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Posts Categorized Make

Posted
14 January 2009 @ 5pm

Category
Make, Media

Awesome and bizzare copy of my article

Kinetic artist Matt Jones, who I profiled in Make Vol. 8, turned up this, um, remix of my article on him. I can only assume the authors of this transformation used a program that replaces words with their synonyms to create a copy that is like, and completely unlike, the original. The title of the [...]


Posted
3 December 2008 @ 12am

Category
Art, Make

Unidentified driving artwork

I landed an article on this giant UFO in the pages of MAKE magazine. Gail Simpson and Aristotle Georgiades of Actual Size Artworks built it in Wisconsin with wood from an old dairy barn they transformed into their house. Then they drove all 500 pounds of it to Philadelphia and put it in a tree. [...]


Posted
1 September 2008 @ 11pm

Category
Art, Make

Kitchen saw mates with watermellon + Full-size tools soldered from pennies

Why shouldn’t art be funny? If you like this still photo of In Natura (Coitus Bizzarus) by Krištof Kintera, see the odd coupling caught on video.
Kintera’s a real do-it-yourselfer’s artist; he builds sculptures out of appliances, bicycles, electricity-producing potatoes, and other stuff found out in the land of instructables and science projects. He’s also the [...]