Trapped people by Dan Witz
Watch as Dan Witz places images of trapped people around town:
His work will be on display at Carmichael Gallery tomorrow night.
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1. Fast Company:
3. Map of undersea cables from 1901. Via.
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In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine China's cheap knockoff cell phones. After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East, where the sudden availability of information had unintended consequences for the region--and for China itself.2. Ben Wilson paints chewing gum.
3. Map of undersea cables from 1901. Via.
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1. Mike Maihack posted some cute convention sketches.
2. Really impressive trompe l'oeil chasm. And also at Laughing Squid, check out what happened when artists bought out a corner store's inventory and repackaged the mundane goods for sale as art pieces.
3. FYI, Super Punch and Toycutter are now optimized for mobile devices. (And speaking of my blog design, those Google +1 buttons on posts seem to be awfully unpopular.)
UPDATE: Ah, I see the buttons work.
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2. Really impressive trompe l'oeil chasm. And also at Laughing Squid, check out what happened when artists bought out a corner store's inventory and repackaged the mundane goods for sale as art pieces.
3. FYI, Super Punch and Toycutter are now optimized for mobile devices. (And speaking of my blog design, those Google +1 buttons on posts seem to be awfully unpopular.)
UPDATE: Ah, I see the buttons work.
Royal de Luxe has placed a giant frozen dog in front of the Cathedral of Nantes
Royal de Luxe has placed a giant dog in a block of ice in front of the Cathedral of Nantes. It's melting and presumably a harbinger for this show.
Link roundup
1. Light-up papercraft castle in the clouds. Via.
2. A description of what happened at the Find the Future event at the New York Public Library.
3. New tiny sculpture by Slinkachu, who also has a book and poster on sale.
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2. A description of what happened at the Find the Future event at the New York Public Library.
3. New tiny sculpture by Slinkachu, who also has a book and poster on sale.
Trash cans, electrical boxes, and more turned into tiny skyscrapers
Giant pink meteorites in Italy
Pink meteorites were placed in Italy to promote the Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport. Via these fine sites.
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New performance by La Machine
La Machine's latest performance featured a giant, water-spraying, mechanical spider.
*Previously: Royal de Luxe's Marionetas Gigantes en Guadalajara.
Adding tiny doors to boring facades
Jeff Waldman is adding small doors to boring facades in San Francisco, and hopes other add doors in other cities:
The idea is to install small doors, unexplained portals, throughout the city. To start, in San Francisco. These doors would be scaled down to a size that is cognitively possible but whimsically improbable. Tiny ones. Like, Alice Through The Looking Glass, maybe 15-25 inches or so. I don’t imagine them to be operable, but the more detailed in appearance the better.Via.
Each artist would create his or her contribution to the project, where the frame, molding, window or lack of window, color, state of decay, and other intricate details speak to the artist’s unique take and contribution. The doors would be sent to me, to be installed by me and a couple others, around the bay area. Anyone based around here is more than welcome to join me as we find the best location for each piece. We’ll select spots that bode well aesthetically with the individual doors and are in areas that will see a lot of traffic but are least likely to be removed by anyone. Sounds contradictory? It is, but we’ll do our best.
The doors will be fixed with adhesive and installed in a way to look as natural as possible—as natural as a 16 inch tall weathered oak door can look on the side of parking garage. If anyone would want to stake out a spot before hand, via Google maps street view or some such method, and create a piece to be installed somewhere specific, that’s just fine. The installation process of each piece will be photographed along with reaction shots from passersby. The photographs, information, and story will probably be compiled together afterward– though into what I’m not sure. If this goes well I’d like to expand on or replicate the project in other cities.
Previously:
1. Alice and a small door.
2. Install a miniature parallel world on your ceiling.
3. Little door.
4. Door to nowhere.
Giant Bat street art
ROA has painted a giant bat and several other animals on buildings in Mexico.
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