Remix Your City
Armed with their Fresh Push Play iPhone App, Japanese breakbeat duo, KEIZOmachine! and Juicy, aka HIFANA took to the streets of vibrant Tokyo to sample the city sounds. In order to showcase the attributes of the app, they then followed it up by an electrifying live set performed with only iPhone and iPad. A small … Read more
Feel-O-Meter Shows German Town’s Mood
“Fühlometer ” (Feel-o-meter) or “Public Face” in Germany is an interactive art installation that shows the mood of a city by displaying it in the form of an eight-foot illuminated Smiley. The emotions are captured by a digital camera that is focused on the faces of the people standing in a specific area on the lakeside. … Read more
United Colors of Benetton UNHATE
Last weeks United Colors of Benetton’s new worldwide campaign, UNHATE saw a host of world leaders parodied to make out they were enjoying a bit more than a French kiss, in order to combat the “culture of hatred” and promoting closeness between people, faiths, cultures and the peaceful understanding of each others motivations. The campaign … Read more
‘All’ of Maurizio Cattelan At The Guggenheim
Maurizio Cattelan has been one of the most interesting, provocative, bold and funny contemporary artists of his generation, looking at today’s society and exposing its contradictions in works that despite their humour are a scathing attack on 21st century culture. Following his announcement to retire, the Guggenheim in New York is hosting a retrospective of … Read more
Senseless Drawing Bot: Making Graffiti Mechanical
Japanese designers So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi have created a modern day ‘Weird Science’ robot that instead of being the perfect woman, is a bot that creates stunning graffiti art. The Senseless Drawing Bot is definitely not as aesthetically pleasing as Kelly LeBrock’s Lisa in the cult 80s movie, but the anarchic movement from its … Read more
Lavinia Greenlaw: Audio Obscura
In the busy public spaces of London’s St Pancras International Station, everyday dramas are constantly being acted out; people waiting or rushing, engaged in conversation or lost in their own thoughts. In Audio Obscura, equipped with headphones, you enter the crowd and overhear voices around you. What did that woman mean? Did he really say … Read more
Herb Williams’ Crayon Art – Unwanted Visitor: Portrait of Wildfire
“Unwanted Visitor: Portrait of Wildfire” is an outdoor art installation, created by sculptor Herb Williams to raise awareness of wildfire in an area that has been severely affected by drought. This installation is on display outdoors at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, TX. Williams designed and created several freestanding, three-dimensional sculptures of wildfire … Read more
UK’s most streamed music as a tube map
With an increasing amount of music now consumed online, British music streaming website we7 has created an interactive Musical Map, using the UK’s most streamed artists of 2011. we7 acts your own personal DJ and creates personalised radio stations based on the music you love. The Music Map reveals who the population of the UK … Read more
Pipilotti Rist: Eyeball Massage
Open now at London’s Hayward Gallery is Pipilotti Rist’s first solo UK exhibition, ‘Eyeball Massage’. The provocative and sensual Swiss artist refuses to conform to the quintessentially British stiff upper lip. The show will undoubtedly rattle a few feathers, but charm, intrigue and sex appeal underpin a show that combines nipples, worms, underpants and bathing … Read more
Mindful of creativity
Last night saw the late view of Mindful at the cavernous Old Vic Tunnels. Launched with a gala dinner and auction hosted by Mind president Stephen Fry on Wednesday evening; Mindful is an exhibition and series of events to raise money for the creative therapies fund within Mind, the leading mental health charity in England … Read more
Reflecting the Stars
Moon River turns Star River as New York’s Hudson captures the constellations that lay above it each and every night. Artist and keen astronomer John Morris, upset that New Yorkers were unable to see the reflective beauty of the night’s sky because of the city’s lights, decided it was time to give star gazers the … Read more
The Big Yellow Rabbit by Florentijn Hoffman
We all have a favourite toy from our childhood that we desperately – sometimes embarrassingly – wanted to keep hold of in a secret box under our bed, never to be parted with. Florentijn Hoffman decided to make his a bit more public, with The Big Yellow Rabbit at OpenART Biennale this year. The Örebro … Read more
Underground City
A city under ground, it sounds like the stuff of myths and legends, but a street artist, EVOL in Germany has made it a reality with a series of buildings just visible from a rural patch in Hamburg. It does bring a new meaning to the horrible song Jamiroquai did ages ago “Deeper Underground”, or … Read more
Transformers, dresses in disguise
Optimus Prime, it isn’t, but Montréal-based designer Ying Gao seems to have been inspired by the Hasbro cartoon and now movie, Transformers, for her latest collection ‘Living Pod’. Not happy with the natural movement of her exquisite designs, Gao has ‘souped-up’ her dresses with electronic motors that give them a life of their own when … Read more
Cool Runnings in Hackney? Yah Man!
Rocky, Cool Runnings, Breaking Away and Chariots of Fire are amongst some of the sporting blockbusters set to be screened on recycled fridges in East London as part of Films on Fridges, launching tomorrow. Films on Fridges has resurrected Hackney’s Fridge Mountain, once Europe’s largest mound of discarded refrigerators, into a pop-up cinema for three … Read more
The best dance moves ever
Everytime I see this I can’t help but think I should have gone to dance classes when I was a kid…
Pop–Up Pirate
Pop-up’s aren’t exactly new but we have to commend Adam Kalkin on his efforts. The US-based artist has popped up a pirate radio tower from an old shipping container smack bang in the middle of Melbourne. All for the Mis-Design exhibition at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College. Made from a locally salvaged shipping container … Read more
Girls urged to strip to support Vladimir Putin as president
An online campaign has been launched in Russia urging young women to support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by taking off their clothes. Called “Putin’s Army”, it features a video of a blonde student called Diana who struts along Moscow’s streets in high heels and a black suit before scrawling “I will … Read more
Roger Federer “action painted” in four minutes
In a spectacular show, the “action painter” artist Jean-Pierre Blanchard painted a portrait of Roger Federer without any model or reference to look at in four minutes. With a striking resemblance to the Swiss tennis star, the artist bounds around with a leap that defies his age as he splashes paint to canvas. Blanchard produced … Read more
Tesco virtual subway station supermarket
South Korea is not only the home to kimchi but also to amazing ideas. The latest sees South Koreans able to do their grocery shopping while waiting for the subway at a virtual supermarket opened by Tesco Home Plus, that lets users scan the QR codes of desired products, which are then delivered to their … Read more
