By way of the Evil Mad Scientist Labs’ monthly Linkdump come these wonderful examples of beehive art, built by the bees themselves, with a little help from a scaffolding of wire and hive frames, constructed by the artist/beekeeper, which the bees then build out with honeycomb. Nifty. Beeswax art and design
It’s amazing what you can do with a plastic drop cloth and an iron, as Parsons student Ryan Riegner demonstrates with his sculpture, Eleflate. He writes: By far one of my more favorite projects at Parsons, my inflatable elephant was originally intended to be placed over New York City MTA subway grate vents on the […]
From the Humans since 1982 design studio comes the Clock Clock – using 24 analog timepieces to form one big digital. Hrrm … the incredibly smooth hand movement, makes this one look a bit like a CG concept – even still, quite cool. A free font inspired by the piece is available on their site. […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Strolling about my neighborhood last weekend, I happened upon an unusually shaped case at the site of a local memorial. Further investigation revealed the cases contents – a large wooden lightning bolt nestled in foam padding. I’m guessing either a former student of Sister Nicodema thinks she ‘totally rocked’ or […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Pixl8ed’s auto Etch A Sketch is wireless and hands-free – built using a stepper motors, SparkFun EasyDriver boards, XBee wireless module, and custom CNCed support hardware. Check it out on Flickr. More: Computerized Etch A Sketch @ Maker Faire
This crazy bugger is trying to tweet the Mona Lisa. He writes: Preliminary result of a little competition with the goal to write an image encoder/decoder that allows to send an image in a tweet. The image on the left is what I currently manage to send in 140 characters via twitter. He’s doing it […]
In Bb 2.0 is collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon. People are encouraged to participate and send in their own videos. The videos can be played simultaneously — the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.
