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Circuit board art

Circuit board art

Francisco writes – “I’ve been cutting two different kinds of shapes, really kitschy holiday shapes and somewhat kitschy geometric shapes…All of these shapes are made from either dead or seriously obsolete circuit boards, pulled from various items – motherboards, hard drive/floppy/cd drive controllers, ethernet/sound/video cards, etc. Not all boards are equal – some are thinner, […]

Material Seduction – Plastic cup topology

Material Seduction – Plastic cup topology

We had some plastic straw art today, here’s some amazing plastic cup art – “…Donovan has also hot-glued plastic cups into a massive hive hanging from the ceiling, glued buttons into a steep mountain topology reminiscent of peaks seen in Chinese art, glued white paper plates into Tribble-like forms, arranged tarpaper into rippling black landscapes […]

Geek graffiti takes on New York

Geek graffiti takes on New York

Wired on geek graffiti – “The group of 12 graffiti artists surrounds its target, a sculpture in Manhattan known as The Cube, and waits for the signal to begin tagging it up. It’s a daunting task — the 15-foot sculpture in Astor Place was recently coated with anti-graffiti paint. But within seconds, The Cube is […]

Tomato soup battery and more – art by Ben Woodeson

Tomato soup battery and more – art by Ben Woodeson

New Maker-art crush, Ben Woodeson – “Variations on scientific methodology, energy and electricity, my practice examines basic technology through crude experimentation. Systematically reinventing and cross fertilising, primitive attempts to re-use and re-examine that which is commonplace and everyday; A pan technical investigation with maximum effort for minimal achievement.” Thanks SicklyGirl!- Link. Pictured here, Mega Drive, […]

The great LadyBug animation

The great LadyBug animation

We profiled Natalie Jeremijenko in MAKE 02 (toxic sensing robot dogs) – and here’s some of her latest work, amazing animations showing the variety of the lady bug “200 individual labybugs selected from a population of approximately four thousand, become the frames in an animation. The ladybug images are scaled, color corrected and ordered by […]