Artist Alexander Laner has a couple neat transportation-playing-art pieces, this motor was slowed down to play a record (33 rpm) mounted to the engine block, and this bicycle plays a record too! [via] – Link. Related: Papercone record player – Link. HOW TO – Copy a vinyl record – Link. Walk that vinyl – Link.
Boston area Makers, glass pumpkins this weekend @ MIT! – “”The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch came to MIT in 2001 after a residency in the Glass Lab by 14 members of the Bay Area Glass Institute. Visit us this Friday evening to preview the complete installation of 1,000 handblown glass pumpkins, created by artists from […]
Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen made a modular light system for architecture, which reacts to the electromagnetic fields generated by touch. [via] – Link. Related: HOW TO – Make LED Throwies – Link. Make “light” graffiti with a disposable camera – Link. Embedded conductive, magnetic paint driven LEDs – Link. Maker made graffiti art – […]
A MAKE reader sent in this interesting idea for a camera, one that actually doesn’t take photos – “Buttons captures a moment at the press of a button. However, the device doesn’t have any optical part. The camera memorizes only the time of the picture and immediately searches the net for other photos that have […]
Nick writes – “Inspired by “Game Over” my friend and I made this stop-motion version of the classic game Lunar Lander. I especially like the jelly-bean explosions! (Berty Bott’s!)” – Link. Related: Stop motion film of retro video games using household objects – Link. Frogger by PES – Link. Stop motion LEGO video – Link. […]
Sparkyfaisca writes – “Artist creates ‘shopping trolley art’ to highlight RiverCare and spearhead recruitment campaign. Anglian Water has commissioned the world’s first river creature sculptures made entirelyfrom shopping trolleys. These amazing creations highlight some of the rubbish pulled from rivers in the region by RiverCare volunteers every week.The sculptures are being used to head an […]
Spluch writes – “Martin Waugh creates art out of drops of water through the use of high-speed photography. By varying the size, speed and position of drops, as well as the color, viscosity, and surface tension, a panorama of color, movement and intrigue is created.” – Link. Related: High speed photography – water figures – […]
