‘Made In Queens‘ is a short documentary directed by Nicolas Randall and Joe Stevens. It’s about a small crew of 6 Trinidadian teenagers in Queens, New York, who customize their BMX bikes with huge soundsystems. They gave their bikes even names:
Basszilla, which looks definitely louder than in that November 2007 The New York Times article.
Tinnitus Rex
Frankenbike
This is the official trailer.
found at CR Blog
Mary Ellen Bute was a American pioneer film animator. Here are 3 of her 14 short abstract music films, made between 1934 and 1953.
Rhythm in Light (1934)
Dada (1936)
Tarantella (1940)
Polar Candle is a project by wowlab. It is a video installation based on cylindrical Anamorphosis. The effect isn’t new, but the execution is excellent
‘The Robotic Chair‘ is a project by Max Dean, Raffaello D’Andrea & Matt Donovan.
The Robotic Chair (1984 - 2006) is a generic-looking wooden chair with the capacity to fall apart and put itself back together. With shuddering force the chair collapses to the floor then with persistence and determination proceeds to seek out its parts and upright itself. The Robotic Chair is distinguished in the world of objects for its capacity to elicit empathy, compassion and hope.
In 2006, the Danish artist Nikolaj Recke extended the German coastline by 10 meters.
found at NoMoreSleep
On October 9th, 1992, a meteorite broke up over the United States and hit a parked car in Peekskill, New York. Since then that car is known as the Peekskill Meteorite Car and was exhibited all over the world. Ron van der Ende, a Dutch artist, took that car as the inspiration for his bas relief made with reclaimed timber.
Andy Uprock calls his street art: Cuprocking. He sticks white plastic cups in fences to create patterns, some even get a spray can treatment.
found at rebel:art
This is quite a nice TV commercial for Guinness, unfortunatly the beer itself isn’t that good.
Iwan Baan is a Dutch photographer who documented the construction of the National Stadium in Beijing, that was designed by Herzog & de Meuron (don’t they have their own website?). I’m quite fascinated by this huge lamp in the first picture. Does anyone have some information about it?
You can find a lot of really nice architecture photography in Iwans portfolio.
Someone gave Betty quite a different look.