Sep 24
Unbelievable. And who would imagine, from Microsoft!
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.
Sep 23
The Two Faces of Takashi Murakami
He’s high art. He’s low culture. He’s a one-man mass-market machine.
Cover artwork for Kanye West’s single, Stronger by Murakami
Louis Vuitton Monogram Multicolore
Takashi Murakami’s style, called Superflat, is characterised by flat planes of color and graphic images involving a character style derived from anime and manga. Superflat is an artistic style that comments on otaku lifestyle and subculture, as well as consumerism and sexual fetishism.
Like Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami takes low culture, repackages it and sells it to the highest bidder in the “high-art market”. Unlike Warhol, Murakami also makes his repacked low culture available to all other markets in the form of paintings, sculptures, videos, T-shirts, key chains, mouse pads, plush dolls, cell phone caddies, and $5,000 limited edition Louis Vuitton handbags.
Sep 22
molo’s paper softseating is made entirely from kraft paper with 50% recycled content, and all elements utilise a flexible honeycomb structure to fan open into stools, benches and loungers. softseating has been acquired by the MoMA in New York for its permanent collection.
LomoWorldWall
Photo by doctor.boogie
Model World
Olivo Barbieri’s aerial photographs look uncannily like hyperdetailed models.
Micromodels were a new concept in card models invented by Geoffrey Heighway in 1941. He took the existing concept of card models and miniaturised them so that they could be packed into a small paper wrapper the size of a postcard. Heighway later coined the slogan “Your Workshop in a Cigar Box”, a phrase still synonymous among paper modellers.
Build Your Own Chicago is a series of postcards which can be cut and assembled into miniature paper models of prominent Chicago landmarks. Their website also has free models available as PDF downloads that you can print on cardstock or heavy paper and assemble.
Sep 20
magnetosphere
The last iTunes visualizer you will ever want for.
Sep 19
Dreams & illusions in the desert
A Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, Damien Hirst in Dubai: Matthew Collings reports on a new hunger for art
Louvre, Abu Dhabi / Jean Nouvel
Abu Dhabi is to gain a Louvre of its own
France goes the way of the Guggenheim and is set to rent the name, art and expertise of the Louvre to Abu Dhabi much to the consternation of the French art establishment.
