into a software that I wrote in Processing, which does some pitch and volume analysis, and then exports PWM values for all the motors via serial protocol to a set of microcontrollers. I originally set it up with Arduinos, but I found that for addressing multiple controllers, the protocol was simpler using the new ArtBus controller being developed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (http://www.artbusinterface.com/SAIC)
Visions of the Amen: A Sculpture by Mitchell F. Chan, Performance By Ashleigh Semkiw
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West Broad and Alps Bus Stop by Christopher Fennell... via .
The Bus Shelter is made from 3 old school buses, years: 62, 72 and 77. The seat is from one of Atlanta's decommissioned city buses.
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January 16 2010, 5:30am | More »
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Seven-and-a-half metres across, with 1,000 mirrors, suspended 50 metres in the air from a crane, and illuminated by spotlights from all over the city of Paris during this year's annual Nuit Blanche arts festival. The work is La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel by French conceptual artist Michel de Broin. [via Dude Craft]
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January 15 2010, 4:00pm | More »
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I love these little cardboard dioramas inside of toilet paper tubes, crafted by artist Anastassia Elias. Spotted on Boing Boing. I was touched by part of Cory's post:
Empty-loo-roll-day is always fun around our place, the cue to get out the stickers and markers and decorate the empty tube with Poesy [his daughter], then run around the house playing kazoo or telescope. Maybe we'll level up to tiny still lives in a couple of years.
*I* wanna live at Uncle Cory's house!
Anastassia Elias - Illustrations collages dessins peintures - Galerie
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January 15 2010, 12:30am | More »
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Minneapolis' third annual Art Sled Rally will be held on January 30th at 2pm.
Art Sled: any contraption built to slide down a snowy slope in the most fashionable, ridiculous or artistic way. Outrigger sleds, monster sleds, rocket sleds, tandem sleds, sleds from the High Veldt, leopard-skinned or snake-linked sleds, sleds that fly, hop, or go uphill, and sleds that do a few other things.
Last year's rally (video above) featured some awesome 'sleds' like a tumbling giant icosahedron and a Sisyphus rolling a fake boulder up a hill. If you need help building your sled, they're holding a free workshop the weekend before.
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