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The Yakuza Lou is an automated origami landscape designed by ChersonProm. LINK

"This piece explores the connection between nature and mechanics. It is an automated origami landscape that lives and breathes within the current confines of it's outdoor gallery space in Los Angeles. The pattern we ended up committing to was an origami tessellation developed in the late 60's early 70's by the mathematician/pioneer Ron Rush. It was in essence a very simple composition of right angle and equilateral triangles that had some remarkable action and seemed to be a very do-able experiment in robotic origami/ tri expansion surface. As far as we knew, no one had ever mechanically articulated these patterns successfully and as we were soon to find out, there was a damn good reason for that."

Check out some process and final installation videos. The Yakuza Lou is now on display at Materials and Applications

Yam Cake Battery Light designed by Michael B. Campbell.

"I made bio-reactive batteries, (mint strips, copper chloride etc.) and inserted them into translucent yam cake, purchased from my local Georgetown, Seattle Japanese market. I then wired two in series, throwing an LED into the circuit and I had an odd, but aesthetically pleasing bio-reactive light."