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May 10, 2008
ITP Spring Show
Don't miss the ITP Spring Show 2008, where there's sure to be projects galore with wearable electronics and other crafty smarts!
Monday, May 12 and Tuesday, May 13
from 5 to 9pm at ITP
A two-day festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.
An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.
Interactive Telecommunications Program
Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor, South Elevators
New York NY 10003
Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public
No need to RSVP
Posted by Becky Stern |
May 10, 2008 11:00 AM
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May 9, 2008
Thomas Doyle's Miniatures
Gareth @ MAKE writes:
Artist Thomas Doyle makes fascinating art, tells compelling stories, with model train miniatures and scenery. I've always been strangely attracted to these miniature components and wondered why more people don't make art, jewelry, dioramas, etc. with them.
Posted by Becky Stern |
May 9, 2008 02:00 PM
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May 7, 2008
Paper Wars Exhibition
Open from May 15-21, Paper Wars is an exhibition being held at Craze Gallery in London. This show takes the Papercraft AK-47 as a jumping-off point, and hits the ground running. Via Core77.
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May 7, 2008 04:00 PM
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HOW TO - Sashiko Embroidery
Somehow I missed this detailed Purl Bee tutorial on sashiko embroidery. Mari, who wrote the tutorial, claims that the traditional Japanese embroidery only looks difficult. The image above is of Flickr user water-fall's beautiful sashiko embroidery. via Whip Up.
Posted by Michelle Kempner |
May 7, 2008 06:00 AM
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May 6, 2008
Phone Coil Sheep
Check out this herd of sheep sculptures made of phones, phone parts, and phone coils. They seem to be wired up to the wall, so I wonder if they ring! (Thanks, Frank!)
Posted by Becky Stern |
May 6, 2008 02:00 PM
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May 5, 2008
Michelle Ott's Postcard Machine
At Maker Faire this weekend I got to enjoy the Postcard Machine by Michelle Ott in the Craft Zone. Above is a video from the Renegade Craft Faire in Chicago, since my video didn't come out at nice. Michelle sits in the "machine" making bleepy noises while you select your postcard and insert cash into the slot. You get a lot more than a postcard; you get a spectacularly crafted performance.
Photo by Flickr user plattyjo.
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May 5, 2008 04:00 PM
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May 1, 2008
Bent Objects Skull
What do you do when you have two great things? Put them together! Bent Objects phenom Terry Border teamed up with the genius behind Skull-A-Day, Noah Scalin, to create a Bent Objects/Skull-A-Day crossover.
Posted by Michelle Kempner |
May 1, 2008 06:00 AM
Arts, General |
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April 30, 2008
Soft Circuit Embroidery Demo at Maker Faire
I'll be running a demo at 11am on Saturday at Maker Faire on how to sew/embroider a simple circuit using conductive thread, an LED, and a watch battery. This is a beginner's level demo, so don't worry if you've never embroidered or never touched electronics. I look forward to seeing you there!
Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset May 3rd and 4th at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, CA (Upcoming.org). It's for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things.
If you're in the Bay Area, or plan to attend Maker Faire add "makerfaire" to your Twitter, we'll be giving away tickets and will have updates before and during Maker Faire!
Posted by Becky Stern |
Apr 30, 2008 04:00 PM
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April 28, 2008
Felt Weapons
Phil @ MAKE points us to these felt weapons that look surprisingly realistic!
Posted by Becky Stern |
Apr 28, 2008 02:00 PM
Amigurumi and Toys, Arts, Felting |
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April 25, 2008
Photoreactive Sun Canopy
This installation titled Project OR by architect Christoph Klemmt and designers Ran Ankori, Francesco Brenta, Maya Carni, Laura Micalizzi and Elisa Oddone is made of a photoreactive material that lights up green and blue when exposed to sunlight. It also casts shadows on the walls and makes an engaging space in an Italian courtyard on Milan's Via Borgospesso as part of the 2008 Milan Furniture Fair. I'd like to commission him for a sun porch. Via Inhabitiat.
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Apr 25, 2008 04:00 PM
Arts, Technology |
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Electronic Embroidery
I just finished up my first LilyPad Arduino embroidery project. I wanted to experiment with conductive thread mixed with traditional embroidery floss to make a wall hanging that lights up and makes sound and is visually interesting. It was a good way to learn traditional embroidery, especially comparing it to creating circuit paths. You can come see it in person tonight at Cartel Coffee Lab or at the Arts, Media and Engineering Open House next Tuesday, both in Tempe, AZ. Or just watch the video.
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Apr 25, 2008 02:00 PM
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Ed Bing Lee's Knot Art
Artist Ed Bing Lee has perfected the art of the knot. For over 25 years, the Philadelphia based artists uses a basic macrame knot to create pieces that look like food in his delectable series or look like intricate needlepoint in his picnic series. Thanks Nichelle!
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Apr 25, 2008 10:00 AM
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April 24, 2008
Mammalia - Artist Reception at Relish at Home in Berkeley, CA Saturday, April 26
Take a visit to Relish at Home in Berkeley this weekend for the opening of Mammalia this Saturday, April 26th from 6-9pm. Artist Jane Buck of Foxy & Winston comes to Berkeley from Brooklyn, NY in her first solo exhibition. Handmade silk-screened prints of beautiful bright water, fabulous flora, woodland, & pastoral scenes feature small creatures - voles, mice, shrews and many others! Work on display through June 28th, 2008.
Relish at Home
2703 Seventh Street, #112 (@ Pardee)
Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 981-9400
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Apr 24, 2008 10:00 PM
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April 23, 2008
Pixel Pour
Jonah @ MAKE writes:
This pixellated water was spotted somewhere on NYC's Lower East Side, but it didn't quite evaporate so it's probably still around there somewhere. This type of art is a pretty nice way to re-imagine the city as if it were a video game, a technique that many different artists have been using lately.
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Apr 23, 2008 07:00 PM
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April 18, 2008
Petri Dish Embroidery
Betty links us to Rachel's embroidery from a series that reproduces anatomy illustrations from the 1900s in free-form stitches. I love how textural the end product is. I can't wait to see more in the series!
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Apr 18, 2008 04:00 PM
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Sunlight Poem Projector
This park pavilion designed by Jiyeon Song uses a complex arrangement of perforations to display different lines of a poem in its own shadow throughout the year. From the site:
Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion's surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which-during specific times of the year-transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice.
Jiyeon's site about the project appears to be temporarily down, but I'm told there are some awesome videos there of the construction and development of this project. Via Geekologie.
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Apr 18, 2008 02:00 PM
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April 17, 2008
Embroidered Music Video
Aleximo points us to this little gem: Check out this music video for Architecture in Helsinki's song "Like it or Not," using a combination of embroidery and stop-motion animation. A Joy!
Posted by Becky Stern |
Apr 17, 2008 04:00 PM
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Archisuit
Have you ever seen "anti-sit" technologies at work? Little spikes on ledges to prevent you from resting your legs? Benches the discourage laying down? From the Archisuit site:
Archisuit consists of an edition of four leisure jogging suits made for specific architectural structures in Los Angeles. The suits include the negative space of the structures and allow a wearer to fit into, or onto, structures designed to deny them.
(Thanks, Frank!)
Posted by Becky Stern |
Apr 17, 2008 02:00 PM
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Ex-Barbie Pincushion
Elsa Mora had an unused Barbie and a need for a pincushion. Naturally, the ex-Barbie pincushion was born. Now she never has to look around for her scissors or pins again.
Posted by Michelle Kempner |
Apr 17, 2008 07:00 AM
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April 16, 2008
Refashioned Clothes Make Meaty Art
Tamara Kostianovsky has a show opening in New York, called Actus Reus, of her painstakingly handmade beef carcasses, crafted from her own recycled clothes. These are meant to be disturbing and thought provoking; I'm sure they're really incredible in person. Via Cool Hunting.
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Apr 16, 2008 04:00 PM
Arts, Recycle |
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