Art
Beautiful Voltron Painting Took an Entire Year, Captured in Time-Lapse Video [Blazing Brushes]
San Francisco artist Robert Burden spent a year — a year — painting his man-sized Voltron pièce de résistance, "Defensor Mundi", and caught the whole process in time-lapse. Sure, the flora ....... read more
3 days ago
The Linux Boot Sequence, Visualized [Software]
Most of us don't appreciate all the processes involved with our OS's boot sequence; we're far more interested in watching that status bar fill. In this visualization of the Linux boot sequence, each f ....... read more
8 days ago
Etch-A-Sketch Mod Adds Memory, Ability to Reproduce Your Art [Etch-A-Sketch]
Rakesh Reddy's Remember-it-All mod brings Etch-a-Sketch nearly up to the 21st Century, by adding a memory and stepper motors to the toy. It ends up being a tad like the Etch-a-Sketch clock, but niftil ....... read more
11 days ago
The Digital Book: Paper's Last Hurrah [Books]
While Sony Readers and Amazon Kindles take to the scene, one paper lover, in celebration of the Blood on Paper exhibition (something we've never heard of but have a pretty good idea what it's about), ....... read more
11 days ago
15 Rolling Ball Sculptures In Action [Rube Goldberg]
As you know, the allure of Rube Goldberg-style contraptions is well documented. There is just something captivating about watching a ball make its way down a complicated track. If you agree, than you ....... read more
14 days ago
Housefly-Driven Robot Arm Artist Makes Art Like You'd Imagine [Fly Art]
Picture tracing a housefly's skittering, random path as it dots about your home with a trail of ink: That's kind of what this cooky Art installation evokes. It's a robot arm connected to a sensor cham ....... read more
15 days ago
Interactive Pong May be Most Fun You Can Have With a Whiteboard [Pong]
Pong exerts a vicious grip on the minds of designers—it pops up in hundreds of reincarnations. But this one is sweet: a live "drawing on whiteboard" version, mixing electronics with the joy of d ....... read more
16 days ago
Nanobama: Barack Obama in Nanotubes [Nanotechnology]
A technique known as nanolithography was used to build these Obama faces, combining 150 million carbon nanotubes to construct each individual half-millimeter visage. Depending on your political leanin ....... read more
16 days ago
17 Artsy, Architectural LED Sculptures [LEDs]
If you enjoy crazy lighting concepts like Anemix and Vortexx, you will love the list OObject has put together. Those first two are just a taste—there are 15 other designs to choose from. [OObjec ....... read more
16 days ago
Beautiful LED Kinetic Sculpture Is Powered by Solar [Led]
These simple Mobile Lights by Kyouei Design hang from the ceiling from fishing line to create a glowing kinetic sculpture with the size and shape of your choosing. Each piece is equipped with an LED, ....... read more
17 days ago
Amazing Origami Star Trek, Star Wars Spaceships Make Good Use of Dollars [Origami]
Spaceships, famous sci-fi ones from Star Trek and Star Wars, made of cunningly folded dollar bills—the Millenium Falcon takes just three dollar bills—and possessing fantastic detail. Enoug ....... read more
Mon,
27 Oct 2008
Mad Men Vector Illustrations For Your iPhone/Computer Desktop [TV]
Tonight is the season 2 finale of Mad Men. Will Don continue to revel in the shirtless, poolside-martini-sipping, Lolita-tinged free love of euro-riche California? Return to Betty's arms back home in ....... read more
Sun,
26 Oct 2008
World's Largest Lite Brite Has Over 300,000 Pegs, Is Real Effing Brite [Lite Brite]
Shoe-maker ASICS commissioned a gigantic Lite Brite in NYC in celebration of something or other (probably a shoe launch) this month that takes the Guinness World Record for largest Lite Brite painting ....... read more
Thu,
23 Oct 2008
Over-caffeinated TIE Fighter Combines Starbucks And Star Wars [Coffee]
Wired is having a little Art contest to make things from the stuff you get at Starbucks, and to provide some inspiration, they showed off photographer Dan Winters' amazing TIE fighter sculpture. Ever ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008
Adam Parker Smith Plays God With His Controllable Sunset [Simulated Sunset]
Who is Adam Parker Smith? Well, he happens to be the artist behind "Sunset Now," an interactive installation made from colored plexi-glass, fiberfill, and lights that allow the user control the rising ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
Life-Sized Autobot Assembles in French Parking Lot, Doesn't Really Roll Out [Transformers]
French performance Art troupe "Not So Noisy" have spent the last month "assembling" giant, life-sized Autobots from normal cars, and shooting the action from overhead. Of course, they're not really bu ....... read more
Mon,
13 Oct 2008
Lego Art Proves Our Obsession is Classy [Lego]
Web Urbanist has compiled a huge gallery of famous pieces of Art reproduced in Lego, from Magritte to Warhol and Casablanca to Abbey Road. Even if you're one of the eight readers of this site who isn' ....... read more
Sat,
11 Oct 2008
Live Fish Remix MP3s, Have More Talent Than Most American Idol Contestants [Musical Fish]
A Brazilian artist named Vivian Caccuri has put together an installation that uses the movements of live fish to remix the music played on an MP3 player. These fish are tracked using a proximity senso ....... read more
Fri,
10 Oct 2008
Paper Tank Only Fires Cheap Furniture, Supermarket Coupons [Design]
Being the blind bat that I am, I first got excited when I saw this M1 Abrams tank made out of paper because I thought those were comic-book pages. Is that Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos? Maybe co ....... read more
Fri,
10 Oct 2008
Dream Captcha: Type The Characters You See Here For Nightmare Protection [Artifacts]
Spam bots deserve every nightmare. Jeffrey Augustine's Dream Captcha updates a familiar faux-cultural symbol with the security layer consumers expect from their nocturnal hallucination protection devi ....... read more
Tue,
07 Oct 2008