Esther Stocker‘s installations (here and here)…
[via but does it float]
Dennis Hopper’s 1960s
Before he hit the road in Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper spent years photographing Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and other artists. View this amazing gallery on The Daily Beast (in this photo: Robert Rauschenberg with his tongue stamped “Wedding Souvenir, Claes Oldenburg,” 1966).
Dear Lily
Musician Dan Bull wrote an open letter to Lily Allen after her recent campaing against file sharing. And he sang it, borrowing music from one of her songs. Brilliant…
“That’s the actual reason, you see; and please don’t compare sharing to stealing – I’ve not took anything off you, I’m just spreading love for what you do. Downloaded your songs for free, then I bought my mom your CD.”
A Lighter Or a Spoon ?
Emoji Dick
Fred Beneson wants to translate Herman Melville’s Moby Dick into emoji (emoticon for text messaging used in Japan). And he’s using Kickstarter to get the project funded..
American Gothic
Grant Wood’s American Gothic subjects: his sister Nan and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby…
[via the daily what]
They Left Us Behind
What Facebook Is For
The Masked Ball
The Masked Ball, sculptures by Aganetha Dyck…
Do you ever feel like an extra?
Miranda July poses for a wonderful series of photos for Vice Magazine. Re-enacting a few scenes from classic movies. Not as the protagonist though, but as an anonymous character in the background.
[via boom]
Tetris Tiles
Paintball Pop Art
Ain’t nothin’ like computer love
Be sure to read ALL the lyrics. Featuring: Myspace, Gmail, iPhone, Youtube and much more!!! Oh, and yes, “download” is a metaphor…
“Three o’clock in the morning we be online
Others send friend requests but they get denied
He type I miss you
I type back to let him know the feeling’s mutual
It’s just Myspace love but it’s beautiful
He love to watch my videos on YouTube
Hey, it’s like everytime I log on I get so turned on
Computer love playin’ in the back”
The Lego Man
Marble sculpture by Sebastian Martorana…
Windows and Mirrors
I dont’ usually do that. I mean, I don’t re-post things from my own blogs, but I’ll make an exception for this:
Ethereal self is a net art work by dutch artist Harm van den Dorpel. Landing on the project’s page activates the visitor’s webcam, trasforming the browser into a diamond-shape mirror. So far, the work is quite fun and thought provoking, but it really gets exciting when you find out (mostly by chance, since it’s not linked on the artist’s website) the second part of the project: the Ethereal Others website. Here, all the screenshots from the webcam activity are constantly archived, on a non-stop refreshing page. Hundreds of people looking in the computer’s screen, which is both a mirror and a window…
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com
http://www.etherealself.com
http://etherealothers.com
[via random magazine]
Vintage Porn Logos
Vintage Porn Logos is a tribute to the Seventies’ erotic movies. Made by Pornographics Studio…
[via likecool]
Nature and artifice
My Biennial is better than yours
Mybiennialisbetterthanyours an online project curated by Tolga Taluy for the X Biennale de Lyon…
“The works displayed on mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com are not subversive because they are trying to deconstruct established systems of dot.capitalism. They are subversive because they are referring to these systems through the use of amateur “original” content production standards set up by meta-producers of online containers, which are radical in their mass popularity and ease of use.”
[via manystuff]
Clonehenges
Us Now
Inflatable fantasies
Just found out about Sasha Frolova, singer and performance artist from Moscow. I’m officially a fan…
[via iheartmyart]
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death is a great book written by Neil Postman in 1985. A very effective summary is provided by this comic. Are we gonna be killed by our “infinite appetite for distractions”? Postman basically referred to television, but what about the Web, paradise of non-stop and always available distractions?
Dear users and abusers, dear Elders of the Internet…
“…the Kiosk of Piracy is proud to announce the launch of “The Pirate Kiosk”! From last night own, a copy of the infamous Pirate Bay is available to the public, but – here comes the catch – offline-only. Yes, offline, the Kiosk is not connected to the Internet in any way, but the interested public is invited to use the service in a wifi-radius around it.”
Lady Gaga’s outfits part II
After the first, fabulous essay on “Lady Gaga and Modern Architecture“, Flavorwire publishes a great sequel of the Gaga’s Outfit Research: “Deconstructing Lady Gaga’s VMA Ensembles“. Arithmetic fashion?
Internet Archaeology
Fan-Made Transformative Storytelling
“5 Phenomenal Examples of Fan-Made Transformative Storytelling”. On Lift Drift…
Suburb Bombing
Simple, plain, light and witty photographs by Gustav Gustafsson…
Pigeon vs Adsl: 1-0
“A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom. Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles – in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.”
Karaoke 2.0
[via mbf]
The Airport Graveyard
“I thought it was a mirage the first time I saw it. I was driving through the wastes of the Mojave Desert, two hours from anywhere, when off in the shimmering distance appeared the silhouettes of a hundred parked jetliners. I pulled off and tried to get closer to them, but a mean-looking perimeter fence keeps onlookers far away. All I could do was stand and stare, wondering what the hell this massive armada of airplanes was doing here, silently baking in the 110 degree heat. For years afterward I’d ask people what they knew about it, and I kept hearing the same thing: the place has been on lockdown since 9/11, and they won’t let civilians anywhere near the boneyard.”