Wooster Collective: Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Sculptures
Seeing the city in a new and creative way. Subway air vents as a street art opportunity. Something poetic about how the creatures come to life with the rhythm of the subway.
Jun Murakoshi Design
Stacked stools evoke sculpture, stored chairs double as a clever bookcase. Nice, simple design.
Tate Modern - The Unilever Series: Carsten Höller
Twisty turny multi-story slides made of steel and glass… at the Tate Modern. Don’t miss the webcam, the time-lapse install video and most of all, the artist statement. “How might a daily dose of sliding affect the way we perceive the world?”
Albany Bulb
Dump turned informal art park in Albany. Buchanan exit off 80, turn left towards the bay.
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Amy Youngs - Hydroponic solar garden
Glass blown hanging hydroponic garden. Collaboration by interactive artists Amy Youngs and Ken Rinaldo.
washingtonpost.com - Gallery: Ron Mueck
Gallery of photos of Mueck’s exhibits. What technique.
Telegraph.co.uk - “Body of work” (Artist Ron Mueck)
Article on sculpture artist Ron Mueck who creates (sometimes giant, othertimes miniature) “hyper real” characters. Looking at his characters I can’t help but imagine that they live and breathe.
SMS Pinging for Physical Objects
SMS interaction models, breaks down how a SMS is formatted in PDU mode.
Project: Protrude, Flow - Sachiko Kodama + Minako Takeno
Tom’s ferromagnetic liquid link had me scouring my memory and google for an interactive art project I saw last year that combined microphones, ferromagnetic liquid and computer controlled electromagnets. I especially like “Pulsate (2002)”
Tim Prentice - kinetic sculpture
I especially like his work “Carpet” and “Wind Screen.”
Strandbeest - Kinetic sculpture of Theo Jansen
Dutch artist Jansen makes giant “creatures” out of plastic tubes and cloth that can move themselves in the wind. Inventive mechanics, with a “genetic” design process that passes the best characteristics of his creatures from one generation to the next.
Gina Kamentsky mechanical sculpture
Sculpture / contraptions made from found items.
The Lightning Field
Installation in Southwestern New Mexico by sculptor Water De Maria. Field of metal poles attracts lightning during the Southwest’s rolling thunderstorms. You can stay in a cabin at the site, but it’s spendy and no photography is allowed! (lame!!!)
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.