Brian Goggin with Dorka Keehn created “The Language of Birds“, a series of self-illuminated books on permanent display at Columbus Avenue and Broadway in SF.
The Chronicle covered the unveiling
Category: installation / sculpture
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Giles Walker at Kinetica
Kinetica is running this weekend at London at P3 (35 Marylebone Road) and the aptly named Kinetica Museum (274 Richmond Road)[*]. One of the highlights of the show is Giles Walker‘s “Peep Show” seen above. No word on if Captured By Robots is performing.
artmachines has the low down on some of the exhibitions.
See below for a CNN interview with Giles and some other highlights of the show.
[*]: The Kinetica Museum is sponsored by Steorn. You remember them right? They’re the guys with the perpetual motion machine. Let’s just hope that Homer Simpson doesn’t show up
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Solar Batteries
Knut Karlsen designed the above trickle charge some NiMH batteries with a wraparound flexible photovoltaics.
Completely impractical, but the idea of simply laying some depleted batteries out on a table to recharge does appeal to me.
Since the relaunch, almost every post references solar panels. Solar is often billed as a cure-all for our climate and energy needs, but as Knut links to photovoltaics themselves are nonrenewable due to rare elements required for their manufacture.
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Photonsynthese
Vivien Muller designed this tabletop solar usb charger. Designed to resemble a bonsai tree, it comes with multiple interchangeable parts allowing one to groom the tree, so to speak.
I really like the finish on the metal trunk and how it contrasts with the blue photovoltaics. Solar trees, aren’t new idea, but rarely is it pulled off so stylishly. One thing that I think that would be pretty cool with one of these would be if the panels would move with relation to the light. If you were going to moving leaves, the movement really should be silent, perhaps with nitinol or something.