some fun work in a variety of media and styles from rietveld graduate simon wald lasowski, thanks to ‘jona rotting’ for the tip, although i just realised that he’s been posted here before three years ago (so glad i’ve now got that search function… it’s getting difficult to remember all the stuff that’s been posted here in the past six years)
this is great, a balancing elephant from artist daniel firman (via ‘vormplatform’)
interesting article on the controversial bodyscan technology which the US government began deploying… in 2007 in limited field trials. By January 2011, their numbers had grown to about 500 units, with another 500 to be fielded in 2011. Perhaps moved by the public pressure last fall, the government this month began testing new scanner software at airports in Las Vegas, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.. The new software produces a generic outline of the passenger instead of a near-nude image…
the amsterdam zoo ‘artis’ has been infected with a series of wild wooly animals, a month long project involving a group of knitting volunteers has resulted in this playful outdoor exhibition artis wild, nice… (dutch only)
nicely made birthday celebration photo-mosaic of the (overly hero-worshipped) ‘god of apple’ mister steve jobs for the ‘LA times’ (via the CR twitter feed)