Balloon Street Art

DC-based artist, D. Billy, has been creating these limited-term street interventions, using balloons to animate/highlight/illustrate/notate the city. Very fun! [via] & [via]

Plant-Reactive Robots Make Music

An installation in Palm House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland where a variety of traditional Chinese instruments and chimes are controlled robotically in response to people and plants. The sounds produced by this are incredibly beautiful, watching the video of the installationis highly recommended. Built using Arduino, the installation reacts to the presence of humans and changes in the soil …

Turning TVs off With a Single-Purpose Universal Remote

This is the TV-B-Gone—it is a single-purpose universal remote that is used to shut off a large variety of televisions. You can see a video of it in action. It’s open-source, so it’s fairly easy to build using the instructions included on Ladyada’s website.  I was thinking about combining that with the Turn-Signal Biking Jacket project we looked at last week. …

Stencil Demo/BBQ

I am going to do a run-though of stencil making skillz, AKA technique, material, etc for spray paint. Friday July 11th 2008 4:30pm-?? Michelle’s backyard BRING: +an exacto knife and an image you want to make into a stencil +anyone else who wants to see the demo and enjoy my sweet backyard +food if you …

Inflatable Street Art

Using the bursts of exhaust air coming from subways in New York, artist Joshua Allen Harris combines plastic bags and tape to create these inflatable sculptures that rise and die with the constant passing of subway trains. The use of existing conditions and materials to create something so great is incredible. You can watch a number of …

Visualizing Pollution + Making Nature Move

Visualizations have the potential to be incredibly powerful, helping us to understand issues and see potentially hidden connections between things. Bruce Sterling wrote as part of his Viridian Design Principles, that one should try to “make the invisible visible.” Amateur Human is a group and/or single individual artist/designer who is making a variety of accessories to help to visualize and …

Image Fulgurator

The “Image Fulgurator” by Berlin-based artist Julius von Bismarck senses if a camera’s flash goes off and synchronizes a projection on the object being photographed at the same time. You have to see the video, wait until the end. [via] & [via]