sculptures
Design
3:10AM Jesus Diaz | This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with these tapes. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant three-dimensional tapes. They are bas-relief mosaics made with old wood cuts. His other gadgets are even more impressive. More »
This Is Not A Photoshop Collage, It’s A Wood Carving
3:10AM Jesus Diaz | This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with these tapes. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant three-dimensional tapes. They are bas-relief mosaics made with old wood cuts. His other gadgets are even more impressive. More »
Design
Quantum Physics Visualised
5:00PM Rosa Golijan | I wish that Julian Voss-Andreae had made some of these sculptures when I was in school. While we can’t really claim that they represent quantum physics concepts accurately, they still would’ve made reading about Bosons and Fermions more pleasant. More »
Design
The Pebro Bench Would Have Been Better As A Seesaw
8:40AM Sean Fallon | Sure, the Pebro Bench raises up to become a “sculpture” when no one is sitting on it, but I think the designers could have earned more fun points if they had gone full teeter-totter. More »
Design
7:25AM Brian Lam | The Living Light Sculpture looks like a giant metal flower, or a man-made approximation of a jungle canopy with artificial sunlight coming down through its branches. It’s actually a digital map sculpture reporting air quality in Seoul, Korea. More »
The Living Light Sculpture
7:25AM Brian Lam | The Living Light Sculpture looks like a giant metal flower, or a man-made approximation of a jungle canopy with artificial sunlight coming down through its branches. It’s actually a digital map sculpture reporting air quality in Seoul, Korea. More »
Robots
Robot Flawlessly Builds 7000 Brick “Infinite Loop” Without Mortar
8:26AM Sean Fallon | If you happen to be on Pike Street In New York’s Chinatown between now and November 14th, you might catch a glimpse of “R-O-B” the bricklaying robot building a 7000 brick “Infinite Loop” sculpture along a pedestrian island. More »
Design
Life-Size Bronze Zeus Drops Lighting Rod For More Powerful iPhone
9:20AM Joanna Stern | Greek Gods? More like geek Gods. That is a life-size statue of the ruler of Mount Olympus with the God of all phones. But don’t worry sculptor Adam Reeder gives other large sculpted deities gadgets too. More »
Design
Papercraft Castle Is More Gorgeous, Intricate Than Most Real Castles
10:20AM Dan Nosowitz | This unbelievable papercraft project, by Japanese art student Wataru Itou, took over 4 years to create and features lights and a moving train. It’s probably the most stunning papercraft sculpture we’ve ever seen. More »
Robots
6:00AM Mark Wilson | We knew this day would come. Japan builds one giant robot and, like a first taste of heroin, the country follows a destructive path of building opulent robo statues until there’s a 18 metre robot for every man, woman and child. More »
Japan Building Another Gigantic Robot, Tetsujin
6:00AM Mark Wilson | We knew this day would come. Japan builds one giant robot and, like a first taste of heroin, the country follows a destructive path of building opulent robo statues until there’s a 18 metre robot for every man, woman and child. More »
Design
12:20AM Jesus Diaz | He’s the invisible man/ count the bubbles in your hand/ the summer sites/ And the southern skies. That’s all that’s left behind/ the skies, and a sweet caress/ he’s the invisible man/ catch him if you can. More »
The Man With No Shadow Looks Like Kirk About To Teleport
12:20AM Jesus Diaz | He’s the invisible man/ count the bubbles in your hand/ the summer sites/ And the southern skies. That’s all that’s left behind/ the skies, and a sweet caress/ he’s the invisible man/ catch him if you can. More »
Design