One tree + four mirrors = an entire forest! Step into a small booth and experience an infinite number of trees. This installation by DUS Architects was shown to folks in Oosterdokskade, Amsterdam last month.
Via Neatorama and Miss Celania
Category Archives: Contemporary Issues
Russian Curators Sentenced for ‘Forbidden’ Mickey Mouse Painting
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Two Russian curators who angered the Russian Orthodox Church with an exhibition that included images of Jesus Christ portrayed as Mickey Mouse and Vladimir Lenin were convicted Monday of inciting religious hatred and fined, but not sentenced to prison.
Link. Via Huffington Post.
Effective Advertising
Friday, July 2, 2010
80 cars that crashed in accidents
15 tons worth of metal
20 meters tall giant bottle shaped urban construction
1 of the country’s busiest highway and intersection
3 months long campaign
1,000,000 people exposed to the message every day
1 message: “Don’t drink and drive”
Advertising Agency: Shalmor Avnon Amichay/ Y&R Interactive, Tel Aviv, Israel
From “I Believe in Advertising.” Link.
Young Artist Gulf Oil Fundraiser Earns 20 Grand
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Since Olivia Bouler began her campaign to support the National Audubon Society’s work rescuing birds affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of individuals have contributed over $20,000 to her cause.
Link on Huffington Post
Art Identification App
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
“Plink Art” a mobile phone application that allows users to identify a work of art by simply taking its photo. The app contains thousands of famous paintings in its database, which can also pull up information on the artwork, including content from Wikipedia about the artist. Plink Art users can also leave digital comments and order prints of the [...]
Art teacher Fired for Initiative
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
This is me angry. The pettiness of people can be so incredibly depressing. Ego is something a lot of people cannot handle well it seems to me. And I have found—over a lifetime of working in the public domain—that dealing with the issue takes up 20% of the time in committee and dealing with personality [...]
Advanced Style Blog
Thursday, May 20, 2010
I volunteer with a seniors’ housing society called PAL Vancouver. We provide 99 subsidized suites to veterans of the performing arts. I love working with PAL. And my role there and my advancing age have me increasingly aware of the social issues of becoming a senior. In my digital travels, I came across this wonderful [...]
I Think I’ll be African-Canadian Today
Friday, April 23, 2010
“The Player” is the first realistic silicone African American mask on the market. This is one incredible mask and brings to mind characters played by Ving Raimes and Samual L. Jackson. Using all-new painting techniques used by top Hollywood Special Effects artists, Rusty Slusser has upped the anty in the world of realistic silicone masks. [...]
“Visual artists sue Google over copyright issues” (CNN)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Photographers and illustrators filed a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday, claiming that the search engine displays copyrighted images in books it scans, without fairly compensating the people who created the images…. more. (CNN website)