A funny thing happened to Tim's LEDs while attempting to cast them in resin - For a project at work I had to mold some things in this hard clear polyurethane, so my...
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LED stalactites?
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Telectroscope Brings London & Brooklyn Eye to Eye
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The most intriguing part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th birthday party announced last week is the mysterious Telectroscope, located at Brooklyn’s Fulton Ferry Landing...
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Food Sculpture in the NYT
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Mary Ellen points us to a lovely article in the New York Times about food sculpture, which has become so popular in the last few years that the Salon of Culinary Art...
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BED Rooftop Reawakens Under New Name
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Just in time for Sex and the City's big screen release: BED is back. The club was one of the many featured in the HBO series, and is housed, of course, in the Meatpacking...
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Running in Places
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All photos © muggezifter Here’s an eyebrow-raising site from the Dutch photoblogger and artist muggezifter: nothing but photos of himself running away from the...
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Jay Gong
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Just look at this image: Jay-Z and Gong Li. Amazing. The woman who brought life to Chinese cinema in the arms of the man who brought death to hiphop.
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ITP show: Knock - reinvented amulets and charms
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Kyveli Vezani's "Knock" a collection of reinvented amulets and charms reflecting the impact of technology on our values and beliefs. My favorite on is the necklace that...
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Name That Space in Williamsburg
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Matt Roff & Co. decided not to name their new venue Natural Selection after all...so as Galapagos moves to DUMBO, the space is going to need a moniker that'll stick. And...
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ITP show: Picture Me Rollin’ - using your suitcase to play music
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Jose Angel Olivares & Matthew Young's Picture Me Rollin’ - using your suitcase to play music Picture Me Rollin' is a manufactured surface designed to produce...
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Dry Measuring Cups vs Liquid Measuring Cups
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I recently received this email from a visitor asking, “if a recipe calls for four ounces of something, how do you know if they mean four ounces on the food scale,...
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Pencil This In
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EVENT: The Kitchen has curated a 3-day music and film tribute to the late Arthur Russell (he was the Music Director there in 1974) -- it's called Let's Go Swimming, and...
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ITP show: Steppers - musical shoes
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Christian Cerrito, Sandra Irma Davila & Xiaoyang Feng's "Steppers" - shoes that play notes when you step. Steppers were designed to get kids up on their feet,...
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Mixed Media Art by Tanis Alexis
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Moxie pointed me to the beautiful work of Vancouver based artist, Tanis Alexis and I've become a fan of her work ever since. This piece "Passing Me By" mixes her love of...
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Union Hall Wins Over the Board at Borough Hall
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Photo by Bryan Bruchman. At last night's full Community Board Six Meeting in Borough Hall, passionate outcries were heard once again arguing over the motion to...
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Toriton Plus: Water Surface Music Controller
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I found my new favorite musical interface and it's called the "Toriton Plus". It's a fairly simple concept that produces great results. A slightly more complex version...
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ITP show: Epimetheus, trees will tell you when they're on fire
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John Dimatos's Epimetheus - A network of fire detecting sensors that transmit crucial data in real time. Epimetheus is the feasibility prototype for a larger...
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ITP show: Solar chandelier
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Christian Cerrito & Petra Farinha's Solar chandelier - A suspended solar/kinetic sculpture that gathers energy during the day, and dispenses light at night. A kinetic...
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Finger controlled "Missile Command"
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Smason writes - I wrote a Missile Command clone for the multi-touch wall at Obscura Digital. Just like the original, except you can fire by touching the wall with your...
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ITP show: Brushbots, Paint Brushes with a mind of their own
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Brushbots are little bot-like paint brushes that make art on their own... Brush Bots are tiny machines that work in tandem with the user in creating generative art....
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ITP show: Using a wheelchair (and Wiimote) to create art...
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This year @ the ITP show the latest addition of devices used for projects included the Wiimote. Younghyun Chung's digital wheelchair art project @ ITP... More about...