Don’t you just love art installations that make your optic nerves twist around each other in jaw-tightening delight? LOVE IT. This is just such an installation. It’s an exploration of process brought to life in a 3D environment by Christoph Bader of DepotVisuals. What at first seems abstract shapes become a duo-tone delivery of slices and spheres to keep you looking for that vortex opening under your right armpit. Yes, that one. Check it out.
It happens so often. You go to squeeze some cheese on your cracker, then suddenly you snap from a daze to find the most stylized form of your initials oozing down the wall. Nevermind that everyone around you is staring, you have a talent.
If you are the slightest bit interest in cheese spread sculpting, urban art or simply enjoy the idea of abstract 3D objects looming ubiquitously overhead, you’ll love this. Brad Schwede of Graffiti Technica uses 3D compositing to create his own style of graffiti and spreads it like soft cheese over the urban landscape.
Glass vases, metal vases, vases made of wood, vases made of bone, vases fashioned out of the screams of the undead… even though you hoard all these types of vases, there’s probably one you don’t have yet. A 3D printed vase created from the generative form of liquid entering an empty vessel. Sounds poetic doesn’t it. WELL IT IS.
What’s even more awesome is that you can make your very own vase: customize, preview, print… Supabold? Supa cool.
Close your eyes for a moment. Now, fling your head forward into the nearest solid object you can’t see. What’s that you do see? Yes, pretty lights. Pretty lights jittering their way across the back of your eyelids and unconsciousness like a hallucinogenic back-slap.
Dentsu and Berg know this feeling and how to produce it. They create a 3D model, do a “virtual CAT scan” and through a program, which cycles the scans on the screen of an iPad, create one of the most painstakingly killer light painting methods you’ve ever seen.
Here are the images, but you must, you MUST, watch the video to see how they do it.
The only feeling better than jabbing a syringe full of highly volatile nuclear material into my chest, is jabbing a syringe full of nuclear reactor cut-aways of the 3D variant into my eyeholes.
Prepare for a chain reaction of mildly tingling proportions that may send your 3D appeal into a mile-wide meltdown. For those that grew up in the old days, cut-away and other tech illustrations hold a special spot in the heart right next to that spot that loves to store old engineering scales, vellum and the yawns of cranky old drafters.
These reactors are on my new fav list of cut-aways to collect and I think you’ll like’em too.
Suddenly you hear a *pop* and all the anticipation of creating imaginative 3D models you’ve stored up over the weekend leaks onto your timesheet.There’s no stuffing that gooey mess back in, but there are a few fresh bits of 3D perfection you’ll want to view to get you momentum back.
They stretch from graphical to physical, but all have a unique look into structure and space; how we see it, how we use it and how it uses us to mess with another person’s mind. It’s all fun though, but mostly… all amazing.
Sometimes, even for the gifted such as yourself, it takes more than the power of the mind to form massive chunks of steel into structures that look cool and don’t crumple when hanging bits of mountain from it.
For Corbett Griffith of Instinct Engineering, it’s completely natural. Since graduating Georgia Tech with a BSME and Minor in Sculpture, Corbett has churned out the most insane mechanical constructs you could imagine. It’s engineering mixed with aesthetics. Here, he fills us in on the process.
Ya think a corndog, travellin’ 500 mph isn’t gonna make a couple onions burst or tear a hole in the universe? Well, it did and took half the city block and these links with it!
Markus Vogt – The Sci-Fi fantasy, surreal, and almost Gigeresque 3D/Photoshop art of Markus Vogt.
Reduce distractions from Co-workers – As if having to interact with them is bad enough, so here’s how to get rid of them. Get your saw out.
The Beetle Ceiling – An architectural marvel to behold. It’s odd, it’s shiny, it’s a bit creepy, it’s beetles.
Swebapps – Your turn to add to the app mania. Build your own mobile phone application in minutes. Not Free, but gives you an idea about price.
The Studley Tool Chest – A look inside the tool chest that defined the man. Poster being re-issued by FineWoodworking.
Save More by Doing Less – Ramit Sethi shows the practical approach to saving more of that willy, elusive cash.
Screenr – Instant screen capture for twitter, BUT you can embed it on any website or upload to YouTube. Easy.
50 Insane/Awesome Photoshop Brushes – The magic behind Photoshop, brushes. grab one or two and see what happens.
How many times do you look at somethign and say, “yeah, that would be MUCH COOLER in 3D.” Ya know, stuff like a book, a movie, or set of schematics for a miniature fusion reactor.
Yet, with all of the possibilities, there’s just something way to simple about the glyphs representing the English alphabet and Ji Lee is here to take care of that mess with a special conversion of the boring, old 2D alphabet into a spectacularly revolved 3D work of art.
Is the alphabet now more universal? or did 3D just get more confusing?
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Yes, It’s that day, and you need some 3D geometric inspiration. Look no further. We’ll take that 3D geometry hunger and add the sci-fi appeal and architectural construct of a single Brooklyn-based artist.
The intricate sculptures of John Powers captures a form that absolutely glorifies all the ideas of the mathematical properties of space. It rides on the imagination we had as children and sparks the manufacturing and design sense of our structured, yet fluid, world.
It’s amazing and inspiring. Could imagine walking through the space of pieces like Sci-Fi Wahabi #1? Take a look at more.
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