Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Spanish Tile Mosaic Mirror::

 

Handmade circa ’97 – ’99.  Tiles tumbled in tidal waves, found up and down the beach.

UK Wormhole::

 

Travel this winding time tunnel at your own peril. (circa ’99)

 

Apex

 

Got this idea from chap named Jens.  (Dana Point Harbor)

Strange Days (circa 1999)

 

Somewhere in the UK circa 1999.

Dead center you can see the marquee ‘Strange Days’.

Kick'n It:: Weeble Wobble

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

Marble, Mib, Glass Orb, Art?

Sunday, April 22, 2012

3D'd

Seed of Yggdrasil: nifty 3d-printed sculpture based on Celtic-style knot in Norse mythology « Boing Boing


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Friday, April 20, 2012

Kick'n it!

Kickstarter of the Week: Instaprint Your Instagrams | Design | Wired.com


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Screever Burt

"Today, I'm a screever, and as you can see, a screever's an artist of the highest degree. And I drew all these up from me own memory." - Burt
(Marrrie Bobbins)

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Kick'n: Having brought in $84 million in cash for 12,000 projects in 2011 (Boing Boing)

Screen Shot 2012-04-06 At 3.55.54 PmGlenn 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?"


Screen Shot 2012-04-06 At 3.47.24 PmGlenn 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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Popular painter Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif. By JOHN S. MARSHALL Associated Press

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Viva Espana

The vino glass is half full.
Live, Laugh, Love!

The New Headache

The New Aesthetic


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Nano 3D Printers

The world's smallest model car « Boing Boing


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Peace N$ckel

Man bought sketch by young Warhol for $5 « Boing Boing


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Toppins, Feed The Birds

Animating funny/scary effects into historic black-and-white photos « Boing Boing


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Kick It: Circle The Wagons: Makers Band Together

Gamemakers Jump on Big-Money Kickstarter Bandwagon | Game|Life | Wired.com


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Func Sway

MIT researchers seek to create robotic 'self-sculpting sand'

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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.

"Consider how rapidly and dramatically computers have been miniaturized over the last 50 years," he said. "What used to

occupy an entire room now fits on a small fraction of a fingernail. We'll see the same advances applied to programmable matter systems as well."



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The Dirty Little Secret Of Overnight Successes | Fast Company

"When looking at the most successful people and organizations, we often imagine geniuses with a smooth journey straight to the promised land. But when you really examine nearly every success story, they are filled with crushing defeats, near-death experiences, and countless setbacks.


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Wavy, gravy, savy

To my Dearest Love
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

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