Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Link Round-Up: May 16, 2012
"Type City" by Hong Seon Jang, 2012
This cityscape was created from metal letter pieces arranged on a wooden panel.
As part of its promotions for The Avengers movie, Marvel has released pixel art templates of each of the film's heroes that fans can assemble using Post-it notes.
FatFonts creates numerical fonts where the amount of ink/pixels for each number is in direct proportion to its value.
Mayan temple built from 9 tons of chocolate marks the end of the world of dieting.
Turning Children’s Drawings to Toys: how awesome would have been if a toy company took children’s drawings and converted them to real world toys?
Why not Build the Starship Enterprise from useless office supplies?
Tech: Rose Engine
Craig Newswanger has been an Army photographer, a laser light show artist, and a Disney Imagineer. Now, he’s a senior engineer at Zebra Imaging in Austin where he works as a professional holographer. In Drawing Machine II, Craig takes inspiration, in part, from 19th-century “rose engine” lathes used to perform a complex radial engraving technique called Guilloché. He writes:
"Guilloché is the word used to describe intricate repetitive patterns often used in security printing and fine metal working. The machine uses three micro-step motors that are controlled by a program written in PureData. Careful control of the motor speed ratios and positioning of the pen arms results in complex patterns. Some of the best patterns are the result of setting the speeds very near but not quite on specific harmonic relationships. The pen traces a Lissajous curve and the paper rotates beneath the pen, thus tracing out the complex pattern. The patterns take from 10 minutes to and hour to create."This video starts by introducing the 1920s-era toy that sparked the concept, proceeds to the construction details of the machine itself, then to the software interface, before wrapping up with some footage of the machine in motion and the beautiful drawings that result.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Sculpture: Dragon of Cement
"Dragon of Cement" by Yang Yongliang
This piece is intended to be a commentary on China’s rapid development over the last few decades, which leads Yang to compare the country to “a huge construction site.” The dragon represents a remnant of an ancient beastiary trying desperately to break through the walls of the modern era that has imprisoned it.
Artist: Joe Mangrum
Sidewalk Sand Paintings by Brooklyn artist Joe Mangrum
All artist Joe Mangrum uses to create these magnificent works of art are patience and his bare hands.
Mangrum was a painter who started working with sand in the Fall of 2009. He chose sand because it’s an ephemeral medium that can be swept away at the the end of the day. The gifted street artist spends hours on end on his hands and knees sprinkling his colored sand onto the sidewalk to create ephemeral masterpieces that catch the eye of everyone around him.
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