Archive for the 'Art' Tag
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Exhibition: Design and the Elastic Mind
If you happen to be in New York this weekend you might want to visit this exceptional exhibition at the MoMa ranging across design, technology and science.
You can get a first taste and explore many of the exhibits on the “interactive MoMa web site” put up for the event and designed by “Yugo Nakamura”…
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Design: Skateboard Artwork
These decks are stunning. Vancouver based artist Nathan Matthews aka Giant Human creates them for various skateboard labels.
Check out his work (he does snowboards too) at “his web site”.
We found some of his deck designs at the following shops/labels…
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Animation: Une Histoire Vertebrale
A beautiful 9 minute short film by Jeremy Clapin. In calm pictures he shows us the emotional state of his main character - a lonely man - and his search for others. Brilliant work that won more than 10 awards…
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Design: Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites
The subjects of Rafael Rozendaal’s web sites range from clouds to blood, from hands to farts, from hills to dollars, from doors to fire. They are interactive, some are like pieces of pop art, others a bit absurd.
His latest creation “colorflip.com” got quite some popularity on various forums the last days and…
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Street Art: Paint with light
This is the latest video of Belgian street artist Knight Light who paints ephemeral light graffiti.
If you want to learn more about his work there is “another video” online and he will be - together with many others - performing next week in Brussels at “Belgikolor”…
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Design: Oskar Fischinger - Komposition in Blau
An outstanding example of an early animation and mesmerizing play with colors.
Oskar Fischinger’s - Komposition in blau (composition in blue) uses solely color, geometric shapes and music to describe and create motion.
It’s a piece of abstract art.
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Street-Art: London as an Open Prison
These signs are currently popping up all over London.
An excellent idea to create awareness of the planned ID card project in the UK. You find more images of this great poster “here”, “here” and “here”.
We refrain from commenting on the subject directly (in our opinion the issues…
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Design: Polly Verity’s paper sculptures
If you ever wondered what’s possible with paper folding have a look at “Polly Verity’s paper sculptures”. She has made larger scale images of her work available on her outstanding “Flickr Paper sculpture photo set”…
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Image: 1300 fluorescent tubes lit by overhead power lines
An image of 1301 glowing fluorescent tubes powered only by the magnetic field induced by overhead power lines on a field in England.
More information and a DVD of this art project at “Richard Box web site”…
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Video: Hokusai An Animated Sketchbook
Most westerners will only know one of Katsushika Hokusai’s print work - the wave or “In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa” (that’s the full title of this woodblock print)
This “short film” animates some of his work and introduces you to the life of this great Japanese artist. Animation designer Tony White created this video 30 years ago - it won him the British Academy Award for Best Short Factual Film - and it’s still an outstanding piece of animation…
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