The OpenStructures (OS) project by Belgian Designer Thomas Lommée, initiates a construction system where everyone designs for everyone.It is an ongoing experiment that wants to find out what happens if people design objects according to a shared modular grid, a common open standard that stimulates the exchange of parts, components, experiences and ideas and aspires to build things together.
The ultimate goal is to initiate a universal, collaborative puzzle that allows the broadest range of people – from craftsmen to multinationals – to design, build and exchange the broadest range of modular components, resulting in a more flexible and scalable built environment.
Artv asked Montreal based artists to represent the logo of their channel. Julien Vallee used around 15 pieces of plywood and mirrors and a smoke machine and a projector were used to create the reflections of lights and colors. The video was shot on the roof of a building downtown Montreal.
Long before making sculpture, Arthur Ganson dreamed of being a surgeon. The challenge of working so carefully with his hands was satisfied by the creation of very fragile machines. A machine with no utilitarian purpose, this is as close to drawing or painting as he can get. After giving himself a starting point, the machine grew organically. The actions and movement of parts are meaningfully trivial.
10 Days. 10 Questions. Answer one question per day in your own secret online 10Q space. At the end of the ten days, hit a magic button and send your answers to the secure online 10Q vault for safekeeping. One year later, the vault will open and your answers will wing their way back to your email inbox for private reflection. If you want to keep them secret, perfect. You can also choose to share any of them, anonymously or with attribution, with the wider 10Q community. Next year, if you so desire, the whole process can begin again. Make it serious. Silly. Salacious. However you like. It’s your 10Q.
“We used the only material on the site (sand) and the core of a film museum projection to introduce the new building to the world. After days of building and nights of testing the minister of culture ignited this augmented sand sculpture. Above is the test version.”
A Life Well Wasted is a podcast about video games and the people who love them, produced by freelance journalist and aspiring radio producer, Robert Ashley. The episode posters were created for the show by artist Olly Moss.
With “World at Work“, Theo Deutinger and his team project the amount of inhabitants per time-zone onto the earth as ‘Time Machine’. By assuming that the average working day around the world is from 9.00am to 5.00 pm, they came to the conclusion that there is a strong imbalance in the distribution of workforce. One can almost talk about a day and night on earth. The world as ‘Time Machine’ is visualized by its course around the sun (together with its three neighbour planets) and its spinning around its own axis. On top of its self-rotation a graph with the amount of inhabitants is projected.
The third element of the visualisation is the addition of all the working population of one global working day and shows how many people are working, relaxing or sleeping. This visualisation is shown either in real time, or can be released and speeded up at the users will. All three parts of the visualisation are interconnected as programmed clockwork that shows time by mimicking reality.
THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors (Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan) to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped at a wrapping party and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers.
THE THING’s current year of subscriptions (issues 9-12) will begin with an issue by visual artist Ryan Gander; and continue with issues by writer/radio personality (most notably from This American Life)Starlee Kine; visual artist Chris Johanson; and end with an issue by the clothing design collaborative DOO.RI.
The 50 States Project has brought together 50 photographers from across the USA. Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they currently live. Every two months the photographers will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response. The images must represent both their style and their State.
The first assignment, (“People“), was sent on 2nd January 2009. The second, (“Habitat“), was sent on 1st March 2009. The third, (“Landscape“), on 1st May. The fourth, (“Industry”) on 1st July. The remaining assignment will be announced on 1st November 2009.
By the end of the project there will be 300 images which hopefully represent the talent of the photographers involved and have something to say about the USA today.
This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova
Commonpeople is a project to inspire creativity in Singapore. Welcome to our blog, where we broadcast our thoughts on the question of what creativity means for us today.
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