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Check out this stunning short animation by Shane Acker— 9 Nine Shane Acker Short Animationby FrFKmeron
The sculpture of Stephane Halleux.
Adorable, creepy, detailed, fantastic, robotic, mechanical and oh-so French. Enjoy.
Data is beautiful
Humans are visual animals and our understanding of the world is largely in the context of vision and visual imagination. Accordingly, a huge portion of our brain is dedicated to the act of seeing. Put your hand on the back of your head. The area it covers is roughly the […]
Freak Angels
Check it out — it’s got a steam helicopter in it and it’s written by on of the best comic writers Warren Ellis:
Do you belive in the power of the Troll?
What’ll Happen To The Bay Bridge Troll? This is a great little bay area local story. The steel workers repairing the Bay Bridge after the Loma Prieta earthquake took some of the scrap from destruction and had it cast into sculpture of a Troll. They welded it to the under […]
Two New Chris Jordan Prints
Photographer Chris Jordan’s ongoing Running the Numbers series was kicked around the internet last year. This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans […]
Heron Videos
Heron of Alexandria was a bad ass (obviously or else he’d been forgotten) Greek mechanical engineer and fabricator who made incredible kinetic devices involving the movement of air, water and steam. (I’ve bloged about him in the past) My current interest in Heron focuses on his Aeolipie — a steam […]
Rocket Science by Edward Tufte
I’m pleased to learn that Edward Tufte, who taught the world exactly how to design data graphics, is also a sculptor. A recent sculpture of his hits a few of my soft spots: it’s huge, steel, and conceptually related to rocketry. It’s titled Rocket Science. Be sure to scroll down […]
New Improve Everywhere
My god I love Improve Everywhere. Ever since I hear about them a few years ago I’m always looking forward to hearing about their most recent missions. It’s even fun to just tell people about their missions. I felt their last mission in Best Buy was a bit too mundane […]
The art of Choe U Ram
Choe U Ram is a Korean sculptor who makes some simply mind blowing biomechanical / robotic pieces. Take some time and check out his galleries and the videos of his work on his website.
Sputnik-1
I seem wholly incapable of ever tiring of looking at pictures of Sputnik-1. The design for the Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator is largely inspired by these images.
oobject: Object Lists
oobjet has some fantastic object porn and is worth some of your time. Almost Scientific Recommendations: Projectors Turntables Sextants Light-House Lights Retro Ears Mircophones
Eyescapes
Eyescapes by Rankin.
Beautiful Retro-future Galleries
Here are two fantastic retro-future image galleries, both from the Dark Roasted Blend site: To The Stars Glorious Urbanism Below are some of the best:
Dante 01
If you are as big a sci-fi and film fan as I am stop whatever you are doing right now and click here to see clips from the new Marc Caro film. Yes. It’s all in French. No, I have no idea what they are saying. And, yep, I don’t […]