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Category Archives: Stimulations & Inspirations
Chalk Boards
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Whenever my graduate thesis adviser once told me “as soon as you start drawing lines in the air no one knows what they hell you are talking about.”
This was typically in response to someone in the lab elaborating a point by drawing an imaginary graph in the air with their fingers.
If you ever tried [...]
Street with a view
Monday, November 10, 2008
Ever wish you knew exactaly when those google map cars were going to be driving down your street so you could run outside in a yeti costume while juggling a lamp, a bottle of katsup and a hard-boild egg?
Well, that migh jsut be my vision. But check out the Street With a View project out [...]
Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The world famous (and very cool) mysterious-man of art Banksy has opened a pet shop in NYC.
Located at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street and operating till October 31st (Halloween), Banksy’s pet store is officially open each and every daily from 10am until midnight.
If you live in or near NYC and you [...]
The Baikonur Cosmodrome — A Russian Rocket City
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Follow the link below to some large and gorgeous photos of the Russian Rocket City in Kazakstan.
When NASA’s last scheduled Space Shuttle mission lands in June of 2010, the United States will not have the capability to get astronauts into space again until the scheduled launch of the new Orion spacecraft in 2015. Over those [...]
PLAF — Autonomous Mechanisms by Eltono And Momo
Monday, September 29, 2008
I just came across the simple, tide-powered kinetic sculptures created by Eltono and Momo, two NYC artists and found them really inspiring.
Their work is being fatured at the Anonymous Gallery (locaed on Broome St in NYC — I once lived on Broome st.) where they have the following statement:
Plaf is a word for splash in [...]
Christoper Pearson’s Digital Reliefs
Friday, September 26, 2008
Projecting high-pass filtered animations on stone walls to create animated reliefs … Nifty.
La Princesse
Friday, September 5, 2008
A follow up to yesterdays post about La Machine.
Their new beastie is called La Princessa … here is some video of the critter in action:
La Machine strikes again
Thursday, September 4, 2008
La Machine the French theratrical sculpture company whose last project, The Sultan’s Elephant (video below), pretty much exploded all earthly minds strikes again in London with a gigantic mechanical spider.
Die Black Balloon Die — The Work of William Lamson
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Start here and then go here.
Of Man and Metal
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Fantastic. Beautiful.
From the Bldgblog post Library of Dust. Go and read the whole thing and see more fantastic images.
Also check out the photographers site with additional photos.
In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were then stored inside individual copper canisters [...]
The App is a work of Art …
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I’m just catching up on this story about the I Am Rich app for the iPhone.
I first came across this post on Webmonkey and got some more details form the LA times.
Have you hear about this? So Armin Heinrich of Germany wrote a application for the iphone that cost $999.99.
What did it do? [...]
Project FIRE
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I found this image on the NASA image of the day site. They have some blurb about what this really is but that’s not what interested me. I’m drawn to the design elements here. I love the way the protective cap hinges off the cone rather then come straight up. I also love the way [...]
Dragon Tank
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Found this on Bibliodyssey and just love it. It’s described as a Dragon Tank but looks more like a rat to me. I’m imagining this thing as some humongous, mechanical rodent-shaped war machine some villain would ride into battle while pounding on the war-drum attached to the side.
Kinetic Steam Works and The Swimmin Cities of Switchback Sea
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Over the past few months my good friends and collaborators in KSW have been restoring a beautiful, steam-powered paddle boat that they are going to piolt down the Hudson river in NY as part of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project:.
Swimming cities of Switchback Sea is a flotilla of seven intricately hand crafted vessels [...]
Concept Ships Art Blog
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Large format, Sci-fi, concept drawings of all manner of flying craft updated daily.
Where did I leave my drool cup.
The Work of Jonathan Harris
Friday, July 25, 2008
I’ve been a fan of Jonathan Harris for some time now without ever knowing his name. He is the very clever and imaginative mind who built (with some help I believe) We Feel Fine, which is one of my favorite instances of data visualization, a subject I’ve posted about before.
If I liked writing computer [...]
Shadow Sign
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
When I was an undergraduate at NYU I once saw this fantastic sculpture in a window of one of the many down town buildings that the university owns.
The sculpture was compsed of a massive tangel of thick, stiff wire that was mounted on a blank wall and well lit form above.
At first glance the tangle [...]
The Inverted Machine by Ralf Baecker
Friday, July 18, 2008
The inverted machine - Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) is a light-weight sculpture, constructed from sticks, strings and little plumbs. At the same time it is a full functional logic exact neural network.
Be sure to check out the video of this fantastic work by following the link above.
Neural Networks, both biological and artificial, are an [...]
Torpedo Rooms
Friday, June 6, 2008
These are dope. Makes me wish I had made the ends of The Neuron Chamber hinged.
More on the Phoenix Lander
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
I think I’ve got a crush on the Phoenix Lander — I can’t stop looking at it.
The New York Times has a write up and a slide show about the upcoming 7 mintues of terror I posted about yesterday.
Some cool tid-bits from the article:
After traveling 422 million miles since its launching last Aug. 4, NASA’s [...]
Open Source Monsters
Monday, May 19, 2008
Stefan Bucher has been making a series of illustrations of joyous monster by laying down a blob of black ink, streaking it with compressed air and sketching over it.
He posts nifty time lapse videos of each creation that expose the tricks of his style.
What’s really cool is he recently created a section of his web [...]
The Work of Greg Brotherton
Monday, May 19, 2008
I just came across Greg Brothertons web site and found some great figures done entirely in sheet metal. If I had made these figure I’d want to complete all the welds and grind them smooth. But he resists that temptation and incorporates the tack-welds (all the small dots you see along the seems) [...]
The Searchers Flicker Stream
Friday, May 9, 2008
I just came across a fantastic flicker photo stream belonging to an artist calling himself The Searcher (Derek Chatwood).
He has a series of “pop comic inspired artwork” called Color in which each image is pared with a short story/blurb.
Go check them out.
Here are some of my picks:
Prof. Hardy Swift, playboy scientist and archeologist adventurer, returns [...]
Iron Sky
Friday, May 9, 2008
Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity.
From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the Moon. This base [...]