On Jun 3rd, artist Paul Ramírez Jonas and Creative Time, a public arts organization, will unveil the Key to the City, a free public art project in collaboration with the City of New York. Generally a symbolic award to honor heroes and dignitaries, the Key to the City will be a functional key that will open doors …
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Superclogger will present various puppet shows to drivers caught in afternoon traffic jams from a mobile theater housed in the back of a nondescript white pickup truck. Broadcasting soundtracks discretely to the viewer’s car stereo, Superclogger aims to briefly halt the progression of chaos by temporarily drawing the audience out of the commute experience and placing …
Pillow Talk is a project by Interaction Design Student Joanna Montgomery aiming to connect long distance lovers. Each person has a pillow for their bed and a sensor fitted into a wearable chest strap, which they wear to sleep at night. The chest sensor wirelessly communicates with the other person’s pillow; when one person goes …
About 500 red ants are spread in the city of Drachten, The Netherlands. Most of them came together in front of the theatre De Lawei, to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Each ant is three meters in length and two meters wide. The ants on the building are from synthetic material.
Honda is currently filming a month long European road trip to celebrate the launch of a new sporty hybrid, the Honda CR-Z. The project called ‘Live Every Litre’, concepted by Grey London, is inspired by the idea that people’s journeys are about experience not distance. The road trip is a crowd sourced film where the community …
Every 6 months, Work Club, a London based ad agency, invites an up and coming artist to decorate its 22m long blackboard wall. This time Bart Simpson was invited to come over on his skateboard and take over the office with every single line he’s ever written on the Springfield Elementary School blackboard. In order! …
“Sun Boxes are twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition. The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving. Participants are encouraged to walk amongst the speakers. It sounds different inside of the …
Bruce Nauman is the artist behing these melting cheese heads (via Eat Me Daily): In this piece, showing at the Brooklyn Museum, Bruce Nauman’s wax Hanging Heads were reproduced in cheese and intertwined with heat lamps which melted them over a table of crackers first in a slow trickle then fast falling chunks. | via
Two Los Angeles designers have come up with an innovative way to make seed bombing easy for everyone. They’re retrofitting old candy dispensers so they can dispense seeds packed in nutrient-rich clay. Their first model is in Los Angeles’s Chinatown and is filled with indigenous plants. They’re hoping that they can expand the program and partner with parks …
On Sunday, 25 April, there was a “Farbattacke” at Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin. “At each of the four junction sites has been drained over the pedestrian crossing color, bright red, yellow, blue and purple, the rest have done bikes, cars and pedestrians,” says “mg” at Just. Maybe Guerilla marketing? This is indicated a) “Some” suspicious …
