Desktops carvings depict weapons
Lessons 1 and 2 by Ben Turnbull: weapons whittled into wooden desktops.
art
Felice Varini’s town-sized illusion
The buildings in the town of Vercorin in the Swiss Alps contribute to an impressive piece by Felice Varini, called Cercle et suite d’éclats. The pattern was projected on the town from the vantage point, then traced and painted. Photographs from the same spot in daylight make the town look flat, almost like a postcard.
Sending a heartbeat over ethernet
From the MAKE Flickr pool Charles is using an Arduino ethernet shield to send the rhythm of his heartbeat over a network in the form of OSC messages. Each beat is detected via a simple sensor comprised of an IR LED and phototransistor – The idea is that when your heart beats you have a […]
Meticulously cut paper maps of NYC
four paper panels, each panel measures approximately three feet by four feet (overall dimensions, six feet in width x 8 feet in height) and exposes city blocks of brooklyn, manhattan, queens, and the bronx. the panels fit together like panes of a window and all four pieces must be sold as a set. image one would located in the lower left pane. image two located in the upper left pane. image three in the upper right pane and image four in the lower right pane. image five shows the delicacy of the pieces
“SuperFoam” block collapses into chair under weight
I got jealous of Matt’s recent “SuperFoam” chair post and had to find one of my own. This one is from a Taiwanese design student named Yu-Wing Wu. The voids are non-random, being carefully designed to collapse into the shape of an armchair when you sit on the thing, which in its resting state looks more like a giant block of tofu than a chair.
Zombie crossing road sign
The sign build is by Hector Turner, the original zombie family art by LiveJournaler Image Girl. [via Haunt Project]
Thrift Store Paper Cutouts
I found these truly stunning pieces of cut paper at the thrift store this weekend for $.60 each! I can’t imagine how painstaking these must be to make. They scanned into very perfect pieces of art. I was thinking of using them to burn some screens for screenprinting, and then framing them.
