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MIT Developed a Fabric That Can Fold Into Origami-Like Shapes When Inflated | Colossal
MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group has created a system to fold materials into various origami shapes when inflated, turning specifically designed paper, plastic, and fabric into representations of swans, helixes, or other 3D figures with minimal human interaction. The project, … Continue reading
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Visual Sounds of the Amazon: Digital Lifeforms that Respond to Audio Recorded in the Amazon Rainforest | Colossal
Australian artist Andy Thomas (previously here and here) presents his first installment of Visual Sounds of the Amazon, a responsive artwork that alters its visual shape based on audio Thomas collected from the Amazon rainforest. The animation sequence is one that … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Art, Australian, comparison, creatives, Culture, Life, nature, rhythm, South America
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How stone poses became a surreal project – BBC News
What started as a whim seven years ago has become a major project for a London-based photographer. Source: How stone poses became a surreal project – BBC News
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Tagged Art, construction, creatives, Culture, nature, photography, Technology, UK
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A Secret Work Studio Suspended Below a Highway Overpass by Fernando Abellanas | Colossal
Spanish furniture designer Fernando Abellanas has carved out a new creative home in a section of Valencia that isn’t the typical artist neighborhood: he’s built a studio affixed to a highway underpass. The workspace is complete with a desk and chair, as … Continue reading
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Origami Animals Bound Across Walls in Murals by ‘Annatomix’ | Colossal
Annatomix, a self-taught painter from Birmingham UK, creates geometric, origami-inspired animals on everyday materials of all sizes. Bumblebees and rabbits take shape on small surfaces like discarded paper bags and wood scraps, while foxes and peregrine falcons scale the sides … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, creatives, Culture, Festival, Street Art, UK, Urban
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Islands Digitally Composed From Images of Abandoned Sites by Fabio Araujo | Colossal
Brazilian designer Fabio Araujo digitally composes images of abandoned sites to create undesirable islands, small patches of earth ripped up from long neglected corners of civilization. The series, Abandoned Places, exists both as image and video as Araujo animates discrete … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Brasil, Brazil, brazilian style, comparison, construction, creatives, Culture, infrastructure, rhythm, sculpture, Urban
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Giant Dabs of Thick Oil Paint Captured as Hyperrealist Colored Pencil Drawings | Colossal
Australian artist Cj Hendry (previously) tricks the eye with her hyper-realistic drawings, works that recreate the appearance of thick swabs of brightly colored paint. To achieve the dimensionality and sheen of fresh oil paint she layers dry pigment atop colored … Continue reading
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Notation Knives: Listen to Cutting Edge Music From the Renaissance | Colossal
It’s not exactly musical chairs, but this Renaissance-era cutlery can carry a tune at any table setting. Dating back to the 16th century, these extremely rare knives are engraved with musical scores complete with lyrics. On one side is a … Continue reading
Unusual Selfies by Izumi Miyazaki
These ongoing self-portraits by Japanese photographer Izumi Miyazaki are somewhat surreal and not the usual selfies you see on the internet. Source: Unusual Selfies by Izumi Miyazaki
Early humans may have seen a supervolcano explosion up close | New Scientist
Two ancient teeth found on Sumatra suggest early humans were there when the island’s supervolcano erupted 71,000 years ago Source: Early humans may have seen a supervolcano explosion up close | New Scientist
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