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Damien Hirsts ‘For the Love of God’

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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“Hello, world!”

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, [...]
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Carsten Höller’s Slides, Tate Modern

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 by Nike Savvas

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 [...]
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Goggles – Google Map Flight Sim

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 [...]
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Check these illustrations

done Originally uploaded by mjoyce.
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Banksy in Bristol + Tourists!

Banksy Tourists! Originally uploaded by iyers. New Banksy work in context…
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Banksy back in Bristol

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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MiniGraff – Kerb raft (zoom)

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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MiniGraff – Butterflies

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 [...]
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Gormley in da house

Gormley in da house Originally uploaded by benhamin. Its the 15th Biennale of Sydney, which consists of 85 artists & collaborators from 44 countries / 57 cities and held in 16 venues… Went and saw the Anthony Gormley installation at Walsh Bay, and this is one of the photos from the piece.. Highly recommend getting [...]
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Quote on the reverse of TIMESHIFT

I stumbled upon the Ars Electronica TIMESHIFT book (from the 2004 festival) in a store on Saturday, loved this quote… so here it is. “I’ll throw the damned rearview mirror out the damned window because I don’t want to know where I’ve come from, but where I’m going.” Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion

The interface of WeFeelFine.org has some subtle references to the Sony Ad with the balls, but thankfully is nothing to do with it. In fact maybe I shouldn’t of even said that… but it was a first impression. The above image is of the opening interface, named ‘madness’, which is rather apparent as emotions sourced [...]
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Boards of Canada – dayvan cowboy video

I’m listening to this track almost every morning at the moment. I’ve never seen a BOC video before, and in some ways I didn’t want to (there has always been visuals in my mind, man!)… but I like this, the surf bit is questionable – but all in all it works for me. Enjoy the [...]
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Cybersonica 06 – Highlights Video

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