In the Japanese village of Inakadate in the Aomori prefecture, villagers plant ancient varieties of rice. The green areas are tsugaru-roman, the local variety while the purple yellow and red areas consist of kodaimai, or ancient strains of rice.
thanks to my mate ‘dominic for this unusual tip
this installation by artist gerry judah looks amazing, even in these little pictures
…but i would love to see it for real… wow, here’s an excerpt from the website:
This 44 tonne, 32 metre high innovative sculpture for the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2009 was sponsored by Audi to commemorate its centenary year.
Designed by Gerry Judah it celebrates Audi?s achievements in motor sport with the legendary 1937 Auto Union Streamliner and the recently launched R8 V10 sports car at either end of a dramatic ?swoosh? of tyre tracks, as if they are driving off into the sky.
here are two interesting ‘book art’ projects, shown above is against the grain i quote:
Against the Grain Books is a series of wooden sculptures fabricated into the shapes of books. Each book is printed with an original title and will be placed in various libraries throughout the Southern California region and beyond. For a nominal fee of $10.00 plus tax, shipping and handling, you can sponsor a book.
shown above & below the wonderful art of ‘robert the’ bookdust
Robert The never intended to be an artist. As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he double majored in Philosophy and Math and was interested in language and logic, pursuing what he calls the ?foundations of truth and meaning.? You might say his artwork continues that same search?but in a skewed way. Books are guns, a dictionary is a noose, and bugs crawl out of covers. They seem to mean something, but what? At the very moment that these works create new significations, the meanings float ever-elusively away.
trendy recycled bag designers ‘freitag’ have launched a series of limited edition art bags using recycled banners from several leading international museums, i particularily like the japanese ones myself (available for a short time from the 13th of august)
