Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Who knew that growing rice could be so artistic.
Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety.
[via nocot]
Pimp my rice paddy
This is a, excuse the pun, brilliant use of micro wind turbines:
the installation is custom built, using 500 mini wind turbines to generate power, which illuminates hundreds of mounted leds, creating firefly-like fields of light, with wind visually interpreted as electronic patterns across the installation.
Go have a look at the video of the installation in action. This is great meshing of art and technology, I can’t wait to see what Jason Bruges comes up with next.
[via core77]
Wind to light
Here are some amazing miniature dioramas and sculptures that are built inside vacuum tubes. Opening up a vacuum tub can’t be much harder than opening up a light bulb, I’ll have to give this a try.
[via boingboing]
Sageous Galleries, Vacuum Tube Sculptures by Peter A. Luber
In the fine instant tradition of the Dramatic Chipmunk (ok, prairiedog) that has been sweeping the Interweb like a firestorm, I give you ‘SHOCKING CATS!" You can thank me later.
[via presurfer]
SHOCKING CATS
ArtRage 2 is a rather nice little illustration program that gives you the feeling that your working in the actual medium that is being simulated. I have a 4×6 Wacom graphics tablet with a pressure sensitive pen and all that stuff so I get a big kick out of being able to actually use the eraser in a program,. Oh sure, I could use Photoshop if I wanted to but that’s like chartering a bus just to go to the corner store. I like being able to doodle around with different kinds of ‘media’ effects with the pen. ArtRage 2 does just that and more. It’s easy to switch from pencil (variable lead hardness available by the way) to felt tip marker to acrylic paint just by clicking a button. It even blends paint like on a real canvas, except canvas doesn’t have layers and an erase feature. The whole thing reminds me of the old program ‘Fractal Design Painter’. That program is gone and any replacements cost quite a bit. ArtRage 2 is under $20US. Sweet!
ArtRage 2
If your looking for decorating ideas that are a little out of the norm…