An old friend of mine has a new website, showing her awesome handmade jewellery. You might also like to trot over to my sister’s site, aSpire Arts, and check out her weavings. Don’t bother trying to contact her though, she’s in Mongolia for a few months.
There’s one other recent acquisition that’s so cool it gets its own separate post. Last Friday at the Boekenmarkt Spui I bought a beautiful photo-reproduction of (large parts of) the Book of Kells. I’ve put a few amateurish photographs below the fold (they’re fairly large images), and the wikipedia page has lots of more professional [...]
Sunday, December 18, 2005
From now on I’m requesting evil fairies every Sunday morning. Via we make money not art, which also has more pics and tries to convince you that this is the work of some “artist.” The discerning reader will doubtless ignore these blandishments and check the fairy traps at once. (More pics at Clapham Art Gallery.)
I guess almost everybody who reads this blog also reads Boing Boing (Hi Mum!). But you might not have noticed the papercraft dragon they posted a week or so ago, or you might have thought “That’s kinda cool” and then moved on in your busy and exciting lives. If you skipped it, or missed it, [...]
A robotic talent show! What could be cooler! Some of this stuff looks really fun… Headsup from Erik.
The first annual “Art of Science” competition at Princeton is over, and the images are online. Some pretty cool stuff — the “Wake of a pitching plate” is a favourite of mine. (Via BoingBoing.)
Extremely cool installation art and music project: LEMUR, the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. These are functional musical instruments (the guitarbot is intended to “extend, not simply duplicate, the capabilities of a human guitarist”) that play themselves, but also weird and beautiful works of art. Seeing the installation pieces in the flesh would be [...]
Here’s an article on a virtual life experiment in the “online world” Second Life. To AI folks, it’s nothing groundbreaking: fish with flocking algorithms, fine-tuned by some artificial selection (upcoming plans seem to include sexual reproduction and natural selection). What’s really interesting is the social context. Second Life is a subscriber system providing a 3D [...]
Just had a short film session (both parse trees) with a friend, and I had to rave about these two animated films by Polish director Tomek Baginski: Cathedral and Fallen Art.
I went yesterday to the “Victorian Circus” exhibition at the Brakke Grond. Artistically disappointing, technologically highly interesting. Worth a visit, if you can get there before it closes midnight Saturday (it’s free, which helps). The Brakke Grond is also recommended — selection of fine Belgian beers, good atmosphere, biljarts table, and an art gallery thrown [...]