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Photos by Carlota Bird. More below!

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A great piece, see more from Church Of Nobody by clicking here & KK by clicking here.

abandoned, forgotten, and overrun by contemporary commercial businesses, the series of images capture the final chapter of the banks' tremendous careers as financial institutions.

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This video by Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux is stunning. It powerfully illustrates the beauty of math, even if you don’t understand math. Make sure to watch fullscreen!

(via this FastCo article)

The Universe Salutes You, designed by James Victore. Made me laugh.

Exposition — Galerie 22,48 m² — 15 novembre → 21 décembre 2013

Faisant référence au poème de Raymond Roussel du même nom dans lequel, regardant le petit paysage de plage inscrit dans la bille en verre de son porte-plûme l’écrivain décrit les scènes qui s’y déroulent et se laisse porter par son imagination, La Vue propose un ensemble hétéroclite des travaux de Géraud Soulhiol.

Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, journalist and fashion photographer and illustrator. His project The Selby offers an insider’s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist’s eye for detail....  Keep on reading


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By day Drew Tyndell is a freelance director who makes animations for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and suchlike, but by night he creates his own brand of puzzle-inspired wooden artworks using wood. Combining sculpture, painting and collage in one unique blend, his work is rooted in a graphic design education, using wooden blocks in strong colours to make subtle references to a grid form and to architectural processes.

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“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

Aleksandra Domanović deals with sculpture that echoes monuments from the past from her native (former) Yugoslavia. While some sculptures take on more traditional forms of post-Communist leaders, the Berlin-based artist also began experimenting with unique materials in her work. 19:30 Stacks was created by piling size A3 and A4 paper with photos printed on their sides with ink-jet printing. First creating a massive PDF file of a photo, Domanović set the printer to ‘border-less print’ setting, which coated the ends of each paper, and when stacked upon each other, revealed the finished image.

For a time this work was open-sourced so that anyone could make one for themselves by downloading the file (now broken), printing it out, and then placing it between 1500 empty pages on the top and bottom of the printed stack. According to her artist statement, Domanović’s ”work focuses on profound social and media-technological transformations, and their interdependence. Some of her projects give form to the relationships of meaning imposed by archival models. Others suggest alternate models that draw on her observations of shared memory and feelings of community. Domanovic uses material related to her autobiography — the television, music, and monumental art of Yugoslavia — as well as materials that claim transcendence of the personal and national, such as Getty Images’ database of stock photography and (on the blog Vvork, which she co-edits) international contemporary art production.” (via u1u11)

   

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Reading positions. Made me laugh.

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White Space project

Sadly by your side is an album and an app. The app is a processing and remixing tool where each song can be endlessly transformed depending on the images you focus on with your camera.Using custom built software, the visual input is converted into a new image painted with red, blue and black.

Each of these colors directly affects elements of the music. In the end, each track is unique, with a remodeled harmony, melody and rhythm, constructed as a direct result of the environment captured by the camera.

To listen to the song in its original form, focus the app on one of the eight images available in the book Sadly by your side. They contain the exact amount of red, blue and black to produce the right harmony, melody and rhythm.

Making of: vimeo.com/74218234
Artist profile: vimeo.com/74621833

App by Angelo Semeraro, Video by Giacomo Pennicchi & Coleman Guyon, Music Davide Cairo, Graphic Design by Matteo Di Iorio, Claudio Fabbro

“And now for your viewing an listening pleasure, a recital on the Theremin…” What the deuce is a Theremin? I hear at least a few of you ask, and the answer not a cholesterol medication, but a very strange musical instrument named after its Russian inventor Léon Theremin. Supposedly the only known instrument that is played without touching it – I gave it some thought while the adverts were on and couldn’t come up with another – it’s the go-to apparatus for whenever a spooky, the-aliens-have-landed sound is needed. Portishead’s Mysterons had a memorable Theremin-like sound, and for those of an older vintage, dig out your Led Zep vinyl and listen carefully to Whole Lotta Love. The player operates the instrument by moving their hands around two antennas, one for pitch and one for amplitude, and the equipment was a big seller for synth kings Moog in the days of analogue.

That entirely necessary pre-amble leads us to Judith Charles Gallery in New York, where the talented François Chambard (whose work we’ve previously drooled over; here and here) has designed a collection of custom-built sculptural Theremins that are the stars of Odd Harmonics, a show put together in collaboration with Butterscotch Records and Moog Music. The Chambard Theremins are both innovative and at the same time a beautiful throwback – check out Eeboo, with its echoes of Ray Harryhausen’s Bubo the mechanical owl from Clash of the Titans. There is a programme of live performance events lined up for this weekend (1-3 November) including one for the kids on Sunday, and what better activity for Hallowe’en weekend than some eerie electronic vibes? Theremins are not all about B-movie sound effects though. Shostakovich included parts for Theremins in several of his works, and classical Thereminists exist to this day (way to carve out a niche).

Virtuoso Carolina Eyck is visiting with pianist Christopher Tarnow on Saturday, and works by artist Cassandra C Jones and painter Tomory Dodge, who have featured on Butterscotch releases, round out a brilliantly unusual multi-disciplinary event. The exhibition ends on 16 November.

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François Chambard
Pink Perch, 2013

François Chambard
Eeboo, 2013

François Chambard
Béton Rouge, 2013

François Chambard
Fé Fée, 2013

François Chambard
Pink Perch, 2013

François Chambard
Pill Box, 2013

François Chambard
Antenna Aranea, 2013
Photography © Francis Dzikwoski / Esto

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Lurking in the depths of the internet is a place where time has no meaning, where the very concept of progress or gentrification is null. I’m referring of course, to the official Space Jam website which lies dormant on the dark floor of the bottomless pit that is the world wide web. To internet archaeologists (that is a thing) having a play around on this site is like coming across an abandoned but fully preserved tube station with the ticket machines still working – a preserved, long forgotten nugget of history and design. What’s so interesting about the Space Jam website is the staggering difference in it’s aesthetic and the force at which it propels you back to the days when you first saw the internet, and the only thing you knew how to do was go on Hamster Dance. May it remain active for many more years to come.

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Oh to be a teenager in the late 70s, smoking weed in your car and driving to a lakeside fireworks display after a long day chilling at the waterpark. Photographer Joe Maloney was there and rather than spending his time rolling joints and eating cotton candy he actually made the effort to document what was going on around him. His photos are like the best parts of Dazed and Confused combined with the white-sock style of Do the Right Thing, making him my new favourite photographer.

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Alfred Jarry était un poète, romancier et dramaturge français. Il est mort le 1er novembre 1907 à l'hôpital de la Charité, à Paris. Comme dernière volonté il demanda un cure-dent.

Certains bars, salles de concert et boîtes de nuits utilisent des néons de couleur bleue dans leur toilettes. Cela afin d'empêcher les toxicomanes de se piquer, cette lumière rendant les veines très difficiles à distinguer.

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Magnetic putty time lapse as it absorbs a rare-earth magnet. Taken over 1.5 hours at 3fps.
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the cardboard construction is designed to slide just over the hood of a regular car, attaching to its roof and sides while cut-outs in the front and passenger windows allow for driver visibility.

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a simple yet unbreakable stainless steel combination lock for protection against wheel and seat post theft on bikes.

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The exhibition shows exciting work of 6 influential and actual contemporary photographers from Belgium, who depict daily life as it is in our present era. Selection of Websites: Lara Gasparotto, Bert Danckaert, Thomas Sweertvaegher and Vincent Delbrouck.

OCT LOFT, Shenzhen. 28.10.2013 > 30.11.2013.

Exposition — Galerie Maria Lund — 7 novembre → 7 décembre 2013

Dans le Kudzu project, l’œil de la photographe suédoise Helene Schmitz observe et enregistre les phénomènes de la nature avec une conscience aigüe de l’éphémère. Retenir par la photographie est sa motivation majeure.

Exposition — Galerie Isabelle Gounod — 9 novembre → 21 décembre 2013

La peinture de Maude Maris possède une certaine qualité de silence : silence du « faire », dont le geste s’emploie à effacer ses propres traces ; silence polaire de sa lumière enveloppante et de ses tonalités douces ; silence enfin de ces espaces cloisonnés, uniquement peuplés de volumes blancs ou colorés, à la fois étranges et vaguement familiers.

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