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iPhone Dioramas

Website designer and photographer JD Hancock creates these clever miniature scenes, played out using an iPhone screen as part of the backdrop. | Via

EVENTS Experiment MOVIES PEOPLE

Ridley Scott + YouTube + Kevin Macdonald

Il 24 luglio partirà un bizzarro ed ambizioso progetto cinematografico al quale potranno partecipare tutti i possessori di un account su Youtube e di una videocamera. LaScott Free (casa di produzione di Ridley Scott), il regista Kevin Macdonald e il colosso di Internet uniranno le loro forze per dar vita a Life In A Day, “il primo lungometraggio creato …

Experiment MISC

Schoolboy makes Spiderman machine

A Cambridge schoolboy has converted two budget vacuum cleaners into a Spiderman gadget which helps him scale walls. Hibiki Kono, 13, a big fan of the superhero, made the incredible climbing machine using the suction from two Tesco Value vacuum cleaners. The schoolboy then amazed his friends by using the giant suckerpads to climb the …

ARTS

Eltono collaborates with the public

A few months ago, Eltono put together an experiment on the streets of Coruña, Spain. First, he painted geometric designs on sheets of plexiglass. Then he painted the entire other side of the glass white. He placed these sheets in three spots around town and waited. Here are the results:

ARTS NEW YORK

Sidewalk Graffiti Assistance

NYC The Blog is reporting that someone has been busy helpfully tagging up various subway stations with compass roses to help patrons reclaim their orientation upon arrival. Sightings have been reported all across town, and a Facebook page has been set up to track this highly-welcome stencil’s permeation. | via

GRAPHICS TECH VIDEO

The Art of Analog Computing

The premise of this short film is to represent the digital tools and interfaces we use daily in an analog way. In the analog office, your computer desktop becomes your actual desk, your inbox gets flooded with Spam cans, the server runs past you multiple times a day (and perhaps crashes every now and then), …

ARTS

So, This Is Banksy?

At a press conference Tuesday, 89-year-old Rose Biggin, a grandmother from the Camden Town neighborhood of North London, announced that she was in fact the internationally renowned graffiti artist known only as Banksy. “Those drawings? Oh, yes, those are mine,” said the diminutive octogenarian, who admitted to scaling buildings and climbing fences in order to …

MOVIES VIDEO

Refait

“Refait” is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban …

AMBIENT ARTS MISC

HA Schult: Save The Beach

There’s more than enough attention on the state of the world’s coastal regions at the moment, and Save the Beach continues the focus. An initiative started by Corona beer to raise awareness to the amount of rubbish being washed up on our shores, they’ve taken the only logical alert – to build a hotel on the …

ARTS DESIGN

Packing Tape Spiderweb

This installation, by design firm numen / for use, used 530 rolls of tape measuring 117,000 feet and weighing 100 pounds. The tendons of multiple layers of transparent adhesive tape are firstly stretched between the columns of an ex-stock exchange building. The following continuous wrapping of tendons results in a complex, amorphous surface through the process …

ARTS

Intrusive Sculptures by Paul Souviron

Intrusive Sculptures are 2 installations by Paul Souviron, based on the idea of miniature sailing boats in glass bottles. Paul installed these sculptures in vacant shops by sliding them under the door. Once they were in, he unfolded or inflated the sculptures, without vandalizing the property. So he turned the vacant shops into exhibition spaces. SIG …