Tags: 12oz, apparatus, art, art sculpture, atomic age esthetic, atompunk, brass, bubble level, csu, custom, electronics, insignia, kinetic sculpture, lab, Leeds Northrup, levitation, levitator, magnet, old, old town, ristau studio, surplus, test equipment, toy, vintage
I’ve been a busy bee lately! One commission was for a pair of Bedside Reading lamps. I made a third to work through my concept. The client requested dimmable LED bulbs on this and a previous project. They work great! The Base of the lamps are from vintage film projectors and include the utility of [...]
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Tags: 16mm, 8mm, art, art sculpture, bedside, brass, clock, cloth cord, Colorado, custom, fort collins, insignia, kinetic sculpture, lamp, led, light, linden, old town, opiate gallery, projector, reading, revere, ristau studio, space race, stopcock, task lighting, texas
Circle me! Sure enough… just as I got my personal profile on Google+ they introduced new page templates?! So I just built one for the studio. My apologies to those of you whom I connected to my personal profile… here is the one for the studio too
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Two shows curated by Bruce Rosenbaum of SteamPuffin.com: “Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation,” opening October 31, Waltham, MA, and “Mobilis in Mobili: An Exhibition of Steampunk Art & Appliance” opening November 12, Wooster Street Social Club, NYC. include—MetalMaus—recent additions to my series of augmented wireless mice.
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I finished a commission for a set of goggles, and went a little over board making 4 pairs. And I did another commission for a bracelet. The goggles are titled the Technician, Inventor, the Welder, and the Pilot. The two hand piece sculptures are a project I have been working on for some time addressing [...]
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During my recent trip to the Big Bend region of Tx. I installed a commissioned sculpture I made for a child’s bedroom. Some of the parts used in it’s construction came from the area. I lived there from 1998- 2003. Funny to have [...]
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Tags: art, art sculpture, artist, atomic age esthetic, atompunk, business card, custom, history, insignia, installation, kinetic sculpture, light, marfa, mobile, nose cone, recycled, ristau studio, rocket, sculpture, space race, spacecraft, steampunk, texas, UFO, upper atmospheric
What a beautiful 4 page article! I am looking for help translating. Google translator is nice, but as expected it does not catch everything. See the current translation/ hack on my page here
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Tags: american beauty, art, art sculpture, artist, atomic age esthetic, atompunk, brass, computer, custom, Fish Finder, kinetic sculpture, light, magazine, mouse, popular mechanics, ristau studio, rotobotmouse, russia, sculpture, space race, spacecraft, steampunk, wind up
So Busy!… Parenting during the summer schedule, A new commission project, and mouse orders! The commission is for an Orrery/ Chandelier/ Mobile and installs in August… more soon. Here are a few images from the workbench… The latest mouse is for sale at the moment….
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Tags: Aaron Ristau, art, art sculpture, artist, atomic age esthetic, atompunk, brass, business card, commission, computer, custom, insignia, light, Logitech m305, mice, mouse, ristau studio, rocket, rotobotmouse, sculpture, space race, steampunk, UFO, usb, wireless
I have listed 4 Wireless Computer Mice for sale! Get em while you can! http://www.aaronristau.com/art/sale/rotobotmouse-sales/
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Recently one of my favorite sculptures had an unfortunate encounter with a gravity field and had to come back to it’s birthplace, my studio, for repairs. This gave me the opportunity to get some video of this incredible sculpture Frontier Cartography Droid I was also able to get video of another sculpture from the same [...]
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