DIY Lighted Constellation Canvas on Threadbanger

Photographer Alberto Seveso uses high-speed photography to capture ink mixing with water to create fluid, dynamic images that make the ink look so tactile that it seems like silk. Via butdoesitfloat.com
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“The Tenth” pixel quilt by Kristy Daum via CRAFT

Red, Yellow and Blue by Orly Genger via CRAFT

Things Come Apart via Colossal

All the birds shown are three dimensional models, I made from thin paper. They are lifesize, and very realistic in colour and detail. I make the birds (and other animals) from paper templates. The templates are handcoloured with watercolour and gouache before assembling.
Some of the birds are scanned before putting together. In this way I can make a few birds, using the same design.

See more at Johan Scherft’s official website.

Stranger Visions – Portraits.

In Stranger Visions artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material collected in public places. Working with the traces strangers unwittingly leave behind, Dewey-Hagborg calls attention to the impulse toward genetic determinism and the potential for a culture of genetic surveillance.

james capper: creatures with mechanical claws.

mes capper creates large sculptural works which take on forms that resemble industrial tools and machinery, from hydraulic pumps, tractor blades to cutting claws and spindles of a milling machine. his purpose? to generate new functions for already familiar objects–in this case the mechanical apparatuses are paired with large blocks of plaster which the british artist ‘attacks’ with his conceived devices, considering them much like ‘drawing machines’ which he uses to carve and make markings on the white chunks of material. here, the performative aspect of the work becomes just as important as the tools themselves.

Check out this preview of my next batch of Pixel Sweaters!

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image © luc boegly

X-Tu Architects, a French firm, creates a 3D topographical map using extruded metal tubes to make a sinuous curvature around chocolatier Patrick Roger’s Paris boutique. Roger’s chocolate sculptures explore the changing (edible) states of chocolate, from molten to solid and back again, and x-tu mimics this by showing how a seemingly linear form, a metal tube, can be given curvilinear shape. Via designboom.

image © luc boegly
image © luc boegly

A pick and place for mosaics:

“We’re an art company on the outside and a tech company on the inside,” says Acworth. “Our customers come to us for art and service. Under the hood it’s these technologies that we’re developing every day that make us good at that.”

From the Artaic website:

Artaic was established in 2007 to make the beauty and artistry of the mosaic medium more accessible. With the creation of sophisticated design software and an innovative robotic mosaic assembly system Artaic brings the ancient art of mosaic to a new level.

wired.com interview with founder Ted Acworth here.

via the creatorsproject:

German artist Carsten Nicolai‘s work often involves mathematical patterns and phenomena. In new work crt mgn showing at the EIGEN + ART gallery in Berlin he uses cathode ray TVs and pendulums to visualize the magnetic field—something which is usually invisible to human perception.

Visit Carsten Nicolai’s website here.

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