In 2004 artist Richard Box produced a series of works of 1301 fluorescent tubes powered only by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines.
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“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.
translated home page from dutch
Wikipedia entry for “hot air” or sterling engines
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Dylan Kehde Roelofs makes fantastic hand made light bulbs on
incandescentsculpture.com
“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
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Brazilian artist Jose Geraldo Pfa Kings makes beautiful small motorcycle sculptures from old watch parts.
via Boing Boing
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I have no idea what’s going on, but I found it here.
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Ben Hopson’s amazing kinetic work is best illustrated by his movies, especially the “foam” series.
design movement motion kinetic ben hopson
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Here, 100ft down and hidden from public view, lies an astonishing secret – one that has drawn comparisons with the fabled city of Atlantis and has been dubbed ‘the Eighth Wonder of the World’ by the Italian government.
For weaving their way underneath the hillside are nine ornate temples, on five levels, whose scale and opulence take the breath away.
Constructed like a three-dimensional book, narrating the history of humanity, they are linked by hundreds of metres of richly decorated tunnels and occupy almost 300,000 cubic feet – Big Ben is 15,000 cubic feet.
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Dream Anatomy: Gallery: Fritz Kahn: Man as Industrial Palace
Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.
Fritz Kahn (1888-1968)
Kahn’s
modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system
as “industrial palace,” really a chemical plant, was conceived
in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s
most advanced.
high resolution here
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