My great grandmother and great grandfather´s clock

When I asked my grandmother if she had an old clock or something similar i could use for my project, she offered me this amazing clock. 

Miss Pokeno

Alannah Currie is a London based artist who builds deliberately luxurious chairs around uncomfortable and often provocative narratives. She works under the name Miss Pokeno.

Born 1957 in New Zealand Currie trained as a radio journalist and came to London in 1977 attracted by the idea of a punk revolution. The same South London squats which incubated the Slits and the KLF hatched Alannah’s first political actions – she formed an anarchic girl band called the Unfuckables.

Claude Jones

Sydney based artist, Claude Jones, creates hybrid, mutant and anthropomorphised sculptures, prints, drawings and mixed media 2D images that question our complex and contradictory relationship with other animals. Originating in New Zealand, Jones has travelled extensively, studying, teaching, undertaking residency programs and exhibiting in Australia and abroad. Recently Jones won the painting and drawing prize for “Its Liquid International Art Prize ”, followed by 2 solo exhibitions in Europe. The artist’s works are represented in numerous public and private collections including Artbank, The Art Gallery of New South Wales and The Rhode Island School of Design Museum in the U.S.A.

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Christiaan Zwanikken

Dutch artist Christiaan Zwanikken creates kinetic works of remarkable ingenuity from found animal skulls and bones. He transforms these parts into moving mechanical sculptures and installations. Their composite natural and mechanical make-up gives these figures their own unique character. He breeds these new species in a 400-year-old monastery located in a remote village in Portugal. He also works in Amsterdam and New York.

His work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally and can be found in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Gasunie collection, Netherlands Media Art Institute and numerous other public and private collections.

Zwanikken’s installations are like interactive Wunderkammers, configurations of hybrid, techno-animalistic figures, that come to ‘life’, responding to the viewer and to each other. Zwanikken plays nature – against artificial – against viewer removing any authoritative role: his hierarchy is governed by a different order. Due to the unpredictability of the computer-aided elements, it is not certain who responds to whom, and who is looking or being looked at.

By making technology seem to be ‘out of control’, Zwanikken ironizes the hype around interaction in media art and the illusion of smooth-running communications. As a rule his installations demonstrate human or animal conduct and thus serve as a handle for investigating and critiquing nature and behavior. His fusion of organic and inorganic materials mashed with interactive technology demonstrates the evolution and de-evolution of sculpture in the twenty-first century.

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Alex Randall

The Pigeon Pendants have been one of Alex’s most publicised and controversial pieces. However, not everyone has the space to hang thirty birds.

Instead a single beautiful specimen is mounted carrying a light in its beak. With their wings raised in flight the angelic nature of these birds is obvious.

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The piggy bank

Designed for anyone who has far too much money and loose change, this is the piggy bank of all piggy banks. Its a real piglet that has been taxidermied and inserted with what all piglets probably dream of as babies, a coin storage unit and a cork plug. Make your plush overpriced apartment complete with this little guy.

"The piglet bank will take up to 12 months to produce from the time of order. We expect half the money up front and half when the piglet had been completed. Just so you know that we don’t actually kill the Piglets, they die of natural causes and these are the ones that we use."

Piglet Bank

Dimitry Valchev

Dimitry Valchev constructs of metal and impressive steampunk sculptures. To create these works you can use any unnecessary items: spark plugs, filters, springs, etc. Bulgarian artist attaches scrap a different shape. Steampunk sculptures are like insects, birds, and fantastic creatures.

Theo Jansen's Strandbeests

Theo Jansen

The home page: strandbeest. Self-propelling beach animals like Animaris Percipiere have a stomach . This consists of recycled plastic bottles containing air that can be pumped up to a high pressure by the wind. This is done using a variety of bicycle pump, needless to say of plastic tubing. Several of these little pumps are driven by wings up at the front of the animal that flap in the breeze. It takes a few hours, but then the bottles are full. They contain a supply of potential wind. Take off the cap and the wind will emerge from the bottle at high speed. The trick is to get that untamed wind under control and use it to move the animal. For this, muscles are required. Beach animals have pushing muscles which get longer when told to do so. These consist of a tube containing another that is able to move in and out. There is a rubber ring on the end of the inner tube so that this acts as a piston. When the air runs from the bottles through a small pipe in the tube it pushes the piston outwards and the muscle lengthens. The beach animal's muscle can best be likened to a bone that gets longer. Muscles can open taps to activate other muscles that open other taps, and so on. This creates control centres that can be compared to brains.

Lisa Black

Lisa Black: Fixed Fawn, Taxidermy Fawn, antique mixed metal Components

Lisa Black is a Sculptor, Jeweller and Artist based in Auckland, New Zealand, born in Australia in 1982. 

Her love of animals and their form, combined with a preoccupation with an imminent future where technology and biology are intimately combined, led her to create her ongoing series of modified animals.

Transformers from car parts

World of designers : students build massive transformer out of spare parts in china. 

Dik-dik

A dik-dik is a small antelope in the genus Madoqua that lives in the bushlands of eastern and southern Africa. Dik-diks stand about 30–40 cm (12–16 in) at the shoulder, are 50–70 cm (20–28 in) long, weigh 3–6 kg (7–16 lb) and can live for up to 10 years. Dik-diks are named for the alarm calls of the females. In addition to the females' alarm call, both the male and female make a shrill, whistling sound. These calls may alert other animals to predators.

This is my new roommate, hopefully we will figure each other out and stay happy together forever. 

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My dads chess clock

This is a chess clock i got from my dad, maybe i can use it somehow. You can even spot his name on the back. 

Weekly Artwork

Weekly Artwork from Persbårten videregående skole

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Pantha du Prince - Bell laboratory

Pantha du Prince - Bell Laboratory

Hendrik Weber, better known as Pantha du Prince, Panthel and Glühen 4 is a German electronic music producer and DJ

2020 media futures

2020 media futures is an ambitious, multi-industry strategic foresight project designed to understand and envision what media may look like in the year 2020; what kind of cross-platform Internet environment may shape our media and entertainment in the coming decade; and how our firms and organizations can take action today toward capturing and maintaining positions of national and international leadership.

Mike Libby - mechanical bugs

Artist Mike Libby uses real insects and mechanical parts to make his amazing Mechanical bugs. Borrowing from science fiction and fact, Insect Lab customizes real insect specimens with antique watch parts and other technological components. From ladybugs to grasshoppers, each is individually hand adorned, and original a unique celebration of the contradictions between nature and technology.

Elmgreen og Dragset - The named series

The named series, the surfaces of which consist of white wall paint carefully removed from prominent museums and public galleries by professional conservators, using techniques employed to restore frescoes and murals. The thin layer of removed white wall paint is then applied onto raw canvas and framed, so that this ordinary, typically valueless and disregarded 'background' is transcended and becomes painting with a new worth and significance. Each bears the name of its former home - such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Serpentine Gallery, London - and when viewed together, the subtle variations in texture, shade of colour and quality of the paint become apparent, indicative of the self-presentation of each institution.

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Elmgreen og Dragset - Sparrow

A sparrow lying on its back in its death throes is the latest exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. On closer inspection, it is an animatronic model. Or is it? Here are 10 possible views: 10 interpretations of a dead sparrow

15 Famous Landmarks Zoomed Out To Show Their Surroundings

15 Famous Landmarks

This collection of photographs of majestic landmarks around the world do a great job of just how important framing, perspective and lighting are to a photograph. All of these photo pairs are of the same object, but the changes in perspective can make them seem more or less grand.

A change of perspective can change a lot, which applies just as much to photography as it does to anything else in life. Sure, the Brandenburg gate and Mount Rushmore are majestic when framed the right way, but they can look mundane when they aren’t the central focus of the photograph they’re in.

Aside from the composition of these images, some of them also show just how misleading photography can be. Most of us probably imagine that the Taj Mahal is surrounded by pristine gardens because it’s always photographed from the same angle. But the squalid garbage dumps behind it tell another tale. Anyone who hasn’t been to Niagara Falls might think that they’re surrounded by a beautiful national forest instead of a series of tall buildings built on the lip of a nearby cliff.

Of course, not all of these photos reduce the landmarks’ grandeur. The Acropolis, the Arc de Triomphe and New York City’s Central Park all arguably look even better or at least look great in a different way in their second photos. The zoomed-out photos of the Acropolis and the Arc only serve to highlight how those landmarks are focal points of their cities.