Tag: Artistic

Neo Victorian Rayguns from The Weta Workshop

Manmelter 3600ZThese creations are just too sweet.

Issuing forth from the fetid and possibly incriminating imagination of Weta Workshop designer Greg Broadmore come RAYGUNS: Dr, Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators! … Bespangled in fine detail and with various (most likely quite dangerous) moving parts, these wave weapons of yesteryear are the perfect ornament for a gentleman’s study or a deterring centerpiece for a lady’s powder room or chiffonier…

Seeing these works of art makes me want to pick up my razor knife and tube bender and have a go at making something like this. I used to make toy guns along time ago. They were never as sophisticated as these but they were fun to build.

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Weta originals – Rayguns

Pixel Fun

Pixel factoryPixel factory

By dragging a printed paper strip over a linear array of 49 fiber optic strands a 7×7 pixel image can be formed.  The effect is very cool, animated text and even motion captured from video can be shown.
I want to know what the application was that the designer used to make the paper strips, looks complex but powerful.  

[via ektopia] 

atoyfactory.com

Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006

You would think that this was done on an old Mac computer but it wasn’t. Very impressive. I need one of their shirts.

Not strictly a work of Machinima; Paul Robertson’s Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 is a masterpiece animation based on the graphic look and feel of platform handhelds. A kind of machinima recursion; where animations inspired by games have inspired animations. Paul’s style did actually get him a job in the games industry, but he was obsessively animating these seductively disturbing game-inspired tales before making games. His work has been shown in many galleries in Australia, but until now hasn’t found a big exposure online. For me, his non-interactive animations are more about what games ought to be than what a lot of games are. The kind of indulgence which triggers all the soft spots of delicious wrongness in a way Reality just doesn’t appreciate.

selectparks – Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006

Talking Flames

Talking flames

How very facinating! 

Talking Flames, was in 1990, the newest technical achievement from the Logos Laboratory for experimental music research. It uses a plasma in ionised air, an electric arc that is modulated with a PWM-audiosignal. Herewith a sound-radiator is created that does’nt make use of any moving parts such as cones or coils. It sets air into vibration in a most direct way. Moreover, it is also capable of converting digital audio-information into sound, using the ionised air arc as an digital to analog converter by simply integrating the PWM- signal. This digital loudspeaker operates on a very high voltage and pretty high frequency: de carrier wave should be at least two times the highest audiofrequency. Ignition voltage is ca. 20kV. The electrodes are made of tungsten enriched with 5% radioactive thorium. The points have to be sharpened every so often.

 I’m going to keep an eye out for more information on this technique.

Talking Flames – audio art by Godfried-Willem Raes

A Statue on the Moon

Moon artHere is some history on a bit of artwork and a plaque dedicated to the fallen astronauts was left on the moon by the crew of Apollo 15. This is the first I’ve ever heard of this and I’ve read quite a bit about the history of the space program.

The only piece of art on the moon (depending, we suppose, on one’s definition of art) is a 3″-tall aluminum sculpture titled “Fallen Astronaut.” It was created by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck and installed by Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott, along with a plaque bearing the names of the 14 astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the service of space exploration.

Apparently the crew members and the artist agreed that there should be no commercial gain made by this action. However…

…The 950 replicas of the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine signed by the sculptor have been advertised for sale by the Waddell Gallery of New York at a price of $750 apiece

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this Van Hoeydonck is a jerk and a putz. It is somewhat fitting that most Internet search results for this guys name also mention the replicas. I’d call that karma.

[via neat-o-rama]
The Only Art on the Moon

Articles Carried on Manned Space Flights

For a list of the names on the plaque, check out the Wikipedia entry on ‘Fallen Astronaut‘