Common Task is a project by Pawel Althamer. “Common Task is a documented group activity, a social sculpture, realised within the science – fiction formula. The artistic project is a combination of an activity performed in public spaces with the social aspects such as exclusion related to the systemic transformation process, self-organisation and bottom-up initiatives which may change the world and shape the future. In broader terms, the Project alludes to the ideals of freedom and ...
Stuart Sample is using a machine that makes flying happy faces (using glycerin, food dye, and helium)…
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Archinect.com launched a design competion for a monument dedicated to Michael Jackson. Entries are available on the website from today. In the picture above you can see one of them: The Freedom Tower by Harrison & White, “a 1km high gold statue of him with anti-terrorist laser scanning/disintegration rays from his eyes”. LOL
This is something I never saw before. Ad agency BooneOakley built a whole website using Youtube videos . Screw Flash! :-)
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Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.
Here‘s a funny (but also depressing for us to read) report written by David Byrne after his trip to Rome. Featuring Radisson Hotel, the Vatican (with all the kitschy souvenirs), Renzo Piano’s Auditorium, Altare della Patria and much more… He seemes to understand very clearly what’s wrong with Italy’s sense of history:
“Do we have to respect every piece of rubble? What can we really hope to learn from these pathetic foundations and remaining stumpy bits ...
In 2004, Francis Alÿs collaborated with the National Portrait Gallery to create a piece generated by the gallery’s state-of-the-art internal CCTV system. Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the Gallery at night…
According to art critic Jonathan Jones, James Cameron’s new 3D film Avatar has something to teach us about the Renaissance: “In the 15th century, artists discovered how to paint bodies and landscapes as if they had depth and solidity. Painting triumphed over the flat surface to create the illusion of a real scene glimpsed through the square enclosure of the wooden panel or canvas, as if you were watching a play on a stage. The effect ...
Stockholm architects Wilhelmson Arkitekter have designed a housing project with windows that look like gilded picture frames
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Speech Bubbles (1997), by Philippe Parreno, is a mass of cartoonlike three-dimensional white speech bubbles trapped against the gallery ceiling…
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