Category: art

  • Rudd’s Downfall

    I’m really enjoying the ‘Downfall’ parodies (and the surrounding drama, and the parodies of the drama).

  • Butter Ball

    I was in Istanbul recently, which was great; the Hagia Sophia, the Basilica Cistern, the Spice Bazaar, wonderful friends, and this incredible butter ball. thanks to Glenn for the photo.

  • Space Elevator II

    Tomás Saraceno, Space Elevator II (working title), 2009. © Tomás Saraceno Via we-make-money-not-art

  • Plan B

    My plan to turn the Brunswick Secondary College maintenance shed into a GIANT smoke ring generator has failed – not the slightest hint of a smoke ring formed at the 2m diameter hole we (the year 7’s and myself) constructed at the end of the 5m long shed. And so, despite my best intentions, the…

  • Sheep, is there anything they can’t do?

    thanks to Simon for the link.

  • Smoke Rings

    I’ve been making smoke ring generators with students from Brunswick Secondary College. They are based on the one below. I was talking with the kids today about making a huge smoke ring machine, maybe using the maintenance shed for the ‘tub’. YouTube offered this up for inspiration.

  • Getting out of Quartz Composer

    Last time I looked Quartz Composer wouldn’t talk to anything, so I find this project from Jay pretty amazing. It’s using the open source Peggy LED board from Evil Mad Science and the Arduino (also open source). More videos here, and Jay is sharing his code here.

  • Death Ray

    I just fell down the rabbit hole that is Nikola Tesla; inventor of radio, AC current distribution, remote controlled vehicles, and the DEATH RAY (actually Tesla called it the “Peace Ray” but that didn’t catch on). There’s a bit of controversy about whether it actually existed, most sane people think not, most nut bags with an internet connection and…

  • another Radiohead remake

    If you’ve seen the Radiohead video for House of Cards you probably know it was ‘filmed’ using a collection of 3D laser scanners. What you may not know is that Radiohead have released the scan data and Processing code used to produce the video. What would anyone want with that? Well you could use it…

  • E.A.T.

    I was googling E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology when I came across this collaboration for the Expo ’70 Pepsi Pavilion in Osaka, Japan. The outside of the building was covered by a water vapour cloud sculpture by Fujiko Nakaya. The dome shaped objects in the foreground are six-foot high moving sculptures by Robert…

  • Big Ideas (don’t get any)

    Simon sent me a link to this video. It’s by Glasgow School of Art graduate James Houston, set to the Radiohead tune Nude. The nostalgic tragedy of Radiohead seems to couple perfectly with the Sinclair ZX spectrum.

  • I feel… small

    Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar made a web based collaborative art piece in 2005 titled We Feel Fine. I remember hearing about it at the time, but I’ve only just gone and checked it out. The project, located at www.wefeelfine.org presents a database of feelings, captured automatically from blog posts. Essentially the system searches for the phrase “I…

  • the box of joy

    Esther (from VCA) has, with typical boundless energy, entered the blogosphere. The box of joy, a “helmet of leisure and learning”, now has a dedicated blog. Esther has prepared a broad, slightly eclectic, collection of instructional audio for the helmet – check out the details and book a session.