Photographer Questions His Identity With Images Of Shadow Wearing His Shoes
There’s a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale called The Shadow where a man’s shadow comes to life, turns into a human, demands his former master now becomes his shadow, and when the man refuses, the...
View ArticleGlowing, Multipurpose Furniture Cubes Could Really Brighten Up Your Living Room
If something glows, it’s going to attract a lot more attention than something that doesn’t. Just look at the glowworm. It gets much more respect than your average garden variety worm. So if you’re...
View ArticleOriginal Creators: Synthesizer Pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey
Each week we pay homage to a select “Original Creator”—an iconic artist from days gone by whose work influences and informs today’s creators. These are artists who were innovative and revolutionary in...
View ArticleU-Ram Choe's Merry-Go-Round Is One Part Nostalgia, Two Parts Brave New World
In one of Creator U-Ram Choe’s most recent installations, Merry-Go-Round, the piece initially seems to be a beautifully-crafted, aesthetically-pleasing novelty, a miniature replica of a carousel that...
View ArticleFlying Lotus And Lilfuch's Animated Video Ventures Inside The New Moog Synth
Seeing celebrities endorsing products isn’t always convincing—how do I know that Derek Jeter really loves Gillette shaving cream? But sometimes you see an icon standing behind a product they actually...
View ArticleColored Thread And UV Lights Form Captivating Augmented Spaces
Berlin-based South Korean artist Jeongmoon Choi creates vibrant and futuristic installations using thread, metal frames, and UV lights. She illuminates and arranges these threads throughout rooms and...
View ArticleAn Explosive Animation Inspired By Fractals And Chaos Theory
Beginning with a miniature Big Bang, we follow the story of an iridescent bubble bifurcating until it becomes a whole population, which then advances in its form and movement. Using a simple format and...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Announces Retrospective Boxset Herbert Complete—Get FREE...
British artist Matthew Herbert‘s been making music for many, many years—and today sees the announcement of a major boxset looking back over his career from 1996 to 2006. Called Herbert Complete it...
View ArticleReality And Fiction Blur In This Video Game-Rich Music Video
Pixelated chaos unfolds in this music video for Xilent’s track “Boss Wave,” which will impress the geek inside us all. Not only do we get shots of retro computer equipment, but we see a computer game...
View ArticleWi-Fi Signal Visualized As A Sculpture
Wi-Fi is something most of us are constantly using, yet it’s invisible to the human eye. We only know it as webpages and emails and streamed music and all the other online activities it lets us do....
View ArticleSpace Invaders: Peeking Inside Electronic Media Artist Phillip Stearns' Studio
We’re fascinated by the artistic process and are constantly trying to peek behind the curtain to see how things are made. We’ll take you into the studios of creatives across all disciplines in order to...
View ArticleNosaj Thing Ends The Suspense With The Release Of His Sophomore Album Home
Nearly four years after his debut Drift showed the world that there are different amalgamations of the L.A. sound than Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing returns with his sophomore album Home, a journey further...
View ArticleUVA's Pyramid Light Installation Fragment Is A Different Kind Of Desert Mirage
The closest thing to an art installation that the mall in my suburban town ever had was a stuffed french fry slide, with a hamburger play gym, and a milk-shake-turned-play-house which you could hide in...
View ArticleHow To Catch A Thief Using A Pinhole Camera
We recently came across this inventive practice of long exposure photography and were wowed by these images that show six months of action at a time. If the average picture is worth a thousand words,...
View ArticleWin A FREE 3D Print Of Your Creators Project Facebook Sculpture
If you haven’t yet tried out our Facebook art project in collaboration with Sticky Monster Lab, SOFTlab, and Sosolimited, then you can check it out here. The idea is to turn your Facebook profile into...
View ArticleDutch Firm To Create 3D Printed House
3D printing seems to be gathering more and more pace as the months go by. What this year holds in store for this technology, we can but speculate. But one thing that you can be sure of happening, or at...
View ArticlePhoto Series Of Floating Cars Shows What We Wish 21st Century Vehicles Looked...
As a symbol of the future, the hovering car is hard to beat—at least it is when it comes to Hollywood. But even though we’re living in futuristic times with talk of mining asteroids and people on the...
View ArticleGlass Prisms Placed Atop An iPhone Create Ethereal 3D Animations
If you think about making art with an iPhone, you probably imagine some kind of app-based work, but Japanese artist Turi Endo uses the device to build Pepper’s ghost-inspired illusions. Using prisms...
View ArticleUser Preferences: Tech Q&A With Maxence Parache
Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do. The questions are always the same, the answers, not so much. This week:...
View ArticleExperiencing Iconic Structures From Many Different Angles Simultaneously
While these images might appear distorted, you likely recognize most of their subjects behind a thin, disorienting veil. In his series Kontaktbogenbilder, German photographer Thomas Kellner envisions...
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