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In 2001 artist Peter Gibson began a guerrilla street art campaign to encourage the city of Montreal to build more bike lanes. What began as a project borne of activism eventually became an art project that continues to this day. Assuming the name Roadsworth stating, “where Wordsworth is a poet of words, Roadsworth is a poet of roads,” the artist has cleverly modified roads, sidewalks, parking lots and any other publicly visible asphalt surface he can transform with paint. If you want to learn more, the artist recently took a moment to share some thoughts with My Modern Met and you can see much more of his work on his website.

Update: Colossal reader Roula adds via Facebook: The first image “is a visual translation of ‘nid de poule‘—chicken nest, which is the quebecois expression for potholes.”

my initial reaction: “oh, was she still alive?”

my tumblrsphere reaction:

yeah, horrible person. but the time to get all up in it about her being a horrible person was while she was busy being a horrible person.

sure, go ahead and party now. but… didja do all you could to stop the horrible while it was happening? all that you could? then? when it mattered?

this is the struggle i’ll have with bush 2, cheney, et al.

sure - dance on their graves. but did we do everything we could to stop the things we found so repugnant while they were happening?

if you’re gonna dance on their graves, be sure you’ve earned the right to.

Space Saving Solutions In A Loft by FGMF Arquitetos, Brazil

During a talk at Oxford University back in February, scientist Richard Dawkins was asked to justify his belief in the scientific method. In his brief but pointed response, Dawkins explained that he believes in science because it works, or as he put it: “It works, bitches.” His quote appears to be a reference to a classic 2006 web comic by xkcd:

via John Adams

“This is not a game” by artist Lorenzo Quinn is a large-scale sculptural installation of giant hands playing with a life-sized tank and toy soldiers. Exhibited on a floating platform at the 2011 Venice Bienalle, the installation featured a 37-ton Russian T-55 tank.

The human figure and especially hands show up frequently in Quinn’s work. In recent years he has created two other more playful installations of hands playing with life-sized toys. The 2010 installation “Vroom Vroom” features a giant hand playing with a Fiat Cinquecento car. “La Dolce Vita” is a 2011 installation of a giant hand playing with a Vespa scooter.

“Vroom Vroom”

“La Dolce Vita”

via My Modern Metropolis, Ian Brooks

I’m not sure it’s possible to infuse black tape with more energy than Polish artist Monika Grzymala has accomplished with her piece Raumzeichnung, roughly “Drawing Room”. The three dimensional installation which seems to launch from columns in the basement of Galerie Crone was installed in 2012 and required 3.1 miles (that’s 5km) of stretched, cut, and criss-crossed tape. According to Ignant the artist begins her work from scratch in the gallery, working intuitively with tape to sketch out ideas as she conceives them until the work is done. You can see more of her tape drawings over on Co.Design.

meme4u:

http://memeblock.com/

via http://ilovedust.com/blog/

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Given that I’ve brought up the history of the word woman, it is worth taking a moment for a side note, to dispel a couple of false etymologies. Please don’t believe anyone who tries to tell you that this word derives from “womb-man” or “woe-to-man.” Pure rubbish. It comes from Old English wifmann, back when wif (later wife) meant ‘female’ and mann really could mean ‘person’ in general.

From a great, brief article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that looks at the term “guys” and the lack of a flexible terms for women.

I use “guys” regularly to address a group of men, women or both. But as the author points out, I wouldn’t refer to a woman individually as “guy”… In that case I think I most frequently revert to “chick”.

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Really love this simple Delete Clock, offering us an innovative way of planning our day and keeping with schedules. The whiteboard surface is good for jotting down notes and tasks, plus the fact that the schedule gets erased when the clock hand sweeps the face, is very poetic indeed.

Designers: Li Ke, Pang Sheng Li & Chen Yi Lin

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(by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Hische)

In his ongoing street art series “The Living Wall,” Russian artist Nikita Nomerz brings life to decrepit buildings in Russia by painting faces on them. Nomerz travels extensively around Russia and makes an effort to paint a character in each place he visits. He talks about his art in this interview with Global Street Art.

I paint in the street, in public spaces, but I do not position myself as an invader of the city or a destroyer. I position myself as a creator. With my street art work, I fill the urban emptiness. I am inspired by the process of painting, city, people, music, movies and art by other artists. All this is interesting: it pushes the creation of art works.

via Telegraph, Global Street Art, Environmental Graffiti, Digg

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