Archive for the 'art' Category

Excellent Kinetic Art of Benjamin Cowden

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

“A Series of Passionate but Arbitrary Decisions”

“It’s the things you can’t change that shape you”

“No Reward for Good Behavior”

More information on the artist here

Alexey Titarenko’s “City of Shadows”

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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Alexy Titaremko’s remarkable long exposure photographs reveal people more like a single demonic flowing machine rather than individuals.

Alexey Titarenko’s website

Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any), A Remix of Radiohead’s Nude

Monday, June 9th, 2008



Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Based on the lyric (and alternate title) “Big Ideas: Don’t get any” I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there

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Hagley Museum Machinery by Harold Ross

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

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Harold Ross has taken some beautiful long exposure painting with light photographs at the Hagley Museum in Deleware.

flickr set (via Boing Boing)

Science Machine

Thursday, April 24th, 2008


Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.

The 21″ x 13″ print can be purchased at my new store! store.thebigpugh.com

This piece inspired the login illustration that vimeo commissioned from me for their redesign earlier this year; it is still in use throughout the site. The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a several month period. Total physical drawing time is close to 40 hours and I’d add an equal amount of time for concept time and readying the print. A screenshot was taken every 5 seconds, which actually results in a full 18 minute video. I’ll upload that for posterity later.

My life has changed a lot since i started this, so I thought it appropriate to include my friends, family and loved ones since they all were on my mind throughout the creative process. Enjoy!

Art powered by the electromagnetic field surrounding overhead power lines

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

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In 2004 artist Richard Box produced a series of works of 1301 fluorescent tubes powered only by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines.

Heteluchtmachines

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

“Jos the finch” in The Netherlands makes extraordinary stirling engines of striking designs. These are only a couple of his amazing machines. It’s shocking that he gets such high efficiency from only a couple of tea candles.


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A couple of his videos from youtube:



see more videos here

translated home page from dutch

Wikipedia entry for “hot air” or sterling engines

Hand blown light bulbs by Dylan Kehde Roelofs

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Dylan Kehde Roelofs makes fantastic hand made light bulbs on
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“Technical details:

Life span: If you are content with the wan and soulless photons emitted by compact fluorescence , read no further.

The emphasis of these art objects is on their sculptural form and lighting quality, not quantity.”

I like them so much I bought one of the small four legged ones

via dezeen

Motorcycles from watch parts

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Motorcycles from watch

Motorcycle from Rolex watches

Brazilian artist Jose Geraldo Pfa Kings makes beautiful small motorcycle sculptures from old watch parts.

via Boing Boing

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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

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I have no idea what’s going on, but I found it here.