Barrel Monster

RALEIGH, N.C. — When Joseph Carnevale chopped up three stolen orange and white traf­fic bar­rels from a con­struc­tion site to cre­ate a mas­sive sculp­ture of a road­side mon­ster thumb­ing a ride, the North Car­olina col­lege stu­dent said he saw it as a form of street art.

Raleigh, N.C., police just saw vandalism.

They dis­man­tled the 10-foot “bar­rel mon­ster” and arrested Carnevale. Hun­dreds of online sup­port­ers want the charges dropped and the pub­lic­ity has turned the his­tory major and part-time con­struc­tion worker into a local celebrity.

Even the con­struc­tion com­pany has become a fan, and wants the 21-year-old to cre­ate a replica of the fig­ure that led to his arrest on June 10.

Read more at msnbc.
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Room Covered in Melted Cheese

Unfor­tu­nately I don’t think it still looks like this, as the video is from 1999

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Ping Pong Plus

Ping Pong Plus is an intel­li­gent sur­face cre­ated by “stu­dents” of the MIT dur­ing the late 90’s. Whether you are inter­ested in ping-pong or not, you will prob­a­bly find this lit­tle piece of our vin­tage back­ground (brought from our best mem­o­ries) quite cool…

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Panic Button

Just in case your boss is com­ing and you are not work­ing on that project, which is sup­posed to be fin­ished 5 min­utes ago. Hit the but­ton and it takes you right back to your project. Life saver for as lit­tle as 5$.

64 Helium Balloons

A room is filled with deep, evolv­ing noises from a four-channel sound sys­tem. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a com­plex molecule.

Through vari­able posi­tion­ing and illu­mi­na­tion of each atom, a dynamic dis­play sculp­ture comes into being, com­posed of phys­i­cal objects, pat­terns of light, and syn­chro­nous rhyth­mic and tex­tural sonic events. Change, sound, and move­ment con­verge into a larger form.

The height of each helium bal­loon is adjusted with a computer-controlled cable winch, whilst the inter­nal illu­mi­na­tion is accom­plished using dim­ma­ble super-bright LEDs, cre­at­ing a pixel in a warped 8x8 spa­tial matrix.

The sonic events, the pat­terns of light, and the move­ment of the bal­loons are manip­u­lated in real time as a 45–60 minute-long performance.

Amaz­ing art instal­la­tion by Robert Henke & Christo­pher Bauder. The piece is called Atom (More pictures).

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