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The Uncomfortable – Katerina Kamprani. The Pattern Library. Barcinski & Jeanjean. A Soft Murmur. Tangram Documentation-makes any city look like "Tron" Glitchscape. Tout sur la musique. INCEPTION. LineTo_experimental_by_Volcanic_Penguin. Otomata - Generative Musical Sequencer · Earslap. 16 Jul 2011 Click on the grid below to add cells, click on cells to change their direction, and press play to listen to your music.

Otomata - Generative Musical Sequencer · Earslap

Update: Click here to get Otomata for your iPhone / iPod / iPad! Official facebook page: Tonematrix. AMAZING! Ferrofluid + Glow Sticks. Fluux Design Lab. Ferrofluid Display. Though the technical description of ferrofluid is "a stable colloidal suspension of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles," we prefer to stick with "magnetic magic in a bottle.

Ferrofluid Display

" Usually confined to scientific demonstrations, in the presence of a magnetic field ferrofluid essentially goes nuts—shifting into spiky three-dimensional shapes, bouncing from one magnetic pole to the other, and being generally fascinating in every way. By sealing this scientific oddity into a glass bottle, the team at Concept Zero has created the most hypnotic desk distraction of all time. Dene string designs. Mario Sequencer. Bouncing Mimos. Manyeyes. Farfotsel. Barcinski.nl. Typatone. Patatap. Inspirograph. Paper sculpture picture on VisualizeUs. The Most Beautiful But Useless Car Design Cues. Titles of the Sublime Mundane: the Empty Calories of the Over-Obvious.

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Titles of the Sublime Mundane: the Empty Calories of the Over-Obvious

Untitled. Taghua! Shower Thoughts. The Useless Web. 'Poetry Is Useless' and Other Merciless Engagements With Meaninglessness. (Drawn and Quarterly)US: Jul 2015 Poetry is useless, writes Anders Nilsen at the outset of his new sketchbook compilation of the same name.

'Poetry Is Useless' and Other Merciless Engagements With Meaninglessness

So too, it appears, is narrative structure. Nilsen eschews both in a remarkable collection of sketches and short comics that combine to produce a profoundly existential statement. “I call my work quote/unquote experimental not because I form some hypothesis based on clearly delineated assumptions, develop a systematic procedure to test them and develop a more valid effective way of working, a more sound method… I call it experimental because I don’t have the faintest fucking idea what the fuck I’m doing,” he declares at the outset, inserting himself onto his own page. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and... - John Ruskin at BrainyQuote. MONIKA GRZYMALA.

Monika Grzymala presents Volume, a large scale installation, at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City.

MONIKA GRZYMALA

We Shall Always Have Paper By Saida Santana Do you remember when paper was the preferred means of communication? Ikea NOT floorlamp makeover. Lighting Published on February 15th, 2013 | by Jules Yap Materials: Not floor lamp, wax paper, jewelry jump rings, mesh wastebasket, mesh pencil cup Description: What I Used: - Ikea Not lamp - Dollar Store Wire Mesh waste basket - Dollar store wire mesh pencil cup - Fishing line (Monofilament) - Large jump rings (jewelry findings) - Wax Paper - Iron - Cutting Machine (can also be done with punches or circle cutter.) - Wire snips How To Make It: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)

Ikea NOT floorlamp makeover

Easy IKEA Hacks For Your Kitchen. A Blanda Blank flying saucer lamp. Ceiling.

A Blanda Blank flying saucer lamp

Pendant Lamps, Pendants and Sculpture. Christmas lights hanging from a helium balloon. Some Cool Hanging Sculptures, Kinetic, Custom, Mobiles, Etc. I’m a kinetic sculptor specializing in mobiles.

Some Cool Hanging Sculptures, Kinetic, Custom, Mobiles, Etc

I make handmade mobiles, large custom-made mobiles, 3D printed mobiles and kinetic sculptures. Unique Forms In Nature Light Sculpture By Hildendiaz: Symmetrical Shape, Hanging Lamp. You are here: Home / Lighting / Unique Forms In Nature Light Sculpture By Hildendiaz For you fans of unique lamps, will most likely be interested in these lights.

Unique Forms In Nature Light Sculpture By Hildendiaz: Symmetrical Shape, Hanging Lamp

Lamp which looks amazing is named “Forms in Nature“. When lit, it will conjure up images resemble twigs and trees in the forest. Shadows–shadows generated by these lights will fill the entire room. Instantly, the room will be filled with shapes resembling twigs, stems, and roots of trees. Meanwhile, when unique Forms In Nature Light Sculpture by deliberately dim, hanging lamp will project a shape similar to the appearance of a fire in the woods. Nicola Yeoman's Hanging Sculptures.

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Nicola Yeoman's Hanging Sculptures

I don’t think we’ve featured many sculptors on the site before. Nicola Yeoman is a installation artist (not your traditional sculptor!) Who plays with the concepts of perspective and spaces. Sculpture, Alexander Calder and Gabriel. Useless Junk turned into Creative DIY Products. Yesterday I was browsing around when I bumped into this very nice article announcing the 2010 Inhabitat Spring Greening Contest Winners and decided to show you further details about it. The Spring Greening Design Competition challenged designers, artists and crafters to transform useless junk into beautiful DIY products, and the result is a list of very interesting and creative pieces. We will show here a list with some of the finalists and the winners of the competition.

We really recommend you to visit the website to read more about each piece and its author (just click at the images and you will be redirected). I really like contests like this one... not only contests, but I really dig the idea of pushing people to use their talent and creativity to design creative things using old stuff and several other useless junk that we can easily find around us, in our house, our neighborhood, etc. Designer Mobile Hanging Mobile Kinetic Art by SkysetterMobiles. The Last Page of the Internet.