Info-Overdose

Artists frequently turn to technology for inspiration or commentary, utilizing components such as chips, ink cartridges and disk drives to make their art. Remember the Mona Lisa created from motherboard bits or the motorcycle from old hard drives? Now, London artist Nick Gentry has turned forgotten floppy disk drives into art by using them as a canvas for [...]

Aw, this guy plays the accordion in a Boba Fett mask! It doesn’t get more nerdtastic than that. Luckily, the folks at Thirteen documented his time on the street — which earns him money to put towards his graduate degree in engineering at Columbia. He says he usually starts around 10 a.m. in Washington Square Park, if [...]

From camouflage pixel-homes to rainbow-colored houses, a leopard-printed abode to a dalmatian-spotted dwelling, here are some of the most creative, innovative and unusual house-painting colors and ideas you have ever seen. Some of these are professionally painted – others are works of daring do-it-yourself art a conventional house painter would not touch with a ten [...]

I would like to live in this glass house, a place in the middle of the woods that even has glass-based furniture. Why? I just want to walk around naked all day. Like I do now, but better. Sadly, it’s just a concept based on a furniture line by Santambrogiomilano. The furniture is real, [...]

Sensual or sexist? Simplistic or sublime? It is said of the best and most controversial artists in history that they were masters of their craft before they broke away from mainstream techniques, materials or approaches. Likewise, Peter Rolfe did not simply start by making suggestive and erotic pieces of furniture – he began by becoming a [...]

At the end of November, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted an exhibit of the sketches, paintings, storyboards, props, cartoons, and puppets created by director Tim Burton. We chatted with Burton about the birth of Edward Scissorhands, the rise of 3-D, and anthropomorphic coffee pots. Wired: How did you find a life’s worth of [...]