College professor and artist Michael Jones McKean made a machine that generates two-story rainbows with the flip of a switch. His rainbow machine is comprised of commercial jet pumps and custom-designed nozzles that spray a dense wall of water into the sky.
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Unire i puntini dal primo gennaio al 31 dicembre: se questa vi sembra una buona prospettiva per affrontare l’anno nuovo, questo calendario di Dan Usiskin non deluderà le vostre aspettative. Mese dopo mese potrete ricostruire, con la tecnica che preferite, lo skyline londinese (completo dell’onnipresente Gherkin) e perfino incorniciare i vostri mesi preferiti. Per info …
20 Mini bus shelters in San Francisco are getting a high tech makeover for two months as part of a the Yahoo Bus Stop Derby – a giant neighborhood vs. neighborhood challenge that ends with a huge OK Go free concert put on by Yahoo. More info here. | via
Presentata da Garofalo all’ultimo Salone del Gusto di Torino, questa pasta è un piccolo concentrato di buone azioni: è prodotta con materie prime coltivate vicino allo stabilimento di Gragnano, e comunque di alta qualità, riducendo l’impatto ambientale della fabbricazione, ed ha un packaging totalmente biodegradabile: realizzato con un polimero che deriva dal mais, stampato con …
Lipstick Enigma is a computer-driven sentence-generator made by Janet Zweig. The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 stepper motors, controlled by 60 circuit boards. The software invents and writes a new line of text, using rules and a lexicon written by the artist, and displays it on the sign when triggered by …
Pasta functions as a whistle, capable of generating two different tones from one piece – a tone from each respective end. Designed by leor-lederman. | via
How do you create the ultimate reality? You take the winners of the 2 top rated reality shows in the country and set them against each other. Inside a billboard. A new reality game format is born featuring the winners of the reality shows “THE BIG BROTHER” & “SURVIVOR” who will compete against each other …
Initiated by the EOS Magazine and created by Happiness Brussels, A 100 year old tree, living on the edge of Brussels, was hooked up to a fine dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weatherstation, webcam and microphone. This equipment constantly measures the tree’s living circumstances. And translates this information into human language via custom MaxMSP software patch. Follow …
In The Superhero Project by Abner Preis, we find the artist (as hero) performing by going to work in different cities around the world. His job is to transform experience, shift the perspective of other citizens and help bring out the hero in their hearts. His superpower? The ability to help you imagine yours and …
Prendete 20 non milanesi, dategli una macchina fotografica e lasciate che scattino una foto. Poi prendete 20 milanesi, dategli quell’immagine e ditegli di ricamarci sopra una storia. Così è nato “My Own Private Milano”: orizzontale e dalla blogsfera. Scaricabile gratuitamente in pdf. | via
Industrial designer Patrick Frey’s “Gregor Calendar” poignantly illustrates the unbearable lightness of being by slowly unraveling with the passage of time into a useless heap on the barren floor of infinite nothing. Available for purchase here. | via & via
To protest the irritation of constant surveillance, Thomas voor ‘t Hekke and Bas van Oerle, working under the name “Helden,” conceived of a project called “panoptICONS,” which involves placing “camera birds” — half-bird, half-surveillance camera — throughout the city of Utrecht. “”panoptICONS addresses the fact that we are constantly being watched by surveillance cameras in city centres. …
On Tuesday, August 28, the Chilean arts collective Los Casagrande dropped 100,000 poems from the sky onto the Lustgarten in Berlin to celebrate poetry and condemn acts of war. The action was their contribution to one of Berlin’s most popular cultural events, A Long Night of Museums. | via
