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Quick post… had to share.
Check our man on the ground; Thaddeus Maximus’s photostream here

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Big fan of data exploration and what better social network to explore that the stream of conciousness that twitter empowers and delivers. Twistori is a project that explores twitter comments by instances of the words ‘I; love, hate, think, believe, feel, and wish. In much the same way that Johnathan Harris’s We Feel Fine does, [...]

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Can your phone do this?
Talk to me… so if the iPhone wasn’t hacked, cracked and genuinely pushed beyond the realms of its supposed purpose in life - this couldn’t of happened. May we all open our lives and platforms to invention and opportunity!!! It’s Friday, I’ve had a beer - bare with me and get [...]

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A 35-minute feature filmed entirely in Second Life has been sold to HBO. Its entitled ‘Molotov’s Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey’. The video below is an overview of the feature, below that is the trailer.
This cross medium narrative I find extremely inspiring. Second Life inhabitants have been filming/recording their [...]

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The Burble is a massive structure reaching up towards the sky, composed of approximately 1000 extra-large helium balloons each of which contains microcontrollers and LEDs that create spectacular patterns of light across the surface of the structure. The public, both audience and performer, come together to control this immense rippling, glowing, bustling ‘Burble’ that sways [...]

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Damien Hirsts latest piece ‘for the love of god’ is for sale at £50 million! and they say offers in excess have already been made. Apparently it takes your breath away and like most of Hirsts work it is a reflection on death and the fact that no matter how much cash you have…. it [...]

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Originally uploaded by sns2006.

A real installation for the virtual globe of the software Google Earth.
A Semacode measuring 160 x 160 meters was mown into a wheat field near the town of Ilmenau in the Land Thuringia. The code consists of 18 x 18 bright and dark squares producing decoded the phrase “Hello, world!”.

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Originally uploaded by in.vino.veritas.

Brilliant. The Tate Modern’s turbine room plays host to Carsten Höller’s gigantic slides. I cant wait to visit on my next homage to the UK, rest assured I’ll be documenting this in full digital glory. See more images here.

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Atomic: full of love, full of wonder

Originally uploaded by benhamin.

Essential viewing, the ‘Adventures with Form in Space’ exhibition at The Gallery of NSW (Sydney).
Not all pieces get as much attention as this one… and rightly so, its fantastic. The whole audience seems to be tansfixed with smiles (and perhaps full of love and wonder, [...]

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This is brilliant. Goggles is flight simulator using Google Maps. Wish we’d thought of this, such a simple and engaging use of maps… the whole studio here in Sydney is likely to not do any work this afternoon.

You can fly around most major cities in the world, Mars and the Moon! You can crash land [...]

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Check these illustrations

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Originally uploaded by mjoyce.

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Banksy Tourists!

Originally uploaded by iyers.

New Banksy work in context…

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The latest apparently

Originally uploaded by Snood.

This is on the side of a sexual health clinic, according to the WoosterCollective.

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Kerb raft - zoom

Originally uploaded by benhamin.

Here it is, imagine discovering this little piece of magic as you wonder down the street.

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Butterflies

Originally uploaded by MiniGraff.

So MiniGraff just made me a friend on flickr. I’ve loved the work of this Sydney Graffiti artist fom the first moment I stumbled upon an intricate ‘kerb stencil’ of a boat sailing down the edge of a kerb on Liverpool Street (Darlinghurst).
I’ll dig out the kerb example in the next post…
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