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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Ithaa Undersea Restaurant

Ithaa Undersea restaurant sits 16 feet below sea level at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, a hotel resort in Hilton’s luxury brand that occupies two islands. Maldives is a country of almost 1,200 islands about 300 miles from the southernmost points of India and Sri Lanka.

One Million Times Smaller Than a Grain of Sand

It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule. Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule.
‘This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,’ lead researcher Leo [...]

FABULOUS Drawn Animation

“The Great Escape,” by Patrick Watson. See it on YouTube.

Cool Graphic Work

It would be very easy to manipulate facts if it weren’t for the media.
Advertising Agency: Advance, Fortaleza, Brazil
Creative Director: Fernando Manara
Art Director: Roberto Bruno
Copywriter: Thomaz Costa
Published: June 2009

Stay Focused.
Advertising Agency: Planit, Baltimore, USA
Agency website: Creative Director: Ed Callahan
Associate Creative Director/Copywriter: Trevor Villet
Art Director: Phil Reisinger
Publisher: May 2009

Advertising Agency: Espiral DP, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Creative Director: Wadih Antón
Art Directors: Hector [...]

Peter Jansen, Artist

Studies in motion by Dutch artist, Peter Jansen (who also has a beautifully simple website). Thanks to Neatorama.

Art 4 Barter

This is out of New York City:

What is Art4Barter?
Bartering may be the answer to bail us out of our current crisis. Although artists have historically been bartering as much as possible it is more relevant now than ever before. It can provide a solution to survival for so many of us and create a [...]

Ceiling Made of Beetles

Yep, beetles, 1.6 million of them. Or Buprestidae to be precise; a family of the insect which are more commonly known as Jewel Beetles.
This ceiling installation, known as Heaven Of Delight, can be found at the Royal Palace in Brussels and was created by controversial Flemish artist Jan Fabre, a man renowned for working with strange media including [...]

From September 10 to 20, 2009, the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Green Porno: Scandalous Sea, an art installation and series of short films written by and starring internationally-renowned actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini. Presented in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival®: Future Projections, these two- to [...]

Call Me Shallow

The Art News Blog featured these detailed images from “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch.

The Uniform Project

Starting May 2009, I have pledged to wear one dress for one year as an exercise in sustainable fashion. Here’s how it works: There are 7 identical dresses, one for each day of the week. Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accoutrements, the majority of which will [...]