Zach Lieberman: Interactive Art
via Zach Lieberman: Interactive Art on Vimeo.
- June 3, 2011
- Alan
- June 1, 2011
- Alan
Graffiti Analysis: 3D by Evan Roth
Evan Roth
- March 23, 2010
- Alan
Lecture on the relationship between Art and Science
Last week I had the great pleasure of of speaking to the National Cancer Institute about the relationship between art and science. Below I’ve posted the visual part of the presentation, but sadly there is not audio or video recording to go along. Here is a brief summary of my […]
- February 4, 2010
- Alan
Rocket Sam Build from the SF Panorama
About a month or so ago I picked up a copy of the SF Panorama which was almost too great for words. One of the best things in it was a Rocket Sam comic by Chris Ware that, on the back, had a paper-craft model of rocket. Well, the other […]
- November 1, 2009
- Alan
Advice for a young artist from Alan Moore
You know Alan Moore. Perhaps the worlds greatest comic book writer: V for Vendeta, Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlema, and Tom Strong. Here is some great advice to young artists:
- October 10, 2009
- Alan
Ray Bradbury talks about his love of comics
It’s nice to know that Ray Bradbury is such a comic geek. I found this over at Tor.
- September 18, 2009
- Alan
Stingray Sam is my new hero who’s not a hero — a review
Last night I, and about 15 Raygun Gothic Rocket crew, went to the SF premiere of Cory McAbees awesome new space western musical move — Stingray Sam. Of course, it was no real shock that it was such an amazingly original film. McAbee is responsible for creating The American Astronaut, […]
- September 16, 2009
- Alan
Stingray Sam
Awesome. More Space Western Musical from the creators of The American Astronaut which was probably one of the biggest inspirations for the Raygun Gothic. Get more here at Cory Mcabees site.
- September 15, 2009
- Alan
Machine with Concrete by Arthur Ganson
This machine was inspired by dreaming about gear ratios and considering the unexpected implications of exponential powers. Each worm/worm gear pair reduces the speed of the motor by 1/50th. Since there are 12 pairs of gears, the final speed reduction is calculated by (1/50)12. The implications are quite large. With […]
- September 11, 2009
- Alan
Tristan Shone Kicks Ass
via Make. Tristan Shone and his kick ass sound machines.
- April 30, 2009
- Alan
Swine Flu Hemagglutinin
I bet you’re wondering what the Swine Flu genome sounds like? Well, luckily Stephan Zielineki has converted it to music. You can listen it it here. Swine flu has been sequenced.  More out of curiosity than anything else, I wrote code to translate a key gene into a piece of […]
- April 24, 2009
- Alan
This is all so cool …
Thanks DS!
- April 7, 2009
- Alan
Amsterdam Real Time
Amsterdam Real Time During the months October through December 2002, inhabitants of Amsterdam were invited to be equipped with a tracer-unit. The tracer unit is a portable PDA (Personal Digital Assistant such as an i-Paq or Palm Pilot), which is connected to a GPS unit (Global Positioning System). Using satellite […]
- April 3, 2009
- Alan
Brick laying robots and the democratizing of precision
I recently found out about the architectural work of Gramazio & Kohler who use industrial robots to build highly patterned brick walls. . I’m very intrigued by the possibility of creating highly complex, repeating, organic constructions by harnessing the high-precision capabilities of robotic construction. This is an obvious and natural […]
- March 31, 2009
- Alan
Reuben Margolin Video
Reuben Margolin is a fantastic, kinetic artist who makes stunning wave machine. Take a few minutes out of your day and watch this Make video featuring him. Reuben and I are fellow member of Applied Kinetic Arts. Speaking of AKA, we are doing another show at Maker Faire this year […]