…an unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water has taken so long to recede, many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs. As a result, the mosquito population seems to have decreased, a small blessing likely caused by these webs…
(via mister ‘ stephen fry’ on twitter)
the guardian is hosting an overview of some of the best of 50 years of amnesty international posters, from amongst others ‘pablo picasso’
interesting project that reduces a feature film down to a colour barcode, with each pixel width representing one frame of the film, the result creates a kind of unique ‘dna code’ for each film (tip via ‘fontanel’)
this weekend i met and had a chat to ‘royalsteez’ whose one-man campaign to raise awareness of the current political climate and the impending crisis in the arts & culture can be seen all over the netherlands, right now… as his website states:
“YOUR ART COULD HAVE BEEN HERE” is a one-man campaign initiated by artist ROYALSTEEZ. A campaign to make other artists aware of the fact that they could have been there. Aware of the fact that opportunities will never come easily and to get opportunities you’ll have to create them in order to been seen. Also to be aware of the fact that you cannot let your creations depend on grants and benefits but on hard work and showing yourself…
perhaps the most surprising fact he told me is that he actually travelled around the whole country ‘solo’ fly-posting the posters himself, which took weeks… the reason being he felt that this was part of the manifesto: to do it yourself, impressive… (top image courtesy of mister ‘jarr’)
say hello to me studio’s latest addition ‘polina medvedeva’, who will be working alongside me as our new intern during the coming period… she is currently studying graphic design at the ‘HKU’ art school in utrecht and the timing couldn’t have been better, we have a huge amount of work and some interesting projects ahead of us in the coming weeks, so welcome ‘polina’ and have fun :)