The Cans Festival, London.
Posted in artists / designers, graffiti / street art, installations on Jun 17th, 2008
Quick post… had to share.
Check our man on the ground; Thaddeus Maximus’s photostream here
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Inspired by WeFeelFine; Twistori
Posted in artists / designers, digital, interactive, social on Apr 29th, 2008
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, [...]
iBand - Nintendo DS & iPhone tunes
Posted in artists / designers, collaborate / participate, innovation, music, whatever on Feb 22nd, 2008
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 [...]
First SecondLife Documentary bought by HBO
Posted in artists / designers, innovation, whatever on Sep 12th, 2007
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 [...]
Burble London: Audience controlled LED balloon installation
Posted in artists / designers, innovation, installations, interactive on Sep 10th, 2007
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 [...]
Damien Hirsts ‘For the Love of God’
Posted in artists / designers on Jun 8th, 2007
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 [...]
“Hello, world!”
Posted in artists / designers, installations, whatever on Feb 15th, 2007
a_v_code.jpg
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!”.
Learn more [...]
Carsten Höller’s Slides, Tate Modern
Posted in artists / designers, installations, photography on Oct 16th, 2006
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.
Atomic: full of love, full of wonder by Nike Savvas
Posted in artists / designers, installations on Aug 20th, 2006
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, [...]
Goggles - Google Map Flight Sim
Posted in artists / designers, games / play, interactive, web / phunk on Aug 18th, 2006
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 [...]
Check these illustrations
Posted in artists / designers on Jul 2nd, 2006
Banksy in Bristol + Tourists!
Posted in artists / designers, graffiti / street art on Jul 2nd, 2006
Banksy back in Bristol
Posted in artists / designers, graffiti / street art on Jul 2nd, 2006
The latest apparently
Originally uploaded by Snood.
This is on the side of a sexual health clinic, according to the WoosterCollective.
MiniGraff - Kerb raft (zoom)
Posted in artists / designers, graffiti / street art on Jun 29th, 2006
Kerb raft - zoom
Originally uploaded by benhamin.
Here it is, imagine discovering this little piece of magic as you wonder down the street.
MiniGraff - Butterflies
Posted in artists / designers, graffiti / street art on Jun 29th, 2006
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…
Big [...]