Monday, April 30, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Spanish Tile Mosaic Mirror::
Handmade circa ’97 – ’99. Tiles tumbled in tidal waves, found up and down the beach.
Strange Days (circa 1999)
Somewhere in the UK circa 1999.
Dead center you can see the marquee ‘Strange Days’.
Iron-Wood-Coppera
Great Grandma’s Iron Deconstructed +
Great Grandpa’s Wood Handled Scythe Deconstructed +
Copper Wiring Bent by Great Grandson Hugh =
Iron-Wood-Coppera::
Labels:: func art, sculpture, handmade, folk art, one of a kind
Sunday, April 22, 2012
3D'd
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Wicky-wicky-wick-vvvvvvvrrrrip
Kick the iTunes habit and celebrate Record Store Day
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Kick'n it!
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Screever Burt
(Marrrie Bobbins)
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Tiny Homes, by Lloyd Kahn -- exclusive image gallery excerpt « Boing Boing
Sauna in Queen Charlotte Islands by Colin Doane. Lashed to front rafters are green whale jawbones. (From p. 133 of Tiny Homes by Lloyd Kahn)
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Ray Caruso Scrimshaw | ARTISANS: Spotlighting Makers of Handcrafted Goods : Canyon Acres Crafted With Care - Los Angeles Times
ARTISANS: Spotlighting Makers of Handcrafted Goods : Canyon Acres Crafted With Care
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Friday, April 13, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Kick'n: Having brought in $84 million in cash for 12,000 projects in 2011 (Boing Boing)
Glenn initiates a discussion about Kickstarter, and his plans to kickstart a book about Kickstarter. "Having brought in $84 million in cash for 12,000 projects in 2011 and just having had its first three million-dollar-plus projects in rapid succession, how is Kickstarter changing funding for artists, filmmakers, and industrial designers?"
Glenn has been reading Suicide Squad's New 52 reboot. "I'm not a fan of the whole DC thing, and haven't been a solid comic reader in years. But I love Suicide Squad and I'm afraid that says something terrible about my psyche."
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Toppins, Feed The Birds
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Kick It: Circle The Wagons: Makers Band Together
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Func Sway
MIT researchers seek to create robotic 'self-sculpting sand'
By Doug Gross, CNN
It could be something out of "Harry Potter," or a scene from "Terminator 2″ if you want to take it to a creepier place.
Take a box full of sand and tell it what you need — say a hammer, a ladder or a replacement for a busted car part. Bury a tiny model of what you need in the sand, give it a few seconds and — voila! — the grains of sand have assembled themselves into a full-size version of the model.
MIT robotics researchers say such a magical sandbox could be no more than a decade away.
A team from the school's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory says they've developed algorithms that could enable "smart sand" — essentially miniscule, simple robots that would communicate with each other about how to align together properly once they've been given a model to copy.
The team has already done limited testing with larger cubes — 10 millimeters wide with rudimentary microprocessors inside and magnets on four of their sides. The "robot pebbles" magnets are used not just to connect, but to communicate with each other and share power.
"The 'robot pebbles' are not going to turn into true 'smart sand' overnight — but it will happen …," said Kyle Gilpin, a graduate student working on the project.
Gilpin, who authored the paper the team will present at next month's IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, predicted it could take 10 years, but that "we'll see incremental improvements along the way."
The grains of "sand" would essentially work together like the block of stone a sculptor begins with. Once deployed, the grains needed to build an item would move into place, while those that aren't needed would simply fall away.
"Say the tire rod in your car has sheared," Gilpin said. "You could duct tape it back together, put it into your system and get a new one."
Once an item is no longer needed, the grains could be ordered to fall apart and get ready for the next project.
One of the main challenges at this point is getting enough computing power onto items so small. The "robot pebbles" now being tested each have a tiny microprocessor that can store just 32 kilobytes of program code and have two kilobytes of working memory.
But Gilpin said that's not a reason to lose hope.
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The Dirty Little Secret Of Overnight Successes | Fast Company
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Wavy, gravy, savy
my morning dove
Wavy, gravy, savy
You're my lady
Live, Lough, Love
Never enough
So-su-she
You & me
1,2,3,4,(5&6)
What a mix
Ten and five, still alive
Fifty more, we Adore
Friend to the End
We begin, again
Another Round
True Love, We found
Happy 15th Anniversary My Love
