Kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum (full length video)
21st November 2008
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Development of my Eadweard Muybridge / Theo Jansen inspired kinetic paper animals. Featured are a solar powered horse followed by a horse and some Giraffes controlled by a Basic Stamp 2 micro-controller. A kit version of the kinetic horse is now available for you to own. Follow the link for details: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kinetic-arts/sculpture/gallery5/1.htm Music credit: 'Sawdust & Diamonds' by 'Joanna Newsom'.

A kit version of the kinetic horse is now available for you to own. Follow the link for details: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kinetic-arts/sculpture/gallery5/1.htm Study for a solar powered kinetic sculpture inspired partly by the work of Theo Jansen. Apart from the motor drive and crank shaft the machine is constructed entirely from paper. Music credit: 'Ride a White Horse' by 'GOLDFRAPP'.
Interactive Kinetic Steampunk Sculptures by Marque Cornblatt
21st November 2008
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For centuries the use of tools by humans has been used as a marker - one of several gauges of that particular quality that define humans as unique and self-aware beings. Over the millennia, the development and use of certain tools has effected the quality of life so profoundly, that one can scarcely imagine life without their use. Language, social structures, medicine, electricity, mass communication. There exists in our culture the promise of technological solutions to every need, problem and issue associated with the human condition, from the basic needs of food and shelter, to more sophisticated requirements of the human animal - fast food, financial credit, internet dating, artificial hearts, and MTV. Attempts to meet these needs with technology comes in a variety of forms - from AT & T providing lengthy and complex exchanges of information without the customer ever speaking with a live operator, to computer controlled medical implants monitoring and performing an increasing number of metabolic and physiological functions in the human body. The conceptual cornerstones of "that which makes humans unique" continue to be challenged and defeated. Internally, in the case of medical advancements, and externally - as demonstrated by the increasing number of "human" interactions which no longer have two humans participating. Identity and self-awareness are no longer the exclusive terrain of human beings. We live in the age of the "transhuman" being.

FLARE is a pneumatic building facade system. The FLARE system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies. An infinite array of flakes can be mounted on any building or wall surface in a modular system of multiplied 4x4 FLARE units. Each stainless steel flake reflects the bright sky or sunlight when in vertical standby position. When the flake is tilted downwards by a computer controlled pneumatic piston, its face is shaded from the sky light and this way appears as a dark pixel. By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light. The system is controlled by a computer to form any kind of surface animation. Sensor systems inside and outside the building communicate the buildings activity directly to the FLARE system which acts as the buildings lateral line. FLARE turns the building facade into a penetrable membrane, breaking with all conventions of the building surface as a static skin. http://www.flare-facade.com / http://www.whitevoid.com

For all you blink fans, here's something to spark your nostalgia. It's my first take on a typography project and I had to learn how to use After Effects from scratch to do it. You can really appreciate how the video gets better and more complicated towards the end as I got more confident and proficient at using the software. PLEASE watch it till the end and in HIGH QUALITY, or else you might miss the best parts. It took me quite a while to finish and I continued working on it through exams at uni and other school work. Fortunately I passed all my courses with good grades (I'm studying photovoltaic engineering at UNSW, in case anyone's wondering). You can download a high quality 720 X 480 mov file of this here: http://www.filefactory.com/file/22c4a2/n/Finished_Full_Res_mov Enjoy!

































