Tree Ring Turntable

YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.

Artist Bartholomäus Traubeck created a machine to play cross-sections of trees like records, reading the annual rings in the wood like grooves. The mechanism uses an Arduino controller and a Playstation Eye Camera to analyze the lines present in the wood, and then a program translates the visual cues into a virtual piano instrument. In an interview on Motherboard, Traubeck says:

yes every tree produces a different composition. Sometimes it’s more obvious , sometime it’s not. The effect can be examined best by comparing different types of trees, for example fir tree sounds a lot more minimalistic and has a very abstract rhythm compared to an ash tree which is more full sounding and rhythmic and loud.

University of Arizona scientists organizing first-ever black hole photograph

Event Horizon Telescope will combine images from 50 telescopes making a virtual telescope with a mirror that is as big as the Earth.
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/011812_ua_black_hole/ua-scientists-organizing-first-ever-black-hole-photograph/

Protect IP/SOPA Breaks the Internet. Keep the Internet Free!

Tell Congress not to censor the internet, and favoring the entertainment industry and harming artists and other creatives. It will also hurt search engines. KEEP THE INTERNET and ART free!
http://vimeo.com/31100268

Fire Fire FireFireF ire

Joel Chaney makes fuel from Banana peel, a great response to waste and need through an extremely efficient and accessible method! it couldn't be any simpler!

small scale hydrogen production @10amps

Bedrock / Rockhead

Bedrock is consolidated rock lying underneath the surface of our Earth. Above the bedrock is usually broken and weathered unconsolidated rock called rockhead.

The presented sculpture lays as bedrock to my consciousness and thoughts on my history. The bedrock becomes drilled or excavated in geological procedures, which is a reference to the strenuous making of this bed and the preciosity that is now detailed within the added glass pieces. As a metaphor, the bedrock explains these memories physically (the making of the object) and mentally or emotionally (the psyche while making). The 64 panes of glass sandwiched with 64 still frames balancing on the middle of the woven bed reference the amount of minutes in the found film in which the sound is played from on a continuous loop. This part of the sculpture references the rockhead, worn and windswept but now a metaphor for what is gone and through the present-- preserved...much like the activity in saving both bedrock and rockhead.

I want to hold these memories and let them balance as rock on top of rock; I believe this is a simulation that details my consciousness for the past (found movie of my family and I, c. 2003), present (the current manifested sculpture), and what or where these pieces and thoughts may go to in the future.

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