Machine Thinking

In each of these canons a musical line is played twice (or four times in Canon 10). The second version is always transformed with respect to the first by shifting in time, but it may also be shifted in pitch, turned upside-down, stretched, or played backwards. Each of these transformations occurs in the mathematics of elementary functions; they are examples of how new functions can be made out of old and of how a function can be tailored to fit a new situation.

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Clayton Boyer has designed and built a number of exceptionally beautiful and artful wooden clocks – and sells the plans to make most of them. Some of the videos are made by customers who have completed his designs and I can assume that Clayton is not personally responsible for their choice of music.

Clayton’s youtube channel with more videos

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RepRap is a low cost 3D printer that can make many things out of plastic, including nearly all the parts to make another one. It’s like having a photo printer but instead of replicating photos you can replicate objects. In theory, it could supply many of the objects you use around the house.

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In 1956 on NBC Charles and Ray Eames introduced their Lounge Chair which has become one of the icons of Modern Design and is part of the permanent collection in New York’s MOMA.

Original versions in good condition can fetch around $4,000 on ebay. I have one, but that’s only because I found it on the street in San Francisco’s Mission district. It’s pretty beat up but a very early version (possibly first year production) and I con only imagine that the grandkids threw out grandpa’s old chair having no idea what a treasure they had.

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dezeen has photographs and an informative article here

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French design company Easyweb mixes video projectors and architecture with impressive results

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Carpenter Carlos Alberto of Portugal has made an absolutely stunning vespa out of wood. Links to lots of great shots here.

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The film was produced in stop-motion over 3 weeks in Autumn 2008. Each scene was shot on a home-made dolly by an insane bunch of animators; you can see time-lapse films of each sequence being prepared and shot in our other films.

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Design duo Patrick Li and Ian Gallais make up Sounds Butter which has created Visible Sound. They describe it best:

The intention for this project was to make sound visible. As there is already a variety of ways in which sounds can be seen (equalizers, sub-titles, etc.), my aim was to produce a device where that representation of sound would be a physical one. I therefore used the sewing machine as the basis for the project as I feel it is synonymous with industry, and making physical products. Due to limitations in my computer programming skills this model of a stereo/sewing machine is a prototype of how I imagined the actual product would look.

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See more of his creations here

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