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comfort #4

a funky light installation entitled ‘comfort #4’ by artists lang & baumann for the ‘nuit blanche’ event in paris in 2010

…9 inflated white tubes connected all windows of two floors of the Ecole Elementaire de Belleville in Paris, with each other. Each tube threaded several windows in a random order. The result was a huge chaotic knot in front of the facade. In the night the lights from the inside were shining through the translucent foil…

(via today&tomorrow)

m / 27-03-2011 10:45 - tags: , ,  

100.000.000 stolen pixels

…a web crawler started with 10 URLs (See first 10 in url.log) and searched HTML pages for images and hyperlinks. Each found image got downloaded and 100 pixels in a square of 10×10 were cut out of it. Each found hyperlink got stored in the cache and thereby added to the list of searchable URLs. The process repeated itself until 1.000.000 images were downloaded and 100.000.000 pixels were stolen. The application run for 215:30 hours (9 days)…

digital crime, but then all in the name of art… from digital creative/artist kim asendorf

m / 24-03-2011 14:14 - tags: , ,  

string gardens

these are absolutely beautiful, a series of hanging plants, created by green fingered local amsterdam artist fedor van der valk

see more of the pieces on his dedicated portfolio site

m / 22-03-2011 09:20 - tags: , , ,  

junior

just look at these amazing toilet roll sculptures by french ‘paper’ artist junior fritz jacquet

also see more of his work here (link via ‘uwe’)

m / 22-03-2011 08:49 - tags: , ,  

apocalypso

biblical references, flat screen tv’s, the holy madonna, fritz langs ‘metropolis’ and the apollo space mission all meet in theses fascinating collages by dutch artist rommert boonstra

…one of the founding fathers of Staged Photography in the Netherlands. Mostly he works in his studio, but on several occasions he did projects about museum collections, that were made in the museum itself…

m / 22-03-2011 08:43 - tags: , ,