feedspeak

Tissue

2012-02-03T12:16:00.001-05:00

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]

Urban eXperiment

2012-02-02T12:06:00.001-05:00

"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]

Adblock AFK

2012-01-30T10:41:00.004-05:00

Planka liberates the Swedish subway system from it's advertisments, then lets people have a free ride.

[Ektopia/Nerdcore]

Chromatic Typewriter

2012-01-26T12:03:00.007-05:00

"By replacing the ink ribbon with paint blocks on an antique typewriter, artist Tyree Callahan has created a new conceptual instrument (it's mechanics don't allow it to actually paint) in which the notions of paint and words converge. Initially started as an experiment to apply watercolor text to a work in progress, the project grew to the resulting object, aptly named the chromatic typewriter."

[Hi Fructose]

Tape Recorders

2012-01-24T15:44:00.003-05:00

"Tape Recorders" (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from bitforms gallery on Vimeo.

"Rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation. As a computerised tracking system detects the presence of a person, the closest measuring tape starts to project upwards. When the tape reaches around 3m high it crashes and recoils back."

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
[today & tomorrow]

Years

2012-01-21T12:01:00.001-05:00

YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.

Bartholomäus Traubeck's record player turns the rings in a cross section of a tree into music. Year rings are interpreted into sound.

"A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently."

[Notcot]

Spectacle

2012-01-20T12:18:00.000-05:00

Pavel Puhov
[Colossal]

Maintenance

2012-01-18T22:53:00.003-05:00

"Some of these works are a combination of real interactions in the City and manipulated inkjet prints which are then re-photographed." Dominique Teufen
[flores en el ático]

'69 Mustang

2012-01-17T21:45:00.003-05:00

Jonathan Brand recreated his beloved 1969 Ford Mustang in painstaking detail, using paper and a color printer, working from memories of his beloved and missed muscle car.
[It's Nice That]

Regeneration

2012-01-11T22:13:00.000-05:00

ZEDZ - From Art Print Study to Urban Regeneration - Milan from STREETART.COM on Vimeo.

ZEDZ
Video from Streetart.com
[Ektopia]

Implied

2012-01-10T17:30:00.000-05:00

Jim Sanborn
[today & tomorrow]

Three Cubes Collide

2011-12-28T16:19:00.001-05:00

Three Cubes Colliding from Jimandtonic on Vimeo.

Conceived by Heather and Ivan Morison, designed by Sash Reading, engineered and fabricated by Queen & Crawford.

[today & tomorrow]

Bleed Through

2011-12-27T19:37:00.000-05:00

Daniel Eatock talks about his recent 'Felt-tip Prints' works.
[Booooooom!]

Kolotoč

2011-12-25T14:36:00.000-05:00

Kolotoč / Merry-Go-Round documentation 2011 from sgnlr on Vimeo.

Kolotoč / Merry-go-round MAKING OF from sgnlr on Vimeo.

An Urban Merry Go Round from Vojtěch Fröhlich, Ondřej Mladý, Jan Šimánek and Vladimír Turner
[Ektopia]

Millisecond

2011-12-14T20:43:00.004-05:00

The first millisecond of a Nuclear explosion from the Tumbler-Snapper tests performed in Nevada during 1952.
[Gizmodo/Neatorama/Wikipedia]

Tree, Line

2011-12-03T21:31:00.008-05:00

Zander Olsen
[FB friends & Booooooom!]

Back

2011-12-02T21:15:00.003-05:00

I really wanted this to be an actual tattoo. Alas, it is just clever photography by Diana Eastman.
[This Isn't Happiness]

Willkommen

2011-11-29T21:21:00.005-05:00

Stiftung FREIZEIT
[Notcot]

History Of The Sky 365

2011-11-20T20:06:00.002-05:00

Ken Murphy
[G+ Ze Frank]

Fly Over

2011-11-13T23:32:00.002-05:00

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
Time lapse video of Earth taken from the
International Space Station, edited by Michael König.
[Nerdist]

Senseless

2011-11-03T07:17:00.000-04:00

SENSELESS DRAWING BOT from yang02 on Vimeo.

So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi
[Ektopia]

20 Hz

2011-11-02T12:08:00.004-04:00

20 Hz from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

The visualization of the audio collected during a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Semiconductor
[Big Speck]

Rubble

2011-11-01T15:22:00.003-04:00

Icy and Sot in Tabiz Iran
[FB]

White People

2011-10-28T19:21:00.006-04:00

Hand crafted signs installed on abandoned store fronts by Specter.
[Wooster]

Les Meubles EPAL

2011-10-22T15:27:00.008-04:00

Florian Rivière
[rebel:art]

History's Shadows

2011-10-20T20:23:00.008-04:00

X-rays of art objects from antiquity culled from museum archives and re-photographed by David Maisel.
[but does it float]

Occupy George

2011-10-17T16:16:00.009-04:00

"By circulating dollar bills stamped with fact-based info-graphics, Occupy George informs the public of America's daunting economic disparity one bill at a time. Because ~~money~~ knowledge is power."

Occupy George
[HuffPo]

Analog Vinyl Sampling

2011-10-06T12:23:00.005-04:00

Analog Vinyl Sampling from Ishac Bertran on Vimeo.

Ishac Bertran has experimented with analog sampling of modified vinyls.

"Sectors from a vinyl record are [laser] cut and replaced by pieces with exact shape from other records. When played in a vinyl player the needle follows the grooves from both sectors creating sampled tunes or loops."
[Notcot]

Predictive Dreams

2011-09-30T11:59:00.009-04:00

Katsuyo Aoki's porcelain skull sculptures.
[Booooooom!]

Rouge, Vert, et Bleu

2011-09-28T22:31:00.006-04:00

Sandra Falquet & Anne-Sophie Blancato "repaired" cracks in walls and street with colorful clay.

One of the many results from the first (annual?) "Urban Hacking School" held during the festival Perffusion 2011 in Strasbourg. Organized by Tony Weingartner & Rebel:Art.
[rebel:art]

Tyres

2011-09-22T18:44:00.001-04:00

Wim Delvoye
[Notcot]

Tape Generations

2011-09-21T20:05:00.000-04:00

Tape Generations from johan rijpma on Vimeo.

Johan Rijpma
[VSL]

Spaces Etc.

2011-09-20T15:43:00.002-04:00

Ron Gilad
[ffffound!]

Little Islands

2011-09-15T18:39:00.010-04:00

Yukata Sone @ David Zwirner
[Notcot]

Nice Clean Fight

2011-09-13T22:37:00.005-04:00

Sean Clark
[Booooooom!]

Risky Game

2011-09-12T07:18:00.000-04:00

Didier Faustino created a swing set out of a converted advertising billboard for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture.
[recraft/notcot]

I Love You

2011-09-11T00:00:00.001-04:00

[Storycorps]

In The Shadow

2011-09-10T18:02:00.002-04:00

"The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours in 2006 and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system.... Saturn's rings light up so much that new rings were discovered."

NASA
[Slog]

ADA

2011-09-06T12:55:00.002-04:00

Karina Smigla-Bobinski
[we make money not art]

Processed Potato

2011-09-05T19:45:00.005-04:00

Daniel Eatock chewed full packets of chips into a pulp, spat them out, and reformed the pulp back into the shape of a potato.
[today & tomorrow]

Spasticoid

2011-08-25T20:55:00.008-04:00

Antony Micallef
[Hi-Fructose]

Lonely One

2011-08-20T00:24:00.004-04:00

Leilani Bustamante
[Hi Fructose]

Grand Narrative

2011-08-16T15:10:00.001-04:00

June Bum Park
[Booooooom!]

Genteel

2011-08-10T09:38:00.001-04:00

Nespoon
[rebel:art]

Nocturne

2011-08-09T19:40:00.007-04:00

Chad Wys
[today & tomorrow]

Grey

2011-08-02T19:01:00.005-04:00

Nike Schroeder
[Notcot]

Lovable City

2011-08-01T12:09:00.006-04:00

24-carat gilded drain cover

Leather upholstered Chesterfield bench.

Antique Walnut Litter Bin

Joost Goudriaan
[rebel:art]

Dockville

2011-07-30T17:50:00.007-04:00

Evol
[Ektopia]

Lucian Freud 1922 – 2011

2011-07-25T08:30:00.005-04:00

"Lucian Freud, one of the seminal British painters of the 20th century, and a grandson of Sigmund Freud, died July 20 at 88 in London. But more must be said about Freud, a Realist painter whose work has been compared to that of American master Edward Hopper and whose outsized personality will guarantee a long afterlife in the British consciousness."

[Eulogizer]

Reassemble

2011-07-22T07:25:00.006-04:00

Croix Gagnon's decided to reassmble the body of convicted murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan, who donated his body to the Visible Body Project to unknowingly be dissected in cross-sections and photographed.With the help of Frank Schott he used the video of said cross-sections to create long exposure photographs that seemingly put Jernigan's body back together in a ghostly image.
[Cgunit/today & tomorrow]

Source Data for Photography/Portfolio from Croix Gagnon on Vimeo.

Bigger Than

2011-07-21T12:39:00.004-04:00

Andrew Hem
[BOOOOOOOM!]

Absurd Ways

2011-07-19T08:00:00.005-04:00

Erik Jerezano
[BOOOOOOOM!]

Play With Your Trash

2011-07-18T10:57:00.005-04:00

The city of Lucerne [Switzerland] is taking a new approach in the fight against the carelessly discarded waste.

[swiss miss/Neue Luzerner Zeitung]

Add-Art

2011-07-11T21:33:00.002-04:00

Steve Lambert created Add-Art, a Firefox plug-in that replaces website advertising.

Gaming The Streets

2011-07-06T20:42:00.001-04:00

[Wooster Collective/TED]

RUN

2011-07-06T16:44:00.004-04:00

run by vjsuave from vjsuave on Vimeo.

An interesting video projection experiment made for MTV in Sao Paulo by the group VJSUAVE. (Ygor Marotta and Cecilia Soloaga)
[Sprayblog]

Cy Twombly, 1928-2011

2011-07-05T08:21:00.002-04:00

"Cy Twombly, a Virginia-born, American artist whose deceptively simple scrawls, smudges and sculptural shapes made him one of the most significant artistic figures of the past 50 years, died July 5 in Rome. He was 83 and had cancer."

Cy
[WashPo/boingboing]

Face Full

2011-07-03T14:12:00.003-04:00

Daito Manabe and Zach Lieberman
[Notcot]

Washings

2011-06-30T18:34:00.003-04:00

Johannes Abendroth
“High-compression washings on street surfaces in Weimar, Paris, Berlin and Lisbon. Made in 2010.”
[rebel:art]

Polargraph

2011-06-26T00:38:00.006-04:00

Polargraph / slow drawing show preview from Sandy Noble on Vimeo.

PolarGraph Plotter from Nicholas O'Leary on Vimeo.

Sandy Noble
[today & tomorrow]

How I Became 100 Artists

2011-06-24T20:04:00.001-04:00

Spomeniks

2011-06-23T22:40:00.006-04:00

WWII monuments in the former Yugoslavia.
[ASC/Matt]

you're watching the Family Learning Channel

2011-06-10T22:04:00.003-04:00

Don Hertzfeldt
[post family]

Moving Objects

2011-06-07T09:59:00.001-04:00

moving objects No. 92 - 103 from pe lang on Vimeo.

moving objects No. 162 - 173 from pe lang on Vimeo.

Pe Lang
[notcot]

Greeks

2011-06-01T23:19:00.002-04:00

I'm not usually someone to post music videos, but this one by Is Tropical sure is something.
[Matt]

Profiles

2011-05-19T20:47:00.007-04:00

Idan Friedman embosses portraits on disposable aluminum trays.
[it's nice that/today & tomorrow]

Linoryty

2011-05-16T13:39:00.004-04:00

Linoleum cuts by Hubert Tereszkiewicz
[Notcot]

Swap

2011-05-12T09:13:00.000-04:00

Hope Gangloff
[Cgunit]

Oritsunagumono

2011-05-10T11:19:00.006-04:00

Takayuki Hori
[designboom/Big Speck]

Surprise Surveillance Theater

2011-05-05T06:09:00.000-04:00

Surprise Surveillance Theater from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.

Jason Eppink's video from his Surprise Surveillance Theatre project.

Surprise Surveillance Theater was an interactive theater experience, performed live for hundreds, unbeknownst to the unwitting stars of the show. It was part of the Lost Horizon Night Market, an extraordinary, modular, participatory art party that takes place in unmarked box trucks on low-traffic back streets in New York City.

The goal was to take unwitting revelers and throw them into a narrative about a black market, requiring the target to pass secret notes, have rendezvous, wear a wire, and make a mystery delivery. All of this was watched by a live audience on more than a dozen TVs showing footage captured by strategically placed video cameras, but the scope of the experience was only revealed to the target at the very end when he or she delivered a secret package to the waiting audience.

[urban prankster]

Luncheon on the L line

2011-05-04T20:02:00.004-04:00

"The Brooklyn-based club a razor, a shiny knife rode the whole route of the Brooklyn-Manhattan L train serving a six course meal on the subway in 22 minutes, complete with glassware, place setting, cutlery, napkins and garnish" according to Emily C.'s Flickr photostream, which documented the experience."

The full menu:

- Hamchi Crudo, Bone Marrow, Trout Roe, Laproaig, Sweet Lime
- Foie en Brioche, Port Wine, Raisin,
- Ramp, Black Garlic, Cippolini, Morel, Thyme
- Petit Filet Mignon, Pomme Puree, Asparagus
- Pepper Jam, St Andre
- Chocolate & Gold Leaf Panna Cotta, Raspberry
[NYTimes]

Pritty

2011-04-28T12:39:00.002-04:00

Iain Macarthur
[Big Speck]

Penwald

2011-04-27T08:00:00.005-04:00

Tony Orrico
[Big Speck]

Presentation-Representation

2011-04-26T06:40:00.000-04:00

Escif
[Wooster Collective]

Invasive Crochet

2011-04-25T07:20:00.000-04:00

Crystal Gregory
[notcot]

Animaris Ordis Parvus

2011-04-22T22:55:00.002-04:00

Miniature, walking, wind-powered 'Strandbeests' by Theo Jansen
[notcot]

Urban Upholstery

2011-04-21T17:46:00.000-04:00

Bert Löschner
[rebel:art]

Exchanghibition

2011-04-21T12:27:00.007-04:00

Exchanghibition Bank
by
Dadara
[rebel:art]

City Music

2011-04-20T19:16:00.004-04:00

Akko Goldenbeld
[design boom]

Last Expo

2011-04-06T07:46:00.005-04:00

"Last Expo is a collection of photographs taken of orphaned art in its final resting place. It’s a commemorative album of forgotten human imagination. THEY made this."
[Guerrilla Innovations]

Replaced

2011-04-05T16:38:00.000-04:00

"The Mona Lisa with the lady [digitally] selected, then put through Content-Aware Fill (a Photoshop CS5 tool that automatically generates content based on the existing surrounding content of the image and fills in selected area). The resulting image is a potential landscape as interpreted by the software. The image was sent to an painting manufacturer in China where an oil painting was produced."

Mike Ruiz
[today & tomorrow]

Armada

2011-04-05T07:29:00.004-04:00

Jessie Henson
[Booooooom!]

Touch Wood

2011-04-04T10:49:00.005-04:00

Kenjiro Matsuo
[Neatorama]

making of:

Joey

2011-04-04T10:23:00.000-04:00

Handspring Puppet Company
[TED/Boing Boing]

Play

2011-04-01T12:10:00.001-04:00

"Throw your trash. Play basketball! "

Démocratie Créative
[rebel:art]

"If the rail strikes: Get a race!"

Piren

2011-04-01T07:21:00.003-04:00

"Somewhere under a pier in Malmö, Sweden, Erik Vestman and Nils Petter Löfstedt stumble upon an undiscovered hollow. For six months they build Malmö’s most secret room with white walls and a parquet floor."

The Pier
[Ektopia/rebel:art]

PIREN / THE PIER - trailer from Stavro Filmproduktion on Vimeo.

Juggling

2011-03-31T11:17:00.001-04:00

ETH - IDSC

"OH, NO... I DON"T EXPECT THAT... I REALLY DON'T"

2011-03-29T20:09:00.003-04:00

Peanuts Without the Punchline

The Pig That Therefore I Am

2011-03-29T08:12:00.000-04:00

Miru Kim
[Ektopia]

les rues

2011-03-28T08:09:00.000-04:00

Juliana Santacruz Herrera filled the potholes in Paris with thick wool yarn bright colors.
her Flickr
[flores en el ático]

Herring Gull

2011-03-27T20:14:00.003-04:00

Festo

Mumbai Skateboard

2011-03-27T08:05:00.000-04:00

"Under the supervision of German curator Tobias Megerle, a dozen Mahim woodcarvers produced their own take on the traditional skateboard, the 'Mumbai skateboard'."
[Notcot/CNN Go]

Comfort

2011-03-26T19:35:00.007-04:00

Lang & Baumann
[rebel:art]

Hipster Trap

2011-03-24T13:07:00.006-04:00

Jeff Greenspan and Hunter Fine
[Big Speck/gothamist]

The Door

2011-03-22T08:47:00.000-04:00

“The idea is to install small doors, unexplained portals, throughout the city. To start, in San Francisco. These doors would be scaled down to a size that is cognitively possible but whimsically improbable. Tiny ones. Like, Alice Through The Looking Glass, maybe 15-25 inches or so. I don’t imagine them to be operable, but the more detailed in appearance the better. Each artist would create his or her contribution to the project, where the frame, molding, window or lack of window, color, state of decay, and other intricate details speak to the artist’s unique take and contribution. The doors would be sent to me, to be installed by me and a couple others, around the bay area. Anyone based around here is more than welcome to join me as we find the best location for each piece. We’ll select spots that bode well aesthetically with the individual doors and are in areas that will see a lot of traffic but are least likely to be removed by anyone. Sounds contradictory? It is, but we’ll do our best. The doors will be fixed with adhesive and installed in a way to look as natural as possible—as natural as a 16 inch tall weathered oak door can look on the side of parking garage. If anyone would want to stake out a spot before hand, via Google maps street view or some such method, and create a piece to be installed somewhere specific, that’s just fine. The installation process of each piece will be photographed along with reaction shots from passersby. The photographs, information, and story will probably be compiled together afterward– though into what I’m not sure. If this goes well I’d like to expand on or replicate the project in other cities.”

Jeff Waldman
[rebel:art]

Tree Socks

2011-03-21T20:05:00.000-04:00

Suzanne Tidwell and Beth Newfeld temporarily covered six 20-foot tree stumps at a busy intersection in Seattle with giant winter-themed knitted socks adorned with embroidered snowflakes. They will knit Spring socks, Summer socks, Fall socks and then the trees will be cut down.
[Seattle Sketcher]

Der Keil

2011-03-21T08:02:00.000-04:00

Markus Hofer
[booooooom!]

In Between

2011-03-15T15:57:00.004-04:00

Sebastien Verdon
[today & tomorrow]

Washed Away

2011-03-14T11:11:00.004-04:00

This footage of the Tsunami hitting the Japan streets is too stunning not to share.

"A six-minute video taken from the street as the tsunami literally washes a town away. James MacWhyte, an American living in Tokyo, posted this video to Facebook."
"I want to show everyone the news media we are being presented with here in Japan," he wrote. "I think it's quite different from what you see on CNN and other Western news outlets. One thing about Japan—there are professional cameramen EVERYWHERE!"
[via Gawker, Reddit, Farhad Manjoo]

Yarnbomb

2011-03-12T16:23:00.005-05:00

Ishknits
[wooster collective]