Transparent planar coin bank
From designer Nathan Tobiason, whose slightly iffier screw chair I hit this morning.
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Screw this chair
Yeah, I’m really sorry about that title. It’s Maker Faire. I’m exhausted. Is this one-off concept chair from designer Nathan Tobiason interesting or completely OTT? Help me out in the comments. Personally I kind of like his transparent planar coin bank better. Ooooo…I think I’ll blog that next. [via Recyclart]
Okay, Okay: SOME doilies allowed
Funny story. Just two days ago we launched an ad campaign on Makers Market including the tagline “No doilies allowed.” That was my brainchild. Up until this morning, I could say without hesitation that I’d never met a doily I liked. Then, today, as if on cue, the tube-gods have presented me with these very amusing, very original, and very much allowable gender-bending doilies from Nathan Vincent. [via Dude Craft]
“Are You Human?” by Aram Bartholl
Aram Bartholl and I have something in common: we love CAPTCHAs. Check out this video of Aram talking about his “Are You Human?” project where he places CAPTCHAs in public spaces. [via F.A.T.] More: CAPTCHA Paintings Dream CAPTCHA Javascript CAPTCHA decoder Open source resistor “CAPTCHA” learning – commenting plugin for WordPress
Fluorescent tube mechanical character display
Rob Seward’s Four Letter Words takes a unique approach to displaying text, using elegantly animated miniature fluorescent tubes – The piece displays an algorithmically generated word sequence, derived from a word association database developed by the University of South Florida between 1976 and 1998. The algorithms take into account word meaning, rhyme, letter sequencing, and […]
Maker Faire: M.T. Pockets Traveling Midway of Curiosities and Delights
One of the group installations coming to this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place on May 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, is M.T. Pockets Traveling Midway of Curiosities and Delights. A nostalgic throw-back to carnivals of old, this exhibit is a self-contained window into yesteryear, when the carnival would roll into […]
Maker Faire: Digital Graffiti Wall
Every day I hear about another exciting project that will be at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place this weekend, May 22nd and 23rd, at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. One project I can’t wait to see and play with is the Tangible Graffiti Wall, brought from Vancouver by Tangible Interaction‘s Alex Biem. The […]
