Experiments When we came across artist Melanie Hoff‘s new experimental wood art and accompanying stop-motion video, we were immediately taken. The process appears to involve placing nails into sheets of ply wood and then running a current through the nails into the wood which results in flowing, almost tree-like burns branching out from the nails. See some […]
Climate change expert David Breashears of Glacier Works created this incredible, intimate photo of the treacherous and beautiful Mount Everest. Click here to view the full resolution photo which allows you to zoom in with such detail that you can pick out individual climbers on the face of the mountain. You can also pan around and virtually explore […]
Experimenting with nature can mean a lot of things, but French artist Frédéric Fontenoy took it somewhere we’d never think to venture, and it’s actually really cool. If you can’t quite tell what you’re looking at, the Alkama series was created by mixing blood and milk (yes, you read that right). Once you get past the […]
For Experiment No. 3, Shwood founder Eric Singer teamed up with some friends to create a unique wooden surfboard. Singer and company processed and shaped a functional, one-of-a-kind board using only reclaimed wood found on the Oregon coast. The construction process was guided by the expertise of Joe Blecha (blechaboardshop.com), a bona fide virtuoso of custom […]
Everyone remembers parachute day in elementary school gym class; grabbing a side of the seemingly-enormous circle of rainbow fabric and trying hard to ruffle it up high enough to run underneath. This is kind of like that, times infinity. Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno calls this live-installation project Poetic Cosmos of the Breath. Participants gathered around […]
