Heute für mich wiederentdeckt und weil gerade ein Blog zur Hand: Die australische Künstlerin Patricia Piccinini und ihre auf der Biennale in Venedig ausgestellten hyperrealistischen, freundlichen Tier-/Monster-/Mutanten-Skulpturen.
(via NOTCOT)
"In stead of transforming the chair we decided to transform the context. After studying various options the final choice was to upscale the chair a 1000 times and place it in Cape Town, the final destination of the Charity project .. The chair becomes a model of a building with a height of 760m, an urban icon for Cape Town. The transformation lies within our own fantasy. The mental change due to the overwhelming scale, entirely compensates the absence of physical changement of the chair itself . While the ONO chair can be used by a maximum of two people, the OYES chair with a surface of 800.000m² can host about 50.000 people. An extremely generous chair!!" HofmanDujardin:Urban Charity for Cape Town (Bildergalerie, Beschreibung, Booklet)
"Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawachi recently demonstrated his “Manga Farming” technique — which uses old manga as a growing medium for vegetables — by cultivating a crop of radish sprouts in an installation at the Matsuzakaya department store in Nagoya." Manga farming(Und ja, mir ist klar, dass die Manga-Industrie in Japan jährlich mehr Papier verarbeitet, als die dortigen Klopapierfabriken.)
"The other day some colleagues and I [...] went to recall the good old days to 8bit cafe, a very special cafeteria plenty of stuff related to 90’s video games. Soon after entering the cafeteria we saw shelves plenty of video game consoles [...], accessories, video game boxes and tons of really cool stuff capable of evoking nostalgic feelings to a whole generation of gamers from the 90’s ... " kirai – A geek in Japan: 8bit cafe ⎪ 8bit cafe bei Flickr(via I.Z. Reloaded)
"[...] But to come to the conclusion that McQueen’s success was simply the result of a handsome, athletic and naturally suave guy playing too-cool-for-school characters is to miss McQueen’s true cinematic gift: He was devastating in a close-up." The Cooler: Steve McQueen – King of the Close-Up(via F5)
"I was in LA and this guy shows up in a suit from head to toe made of glass. I thought it was pretty cool. I asked him if I could take a picture from below. So this is me laying on the ground with a broken mirror above my head pointing. Pretty Cool!" Flickr-Set von SiLver sKY: Griffith ObservatoryLeider sind das alle Infos, die ich über den Spiegelmann habe. Falls jemand mehr weiß: In die Kommentare!
"My research interests lie at the intersection of DIY technology cultures, grassroots community practices and innovative methodologies. I am particularly interested in bike making cultures and wireless networking groups. Although their technologies differ, these groups are united by a hands-on engagement with a diverse assemblage of materials and improvised methods in ordinary suburban locations." About MeDenjenigen, die sich für einen fundierten, aber trotzdem kurzweiligen und unterhaltsamen Vortrag zur Kulturgeschichte des Klebebands interessieren, empfehle ich Jungnickels Vortrag "Stickytape!", den sie im Pecha Kucha-Stil im Science Museum’s Dana Centre zum Thema "Technology You Can’t Live Without" gehalten hat.
"Nomadic Plants is a metaphor for the alienated human condition and the impact its activity has on nature [...] The work includes a small automaton robot (nomadic plant) that moves towards water when its bacteria require nourishment. It contains vegetation and microorganisms living symbiotically inside the body of the machine. The robot draws water from a contaminated river, decomposes its elements, helps to create energy to feed its brain circuits and the surplus is then used to create life, maintaining plants that, at once, fulfil their own life cycle." Giberto Esparza. Plantas NómadasFotos vom Pflanzen-Cyborg gibts auf der Projekt-Webseite (leider Flash).
"New Idols is about the icons of the 80's, from JFK, ET to Batman and King Kong" The Don Gallery: New Idols by Francesco de MolfettaDie Fotos sind leider Flashgefange und laufen dort zudem unter "Current Show" (könnten also schon bald verschwunden sein).
"Nick Rayburn is an artist who works with an assortment of materials including wood, marble and brass to silver, coral and shimmering beetles [...] his latest creation, The Waiting Hand, which is a limited edition of 20." The Waiting Hand by Nick RayburnJetzt muss nur noch eine Gadget-Klitsche eine Däumchendrehmaschine rausbringen und ich habe alles zusammen, was ich für einen erfüllten Arbeitstag benötige.
"The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine's mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box." Blake Fall-Conroy: Minimum Wage Machine(via Likecool)
"Best steampunk sculpture EVER. Yes, ever. Including all the great stuff at Burning Man [...] It's also the biggest scrap-metal sculpture in the world, so he wins the stuff-recycled-into-art prize, too [...] The Forevertron includes many parts from 1920's power plants, as well as an original 1880's Edison dynamo and a decontamination chamber from the Apollo project." Reimagining Scrap Metal: Dr. Evermor's Forevertron
"Sea Dave has made this wonderful, melancholic pixely game about exploring. It really is a thing of great beauty and you should totally play it. It won the cgdc6 competition, which means Sea Dave is the most awesome person on the planet."Und wo ich schon auf rathergood.com bin (einer meiner longtime favorites im Web), klicke ich mich nachher noch in der Sidebar (links) durch die ganzen Smash Hits der letzten Jahre.
"Prypjat [wurde] infolge des Reaktorunglücks von 1986 geräumt [...] Zum Zeitpunkt der Katastrophe [...] wohnten hier etwa 48.000 Menschen, die meisten von ihnen Arbeiter im Kernkraftwerk und ihre Familien [...] Aufgrund des schleppenden Informations- und Notfallmanagements wurde Prypjat erst 36 Stunden nach dem Reaktorunfall evakuiert [...] Da die Bewohner in dem Glauben gelassen wurden, bald wieder nach Hause zurückkehren zu können, sind auch heute noch viele Häuser im Originalzustand [...] Im Rahmen geführter Touren durch das Kernkraftwerk kann heute auch Prypjat besichtigt werden, da die Hauptstraßen dekontaminiert wurden. Die übrigen Gebiete der Stadt sollten jedoch nicht betreten werden. "