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WAVICS 1.0 is a sinergic project that is investigating material...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:25:33 +0300

WAVICS 1.0 is a sinergic project that is investigating material reactions to human behavior. It enables the audience to inflict a sinuous movement on the surface of a 70x50 cm elastic surface covered in 3312 straws without touching it.

DESIGN & FABRICATION TEAM: Andrei Mitisor, Ina Leonte, Aostacioae Mihai

Available for interaction:

May, 23rd 2013

20:00 - 02:00

Parametrica HQ

27 Mircea Vulcanescu St.

Bucharest

malformalady: Fasciated daisy — Fasciated stems are produced...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:57:28 +0300

malformalady:

Fasciated daisy — Fasciated stems are produced due to abnormal activity in the growing tip of the plant. Often an abnormal number of flowers are produced on affected stems. Normal branches may arise from fasciated stems. Fasciation is unpredictable and is usually limited to a single stem. It seldom recurs the following year.

Great artist and awesome installations

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:55:56 +0200

Synaptic Caguamas is just one of the many fantastic works of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/synaptic_caguamas.php

efedra: Retenue d’eau, 1998 by Michel François

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:28:39 +0200

efedra:

Retenue d’eau, 1998 by Michel François

prostheticknowledge: All Lovely Stuff - DRAWING MACHINE London...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:57:54 +0200

prostheticknowledge:

All Lovely Stuff - DRAWING MACHINE

London design brand creates cheap creative drawing machine with simple materials - video demonstration below:

A do-it-yourself way to make art! An oak cotton reel, peg, felt tip pen, rubber band and a small bit of wax is all that’s required to create this drawing machine that will inspire the Picasso in anyone. All materials are included in this self-assembly kit.

Obviously too late for Christmas, but more info to buy one can be found here

meenmeen: Firewall by Aaron Sherwood created in collaboration...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:48:53 +0200

meenmeen:

Firewall by Aaron Sherwood created in collaboration with Mike Allison

Holy shit. I wanna experience this.

reaktorplayer: Dominique Blain

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:48:13 +0200

reaktorplayer:

Dominique Blain

processingmatter: Chair by Sebastian Brajkovic

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:13:13 +0200

processingmatter:

Chair by Sebastian Brajkovic

vimmuse: Dirt Poster is a Design and Graphic-Design work made...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:15:41 +0200

vimmuse:

Dirt Poster is a Design and Graphic-Design work made by Roland Reiner Tiangco, a new graduate of a Design School, living in New York. While handling the poster, your hands starts to get dirty, and this dirt allows you to see what’s the poster is all about. Check out also the artist’s Website.

brianlucid: The Fixer’s Manifesto Fixing is the unsung hero of...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:05:40 +0200

brianlucid:

The Fixer’s Manifesto

Fixing is the unsung hero of creativity. And it really shouldn’t be. It’s the most common, humble and beautiful form of creativity. Let’s wear that belief proudly. Let’s notice and celebrate these little everyday triumphs, and help others see their value. We made this to fuel the conversation about why a culture of fixing is so important.

Yes, it is! robbgodshaw: Isn’t that nice.

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:53:09 +0200

Yes, it is!

robbgodshaw:

Isn’t that nice.

Mistake your way out

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:23:00 +0200

Communications networks, computers, microprocessor control systems are socially toxic entities primarily when used “correctly”.

Kwinter, Sanford, (2008): „The Cruelty of Numbers” in Far from Equilibrium, Actar, Barcelona

spatula: A sandstone block built from lego, blending real...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:08:28 +0200

spatula:

A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints (by Greg Petchkovsky)

architizer: Designer Dirk Vander Kooij‘s “Endless” furniture is...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:13:45 +0200

architizer:

Designer Dirk Vander Kooij‘s “Endless” furniture is printed using a modified industrial robot and recycled e-waste.

ecogeekery

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:36:53 +0300

ecogeekery

Table Cloth is a new performance space in the courtyard of...

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:49:47 +0300

Table Cloth is a new performance space in the courtyard of Schoenberg Hall at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in Los Angeles. I think it’s great! http://www.ball-nogues.com/#project-87

studio630: Lasers, 3-D Printers, And Robots: The New Shop...

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:46:18 +0300

studio630:

Lasers, 3-D Printers, And Robots: The New Shop Class

“We have to move from an engine of bureaucracy to an engine of innovation,” said Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter, announcing this week that at least 1,000 high schools around the country will be opening up Makerspaces over the next four years.

What is a Makerspace, you ask? “It’s a place where you get to do things,” Dale Dougherty, founder of O’Reilly Media’s Make magazine and creator of Maker Faire, told Co.Exist. “I think it’s sort of a mashup of a shop class, a computer lab, an art class, and maybe a bio lab.”

The national Makerspace project is the brainchild of Dougherty and Saul Griffith, many-tentacled inventor and founder of Squid Labs, Instructables, and Howtoons, and is sponsored by a grant from DARPA MENTOR, the defense department’s research arm related to advancing manufacturing and reviving the nation’s strategic interest in making things; the organization is already sponsoring Makerspaces for adults, so this is a logical extension. There’s some pretty heavy national goals riding on this initiative: getting American kids excited about science, math and technology again and fostering a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. “I feel we’re at this point in time where people are looking for some substantial change in education,” says Dale. “And I want to be that new thing.”

All over the country, kids in hackerspaces and tech shops and in their own garages are making Mentos-and-Diet-Coke rockets, learning to use miter saws and laser cutters,programming kinetic walking dinosaur robots with Arduino microcontrollers, building homemade speakers out of clear PVC that lights up when the music plays, designing and printing 3-D coffee mugs for mom, and ultimately creating something completely new, then documenting and sharing their creations with others for free online or in person at a meetup, like a Maker Faire.

Whether the anarchic spirit of all this can survive a typical public school, where the mantra is “sit still and follow directions,” is anyone’s guess. Dougherty says his inspiration is Alice Water’s Edible Schoolyard movement: create the space and the practice will follow.

Via FastCoDesign

Written by Anya Kamenetz

I love this guy! Jae-Hyo Lee’s official...

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:06:33 +0300

I love this guy!

Jae-Hyo Lee’s official page http://www.leeart.name/

Movie showing the concept animations, construction and testing...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:53:23 +0300

Movie showing the concept animations, construction and testing of the London 2012 Olympic cauldron by British designer Thomas Heatherwick.

archiemcphee: From the Department of Awesome Natural Wonders...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:22:34 +0300

archiemcphee:

From the Department of Awesome Natural Wonders come these mysterious patterns on the ocean floor off the southern coast of Japan. Japanese scuba diver and photographer Yoji Ookata, who has spent the last 50 years exploring and documenting his underwater discoveries off the coast of Japan, spotted these beautiful and puzzling patterns in the sand, nearly six feet in diameter and 80 feet below sea level, during a dive near Amami Oshima at the southern tip of the country.

So what happened next? Are these rippling geometric patterns the equivalent of crop circles on the seafloor? Not quite, but the answer is still a good one. Colossal explains:

“He soon returned with colleagues and a television crew from the nature program NHK to document the origins what he dubbed the “mystery circle.”

Using underwater cameras the team discovered the artist is a small puffer fish only a few inches in length that swims tirelessly through the day and night to create these vast organic sculptures using the gesture of a single fin. Through careful observation the team found the circles serve a variety of crucial ecological functions, the most important of which is to attract mates. Apparently the female fish are attracted to the hills and valleys within the sand and traverse them carefully to discover the male fish where the pair eventually lay eggs at the circle’s center, the grooves later acting as a natural buffer to ocean currents that protect the delicate offspring. Scientists also learned that the more ridges contained within the sculpture resulted in a much greater likelihood of the fish pairing. To learn more about the circles check out the full scoop over on Spoon and Tamago, and you can see two high resolution desktop photos courtesy of NHK here.”

Busy little pufferfish boys wooing potential mates by sculpting the sand with their bodies. As far as we’re concerned, that’s pretty awesome!

[via Colossal]