Edina Tokodi transplants moss and transforms it into animals and various shapes, sometimes covering small wall areas, or entire structures in Brooklyn.
It’s also possible to paint with moss.
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Moss Graffiti
Flower Bombs With Biodegradable Plastic
Flower bombs made from biodegradable plastic (PLA plastic), painted with water-based chalk, created by Studio TX. The lawn gnomes images are questionable, but maybe better than paintings of flowers… As the bag begins to break down (which takes 4-6 months), the seeds land on a base of sod and begin to flower.
We should either start making some seed bombs and learn about this biodegradable plastic, ormake this.
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Adam5100 Stencil Work
“Adam 5100 uses knowledge of printmaking and savvy ability with spray paint in his stencil work. Each stenciled piece represents hundreds of hours of meticulous work and a fine detail–the hallmark of his work. Much of it is based on influences of classic American photography, the freedom of modern and contemporary painting, and his own fast moving imagination.”
Check out a time-lapsed video of Adam creating one of his works: http://www.adam5100.com/bio.php
Balloon Street Art
This game is addictive…
Plant-Reactive Robots Make Music
An installation in Palm House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland where a variety of traditional Chinese instruments and chimes are controlled robotically in response to people and plants. The sounds produced by this are incredibly beautiful, watching the video of the installationis highly recommended. Built using Arduino, the installation reacts to the presence of humans and changes in the soil of the plant beds.
Similar and equally cool—Botanicalls, an open-source project that uses sensors to determine when plants need to be watered and then automatically calls its owner to ask to be watered.
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Turning TVs off With a Single-Purpose Universal Remote
This is the TV-B-Gone—it is a single-purpose universal remote that is used to shut off a large variety of televisions. You can see a video of it in action. It’s open-source, so it’s fairly easy to build using the instructions included on Ladyada’s website.
I was thinking about combining that with the Turn-Signal Biking Jacket project we looked at last week. We could basically build this remote into the front pocket of a jacket and run a switch to the tip of the sleeve and the go around the mall and turn off all the TVs.
And on a different, but related note, check out this blog, Creative Physical Computing, many, many in-progress projects using things like Arduino, Max/MSP/Jitter, Processing, Quartz Composer, etc.
Stencil Demo/BBQ
I am going to do a run-though of stencil making skillz, AKA technique, material, etc for spray paint.
Friday July 11th 2008
4:30pm-?? Michelle’s backyard
BRING:
+an exacto knife and an image you want to make into a stencil
+anyone else who wants to see the demo and enjoy my sweet backyard
+food if you don’t want veggie burgers
EMAIL:
soulliem@uwindsor.ca for the house address
feel free to come out and get your stencil on, hope to see you there! -Michelle.
Storm Drain Stenciling
I found a little blurb that the Nashville Tennessee government put on their website about storm drain stencils…
Inflatable Street Art
Using the bursts of exhaust air coming from subways in New York, artist Joshua Allen Harris combines plastic bags and tape to create these inflatable sculptures that rise and die with the constant passing of subway trains.
The use of existing conditions and materials to create something so great is incredible.
You can watch a number of videos of the works in motion at New York Magazine or Wooster Collective.
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