Roman Signers Paraphuie I
While I was away at the Lightwave show in Dublin I took a brief side trip to Paris. While there I went to a really great exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo called Gakona where I saw this piece by Roman Signer called Paraphuie I. (paraphuie is french for umbrella) […]
Teaching Tibetan monkes science with tinkering
I just got back from a very interesting talk by the PIE group at the Exploratorium. They spent ten days in India teaching Tibetan monks simple scientific concepts with cardboard automata. They first had them study some pre-made automata and then had them make their own. In true Exploratorium sprint […]
9 is now a movie
A while ago I posted a short film by Shane Acker called 9 that was really mind blowing. Well, I just found out that Tim Burton is producing a full length, animated feature based on the short film. Here is the trailer:
Adam Savage on Making Dodos and Falcons
It’s nice to know that sometimes even Adam Savage forgets something — dam that 0.75″s has got to sting a bit. Thanks Lee.
A Number of Numbers
A Number of Numbers
Slide Rules for Nuclear Blasts and other jems
Spend some time over at the Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection where you will find all kinds cool instruments related to radioactivity including images (and descriptions) of various slid rules used to calculate the effects of nuclear blasts. The Nuclear Weapons Effects Computer No. 1 was manufactured by Blundell […]
Space Invaders
Two winters ago I was in Paris and Amsterdam, and I kept running into these wonderful, little, tile mosaics of space invaders and pac-man ghosts. I loved them. Simple, cool and funny. If you want to learn and see more, first check out this site. Then go watch this video.
Applied Kinetics Arts Show
Here are some photos form tonight’s Applied Kinetics Arts show. I’ve shown work with AKA in the past and this show makes me proud to be part of the group.
Best Use Of Toxic Waste Ever.
Read more at wired.
Chalk Boards
Whenever my graduate thesis adviser once told me “as soon as you start drawing lines in the air no one knows what they hell you are talking about.” This was typically in response to someone in the lab elaborating a point by drawing an imaginary graph in the air with […]
Street with a view
Ever wish you knew exactaly when those google map cars were going to be driving down your street so you could run outside in a yeti costume while juggling a lamp, a bottle of katsup and a hard-boild egg? Well, that migh jsut be my vision. But check out the […]
The Machine
Untitled from mudlevel on Vimeo.
Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill
The world famous (and very cool) mysterious-man of art Banksy has opened a pet shop in NYC. Located at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street and operating till October 31st (Halloween), Banksy’s pet store is officially open each and every daily from 10am until midnight. If you […]
The Baikonur Cosmodrome — A Russian Rocket City
Follow the link below to some large and gorgeous photos of the Russian Rocket City in Kazakstan. When NASA’s last scheduled Space Shuttle mission lands in June of 2010, the United States will not have the capability to get astronauts into space again until the scheduled launch of the new […]
PLAF — Autonomous Mechanisms by Eltono And Momo
I just came across the simple, tide-powered kinetic sculptures created by Eltono and Momo, two NYC artists and found them really inspiring. Their work is being fatured at the Anonymous Gallery (locaed on Broome St in NYC — I once lived on Broome st.) where they have the following statement: […]