‘The Caryatid’, A Six-Foot-Tall Column Made of a Lattice of 15,000 Pennies
The Caryatid is a six-foot-tall column constructed from a lattice of 15,000 pennies. The shiny new 2014 pennies are notched and joined to form the…
Artist Simon Beck Creates Monumental Geometric Snow Art on a Ski Mountain in Utah
photo by Marshall Birnbaum Artist Simon Beck (previously)–creator of monumental geometric snow art–recently completed his first American work at Powder Mountain Resort in Utah. Remarkably…
Lufthansa to Allow Falcons Aboard Flights in Special ‘Falcon Master’ Transport Tray
image via Lufthansa Technik Back in December 2014 Lufthansa announced that first class passengers will soon be able to bring falcons on the company’s aircraft…
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, The French Inventor Who Created the First Photograph
View from the Window at Le Gras by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Photo via J. Paul Getty Museum In 1826 or 1827 French inventor Joseph Nicéphore…
The Eye Scanning Password Authenticator, A Biometric Device That Safeguards a Person’s Digital Data
The Eye Scanning Password Authenticator from Hammacher Schlemmer is a handheld biometric scanner that scans the user’s eye to confirm their identity. Once confirmed, the…
Cyriak Creates a Mind-Bending Animation Out of Money in the Music Video for ‘Occupy’ by Gong
In his music video for “Occupy” by Gong, artist Cyriak Harris (previously) recounts “13.8 billion years of capitalism” in a hectic computer animation created entirely…
‘Weasel Riding On A Bird’, Parry Gripp’s Music Video About the Infamous Photo of a Weasel on a Woodpecker’s Back
In the music video “Weasel Riding On A Bird,” Internet songsmith Parry Gripp (previously) sings about the infamous photo, taken earlier in March by Martin…
‘Bolt Poetry’, Old Bolts Transformed Into Evocative Human-Like Figure Sculptures
Bolt Poetry is a sculpture series by Swedish photographer and artist Tobbe Malm that features human-like figures made from bolts. Malm was inspired to create…
‘as·phyx·i·a’, A Dance Performance Captured With a Kinect Sensor and Visualized With 3D Software
A dancer’s moving form is digitally rendered in a frenetic cloud of moving points and lines in the captivating experimental project as·phyx·i·a. The dancer’s movements…
‘Hyperjump’, A Synchronized Audiovisual Display in a Soviet-Era Gymnasium in Saint Petersburg, Russia
In the 2014 light installation Hyperjump, 25 moving lights projected synchronized beams of light within a cavernous Soviet-era gymnasium housed in a 19th century hall…