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A Major Exhibition and Monograph, Amy Sherald’s ‘The ... - Colossal
Oct 12, 2022 · In her first major exhibition outside of the U.S., artist Amy Sherald presents a body of work that’s distinctly American. The World We Make, which is now on view, brings Sherald’s signature grisaille portraiture to Hauser & Wirth London. Monumental in scale and primarily rendered on flat, monochromatic backdrops, the oil paintings reference a sense of determined …
Townscaper: Build Your Worries Away With This Instantly
Oct 16, 2020 · Earlier this year, Malmo, Sweden-based game developer Oskar Stålberg launched Townscaper, a low-stakes video game that’s similar to Sim City without the threat of natural disaster or the need to maintain characters’ emotional wellbeing.Users only have the option to delete or build with a certain color, a function that’s controlled entirely by the algorithm.
Enjoy the Art of Printmaking At Home with This Tabletop Press
Jan 7, 2021 · As an antidote to lockdown boredom, Sussex-based Tom Boulton designed a lightweight, portable printing press that brings the inky art form directly into people’s homes. In contrast to traditional machines that are heavy and bulky, the F-Press was created using 3-D printing and CNC machines and easily fits on a tabletop, letting users produce A5Continue …
A Morphing Fractal Vise Pivots to Grasp Irregular Shapes for
Jul 1, 2021 · Nebraska-based artist Steve Lindsay is equally interested in engraving metals and other surfaces as he is in the tools needed to etch with exacting precision. He’s spent the last six years toying with this vise design, which in its latest iteration, has jaws that pivot to hug whatever object is placed between them. Based onContinue reading "A Morphing Fractal Vise Pivots to …
Surreal Collages by Eugenia Loli - Colossal
Oct 14, 2015 · Since we last featured works by collage artist Eugenia Loli her works have popped up all over the place from Wired Magazine, New Scientist, and a recent series of 5 collages for Cosmopolitan.The nurse-turned-programmer-turned-journalist-turned-artist first began exploring digital collages in 2013 by scanning images from old vintage magazines and science …
Step-by-Step Instructions on Making the Paper Airplane that
Mar 5, 2020 · John Collins, aka The Paper Airplane Guy, is a master at shattering world records with a single sheet of paper.The aircraft designer now has collaborated with Great Big Story on a new video that not only teaches the Susanne, the model that secured his spot in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2012, but also two others that swoop through the air. As its name …
Animated by Wind, Theo Jansen’s ‘Strandbeest ... - Colossal
Apr 18, 2022 · Each spring, a fledgling creature waddles, wriggles, or slithers across a Dutch beach. The sculptural animals are known as Strandbeests and are part of a growing menagerie by artist Theo Jansen (), who’s been constructing large-scale, kinetic beings powered entirely by the wind since 1990.Jansen unleashes the skeletal works—which weigh around 180 kilograms …
A Gear System Helps Visualize the Magnitude of One Googol, or 1 ...
Mar 10, 2020 · Design. Grace Ebert. Bookmark. To celebrate spending one billion seconds on Earth, Daniel de Bruin created a gear system that represents the number googol (that’s the digit 1 with 100 zeros behind it). Every time the first wheel completes 1,000 rotations, which happens in about an hour, the second gear turns 100 notches and the third 10.
City Museum: A 10-Story Former Shoe Factory Transformed into …
Jun 2, 2015 · Housed in the former home of the 10-story International Shoe Company, the sprawling 600,000 square-foot City Museum in St. Louis is quite possibly the ultimate urban playground ever constructed. The museum is the brainchild of artist and sculptor Bob Cassilly who opened the space in 1997 after years of renovation and construction. Although Cassilly …