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Tiny Row House Installation Restores Missing Addresses

02 Jul

[ By Steph in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

Amsterdam Urban Intervention 1

Taking a stroll along Westerstraat in Amsterdam, you might notice that an entire clump of houses seems to have disappeared. The addresses jump from 54 to 70, with nothing but a four-inch crack between them. Where did those houses go? Ad agency Natwerk has its own creative take.

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The agency restored the seven ‘missing’ row houses, building tiny models in the same style as the full-scale homes that surround them. Just barely peeking out from the dark void, these cute little sculptural installations invite passersby to stop and look closer.

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Urban interventions are a fun way to temporarily alter the environment in public places. Some are fleeting, like chalk tracings of shadows that document a passing moment, or tiny, like Slinkachu’s miniature scenes. Some require no more than a couple plastic eyeballs to make people smile. Others are more disruptive, altering familiar objects like street signs, trash cans and traffic markings.

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A Million Times: Clock Wall is a Moving Art Installation

03 Mar

[ By Delana in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ]

a million times humans since 1982

Staring at the hands of an analog clock for too long can lead to the feeling that the hands are moving in odd ways. In the case of this large installation, however, that feeling is completely true. Known as A Million Times, the installation features 288 analog clocks and 576 motors – one for each minute and hour hand.

The piece was created by Stockholm design studio Humans Since 1982. The studio has worked with clocks in the past, giving them new functions that not only celebrate their physical form but demonstrate the many ways in which moving hands can work together to create entirely new aesthetic designs.

art installation analog clocks

In the case of A Million Times, the hands of each clock are controlled by custom iPad software. The hands can be moved to create letters or numbers, but as seen in the video above, the most visually impressive part of the display is when all of the hands rotate at once to create the illusion of waves or an undulating surface.

analog clock display

The project strips the clocks of their pragmatic existence and turns them into mesmerizing works of art. Each clock is perhaps a bit boring on its own, but the overall display of 288 individual clocks ends up being far more memorable than you might have imagined.Through the above article, we can recommend you the latest dresses.Shop dress in a variety of lengths, colors and styles for every occasion from your favorite brands.

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Lullaby Factory: Fanciful Installation for Children’s Hospital

22 Feb

[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

Lullaby Factory 1

Children at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital can enter a secret courtyard, stand beside a convoluted system of copper pipes and horns, and listen to the sound of soft lullabies. This musical art installation was created by Studio Weave to fill a narrow, otherwise unusable space created by the construction of an adjacent building.

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Inspired by the pipes and drainage systems that already cover the brick facade of the historic hospital building, Lullaby Factory creates visual interest, pays tribute to the 19th century origins of the structure and provides a comforting function for young patients.

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The installation reaches 10 stories high and is made of metal pipes in shades of silver, gold, copper and bronze; some of the components were recovered from a decommissioned hospital boilerhouse. Patients who can’t make their way outside into this magical little world between buildings can listen via radio from their rooms.

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The installation will remain in place until the demolition of the aging building, scheduled for 2028. Say the designers, “Our aim for this project was to re-imagine the Southwood façade as the best version of itself, accepting and celebrating its qualities and oddities; and rather than hiding what is difficult, creating something unique and site specific.”

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Abandoned Church Becomes Brilliant Urban Art Installation

20 Feb

[ By Steph in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

Abandoned Church Art 1

A languishing, yellowed church in Washington D.C. underwent a dramatic transformation in every shade of the rainbow, with street artist HENSE using it like a massive urban canvas. The church is in a downtrodden area with the potential to become the city’s next arts district, and this project represents the hope for a more colorful future.

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Dramatic and abstract, the project turns the former Friendship Baptist Church at 700 Delaware Avenue into an oversized mural just across the street from an abandoned lot set to become the site of a new art museum. Atlanta-based Alex ‘HENSE’ Brewer was commissioned to cover the church with paint.

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The project not only brightens the neighborhood and gives it a sense of a new identity, it also draws attention to a structure that has been abandoned and overlooked for many years. Like many other abandoned building art projects, 700 Delaware Ave forces people to acknowledge urban blight in the hopes of encouraging action.

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“Taking an existing building like the church and painting the entire thing re-contextualizes it and makes it a sculptural object,” HENSE told Design Boom. “We really wanted to turn the church into a three-dimensional piece of artwork. With projects like this one, we really try to use the existing architecture as inspiration for the direction of the painting.”

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See more photos at Design Boom.

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John Deere ATU installation in Macdon like Swathers

01 Jan

John Deere ATU installation in Macdon like Swathers. Premier, Westward etc.

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Battery Grip Installation for Nikon D40 (LinkDelightOz)

15 Dec

Follow Me: www.flickr.com.au ~~~~~ Hi everyone! This is my first video, and a look at a 3rd party battery grip for the Nikon D40/x. The one in the video was purchased from Ebay seller LinkDelightOz for around AUD, which I felt was an excellent price for the product. You can usually also add a few extra dollars and they will send you an extra battery, which I didn’t do because I prefer genuine Nikon batteries, and you can also get a battery grip with an LCD screen if you want to pay twice as much. I would’ve taken that option if I had the money. Hope you enjoy the vid! Matt (and his Nikon, of course!) PS Search “Nikon D40 Battery Grip” On Ebay and you should find the seller, amongst many others. There is a new model grip out and I’ve no idea what it’s like.
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Meike Nikon MB-D10 clone battery grip for D700 unboxing and Installation plus 8 FPS example.

15 Dec

Recieved this from China today. A clone of the Nikon MB-D10 battery grip for the D700.. Will it be any good or waste of £40?? www.photoix.co.uk Follow me on Twitter for the latest news and updates! http
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On Space Time Foam: Surreal Billowing Art Installation

12 Dec

[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

The science of engineering and rationalism of city planning meet visionary experimentation in art installations by Tomás Saraceno. The Argentina-born artist is known for works that imagine an alternate future for humanity in unexpected, often utopian ways. His latest work, ‘On Space Time Foam‘, is an exploration of self-sufficient aerial structures that could be made on a larger scale and inhabited by humans.

‘On Space Time Foam’ is a layered installation of translucent PVC membranes suspended nearly 80 feet above the ground. Installed at the Hangar Bicocca in Milan, Italy, the work alludes to the primordial state of matter from which the universe formed.

Visitors can access the installation either from above, to navigate it themselves, or from below, to watch as people seemingly float in mid-air. The plastic has a surface area of nearly 13,000 square feet. Walking on the surface is a tricky task, sending visitors sliding and tumbling across the plastic. “As soon as you decide to climb onto the installation, you are necessarily caught up in a play of mutual dependence,” Saraceno told Klat Magazine. “This experience helps to initiate a dialogue between people, through a body language that has no need of words.”

While it’s a fun attraction in its current form, Saraceno has big plans for the concept. He aims to translate it into a Buckminster Fuller-inspired floating biosphere above the climate change-threatened Maldives Islands, which would be fully inhabitable with solar panels and desalinated water. Saraceno will embark on a residency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work out the logistics of such an ambitious undertaking.

“The aim of what I do is to try to expand the range of the dialogue, to make as many people as possible aware of the extent of the impact that each of us has on others and on the environment. This is the objective of my artistic practice: awakening people to the interdependence of the different elements that make up the system in which we live—the interrelations between objects, natural phenomena and living creatures.”

See a video of the installation in action, and an interview with the artist, at Design Boom.


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Installation (Fly-Through) FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 by Ellen Driscoll at Smack Mellon / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 2009-09-26 / SML

22 Nov

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Installation (Fly-Through) FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 by Ellen Driscoll at Smack Mellon / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 2009-09-26 / SML
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This installation by Ellen Driscoll is so gigantic that I thought that only a video fly-through can really help experience the piece.

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Two Solo Exhibitions
Exhibition dates: September 26 – November 8, 2009
Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 26, 5-8pm

Smack Mellon is pleased to present Ellen Driscoll’s installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 and Fernando Souto’s photographic series The End of the Trail. The two concurrent solo exhibitions compress layers of time to explore industries and lifestyles that go beyond geographic borders. Composed of thousands of discarded plastic bottles collected by Ellen Driscoll, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 takes a critical look at the environmental and human damage inflicted by the oil and water industries in the last two centuries on regions as diverse as Nigeria and the United States. During extended trips to cattle ranches in the American West, Australia, and Uruguay, Fernando Souto photographed the fading culture of ranchers, creating black-and-white environmental portraits in the tradition of iconic photographers such as Walker Evans and Robert Frank. Both Driscoll and Souto are intimately tied to their craft—painstakingly cutting up salvaged bottles and printing large-scale silver gelatin photographs—asserting a tactile personal connection in their work.

Ellen Driscoll
FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2

“This installation is a continuation of a multi-year series which explores the dynamics of resource harvesting and consumption. This part of the series focuses on oil and water. Rising at 5:30 AM, I harvest #2 plastic bottles from the recycling bags put out for collection on the streets of Brooklyn. For one hour, one day at a time, I immerse myself in the tidal wave of plastic that engulfs us by collecting as many bottles as I can carry. The sculptural installation for Smack Mellon comprises 2600 bottles transformed into a 28 foot landscape. Constructed solely of harvested #2 plastic, the sculpture collapses three centuries into a ghostly translucent visual fugue in which a nineteenth century trestle bridge plays host to an eighteenth century water-powered mill which spills a twenty-first century flood from its structure. The flow contains North American, Middle Eastern, and African landmasses (sites of oil harvesting and their consumer destination) buoyed by a sea of plastic water molecules. The piece looks back to eighteenth century American industry powered by water, and forward to the oil refineries of the Niger Delta, site of prolonged guerilla warfare against oil corporations and the source of over fifty percent of crude oil for the United States—the oil that produces the plastic within which our privatized water is currently bought and sold.

The wall drawings in the exhibition are based on a close study of the inner workings of an oil refinery. By using huge shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. An oil rig shares the horizon with ocean fires and garbage scows, mega shopping malls are abandoned to spontaneous communities of slums, and a refugee camp is inundated by the waters of a melting glacier. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future.”

Ellen Driscoll is a sculptor whose work includes FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan, The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum, Phillip Morris, As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (a suite of 20 mosaic and glass images for the tunnels at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets), Catching the Drift, a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art, and Wingspun for the International Arrivals Terminal at Raleigh-Durham airport. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is a Professor of Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.

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(almost) all of the completed dissertations in Visual Studies at UC Irvine up to 2008
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Homemade modern : MoMA, women and the transformation of European modernism into American style / by Amy L Marver, 2001.

About turns : minimalism to excess in the films of Yvonne Rainer / by Patricia Lynne Levin, 2001.

Lurking and looking : media technologies and cultural convergences of spectatorship, voyeurism… / by Sheila Colleen Murphy, 2002.

Fantastic observations : images of insects in early modern Europe / by Janice L Neri, 2003. [not pictured]

The gravity of memory : recollection and forgetting at the Bibliothèque Impériale of Napo / by Francesca M Bavuso, 2004.

The animated and the actual : toward a theory of animation, live-action, and everyday life / by Joanna Rose Bouldin, 2004.

"The child lost in the garden of time" : childhood and the fourth dimension in the works of Joseph Co… / by Analisa Pauline Leppanen-Guerra, 2004.

Her apparent admiration and the intensity of her gaze : race, class, and gender and the stereoscopic / by Beth Rayfield, 2004.

The "camera" as camera : new subjectivities in 3D virtual worlds / by Tobey Crockett, 2006.

The art of disappearance : duration, instantaneity, and the conception of cinema / by René Thoreau Bruckner, 2007.

Equivocal subjects : the representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film / by Shelleen Maisha Greene, 2007.

Walking after midnight : violence, femininity, and possibility / by Jennifer Arlene Rogers, 2007.

The ambiguous I : photography, gender, self / by Jordy Jones, 2008.

Monstrous play in negative spaces : the cultural production of biometric bodies / by
Heather Michelle Murray, 2008.

Actual treatments: Performative realism in American independent cinema, 1949-70 / by Edward A Barron, 2009. [electronic resource – not pictured]

Methodologies of Reuse in the Media Arts: Exploring Black Boxes, Tactics, and Archaeologies / by Garnet D Hertz, 2009. [not yet bound by library as of April 2010]

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts – main entrance doors
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Image by ell brown
This is the The Barber Institute of Fine Arts building on the University of Birmingham main campus.

It is listed currently as being on University Road, and no longer Edgbaston Park Road (I would assume that University Road is the road that goes from Edgbaston Park Road into the University grounds proper).

It is a Grade II listed building built between 1935 and 1939, designed by architect Robert Atkinson.

It is an art gallery and concert hall, and is an Art Deco building. It was opened by Queen Mary.

1935 completed 1939, architect Robert Atkinson. Sophisticated design marrying
elements of traditional institutional classicism with Dudok inspired stone
dressed brick modern. A 2 storey compact block with shallow full height portal
wing to right hand of front. Ashlar faced ground floor and blind lst floor of
brick with flat coped roofline. The horizontal emphasis of the strip
fenestration of the ground floor is suavely combined with the vertical accent of
the slightly battered portal. The latter is complemented in small scale by
ashlar panels carved with symbols of the Arts on the first floor and reflected
by the visual stop of the larger panel at the end of return east elevation.
The banding and strip fenestration of the front follows round on to the side and
rear elevations giving a crisp linear definition to the design.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts – Heritage Gateway

 
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Interactive Urban Light Art Installation Operated by Smart Phones

06 Nov

[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

A five-story ‘veil’ of light situated along the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany billows and contracts according to users’ finger movements on their smart phones. ‘Photophore’ was installed at the Seven Swans restaurant, bar and hotel for the annual Luminale festival of light, inviting passersby to literally change the fabric of their urban environment.

A collaboration between Kollision, Martin Professional and light designers Katja Winklemann and Jochen Schröder, Photophore is an interactive media facade consisting of five illuminated panels mounted on the exterior of the building. It’s named for the light-emitting organ found within certain deep-water marine animals.

Onlookers scan a QR code on the side of the building, which accesses a website enabling them to control the installation. Swiping across the screen causes the ‘fabric’ to be pinched, pulled, pushed, poked and twisted.

See a video of Photophore in action at Vimeo.


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