Shiny balls of mud gallery
Bruce Gardner has a galley of hikaru dorodango a Japanese schoolyard pastime where kids polish clumps of mud to create these amazing little nuggets of shiny – [via] – Link & how-to
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WORLDPROCESSOR – Info globes
The San Jose Museum of Art has a collection of globes with all sorts of info-graphics on them, here’s one with life expectancy – “Exploring how maps mediate between the known and the unknown, Ingo Gunther’s WorldProcessor presents more than 25 illuminated, modified globes to engage audiences into journeying among alternative worldviews, from “refugee currents” […]
Elements of Interactive Art: A Creative, Mac-Based Introduction” class in NYC
MAKE pal Peter Kirn @ Create Digital Motion (who also wrote a great MIDI primer in MAKE 07) is teaching a class in NYC, he writes – “I’ll be teaching a class on using the free Mac developer tool Quartz Composer to build DIY projects and interactive visual art driven by music, sound, and video. […]
HOW TO – Build a public broadcast “cart”
Victor writes – “Public Broadcast Cart is a shopping cart outfitted with a dynamic microphone, a mixer, an amplifier, six speakers, a miniFM transmitter and a laptop with a wireless card. The audio captured by the microphone on the cart is fed through the mixer to three different broadcast sources.” – Link. More: Build your […]
DIY 21st Century animation desk
Chris writes – “Animator D.T. Nethery blogs about one of his co-workers who draws on a digital pad but missed the feel of the old style animation desk. The solution, combine the two! Check out his blog entry for some great shots of the conversion.” – Link.
Phonograph turntable strobe zootrope
Tim shows you how to use an old phonograph turntable and strobe light to display 2 and 3d animated artworks – Link. At the Exporatorium in SF they have a display like this by artist Toshio Iwai, and it’s really fun to watch.
Cardboard and junk mail M1A2 Abrams tank
Scott writes – “Two Chicago Based artists, Tom Burtonwood and Holly Holmes, created this 3/4 size M1A2 Abrams tank out of cardboard and junk mail. You can find more information here” – Link.
