A full-fledged 3D printer for just $347. This has been the breakout kid in the world of 3D printing recently.
Pirate3D wants to make 3D printing affordable and easy to use for all home consumers. Their solution is the Buccaneer, which allows you to do cloud printing and choose between working from a PC or mobile device. It’s user-friendly as you can customize 3D objects without learning how to use 3D design software, and it’s also mess-free as it uses plastic printer cartridges. The printer is going for $347 on Kickstarter excluding shipping (compare this to MakerBot’s Replicator 2, which comes with a $2,199 price tag). The project reached its $100,000 goal in ten minutes and has already gone over the $500,000-mark. Thomas Broomé.
Artists live for free at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai. Video. REcreative. After a Recluse’s Death, a Cleanup Man Reaps a Trove of Art. Snapping the snappers: What does our obsession with documenting our holidays say about us? - Features - Art. Alan Powdrill, 45, is a professional photographer who became fascinated by watching other people take pictures.
It all began on a trip to Rome two years ago, and soon became an obsession. "I started looking at the expressions of tourists in the Pantheon," he says. "I was interested in the poses they would make as they took their pictures. There's this mode of extreme concentration people slip into, when everything else is momentarily shut out. Wherever they are, no matter how crowded the place, people would get into this zone, all for the creation of their little slice of photographic art. " From then on, wherever he went, Powdrill would snap the snappers. Many of his shots illustrate the lengths that tourists will go to for a picture. One Per Cent: Martian rover tech has an eye for art. Will Ferguson, reporter Giacomo Chiari examining the painting on the west wall in the tomb of King Tutankhamen (Image: Lori Wong/J.
Paul Getty Trust) Just because NASA's Curiosity rover is busy preparing to trundle over the surface of Mars doesn't mean it can't help out scientists on its home world as well. An X-ray diffraction and fluorescence instrument the robot uses to study the composition of rock on the Red Planet's surface has found an application in an unlikely field: art conservation. The instrument caught the eye of Giacomo Chiari, chief scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, as a potentially valuable means to examine priceless works of art without damaging them. Determining the composition of ancient sculptures, paintings and buildings helps conservationists like Chiari to come up with ways to preserve pieces against the ravages of time. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art.
Walter Pichler, Architect and Reclusive Artist, Dies at 75. The cause was cancer, said his assistant, Alois Hörtl.
Mr. Thomas Spieler. Cyborg makes art using seventh sense. Liz Else, associate opinion editor (Image: Dan Wilton/RedBulletin) Neil Harbisson can only see shades of grey.
So his prosthetic eyepiece, which he calls an “eyeborg”, interprets the colours for him and translates them into sound. Harbisson’s art sounds like a kind of inverse synaesthesia. But where synaesthetes experience numbers or letters as colours or even “taste” words, for example, Harbisson’s art is down to a precise transposition of colour into sound frequencies.
When did you realise you were colour blind? What is the gadget you are wearing? Henry Moore Goes Indoors. Along with that ubiquity has come a certain critical indifference, a feeling that so much popularity surely meant artistic complacency.
But a new show that opened at the Gagosian Gallery in London on May 31, “Late Large Forms,” tries to revise that jaded view of Moore with an exhibition of some of the huge bronze pieces he created from 1960 to 1980 for sculpture parks and outdoor spaces. The surprise of the show is too see these monumental works — most of which have never been shown indoors — in the neutral white space of the Gagosian, which occupies a warehouse-like space near King’s Cross Station. “A lot of collectors and dealers have said, they are meant to go outside, what would Moore have thought?” Said Anita Feldman, the curator of “Large Late Forms” and the head of collections and exhibitions for the Henry Moore Foundation at the sculptor’s house in Perry Green, Hertfordshire.
Real people turned into still life paintings. By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 19 June 2012 Take a close look: ‘This is clearly a painting’.
That’s what you’ll most likely expect, wouldn’t you? Now, take a further look and imagine that these are real life people with paint on them. ‘Wow’, right? ZOMBIE PORTRAIT a drawing of a drawing of a drawing... Hot Glue - The Wonder Adhesive. Hot Glue is not just for crafts.
It can attach an object to pretty much any surface, including metal and glass, in a minute. I've used it for many of my art projects and it has never failed me. I used it to fix ceramic sculptures, strengthen the bonds in my wood frames, forming architectural models, fill in molds, and even stick a black boot to a pickle jar.
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