Tilt-shift photography effects applied to Van Gogh paintings
Dictaphone Parcel from Lauri Warsta on Vimeo.
Audio is recorded from a package being delivered from London to Helsinki.
A clever piece of art that is actually fetching a decent price on ebay.
If you want the piece of art, you bid for it. Part of the deal is that you have to plug it in to your network once you take it home. Once that happens, the piece puts itself back on auction again to be resold to the next highest bidder. Read more about it at the artist’s site.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments.
Wikihow has a tutorial.
A couple of DIY Ultimate Machines inspired by Claude Shannon. These machines consist of a box and a switch. You flip the switch and the box opens. A hand emerges and flips the switch back to its original position.
There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing — absolutely nothing — except switch itself off.
