PixelRoller 2.0

PixelRoller, originally using LED's to write on phosphorescent paint, has been updated to use regular paint. This basically turns it into a hand held 'printer' and can be used to rapidly put text and images onto any surface. Theres a new gallery and video (which is really cool) on the site.

- PixelRoller

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Lego Star Destroyer

I know I've reported on this before, but I've just seen something that has shown me that its much cooler (read 'bigger') than I originally thought. The people at Adognamedfish.com have made a time lapse video of them making the LSD [ed:hah!] over about 10 hours. I must have one of these

- Stop Motion Lego
- Lego Shop

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Broadcasting House

"Broadcasting House" is a collaboration between Matthew Falla and Grizedale Arts in the Lake District.

Apparently there are around 14.5 million visitors to the Lake District every year. As has recently and controversially been noted, the majority of these visitors are white, middle aged and middle class. Generally they are not interested in the contemporary art offered by Grizedale. During our visit to the area, the local and tourist population's reactions to Grizedale seemed at best apathetic and at worst hostile.

What the tourists do like is small model houses depicting the English pastoral ideal. So Matthew came up with the concept of the "Broadcasting Houses". These modified model houses wait a predetermined time, and then intermittently broadcast a pirate television signal into the purchasers house, temporarily taking over their televisions.

- Matthew Falla

[Via. We Make Money Not Art]

The Yellow Chair

Anab Jain placed a yellow chair and a sign reading "My WiFi network is open for neighbours and passers-by. Free access from the yellow chair." in a experiment to illustrate how wireless technologies could recreate spaces for conversation. Questions that have emerged from this work include :-

How does space create identities?

What are the bottom up methods of creating ‘ubiquitous’ interfaces at the thresholds of private/public space?

How does the meaning of personal space and identity alter when geographical and virtual spaces merge?

- LINK

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CONSUME!

Chris Jordan has a series of photographs called "Intolerable Beauty — Portraits of American Mass Consumption." The photos depict piles of sorted waste from various junkyards throughout America. They are at once captivating and disturbing.

Circuit boards, Atlanta 2004

Crushed cars #2, Tacoma 2004

Wall of Drums, Seattle 2003 (homage to Christo)
- Chris Jordan Photography

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Tastes like pussy

This is just plain wrong. We all know cats end up in dim-sims.

- San X Nyanko Cat Hamburger Plush

[Via. toi.protocol]

Strange Times

Continuing the trend of bizzare alarm clocks comes "Wake n' Bacon" the alarmclock that "wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon." When the alarm goes off a halogen light is triggered to slow cook the bacon, and the sizzle sound is play back over speakers.

- Wake n' Bacon

[Via. We Make Money Not Art]

The clockwork world of Eric Feng

Eric Feng makes fantastic images and animations of creatures showing off their inner workings, if animals worked from clockwork that is. On his website there are 2 series of wonderfully detailed illustrations and a captivating animation called 'Inside Out' which brings these creatures to life. He even has some prints available online.

- Ferric Studio

[Via. Screenhead]