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Bead curtains are like, so 1950's huh? Artist Devorah Sperber doesn't think so. Her amazing Star Trek bead curtains are much more likely to be adorning gallery walls than the front door of your local grocery store. Kind of like pixel-art in 3D, she slides tens of thousands of beads onto threads to create these detailed portraits. Check out the holodeck door, Enterprise-D's bridge, and my favorite: the "beaming down" series, which looks spookily like the "real" special effect.
Deborah must have the kind of patience and concentration skills that I can only dream of to thread so many beads to make these works of art. She also uses stacked colored cotton reels in her creations, and her portfolio includes re-creations of classical paintings, including the Mona Lisa. But if you want to see her Star Trek works, they're on display in various New York locations including the PULSE NY Art Fair (Booth E13) from March 27th to 30th. [Caren Golden fine art via Gearfuse]
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Hard to find anything that is so amazing and yet so lame at the same time. Good combo.
Nichelle Nichols bare midriff FTW.
The other ones are nice too.
Bead me up Scotty!
@Curves: the doorway is not lame - its ace!
Warp factor 7 in
stainless steel [en.wikipedia.org])
Remember, Star Trek posts come in threes! (Really old Gizmodo/Joel reference.....)
These are really amazing, especially the Spock reflection in the mirrored dome.
I JUST saw these in that gallery in Chelsea, this past weekend. They look pretty cool. That gallery has some great art.
Secretly, I like these. However, I would never put these beads up in my house or I would never get laid again.
It would be fun to paint the back of each bead shiny metallic color and have a little servo on each strand that would spin it and make it look like they're in the middle of being beamed. Also if you did that then why not add a speaker too, which plays the shimery sound effect when someone is being transported.
This technique seems to only really work with the transporter shots. It's a great combination all around though. Well, for art/sci-fi geeks such as myself that is :D
I would gladly purchase a spock transporter set....How eerie it would be to run into this in the middle of the night while getting a glass of water.
@Fierock:
The article does not state what kind of beads she is using. If she uses tens of thousands, then, probably, acrylic beads (Unless she can afford or is sponsored by Swaroski).
The effect in the beads you suggest actually exists in the market, Swaroski call it "aurora boreale" and basicaly is a shinny outer coat applied to some sides of the beads.
Cheaper beads with this "aurora boreale" effect are available in the market, but the cheaper you go, the cheaper it will look.
@Monty: bill gates here:
get a robot - but get someone else to do the AI and leave Alice alone.
the upside - you get to keep the Trek beads.
has anyone tried Vista on this cool Blog?
I'd like to see one look like an open Stargate portal.
But the ST:TOS stuff is cool too ;-)
@sp00nix: Damn you, I was gonna say that!
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