Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks - Contemporary Plotter
In my latest submission, a look at some modern projects that employ the use of one of the oldest computer output technologies - the plotter.
(via architraffic)
I’m not sure if this is all hand-drawn, but it’s delightful
Casey Cripe’s “whole systems” via Boing Boing
Lebbeus Woods’ Sketchbooks
As part of what must be an extraordinary exhibit of the late architect’s work, SFMOMA is sharing selected pages from his sketchbooks on their tumblr site (see below).
First spotted: chabelidecyc
Source for all images: sfmoma with some color correction by markcareaga
Credits for all images: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook (30 July 1995, NYC - 23 May 1998, NYC), 195; Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund Purchase; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods (2001.153 A-Y).
Reminder that you can browse all of the pages we’ve shared so far here, and to stay tuned daily for new pages from Lebbeus Woods’s sketchbooks through the run of the exhibition!
(via ideas-store)
Technical drawings from the Centrifuge Brain Project
In this brilliantly fun mockumentary from German filmmaker Tim Nowak, a man named Dr. Nick Laslowicz from the Institue for Centrifugal Research (ICR) recounts his “achievements in the realms of brain manipulation, excessive G-Force and prenatal simulations,” stating unequivocally that “gravity is a mistake.” What follows is a series of increasingly terrifying and equally absurd roller coasters that fling passengers into the sky in an attempt to theoretically improve their cognitive function.
Watch the video here
