Mechanical Techno

By Graham Dunning

Christian Marclay - The Clock

Christian Marclay's The Clock is a 24hr video installation made using excerpts from films that feature a clock or watch. A short video from the Walker Arts Center about Christian Marclay's 24hr video installation The Clock. The video features a very clever animated title (pictured above).

A 12 minute excerpt of the The Clock is below.

Typeface: The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum

Typeface is a documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, focusing on a rural Midwestern museum (the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin) and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.

Die Falle - Sculptural Zeoptrope by Gregory Barsamian

This 3d dimensional spinning Zeotrope piece is incredible. It is called Die Falle and is currently on display at the Science Gallery as part of their fantastic exhibiton Illusion.

Sculpting with Bees and 3D Printing

I've posted before about Hilary Berseth's sculptures which he makes by placing armatures into bee hives but the 3B Printing Project takes this a step further by using 3B printed moulds. It's an ad for honey but worth a look anyway. The first minute of the video is about beekeeping, the sculpture part starts after that. via Make

Proteus - Documentary on Naturalist and Artist Ernst Haeckel

This video features selections from the the documentary, Proteus about Ernst Haeckel, a 19th century naturalist. The film uses Haeckel's detailed engravings of Radiolaria, single celled marine organisms, to make animated progressions.

Sketch Book

A video showing some sketch book pages.

3d Model of Dubrovnik Constructed from Flickr Photos

This 3D reconstruction of Dubrovnik, Croatia was made entirely by computers from photos sourced on Flickr. It contains 4,619 images and nearly 3.5 million 3D points.

This project is referenced by Victor Burgin in his keynote presentation at Urban Encounters: The Image of Public Space a seminar at Tate Britain in October 2012. Burgin's talk is at the beginning of the podcast embedded below:

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Rabbit - Animation by Run Wrake

Rabbit is an animated short film by Run Wrake from 2005.

Merry Christmas

Toccata for Toys (1957) by Charles and Ray Eames

Youtube Playlists

I've added some new content to some of my youtube playlists  and created a new one for lectures by designers. My playlist of artists talks compiles over 100 lectures by artists and has a total running time of 115 hours 13 mins 51 seconds.  

Andreas Wilder

Untitled #151, Douglas Fir, 800cm x 800cm x 800cm, 2010

Andreas Wilder makes large sculptures by stacking lengths of timber. Many of these are temporary and as the projects end they are knocked down like dominoes.

More about Aeneas Wilder's work

A Squid Responds to Cypress Hill

The chromatophores in a squid stimulated by Cypress Hill's Insane in the Membrane.

More info here

Loitering Theatre

Loitering Theatre is a project by Nina McGowan and Caroline Campbell which "uses customised helicopters (the AR.Drone) to fly beyond the normal street view to access and film previously inaccessible and unseen views of the city". It was shown at the Science Gallery, Dublin as a part of Hack the City. Above is a clip from a longer video.

Nina and Caroline collaborate together also using the name Loitering Theatre.

The Lady on the Rock

Glass Horns Play Records Acoustically

Artist Jeremy LeClair, of Various Artists Records, had these beautiful glass resonating phonograph horns made for him by glass artist Joe Forestall and now he can acoustically play to two different parts of a record at the same time!

Via Make

Giuseppe Penone Documentary

Gear Cube

As featured on boingboing

Will Eisner and Francis Alys

I have, here, undertaken a series of vignettes built around nine elements which, taken together, are my portrayal of a big city...any city.

Seen from afar, major cities are an accumulation of big buildings, big population and big acreage. For me it is not 'real.' The big city as it is seen by its inhabitants is the real thing. The true picture is in the crevices on its floors and around the smaller pieces of its architecture where daily life swirls.

Will Eisner, from the introduction to New York: The Big City

Eisner's Comic New York: Life in the Big City (of which New York: The Big City is sub-section) contains many short episodic comics, often with little if any dialogue, depicting people engaged in small interactions with architectural elements of the city; fire hydrants, lamp posts, bins etc. It reminded me of Francis Alys' work using similar elements in urban public space.  Below is a page from Eisner's comic and a video by Alys.

Amazing Coin Stacking

3118 coins