DEEPSEA CHALLENGER is a single occupant research submersible engineered and built in Australia by director James Cameron and Ron Allum from Acheron Project. The 12 ton sub is designed to access the darkest corners of the ocean where depths exceed 11km straight down, deeper than Mount Everest is high…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Eco / Recycled / Green,Editor's Picks,Exotic Idea,Machine,Mix / Multi Color,Mix / Multi Materials,Natural Color,Robot,Sculpture,Travel,Wood + MetalJuly 5, 2012
The Giant Elephant Transporter, better known as ‘The Sultan of India’ which is part of the ‘Les Machines de l’lle Nantes’ designed by two French designers Francois Delaroziere and Pierre Orefice. The Elephant is 11 meter’s high, Weighs 40 tonnes, can spray water from its trunk and accommodates up to 30 passengers…
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Each of kinetic sculptures is a wooden machine powered by a constant force spring which must be wound. While visually interesting sculptures when still, they become truly fascinating when in motion…
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Artist Trond Nicholas Perry, based in Warsaw, is fascinated by stream of consciousness thinking, hence a fan of James Joyce, and gets some of his inspiration by halting that stream randomly, or, as he credits William S. Burroughs for questioning: “How random is random?”…
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