Article on an interesting idea – a kaleidoscope window created by Patty Peffer.
The invention is an operating kaleidoscope that can be installed as a new or replacement window in homes.
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Five years and countless designs later, the end result is a round specialty window that uses a 24-inch [...]
I just got a new order of kaleidoscopes from Boston ClayWorks. I’m going to be doing a kaleidoscope workshop on October 7th at the Clark library in Rhode Island. This is my second kaleidoscope workshop there – this time we’re going to be making the wand scope kits. It should be [...]
Artist Carolyn Bennet recently gave a kaleidoscope workshop to kids and there was a nice article about it.
Carefully selecting colorful beads for her handmade kaleidoscope, nine-year-old Gianna Campanelli said she wanted to pick shapes that she and her parents would enjoy.
“The best part of making a kaleidoscope is that it’s [...]
I came across a nice article featuring kaleidoscopes in New Zealand.
Kerikeri couple Andrew and Robyn Leary have been in the business for 27 years and sold more than 200,000 kaleidoscopes.
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Mrs Leary, an industrial chemist and leadlight artist at the time, asked her husband, a joiner, to make [...]
I baked an eyepiece from black clay, then glued that to one end of the PVC pipe. Then I covered the pipe with a layer of clay and smoothed it up over the edges of the eyepiece so there was no seam. I textured the clay and added three sculpted swallows. Once [...]
This kaleidoscope has an acrylic liquid-filled cell. The cell is one of the ones available from PolymerClayProjects and is filled with silicone oil and sealed with epoxy. I also glued a black acrylic circle to the bottom of the object chamber so it would be a sidelit cell with a [...]
I’ve wanted to do a kaleidoscope with a nice, smooth turning end for awhile. After a workshop with Scott Cole, I did some searching for good bearings with a large inner diameter (ID) so I could use some decent sized mirrors. I found some bearings with an outer diameter (OD) of [...]
Useful little tool that someone posted about on the Polymer_Clay_People yahoo group : http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/colors.php
It allows you to upload a photo and it will generate a coordinating color palette. Great for web design or just jumpstarting clay color choices. I could see it being really useful if [...]
I came across this article, Weird Science Makes Wonderful Art about a teleidoscope as public art.
It’s a telescope. No, it’s a kaleidoscope. No, it’s both — a teleidoscope.
Local artist Gregg Payne created the teleidoscope from scrap metal, including a four-foot piece of copper pipe, stainless steel couplings and [...]
I came across this article about an exhibit which included a video kaleidoscope.
Ara Peterson and Jim Drain’s “Large Video Kaleidoscope” (2003-06) looks like the most direct remembrance of Turrell here. It opens a hole in the wall through which angled mirrors multiply the changing light, colors and figures of an abstract video [...]
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