23 5 / 2012
The astonishment of not be sold anything
Everyday we walk on streets completely surrounded by various kinds of advertising: shop signs, bus stop ads, billboards etc. The result of this massive spamming is that our brain started ignoring them, so we notice only a few.
In 2005 Austrian artists Steinbrener/Dempf decided to let streetwalkers experience a “horror vacui” by covering with yellow drapes all the advertising items in a street in downtown Vienna. The resulting project called DELETE! is really baffling.
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21 5 / 2012
Absolut Inspire
Augmented Reality will be one of the battlefield of future advertising business: Iris Gavric & Daniel Otterbein proposed an entry for Future Lions 2012 where AR is mixed with art, to create a new environment where street artist could change the urban landscape according to their ideas.
The project is called Absolut Inspire and it is proposed for Absolut Vodka.
(Source: digitalbuzzblog.com)
08 5 / 2012
Modern Art preservation
Pigments, marble, film were the weapon of choice of artists in the past, but if you go today to a Modern Art exhibit you will hardly find something made with these items.
Contemporary artists use almost everything for their masterpieces: dead animals, food, electronic devices and much more. But as the time goes by, these kinds of artistic expression are becoming a nightmare for art conservators.
07 5 / 2012
Steven Spazuk painting with fire
Using a destructive element like fire to create something may sound like an oxymoron: french artist Steven Spazuk shows us how to create art by handling this destroying force.
(Source: spazuk.net)
03 5 / 2012
Measuring Type
Which font consumes the most ink?
British artist Matt Robinson asked himself the same question. With the help of Tom Wrigglesworth, they tried to find an answer.
The answer was given by the Bic pens they questioned about.
(Source: matthewrobinson.co.uk)
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20 12 / 2011
Blek Le Rat, pseudonimous of Xavier Prou, is the pioneer of stencil graffiti art. He started his career in 1981 painting rats on Parisian walls. Does he remember you somebody else?
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19 12 / 2011
Mark Wagner is an American artist who makes these awesome collages using 1 dollar bills. You can help Wagner art by donating him a buck with Paypal.
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12 12 / 2011
Nearly 10% of 2012 Sundance movies raised money on Kickstarter
110 feature-length films and 64 short films were selected to get into 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Of those 174 films selected, 14 of them are Kickstarter projects who received funding by the crowd.
Here it is the trailer of “Keep The Lights On” who runs in Drama competition.
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