Wednesday, August 10, 2011

GelSight

GelSight is an amazing 3D surface scanner that is cost effective and even can work as an analog tool.

Monday, July 18, 2011

DUBSTEP MIME

Hilarious photobooth videos of a guy making facial expressions to dubstep tracks.

Doctor P - Big Boss

Flux Pavillion - Bass Canon

Esoterra - Mozart

Thursday, July 14, 2011

The mechanical mouth

This musical synth uses a physical model of the mouth and nasal cavity to generate singing tones.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Ferrofluid Sculptures

Animating ferrofluid with magnets looks a lot like cymatics animation with cornstarch and audio. This artist Sachiko Kodama (http://www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/spiral/) has taken ferrofluid and made some pretty amazing works of art.

Ferrofluid Animation

Cymatics Animation

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Book Carvings [art]

Wonderful art made from carving up old books by Brian Dettmer.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Vegan Black Metal Chef

Episode 1: Cooking instructions for Pad Tai