City Series — JAMES MCNABB A collection of cityscape inspired sculptures that explore sociological concepts regarding transformations of cities and urban landscapes, their beauty, uniqueness, and over-development. James McNabb uses discarded pieces of wood to create sculptures, some with very unique and alluring characteristics, that are contextualized to draw new meaning out of the material and force viewers to create their own perspective of the urban landscape. McNabb blends traditional woodworking techniques with experimental mark making using a bandsaw. Robert Wilson, Tom Waits & William S. Burroughs - The Black Rider (1992) Duration: 136'13" This is a TVRip of the Austrian broadcast of the original Black Rider musical, performed in 1990 as part of the Wiener Festwochen. There is a 7-minute introduction in German, and the dialogue and music is in both German and English. The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a self-billed "musical fable" in the avant-garde tradition created through the collaboration of theatre director Robert Wilson, musician Tom Waits, and writer William S. Burroughs.
The Infinity Room With this immersive installation, French artist Serge Salat invites visitors to take a journey through endless layers of space, decked out with cubic shapes, panels of mirrors, shifting lights and music. “Beyond Infinity” is a multi-sensory, multimedia experience that blends Eastern Chinese with Western Renaissance. Inspired by the Suzhou Gardens, a masterpiece of Chinese landscape, the three-lined trigram of I Ching is the main pattern that organizes the space of the work. Salat uses mirrors as optical illusions, exploding a single room into spatial infinity. via [Architizer]
Eddy Van Gestel Photographer Eddy Van Gestel lives and works in Belgium and Africa. He gained international fame through his coffee table books “Africa, a Continent in the Picture”, “Africa XL” and “To the Rhythm of the Sun.” Over the years his style has become more serene and restrained, stripped of any excess, complex perspectives and difficult angles. Whether he is shooting portraits, wildlife, still lifes or landscapes, all his pictures have one thing in common: they draw their graphic strength from their simplicity. The War Against Photography in Analogue Lifestyle in Magazine We've all heard and experienced it one time time or another. You're just minding your own business taking a few snapshots with your Lomo cameras when out of nowhere, uniformed individuals accost you and demand that you either show them a permit or stop shooting. This is the war against photography. Know your rights! Over the past two years, photography has enjoyed an exponential boom in interest, with everyone and their grandmas brandishing point & shoot digital cameras, DSLRs, and even the ubiquitous Iphone.
Gean Moreno, Farewell to Function: Tactical Interiors / Journal Gean Moreno Disorientation: We Are Almost There Many of the more prominent artworks produced in the last decade or so are characterized by a recasting of what were once called installations as something closer to interiors, relegating the installation to a supportive role that places meaning in the service of activity. From an artwork spread out everywhere we turn to one that is located very precisely in the features that can be said to make up the space—the walls, the furnishings, the floor coverings, the display structures, the shelves.
Sport Photos before 1925 Ever since photography has been around, people have been photographing sports. In the old days, most of the photos were made on glass plates (so called Collodion process) This collection of photos will show you weird sports, vintage equipment and most of all pioneers and sport heroes of those days. All 121 photos were taken before 1925 and each photo has a short explanation of its historic value. First modern Olympic Games in 1894, Athens. Old ships from “new” materials — John Taylor John Taylor 1954 — San Juan Capistrano, CA Sculptures from found objects When you look at John Taylor’s ships, is hard to believe that they haven’t just been pulled from the ocean floor. (OK – you can believe it, but the patina is even more amazing once you realize that many of the parts that John uses to create these intricate sculptures are pulled from computer parts and treated to look like rusty metal…no easy feat with plastic. John is a landscape architect by trade, and spends his evenings and weekends working on his ships in his garage, while he keeps an eye on his kids playing hockey in the drive. His ships are based on actual vessels, from Civil War-era river boats to WWI battleships.
Ghost architecture « CUPtopia A map is a representation of reality, not reality itself. Sometimes it is a projection of reality, a potential reality that has not happened yet. In this case, let’s call it a utopia. Lesson / Koan : Pablo Valbuena combines the best of both worlds. Just like a cartographer, Pablo Valbuena bases himself on existing spaces. Korean photographer Taewon Jang grew up intimately familiar with the world of industrialization. His father spent 36 years working for a cement factory, during which time Taewon witnessed the industry's evolution first hand—including the loss of factories and the jobs it provided. "Many of the basic industries that were considered important in the 20th century are now being abandoned due to rapid changes in industrial exploitation," he told Co.Design "I have been trying to document these changes." Taewon's book of photographs Stained Ground showcases industrialization's demise, with dramatic nighttime shots of disused factories around the world. The decline of manufacturing in the U.S. has been particularly dramatic. Manufacturing made up 28% of the country's economic output in 1959; today it is just 11%.
PAUL THEK PROJECT During construction. Thek standing on the bridge that aims to the entrance of the pyramid. There are three other people in the image, two men climbing onto the bridge and a woman at the entrance of the pyramid. Prepared cardboard boxes are piled up on the left shelfs above the radiator.