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Bicycle chain clock
I have a love of innovative clocks and this is no exception. The catena wall clock was designed by Andreas Dober for anthologie quartett. Yours for just $2,338.
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Illustrations of Voodoo in Haiti from 1929
I recently picked up a copy of adventurer and anthropologist William Seabrook‘s 1929 book on Haitian Voodoo, The Magic Island. The book is out of print, so I thought it would be nice to share some of...
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Mapping the colours of NYC’s skyline in real time
Artist Mike Bodge has unveiled a nifty project to chart the colour of the sky above New York City in real time. A camera installed in his office snaps a picture of the skyline every five minutes, and...
View ArticleWhat Tau sounds like, played to 126 decimal places
YouTube artist and multi-instrumentalist Michael John Blake has been exploring the musical patterns within mathematics, by assigning each note on the major scale a numeral. In this wonderful...
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Gorgeous 1980s ZX Spectrum manual
I miss the 80s, when computing manuals were illustrated with things far removed from home computing. I found this amongst my pop’s old computing books. Nowadays off-the-shelf programming software tends...
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Spectral Power Distribution of Crayons
Self confessed geek and photographer Mark Meyer makes images that “narrate, persuade, inspire and inform”. He wanted to know the exact colours present in his pack of crayons. What to do then, but put...
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Luke Jerram’s glass sculptures of microbes
This weekend I visited the Trauma exhibition at London’s GV Art gallery. The pieces all relate in some way to physical and psychological trauma inflicted on the body, by a range of artists working...
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Gorgeous neon glass skeleton by Eric Franklin
Portland artist Eric Franklin spent over 1,000 hours sweating over hot glass and noble gasses to produce Embodiment, a glass skeleton filled with glowing krypton. Speaking about the process, Eric says:...
View ArticleMurderer’s ghostly image captured in long exposure shot
In 1993, convicted murderer Joseph Jernigan was executed in texas and his body donated to science. It was preserved in gelatin and sliced into 1,871 sections. Scans of these sections were strung...
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Timelapse video: artist paints 30 foot high mural on a CERN control room
This three-story-tall mural was painted by international artist Josef Kristofoletti on the side of the ATLAS control room directly above the detector: This project was inspired by the same questions...
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