Powerless Structures
At 2 tons, the sold bronze & gold plated sculpture "Powerless Structures, Fig. 101" by Elmgreen and Dragset is the latest work to find itself on the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.
[Kuriostias]
*see also Fabio Viale, Joost Gourdiaan, Harmen De Hoop
Audrey
"I'm not sure when the mural above first appeared in Vancouver, British Columbia. But I recently noticed a QR code painted over an offending tag that had been sprayed on the mural. Remarkably, the QR Code takes you to an image of the mural before it was vandalized."
[Wooster Collective]
*see also Sweza, FinalFrontier, Michele Pred, Bernhard Hopfengärtner
Tags:
alteration,
digital,
street art
Nefelejcs
Merge Invisible"Beautiful old buildings are demolished for replacing them with new ugly buildings made of cheap and bad materials. The idea was to create a memorial painting of a demolished building. "
(Torz Merev)
[Wooster Collective]
*see also 1:1, Escif, EVOL, OX, James Reynolds & Jeremy Novy
Blinking City
Instant Hutong"Blinking City stencil. Pattern based on a collage of several Hutong neighborhoods of Beijing, stenciled onto a wall of a dilapidated courtyard house in Xianyukou district, located in the core of the city."
[Notcot]
Noisolation
Alex Braidwood's Noisolation Headphones, "an invention for mechanically transforming the relationship between a person and the noise that immediately surrounds them."
[Boing Boing]
Noisolation Headphones CTRL from Alex Braidwood on Vimeo.
City Sonic from KPCC on Vimeo.
Tags:
Alex Braidwood,
interactive,
mechanical,
sculpture,
sound,
video
Tissue
Lisa Nilsson
creates anatomical
cross sections of the human body by rolling and shaping narrow
strips of paper in a
technique called quilling.
[Laughing Squid/All Things Paper]
technique called quilling.
[Laughing Squid/All Things Paper]
Tags:
anatomy,
Lisa Nilsson,
papercraft,
sculpture
Urban eXperiment
"The UX (Urban eXperiment) is an largely secret underground organization that improves hidden corners of Paris. Their works have included restoring the Pantheon clock, building a cinema, complete with bar and restaurant, underneath the Trocadéro, restoring medieval crypts, and staging plays and readings in monuments after dark."
Wired
[Ektopia]
Wired
[Ektopia]
Tags:
activism,
Les UX,
street art,
Urban eXperiment
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