Here is a new alternative to internalizing your anger! This vending machine, created by Yarisal & Kublitz, is a mechanism of anger therapy. After inserting a coin, you can choose which piece of china you would like to drop to the bottom of the machine and shatter. This, in theory, will make you feel better.
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Let’s get this out of the way: I am a sucker for scientific art, period. This particular work, a fossilization machine, was created for the Tatton Biennial by Austin Houldsworth. He is attempting to use this machine to create fossils in a matter of months, a process that usually takes thousands of years and requires specific circumstances to be present. According to his project description, “the project starts with the attempt to petrify both a Tatton-grown pineapple and pheasant, and conclude when it is a human that ends up fossilised.”
4 LETTER WORD MACHINE is a giant illuminated computer-controlled / live performance text display by artist, David Therrien.
Recently exhibited at part of Nuit Blanche this past Saturday attached to Toronto’s city hall, the installation displays “the phenomema of light and electricity and the role of light in our belief systems, language, biology, natural world and cosmology – light as illumination, energy, information – and as a metaphor for good and evil.”
Guess how much I’d love to be able to work with something at this scale.
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Ignore the music in this video, but watch the work come together in Scottsdale back in January 09.
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Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler are using R-O-B, their Mobile Fabrication Unit robot, to New York to build Pike Loop, a 22m long structure built from bricks at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Positioned on the central mall on Pike Street, the robot will work for up to four weeks – in full view of the public – to construct a brick wall, a highly sculptural response to the specific identity of the site. For the Pike Loop installation, more than seven thousand bricks aggregate to form an infinite loop that weaves along the pedestrian island. In changing rhythms the loop lifts off the ground and intersects itself at its peaks.
Beyond awesome.
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