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The Air that Cools your Home Heats Up the World

The outdoor clothier outfit Columbia teamed up with Prolam Y&R to decorate the façade of a newly refurbished building in Santiago, Chile, with the image above. Translated into English, the headline reads “The air that cools your home heats up the world.” Columbia belongs to the Conservation Alliance, whose website describes their corporate tag-team as “a group of specialty outdoor businesses that has become a powerful source of grass roots conservation and environmental funding.”

Fight Domestic Violence

1 Millimeter

What do you do every day? This year I set myself a challenge: Take a brand new photo each day. Beginning with 14mm, each day I zoom the lens by 1 millimeter and force myself to use that focal length to shoot and post a photo before going to sleep that night. This will continue every day until I reach the end of the 1mm lens adjustments at 400mm.

1mm is an experiment in changing perspective. Looking at things in a restricted view, I find the light as it’s naturally falling, then use the exposure and craft to create visual intrigue out of objects we pass by every day.

Keep in mind that I have to make this happen before or after my regular photography jobs and responsibilities with my new 9 month old son.

http://1millimeter.com

D*Face

What now seems like a lifetime but is merely a decade ago I sat slumped at my desk, head on arm pushing a pencil round a piece of paper dreaming up ways to kill time and break the chains holding me to my desk, Monday to Friday each day became the same and I was eating my brain.

http://www.dface.co.uk/

Book cover archive

The Book Cover Archive is run by Eric Jacobsen and Ben Pieratt, formerly of Covers.

http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/

Pretty Loader

Once upon a time, in a land of sputtering dial-up connections, websites took ages to load. Folks yearned for the 100% mark. But as soon as that figure arrived, the beloved (or the bemoaned) preloader disappeared, never to be seen or heard again. Until now.

Pretty Loaded is an archive of preloaders that preload after preloaders.. which in turn reveal yet more preloaders.

http://www.prettyloaded.com/

SUCK UK Calendar Tape

SUCK UK Calendar Tape by Laboratorium is a cheap and practical way of keeping your schedule together. Use it as a Twitterish diary, an organizer, or yes, a calendar.
You can also mark your video games, CDs, DVDs and gadgets with it, so you know when you bought them or when they’re due for maintenance, when to give/sell/throw them away etc. Of course you can use it to make two things one.

http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=107

Darius Jones

Leon Reid
New York-based artist Leon Reid doesn't say much about his work. Sturdy steel sculptures, personified bricks, and sloping sign posts speak for him, resonating with witty messages about isolation, race, irony, love, humor and tension.

http://www.jenbekman.com

CutUp

CutUp are an anonymous collective of artists based in East London, who work in outdoor intervention, film and sound installation. Their work focuses largely on the processes of disruption inherent in the everyday and on the reconfiguring of pre-existing systems within the urban environment.

http://www.cutupcollective.com/

Olga Osadowska

http://www.itisphoto.com/html/galeries/menu.cfm?nomgal=osadowska

Fashion: xiao xiao dong

xiao xiao dong is chinese fashion designer who presented this collection of angular and somewhat graphic clothing at her central saint martins graduation show in 2008. Xiao Xiao Dong takes body distortion to a whole new level. Previously a fine art student, Dong graduated with a BA in Fashion Print from Central Saint Martins earlier this year, and is causing quite a stir with her disproportionate silhouettes. Incoporating printed fabrics within rectangular frames, the experimental Chinese designer creates an eccentric universe of wildly exaggerated shapes and child-like prints. Illusory trousers are printed on skirts, while jackets and shirts are topped off with squared shoulders. Currently applying for an MA, Dong is determined to develop these ideas as much as she can before starting her career in fashion.

Gyeonggi museum of modern art

four architecture offices, BIG, INABA, MAD, and mass studies have proposed an urban plan for ansan, south korea. the proposal is currently on view at the gyeonggi museum of modern art (GMoMA) in ansan city until february 15, 2009 the joint project by the four firms, BIG (copenhagen), INABA (los angeles), MAD (beijing), an mass studies (seoul) uses versatile architectural forms
that change in size and use. th principals of the four offices, bjarke ingels, jeffrey inaba, yansong ma, and minsuk cho reinterpret the term ‘economies of scale’ to mean the value of a single architectural form tha functions at several scales.

Sametime7:15

For the next year, Brad and I will both be taking a picture at 7 :15 pm. We took our first pictures on December 18, 2007 .
Since then, more people joined in for the adventure!

http://www.sametime715.com/index.html

Andy Warhol Still-Life Polaroids

The Andy Warhol Still-Life Polaroids, is comprised of unique photographs of objects and arrangements taken by Andy Warhol between 1977 and 1983. This selection of 70 Polaroids will be on view at 511 West 27th Street.

Famous for his contributions to Pop Art, Warhol used photography as an integral part of his art making process. He referred to his Polaroid Big Shot camera, which he purchased in 1970, as his "pencil and paper." The Polaroid prints, instantaneously tangible records of the transitory, served as subjects for Warhol's drawings, silkscreens, and paintings.

Meticulous arrays of bananas, knives, and crosses contrast with jumbled assemblages of shoes and other commercial products, including Warhol's iconic soup cans and Brillo boxes. Warhol often deploys multiplication and varying degrees of order to alter and enliven quotidian objects. In other compositions, such as a single gray human heart presented on a vibrant red plate, individual subjects in the picture frame gain potency in isolation. Recurrent themes of desire, consumption, and mortality run throughout. The rarity of these works, coupled with the dwindling production of Polaroid film, dually capture a specific time in both Warhol's practice and the history of photography.

http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2008-10-29_andy-warhol/selected-works/

Domestic: Designed objects

Run by stéphane arriubergé and massimiliano iorio, Domestic introduces collections of objects designed by designers, graphic artists and artists gathered around innovating and new concepts and themes. All these objects have the particularity of offering an area where the end user can intervene and be free in the creation process.

www.domestic.fr

'chalo! india: a new era of indian art'

'chalo! india: a new era of indian art' brings together 27 artists from cities throughout india. featuring over
100 works including paintings, sculptures, photography and installations, the exhibition examines the latest
movements in indian contemporary art. more recently, indian artists have been making works that respond to
urbanization and changing contemporary lifestyles—art that reflects the rapid economic development,
and globalization that has taken hold since the 1990s. also on display are sociological research projects,
involving architects and intellectuals and state of the art interactive media.

mori art museum, tokyo, japan
march 15, 2009

The photographic dictionary

The photographic dictionary is dedicated to defining words through their literal, figurative and personal meanings found in each photograph.

http://www.thephotographicdictionary.org

BEN: Benjamin Vautier

Ben, de son vrai nom Benjamin Vautier, est un artiste français d'origine suisse, né le 18 juillet 1935 à Naples en Italie. Il vit et travaille à Nice.
Membre du groupe Fluxus et proche du Lettrisme, Ben est un artiste majeur de l'avant-garde artistique française connu pour ses performances, installations et peintures. Il devient connu du grand public à partir les années 1960, à travers notamment ses « écritures » déclinées sous diverses formes.

http://www.ben-vautier.com/

Maison Close

L’année dernière, à l’occasion du festival d’Angoulême, Florent Ruppert et Jérôme Mulot organisaient un championnat au monde de bras de fer en ligne entre seize auteurs de bande dessinée (Lewis Trondheim, Frédéric Poincelet, Killofer, Lisa Mandel, Boulet, etc.). En sortait un joli bazar, entre joyeuse malhonnêteté et sacrés coups bas sur et sous la table.

http://maisonclose.bdangouleme.com/

Maison Close

L’année dernière, à l’occasion du festival d’Angoulême, Florent Ruppert et Jérôme Mulot organisaient un championnat au monde de bras de fer en ligne entre seize auteurs de bande dessinée (Lewis Trondheim, Frédéric Poincelet, Killofer, Lisa Mandel, Boulet, etc.). En sortait un joli bazar, entre joyeuse malhonnêteté et sacrés coups bas sur et sous la table.

http://maisonclose.bdangouleme.com

Lunch Bag Art

A new bag each day for my kids.
I'm the dad. I make these during my lunch break.

Lunchbagart can be gmailed. LunchBagArt can be Twittered

http://lunchbagart.tumblr.com/

Nous sommes ennemis

Jason Nelson est de retour. De quoi enthousiasmer certains et détourner le chemin de tous les autres. Car le travail de ce programmeur-artiste-poète américain ne laisse pas indifférent. On adhère, voire on adore ou on rejette. La dernière de ses créations hybrides « entre œuvre d’art / plate-forme de jeu vidéo, / poésie numérique » est enemy6, sous-titré « i made this. you play this. we are enemies. »

http://www.secrettechnology.com/madethis/enemy6.html