66,048 business cards, 8,000 business card cubes (Menger subunits) and 150 pounds of cube later, it was finished. Figuring the whole project required about 600 hours to build, she recruited volunteers from around the country to build parts of it and then ship them to her.
Homographies is an interactive installation featuring 144 robotic fluorescent light fixtures controlled by 7 computerized surveillance systems. As people walk under the piece, the light tubes rotate to create labyrinthine patterns of light that are “paths” or “corridors” between them.
An estimated 4.5 million light-emitting diodes offer an amazing spectacle at the Nabana no Sato theme park in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on Saturday. The annual winter light show is scheduled to run until March 8. Kyodo. This year’s theme is flowers. The water illumination is out of this world. Here the beautiful sound of the river with vivid color changing-the-art LED technology enables a production of 64 billion colors.
Toyota’s rolled out a one-off truck with a gargantuan 8-liter turbodiesel engine and enough towing capacity to haul the tanker of fuel you’d need to keep it going. Toyota calls it the Tundra Diesel Dually, but it might just as well be called the Tundrasaurus.
Arms22 shares this oddly stealthy example of DIY audio - converting a couple of empty grandes into computer speakers using a TDA1552Q amplifier chip. Nice reuse - looks natural too! The relevant page is in Japanese but you can still check out the schematic
Renowned danish artist olafur eliasson uses fog as a tool to allow the viewer a new perception of urban space. Daily at dusk, for 40 seconds, 32 fluorescent tubes emit a specific yellow light.
The angled towers requires a counter balanced foundation. The outer skins of the buildings are thermally protected with even sized diamond shaped glazing to enhance the richness of the buildings while creating magnificent 360 degrees of panoramic views.
Researchers want figure out what the underground lair of some crazy ant species looks like. So they pour concrete down the mofo, let it harden, then excavate the results—and the building looks like something by Gaudi. Video gets going after 2:50.
The Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (link - via DRB)
Massive sculptures are fascinating and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty walks the fine line between nature and the artificial. In 1970, he built a 1500-foot long, 15 foot-wide counterclockwise coil out of mud, salt crystals and rocks at the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
100% eco with Sun Tracker solar panel working day & night charging the battery for the Hybrid motor - On board computer, Home theater, freezer/refrigerator, and the best Internet Connection.
by TAF Arkitektkontor. “Congratulations! We have put our time and heart in this birthday present. In a society where almost everything can be bought by money, the shape of a present becomes more important than the actual content. In this case the inside could be whatever you wish it to be.”
allRGB is a website where you can find images where every single pixel is an unique RGB color. The images are 4096 by 4096 pixels big, so they cover every single RGB color too. The image below is of course a scaled down version of this one.
Ricoh’s wind- and solar-powered Times Square billboard (link)
Ricoh will be installing this $3 million billboard in Times Square (7th and 42nd) that will be powered entirely by wind and solar. If there’s not enough sun or wind, the 16 floodlamps that will shine on the unit will simply…turn off.
Plasticamente pavilion by riccardo giovanetti (link)
The plasticamente pavilion for the new walt disney movie ‘trilli’. The cartoon is eco-friendly and the pavilion is designed to literally explore the qualities of plastics and recyclables for children.
Vending machines in Japan are as commonplace as temples, bicycles, and karaoke booths. It’s not uncommon to see a street lined with a dozen or more machines selling products ranging from cold and hot drinks to flowers or rice.
This is one of the many applications of the so-called swarm robotics, a branch of artificial intelligence in working for years some of the most prestigious experts in the world and tries to copy the collective behavior observed in hives or in the colonies of ants. The following video, for example, recorded by the team of Professor Marco Dorigo, shows the collaborative work of several robots in the swarm are prepared and coordinated to draw a heavy object, in this case a girl:
Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model.
