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Sushi for Japan
SUSHI FOR JAPAN - Helping Japan Disaster Relief One Fish at a Time
A more visual way to donate.
MTA.ME
Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram.
Clever and beautiful.
JR | Use art to turn the world inside out @ TED
JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out.
Get Your Tag On
If you've been waiting to toss a piece up in 5 points, you best get moving. The clock might be ticking on this landmark building. Can we take pieces down like the Berlin wall?
The iconic graffiti-caked Long Island City factory known as 5Pointz has been tagged for development, likely ending its run as a street-art mecca.
Maybe once the installation is through they can send the monster to live on the plastic-bottle island in the middle of the Pacific.
Plastic Bag Monster
The Miha Artnak
Lovka na lovce (The Tackle of the Tentacle)
November, 2010
Together with Ekologi Brez Meja (ocistimo.si), Lukatarina and Eco Vitae we collected 40.000 used plastic bags and 7.500 used plastic cups from 12 kindergartens, 21 primary schools, 4 high schools and 3 faculties from the city of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and from more than 500 people from Ljubljana.
Plastic Bag Monster from Kongresni trg spreads its plastic tentacles through the streets of Ljubljana. It symbolizes the spreading of the consumerism and waste segregation. The monster itself has adjusted to the environment and therefore survived. It is supplanting us from the food chain. It just might succeed and it’s all up to us. It is reproducing with inconceivable speed and knows no mercy. It feeds on individuals’ sloth and irresponsibility.
Conflict Kitchen
Pittsburgh's take-out dining concept serves food from countries in conflict with the U.S. Great idea to spread cultural awareness and information --- each item is wrapped in paper printed with info stats regarding the conflict.
Adios LA
Adios LA is a visual goodbye to the city Jon Jackson has called home for years as the artist heads east making New York his new home. Not wanting to string LA along, he has decided to firmly break it off through a graphic billboard series posted on the famous streets of his first love.
If you are in Los Angeles from the 17th of December to the 15th of January, you can use this site to give you the locations of the outdoor boards so you can drive by and see the break up in process. Bring a camera and box of tissue.
Love this idea. We need more billboards with real messages on them instead of all the advertising pollution.
audible mesh
Audible mesh is an interactive art piece programmed in Flash, which utilizes camera and audio data to create generative artwork. The software translates the camera data into a grid (a mesh) of datapoints which are positioned, overlapped, and drawn using sound input. The result is projected on a undulating surface, which is painted with matte gesso to distort the clean lines of a digital projection, to create a more painterly output.
Saville Designs for the Cemetery
Just like it ever was --- late and very likely over-budget, but none the less fantastically beautiful: Peter Saville's last design for Factory impressario Tony Wilson.
Surfstation