Collaborate Disseminate
A distinct blue pigment reminiscent of turquoise or a clear sky was used by the ancient Maya to paint pottery, sculptures, clothing, murals, jewelry, and even human sacrifices. What makes …read more Continue reading How the Lost Mystery Pigment ‘Maya Blue’ Got Recreated
We’ve seen furniture made out of all sorts of interesting materials here, but clay certainly isn’t the first one that comes to mind. [Mia Mueller] is expanding our horizons with …read more Continue reading Making a Stool from Clay
Sure is coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. But it can also be beautiful — drag a small ball through it in a controlled manner you can make …read more Continue reading Building a Miniature Rainbow Sand Table
Turning trash into art is something we undoubtedly all admire. [Davis DeWitt] did just that with a massive mural made entirely from discarded receipt paper. [Davis] got lucky while doing …read more Continue reading Massive Mural from Thermal Receipt Paper
[ClownVamp]’s art project The Junk Machine is an interactive and eye-catching machine that, on demand, prints out an equally eye-catching and unique yet completely meaningless (one may even say corrupted) …read more Continue reading The Junk Machine Prints Corrupted Advertising On Demand
[Japhy Riddle] was tired of creating pixel art. He went to subpixel art. The idea is that since each color pixel is composed of three subpixels, your display is actually …read more Continue reading Forget Pixel Art: Try Subpixels
Here’s a design for a split-flap clock that doesn’t do it the usual way. Instead of the flaps showing numbers , Klapklok has a bit more in common with flip-dot …read more Continue reading Split-Flap Clock Flutters Its Way to Displaying Time Without Numbers
More than 30 years since Cosmo Kramer spruiked his coffee table book of coffee tables on an episode of Seinfeld, a new companion tome has surfaced, and it’s become quite a hit. It’s a coffee table book about coffee. (Sadly, however, it doesn’t also tur… Continue reading Love coffee? Now you can look at it all day in this literal coffee table book
It’s 40 years since the first Lomo camera went into production, a Russian copy of the Japanese point-and-shoot Cosina CX-2. Within a decade, that film camera, known for its light sensitivity, zone focus and strong pocket-sized case, had been discovered… Continue reading “Best instant camera on Earth” shows style evolution from its Cold War roots
Generative AI systems need to be fed huge amounts of data, with copyrighted materials often on the menu. Musicians may now have a way to fight back with HarmonyCloak, a system that embeds data into songs that can’t be picked up by human ears but will s… Continue reading HarmonyCloak slips silent poison into music to corrupt AI copies