Month: January 2011

Pixel pour 2.0

Pixel pour 2.0

Now in 3D! NYC’s secretly a video game, clearly evidenced by this leak in the matrix. We covered the first (to us) Pixel Pour back in 2008, and a reader has written in with these pictures of a new, more blocky version, photographed by Benjamin Norman. More photos after the jump. More: Pixellated water helps […]

“Inception” Paper Sculpture

“Inception” Paper Sculpture

This fantastic paper sculpture by Lynne Dhenson of the fight scene from Inception is even more impressive when you learn what her self-imposed “rules” of paper cutting are. It’s all one continuous piece of paper (in fact, aside from several sections taken out of the base no paper has been removed at all, which is […]

Ternary kinetic sculpture

There’s something mesmerizing about a steel ball on a track. It’s the anticipation, I suppose. In Thinking Machine by Martin Riches and Masahiro Miwa the artists have cleverly implemented a ternary computer with levers and tracks that constantly cycle steel balls down internal structures towards three chimes that ring out a computed melody.