An artist named Niklas Roy created this beautiful object called Grafikdemo.
Notice how the green wire mesh teapot is slightly off screen? That’s because it’s not a visual display, it’s a real wire mesh teapot! Roy explains his process in an interview on Gizmodo:
When I started to build it, it was funny to recognizebthat I did [...]
I saw the film 300 the other day (with about 300 other people in an IMAX theatre).
I wanted it to be about a different way to be a man, something unashamedly masculine borrowed from previous cultures and but after having been spliced with postmodern idealism. Something that probably narrative arts could only produce. I realized [...]
Make published a blog entry about an electro-mechanical web hit counter. It is precisely the excess that I am interested in.
The entry quotes some great vocabulary too, which is handy since I have been attempting to generate some as well:
I’ve always subscribed to the Rube Goldberg School of Engineering Design, the philosophy of which is “simple, elegant [...]
I just have to mention this excitement. I can’t say I know for sure how to tie it in. It is a film exhibit in NY that proposes that Romanticism has always been with us.
This meme touches me. Romanticism to me is the Age of Enlightenment’s follow up. It is the first time modern civilization [...]
Google says there is one other person who used the title “Watching Machines”. Marco Espirito Santo made an experimental short film with that title and presented it in the 2006 Rome International Film Festival. It looks interesting. I wish I could watch it.
Here’s a good display idea. I found this on MAKE magazine’s blog. This is the kind of abnormal data display that I am interested in exploring. It’s a latent cultural form that may come unto it’s own, if I have any say. I’d like to see custom electronic culture reach these proportions. [...]
