Artist Giuseppe Ragazzini has created a series of wonderfully amusing, mechanical collage artwork featuring digital cutouts of masterpiece paintings and photos. In the process of crafting his art, Ragazzini also developed Mixerpiece, an app of his own invention. Mixerpiece is a sort of digital magnetic board, with more than 200 items and shapes which you…
Cartoonist Lovingly Crochets a Snuggly Blanket That Visualizes His Son’s First Year of Sleeping Patterns
The Sleep Blanket A visualization of my son's sleep pattern from birth to his first birthday. Crochet border surrounding a double knit body. Each row represents a single day. Each stitch represents 6 minutes of time spent awake or asleep #knitting #crochet #datavisualization pic.twitter.com/xwBh7vIilJ — Seung Lee (@Lagomorpho) July 12, 2019 Cartoonist Seung Lee of…
‘Let’s Play: Dungeons & Dragons Behind Bars’, A Film About Inmates Who Fought for the Right to Play RPGs
Filmmaker Elisabeth de Kleer is currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order to complete her fascinating documentary “Let’s Play: Dungeons & Dragons Behind Bars”, which tells the story of the prisoners who fought in court with varying results for their right to engage in the therapeutic and rehabilitative activity of role-playing games. The film is…
Lüa, A Smart Planter That Expresses What a Plant Needs and When It Needs It Using Animated Emotions
Lüa by Vivien Muller, is a very clever smart planter that lets its humans know what the plant needs and when it needs through a series of animated emotions. The Lüa works with a simple smartphone app to reflect one of five different senses through 15 different amusing facial animations. The planter itself comes in…