enjoying the view from the little ‘anne frank window’ in the studio earlier… yes please, send us more of that white stuff
me news
painter shabbu
…after learning the art of painting signs he has painted over a thousand fruit-juice stall fronts till date, the earnings through which he pays for his Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts at New Delhi’s Jamia University…
interesting project aiming to rescue india’s dying art of hand painted type street signs
strength in inconsistency
my good friend ‘andré thijssen’ recommended this publication ‘amc2’ in the correct assumption that it would appeal to me
the archive of modern conflict is a british publication which concerns itself with curating the vernacular, although i have yet to hold a copy in my hands what i find appealing about these kinds of publications is that seemingly random imagery can often accumulate new and unexpected/unintended meaning when combined in a new way, as one comment on the website puts it neatly: …there is strength in inconsistency…
the magazine has been released (at irregular intervals) four times so far and short extracts can be viewed online, the subject matter and perhaps even the name somehow reminded me of the instititute for concrete matter here in the netherlands
e chromi
interesting project E.chromi: a collaboration between scientists and designers in the (new) field of synthetic biology
…by combining these with other BioBricks, bacteria could be programmed to do useful things, such as indicate whether drinking water is safe by turning red if they sense a toxin…
and… action!
following on from this recent post about album cover locations here is a similar idea from christopher moloney only this time featuring famous movie locations, he prints an image of the scene in question and makes a picture of the print on location, the site is being regularly updated as new sets are discovered… nice
(via the big ‘d’ strijdbosch)