Tis’ that time of year again, when pumpkins fall from the sky and land perfectly carved on the front stoops of all the good little men and women (and eggs for the baddies). But, what does truly masterful pumpkin carving actually look like? Well let me tell you what, Ray Villafane knows how to carve a mean pumpkin (literally!). Rather than going [...]

Fractals are natures way of showing us incompetent non-mathies that math is freakin’ sweet. From sunflowers to snails to those fossilized spiral shell things, fractals are everywhere, which is in part why they can have such a profound effect on the senses. If you look at a fractal long enough you will get lost in it, partly because it turns out the brain is damn good [...]

So, you’re an art student and due to a shipping error you receive over 100 pounds of shipping tape. What do you do with that tape? Well, it should be obvious, build a huge shipping tape spider web! The tape web was on display in June 2010 at the Odeon, an old stock exchange building in Vienna, and used 117,000 feet of [...]