I know that these images about the dust storm over Sydney are all over the internet, but that doesn’t make this one less awesome.

photo by MarchingAnts

I’ve found the “Machine with Concrete” by Arthur Ganson in the comments of Slow Revolution, thanks Marc. It is actually a very similar piece, but Machine with Concrete is even more extreme. A motor is connected to 12 gears, each one of them slows down the speed of the motor by 1/50th. So when to motor is turning at 200 RPM, the last gear will need two trillion years to make a full turn. The last gear is actually embedded in concrete to illustrate the fact that we will never see it move anyway. What a way to reduce energy.

“Ogenblik Geduld A.u.b.” is a Dutch and means something like “a moment, please”, it’s also a series of typographic experiments by HOAX. They’ve used everyday materials found around the house to build installations. The idea was to find a way to use the most basic elements of programming, namely on/off.
Very cool stuff!

found at trendbeheer

PUSH N900 is a competion organised by Nokia to promote it’s new N900 smartphone. Everyone is invited to come up with projects how you could hack or mod the N900 and its open-source Maemo operating system. You have to submit your idea by October 11th, a jury will then decide who will get a N900, funding and support to make them real.
Hyper and Tinker it! were asked to develop some sample projects. They decided to use 4 objects from the 80′s: the Viewmaster, the Rolodex, an FM Radio and the Speak & Spell.

Now in 3D!

They’ve fitted a N900 inside a Viewmaster, when you move the Viewmaster to the left or the right a switch is triggered. The signal is then passed on through an arduino board and a bluetooth signal to the N900. The camera of the N900 takes now 2 images, a few centimeters apart. The two images are colored red and blue and superimposed and displayed on the screen of the N900, so when you look through the Viewmaster you’ll see a 3D image.

Talk & Text

A Nokia N900 and an Arduino are hidden inside a Speak & Spell. The keys are connected to the arduino which sends the signals over bluetooth to the N900. So you can write and send a text message using a Speak & Spell.

Leave a Message

An Arduino connected to the Rolodex detects the position of the wheel and sends that information over bluetooth to the N900. Each position indicates a specific contact. Without touching your N900, you bring up the contact you need to the screen of the N900.

Phone FM

You can send a text message to your phone and it will read the artist’s name and send that information to last.fm. MP3′s will start streaming and the cover art will appear on the screen. The N900 has a build-in FM transmitter, the signal will be picked up by any radio nearby when it’s set to the right station.

“Slow Revolution” is a kinetic sculpture by Jan Vormann. An electric motor is connect to 16 gears, the motor does 5700 RPM but the last cogwheel does only 0.0000003 RPM. This means that it will take one and a half years for that wheel to do a full revolution.

#02 by Fanette Muxart.

found at my biennial is better than yours

Power by Cengiz Bodur.

found at cammmpo

g by Jack Strange. A lead ball rests on the letter g, eventually the document becomes so big that it crashes the computer.

found at vvork

You can go and try the “Broken Self Sculpture” by Rafaël Rozendaal at the AFK Sculpture Park in Berlin till September 26th. It’s based on his Broken Self .com piece.

Ea Borre is a Danish artist who makes these amazing paper machines. Well they aren’t really 100% made of paper, but still worth checking out.

found at make blog