Sunlight Graffiti
Part of the Little Sun project by Olafur Eliasson currently running at the Tate Modern, where participators can create their own light graffiti and locate it online via an interactive sphere:
The Sunlight Graffiti sphere is by artist Olafur Eliasson, conceived as part of his larger Little Sun project. Little Sun, a work of art that works in life, is a solar-powered lamp that Eliasson has developed with the engineer Frederik Ottesen. The lantern is one element of the artwork, but the way it connects us and what it tells us about energy and energy access is all part of the art.
Currently, an interactive Sunlight Graffiti installation is set up at Tate Modern, London, on level 2 as part of the museum’s Poetry and Dream exhibition (28 July – 23 September 2012). Visitors are invited to do a work of art here by dancing, jumping, and writing out loud with a Little Sun in their hand. Their Sunlight Graffiti are captured and uploaded to this site and shown as part of the sphere.
Also presented at Tate Modern is Eliasson’s new artwork Your light movement, 2012, a video about physical movement, light, and life. Watch it here.
‘For this project at Tate Modern – the former power station turned into a museum – I have thought a lot about light as something that is more than just a means to illuminate something else. Light generates action. The Sunlight Graffiti project has been developed to foster human creativity and movement, driven by the power of light.
Little Sun responds to the situation we face today, where natural resources no longer abound. Energy shortage and unequal energy distribution make it necessary to reconsider how our life-sustaining systems function. I see Little Sun as the wedge to open up this urgent discussion from the perspective of art, to raise awareness about the need to improve energy access and the distribution of energy today.’
–Olafur EliassonYou can look around the interactive light graffiti globe online here
Paper Bits
Digital, Paper, Notes, Bits.
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2012-08-08
Source: lightgraffiti.littlesun.com
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2012-04-17
Betty Pepper - Textile/Jewellery Designer:
‘The ways in which time changes and decays objects interests me greatly and I like the notion that all things are ephemeral and constantly in a state of deterioration. My work often deals with stories from the dim and distant past. This is why I choose to work with faded colours. I like the way they look as if they have lived a little.’
(via looktouch)
Source: paperphilia
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2012-04-06
It’s Easter weekend so I’m shamelessly reblogging a piece of my own Sherlock art, because BUNNIES.
Thanks to Sarah for sending this to me, because I find it relevant. Also, bunnies.
Source: redscharlach
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2012-03-01
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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Banksy, from Cut It Out (via zaschell) (via dharmachaos)
Have reblogged this before, but here it is again because the message needs amplification. Own the medium.
(via rainbowhill)
Source: z4cs
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2011-12-29
‘water calligraphy device’ by canada-born, beijing-based media artist nicholas hanna reinterprets the chinese tradition of using a water brush to write poetry in public spaces by transforming a flat-bead tricycle into a poetry-writing device.
Source: designboom.com
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2011-11-22
Venezuelan artist Pedro Morales relies on his MakerBot Cupcake extensively for his new installation, De Redes and Cadenas, using it to transform brief poems by Rafael Cadenas into sculptures made up of machine-readable cyphers such as QR codes and Microsoft Tag.
Source: makerbot.com
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2011-11-02
LumiBots by Mey Lean Kronemann are small, autonomous robots that can leave glowing traces. The robots are equipped with a UV LED at their tail which leaves a glowing trail on phosphorescent sheet. The traces not only create generative images, but have a deeper meaning for the lumiBots: With their light sensors, they can follow the other robots’ as well as their own trails, and amplify them, thus creating an ant-trail-like mechanism luring more and more robots on the same path.
Mesmerizing.
Source: vimeo.com
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2011-09-08
“Banksy of the Book Art World” (via Amelia)
Last month, the book art piece above was found at the National Library of Scotland. It was the fourth piece found since March in a book-friendly location in Scotland. All reference or are devised from the work of Scottish mystery writer Ian Rankin and include a note professing some book love.
Source: looktouch
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The Notepad is a project created by SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production), it just was installed in the Talk to Me exhibition at the MoMa.
“Notepad” is an act of protest and commemoration disguised as a stack of ordinary yellow legal pads. Each ruled line, when magnified, is revealed to be microprinted text enumerating the full names, dates, and locations of each Iraqi civilian death on record over the first three years of the Iraq War. A printed edition of 100 notepads, was covertly distributed to US representatives and senators, as a sort of Trojan horse, injecting transgressive data straight into the halls of power and memorializing it in official archives.
Source: triangulationblog.com
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2011-09-07
The Bearina is a conceptual open-source, 3D printable IUD that uses a one-cent coin to as the chemical reactant by Open Design advocate Ronen Kadushin..
I’m curious: is there really enough copper in a coin to make this work?
Source: shapeways.com
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2011-09-02
Source: blog.eyemagazine.com
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2011-08-09
You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
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Alexander McQueen (via Amber Ying)
“You have to know the rules in order to break them” was something I thought I understood all through school, but didn’t…
Source: amberying
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2011-06-30
Semiotics of Color
Via fyeahsynesthesia, a proposal to map colors to the alphabet in a meaningful way.
This website is divided into several sections that represent the process used in developing this system of writing with color as well as links to online resources such as color converting algorithms, a set of fonts for displaying color text, and several downloadable examples of how the color font was used in my newer works.
Source: fyeahsynesthesia
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2011-06-17
Carlos Vilardebo’s 1961 film of Alexander Calder’s “circus”, an intricately assembled performance piece played out by handmade characters including jugglers, sword swallowers, clowns, and animals.
Source: youtube.com
