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Archive for the 'Art' Category
Street Art: Graffiti stencils from Helsinki
A brilliant stencil spotted in Helsinki, Finland.
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Art: The way things go
One of the best known pieces of contemporary Swiss art or better the objects used to make the Art Film “The way things go” (Der Lauf der Dinge) by Peter Fischli and David Weiss is up for sale at Christie’s Zurich.
It’s a good reminder to watch this master piece again that has been copied or ideas used from it quite a few times, most prominently within Honda’s outstanding Cog commercial.
There is a trailer online (link below) and a DVD with the film is available in…
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Animation: Metamorphosis
From Glenn Marshall’s (artist) description:
“Metamorphosis is programmed entirely in Processing, it’s the follow up to my Music is Math video. I developed my ‘zeno’ animation system a bit more to allow for nebulous additive blending as well as a few other things. The music is by Boards of Canada again - the track ‘Corsair’ from the Geogaddi album. ”
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Street-Art: Seeder
A very interesting approach to street art seen in Lithuania. The artist Morfai is using a farmer statue - an image popular in many former communist countries - more precisely the shadow silhouette of the statue and adds to the wall on which the shadow is projected.
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Music: Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant
An outstanding music video playing with a visual technique called the “Droste Effect” which is well known from M.C. Escher’s graphical work…
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Art: Levi van Veluw - Landscape
Installations in the tradition of Dutch landscape painting but also of “living” and one minute sculptures, Levi van Veluw has created a landscape photo series and a new video…
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Video: Playful Spaces
A video about hijacking a bus stop and installing a swing to make it more playful.
Bruno Taylor who has created this project at London bus stops “…to study different ways of bringing play back into public space…“…
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Video: Speed painting a F1 Crash
This is another great (speed) painting video by Martin Missfeldt. Links to his other videos below…
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Art: The Image Fulgurator
The Austrian Prix Ars Electronica organized since 1987 has itself long established as an indicator for trends in contemporary media art. Participation by internationally renowned artists from over 70 countries and almost 38,000 entries since it was first awarded demonstrate its high visibility as an interdisciplinary platform for computer artists around the world to showcase their work and projects in art, technology and society.
This year more than 4000 artist from 62 countries participated with their projects. The winners were announced last week and German Artist Julius von Bismark with his project “The Image Fulgurator” won one of the five “Golden Nicas” this year for his submission in the category Interactive Art.
Julius von Bismark describes The Image Fulgurator as a device to physically manipulate photography. The intervention happens while the image is taken and almost imperceptible by the photographer. Only when reviewing…
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Credit Crunch - Graffiti Street Art by Syd TV
The topic of the credit crisis and the issues for people are becoming more and more popular in the UK. This video shows Syd.TV creating a graffiti on this topic together with clips of prominent participants and news reporting…
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