Archive for Janeiro, 2011
IOCOSE
Posted on Janeiro 31, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Experience, Interactive, Social | Leave a Comment
The IOCOSE collective has been working in Italy and Europe since 2006. It organizes actions in order to subvert ideologies, practices and processes of identification and production of meanings. It uses pranks and hoaxes as tactical means, as joyful and sound tools.
Empathy Box is one of their projects, they explain in their website:
“As often [...]
James Cauty – Riots in a Jam Jar
Posted on Janeiro 28, 2011 - Filed Under Art | Leave a Comment
James Cauty’s Riots in a Jam Jar series.
Antti Laitinen
Posted on Janeiro 26, 2011 - Filed Under Art | Leave a Comment
Antti Laitinen is a young finnish artist exploring the boundaries of space, nation and movement. In his project It’s My Island he attempts to build his own island (and therefore micro-nation) in the Baltic Sea. He is seen filling hundreds of bags with sand, dragging them to the sea amidst relentless waves [...]
Japan’s Ice Aquarium
Posted on Janeiro 25, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Research and Documentation, Trends | Leave a Comment
The Kori no Suizokukan (Ice Aquarium) in Kesennuma, northeastern Japan, packs about 450 specimens of marine life frozen in large columns of ice bathed in blue light. Some 80 species, including saury, octopuses, crabs, and skipjack, are preserved in lifelike poses. They seem to be swimming in ice.
Opened in 2002 in the Uminoichi seafood market, [...]
WHAIWHAI – Travel Differently
Posted on Janeiro 21, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Interactive, Tourism | Leave a Comment
WHAIWHAI is a different kind of travel guide, it creates an interactive and playful way to discover a city.
Players begin by sending a text message to WHAIWHAI, which can specify the number of hours they would like to play the game, the difficultly level, or the starting location. A series of enigmas [...]
Aldo Giannotti – Taxi Driver
Posted on Janeiro 18, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Performance | Leave a Comment
Taxi Driver is a site specific intervention made by the contemporary artist Aldo Giannotti.
Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s classic film, a taxi driver from Linz, Austria,is paid to have his hair shaved into a Mohawk. He goes about his daily work with this altered appearance. For the driver, talking with his passengers about his [...]
KK Outlet – Royal wedding
Posted on Janeiro 14, 2011 - Filed Under Advertising, Art, Design, Graphic Design | Leave a Comment
KK Outlet is a multifunctional office combining a communications agency with a gallery and bookshop in London set up by the Amsterdam based communications agency KesselsKramer.
For the royal wedding KK Outlet’s recently unveilved ‘unofficial’ Wills and Kate souvenir plates.
Jordan Matter – Dancers among us
Posted on Janeiro 13, 2011 - Filed Under Dance, Performance, Photography | Leave a Comment
Via Jordan Matter
Days With My Father – Phil Toledano
Posted on Janeiro 12, 2011 - Filed Under Photography | Leave a Comment
Days With My Father is a touching photo essay project created by the amazing photograher Phil Toledano. This touching compilation of photos taken after the death of Toledano’s mother, gives an intimate look at the father-son relationship, simple and powerfull story.
Bompas & Parr
Posted on Janeiro 10, 2011 - Filed Under Architecture, Art, Design, Food, Interactive, Performance | Leave a Comment
Bompas & Parr, is a London based studio which merges food, architecture and art, creating amazing food experiences often working on an architectural scale with cutting edge technology.
Some of their projects includes:
The Ziggurat of Flavour
The Ziggurat of Flavour is a pyramidal installation containing a cloud of breathable fruit. For [...]