A Celebration Of Design Without Designers

The basic premise of TechnoCRAFT, a new San Francisco gallery exhibition, is that something’s gone wrong in the history of people making things. These days, designers have all the power – and maybe it’s time to put users in control.


August 18, 2010
Cars

Bucky’s Car And Dome

Our old hero, futurist, architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller is the subject of an exhibitions and events in Madrid and San Francisco later this year.


Collage Exhibition Contemplates Aesthetic Horrors Of The ’70s

Funny how electronics of the ’70s were better dressed than the people who used them, no? Mixed-media artist David “Netherland” van Alphen tackles the decade’s blighted fashions and obsession with sound in a new show at San Francisco’s Gallery 1988.


August 10, 2010

Intergalactic Vistas Rendered In LED

LEDs are useful for a thousand things, but no one uses them quite as incredibly as Leo Villareal, an American artist who combines thousands of the little lights to make some seriously otherworldly scenes.


July 21, 2010
Science

Science Museum Seeking Human Subject For Month-Long Exhibit

If the thought of you sleeping in a museum by yourself for a month isn’t the stuff anxiety attacks are made of, then perhaps you’re just who Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is looking for.


May 30, 2010
Gadgets

The Gear That Won The Race To The South Pole

In 1910, two expeditions, one led by an adventurer, the other by a scientist, raced to become the first to reach the South Pole. Only one of the teams had the equipment and experience necessary to make it there alive.


January 21, 2010
Gaming

Retro Gaming Exhibition At Sydney Powerhouse Museum Is Like A Timewarp To The ’80s

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Mark the weekend of January 29-31 as busy in your calendar, because chances are that you’ll be in Sydney attending the Retro Gaming Weekend exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.


October 15, 2009
Science

The Vatican Finally Shares Its Secret Stash Of Astronomy Artefacts

The Vatican is holding an exhibit showing a collection of astronomy and space themed treasures, including this 18th century Planetarium. I’m just stunned that these beauties have been collecting dust somewhere, unseen and unappreciated for who-knows-how-long.


September 22, 2009
Cameras

Man, Ray’s Got Some Shots To Show

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I’m guessing there’d be two kinds of Gizmodians — those who remember the halcyon days of Australian current affairs television when Ray Martin wore a doyen’s cap, and those who don’t remember such a time. For those who do remember Ray, and who are in Sydney tomorrow (Wednesday, September 22) might like to take a squizz at Ray’s photo exhibition.


December 5, 2008

Get Your Star Wars Merchandise At The Powerhouse Museum Exhibition

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One thing I forgot to mention in yesterday’s coverage of the new Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit at the Sydney powerhouse Museum is that it’s a merchandisers dream. And not just the regular Star Wars crap you can pick up at Go-Lo for a couple of bucks either – they’ve got full-sized Master Replica lightsabers, Lego sets (although not the Death Star diorama or the Millennium Falcon), R2-D2 plush back packs and more bobble-heads than I’ve ever seen gathered at one place at a time – seriously, if there was an earthquake, there would be enough bobbling to cause an aftershock just inside the Powerhouse. Nothing there is cheap, but if you’re a collector, you may find something at the exhibition you haven’t been able to pick up in Australia before…

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