November 28th, 2006
Utopia, pictured above, is a “digital typeface that portrays the mixture between the modernist architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and informal occupation of the urban space that shapes major Brazilian cities.” In other words, all the letters look like buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer, jumbled up in Brazilian proximities.
[Images: BLDGBLOG written in Utopia; the whole font, posterized].
Utopia was designed by Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain; because their site uses Flash, however, you can’t directly link to the font. But it’s there.
So if somebody stumbles on a city full of Oscar Niemeyer buildings… will they suspect hidden messages in every glance?
Originally by Geoff Manaugh from BLDGBLOG on November 17, 2006, 11:17am
November 27th, 2006
»Fallen« by Nicole Mollett.
Originally by mail from 1 on November 26, 2006, 7:39am
November 27th, 2006
»www.lycos.com«. The idea of the »Project www« refers to the mechanisms of manipulation, affecting the seemingly free space of Internet. The author has erased and cleaned out all textual or visual content of selected web-sites, leaving behind their original graphic only. This way he confronted viewer with well known but empty visual representations, counterpointing the reality of web-sites always packed with information. By Marek Kvetan.
Originally by mail from 1 on November 25, 2006, 12:31pm
November 27th, 2006
In the installation »Infinite Loop« (2004) a camera is rotated on its side and pointed into a television at close proximity. The camera feeds the image of pixels on the screen back into the TV’s audio and video inputs. The auto focus and auto exposure struggle to gain some coherence expected in an image, but cannot. The result is a fluctuating, oscillating signal.
In »Thaw« (2004) an empty swimming pool, a large mass of black, volcanic, basalt street bricks is interlaced with bricks of white ice. The cube will fall prey to entropy over the course of approximately 8 hours. The ice bricks fuse together and hold on to the bricks as long as possible, causing the structure to warp and sway pendulously before collapse. The brick cube rests on a steel table and hovers over a mirror, which floats above the floor. The mirror has microphones attached to it, which pick up the stochastic dripping of water and is amplified in the space, counting off the time between collapses. Both projects by Chris Musgrave.
Originally by mail from 1 on November 23, 2006, 1:09am
November 27th, 2006
Cory Doctorow:
The 419Eater website chronicles the incredible story of a guy who baits “Nigerian Letter” scammers by telling them he has no time to help them free their dead relatives’ seized assets because he is so busy sending out $150,000 scholarships for talented carvings to display in his galleries. He actually convinces a 419 scammer to produce a detailed replica of a Commodore 64 computer with the lure of a big cash payout — then blows him off with a twist ending worthy of The Big Con.
Link
(via Waxy)
Originally from Boing Boing, ReBlogged by Yael Kanarek on Nov 21, 2006 at 03:06 AM
Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on November 21, 2006, 12:06am
November 27th, 2006
A Ugandan minister has condemned a Danish artist as “racist” for persuading villagers to adopt his name in exchange for a pig or a goat… He said his proposal to the villagers was an example of free trade, which left the villagers better off.
Originally by cat from microRevolt reBlog on November 17, 2006, 5:45am
November 27th, 2006
Selection of images from the series »troops of defense / strategic places« by Vincent Debanne.
Originally by mail from VVORK on November 14, 2006, 1:28am
November 27th, 2006
“363°”, “Weighing Scales” and “Chess Board” by Richard Rigg.
Originally by mail from VVORK on November 13, 2006, 3:53am
November 27th, 2006
By Etienne Cliquet (may 2005), from ordigami.net
Originally from cpb::softinfo : Weblog on November 10, 2006, 3:40pm
November 27th, 2006
Situated several hours north of Tokyo, the region of Echigo-Tsumari invited a few years ago some artists and architects to come up with prototypes for a new kind of site-seeing in the landscape. Asphalt Spot, designed by R&Sie for the City of Tokamashi, is one of them.
Underneath the folded surface of Asphalt Spot, is a 300 m2 exhibition space. However, you would expect a tourist attraction to be served by a parking space. Here you have a parking space, but no tourist attraction. Visitors have to define what the attraction could be: Is it is the landscape, despite all its uneventfulness? Or the parking spot itself where the inclined ground forces the driver to manage his or her own risk (of flipping over)? Or is it maybe just the very experience of coming to this spot in the first place - that journey with no cause other than to loose one’s self in a dérive through the landscape?
More images.
Other works by R&Sie: Buffalo-powered exhibition space; project for the future Bangkok Art Museum that feeds of the city’s pollution and (Un)Plug Building, a concept of building that gains its energy from the sun.
More parking stories:
Parking for white cars only (image above), by Helmut Smits.
Previously: Camping on the parking space; Garage galore and An egg car for drivers who can’t park.
Originally posted by Regine from we make money not art, ReBlogged by Caleb Waldorf on Oct 31, 2006 at 01:59 PM
Originally by Regine from Eyebeam reBlog on October 31, 2006, 10:59am