Composite image of the sun’s corona, taken during the total solar eclipse last July.
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The Purpose
To showcase items from around the World that demonstrate the ingenuity of what people are doing. It's a knee-jerk reaction to the amount of negative news and discourse going on across the Web and in Media today.
The Name
The name comes from a talk Douglas Rushkoff gave where he held up a laptop and said "This is an Anything Machine!".
The Colophon
The Anything Machine Project is powered by Tumblr and managed/updated by illustrator and designer Mal Jones.
Feel free to contact me with ideas or suggestions for the site.
Kickstarter
“Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors…. Kickstarter is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.”
“A Battles collaboration with celebrated light artists UVA (United Visual Artists).” Found on YouTube.
Design fantasies for obsolete Bay Bridge span
“It’s a safe bet that most Bay Area residents view the eastern half of the Bay Bridge as an aged structure that can’t be replaced soon enough. But a handful of designers see much more, an icon ready for a bold new life - such as a working farm that shares the deck with a hotel. Or a park stretched atop long blocks of housing. Or a hotel shaped like the prow of an ocean liner.” Found on SFGate.com via BLDGBLOG.
Haiti text message charity fundraising sets record
“The charity notes that within 31 hours of launching its text message charity appeal on Wednesday (January 13th) it had raised in excess of $3 million (£1.84 million), a third of the total amount pledged to the organisation by American donors.” Found on the Charity Technology Trust.
“American designer Nick Allman has created an installation where a light appears to be ripped out of the wall at the Dean Johnson Gallery in Indianapolis… As a studio furniture maker Allman strives to blur the line between furniture and art. By creating a narrative of destruction in the series Unintended Functions, Allman’s conceptual furniture forms question the boundaries of design and challenge the viewer’s notion of a functional, well- crafted object. Photographs are by Polina Osherov Photography.” Found on Dezeen.
“…this urban ecological system is taking as a model an organism in nature, specifically the mangrove plant. the mangrove plant and its collective the mangal, provide examples of social associative principles as well as structural capacities and hybrid responses to environmental and contextual conditions.” Found on suckerPUNCH via Warren Ellis.
