Wooster Collective: Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Sculptures
Seeing the city in a new and creative way. Subway air vents as a street art opportunity. Something poetic about how the creatures come to life with the rhythm of the subway.
The Portland Horse Project
“It all began with a man named Scott Wayne Indiana. He knew about the horse rings in many Portland sidewalks and thought it was a shame that we don’t tie our horses to them anymore.”
Subway Sketches, NYC - a photoset on Flickr
Excellent ball point pen sketches drawn on the New York City subway.
Tate Modern - The Unilever Series: Carsten Höller
Twisty turny multi-story slides made of steel and glass… at the Tate Modern. Don’t miss the webcam, the time-lapse install video and most of all, the artist statement. “How might a daily dose of sliding affect the way we perceive the world?”
New York Times Video - Jazz and Art
NYT video on a new art inspired Jazz suite called “Portrait in Seven Shades” commissioned by Wynton Marsalis and composed by saxophonist Ted Nash. Each movement was inspired by a different 20th century painter.
Pollock In Action
Youtube video of interactive installation “Pollock in Action”. Visitors take hold of a physical brush, dip it in colored light wells and drizzle the projected “paint” onto a canvas on the floor as Pollock did. Pretty cool.
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Rock, Paper, Payoff: Child’s Play Wins Auction House an Art Sale
Japanese corporation had Christie’s and Sotheby’s play “rock paper scissors” to decide who would auction off the company art collection. While the setup was perfect, they didn’t actually gesture when playing. They wrote their choice on paper instead.
Albany Bulb
Dump turned informal art park in Albany. Buchanan exit off 80, turn left towards the bay.
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The Ghost in the Buddha Machine: An Interview with Christiaan Virant of FM3
FM3’s latest release is a portable, hardware loop-player containing nine short loops of FM3 music called the Buddha Machine. A “remix” of cheap Buddhist prayer players as mass produced in China.
Amy Youngs - Hydroponic solar garden
Glass blown hanging hydroponic garden. Collaboration by interactive artists Amy Youngs and Ken Rinaldo.
washingtonpost.com - Gallery: Ron Mueck
Gallery of photos of Mueck’s exhibits. What technique.
Telegraph.co.uk - “Body of work” (Artist Ron Mueck)
Article on sculpture artist Ron Mueck who creates (sometimes giant, othertimes miniature) “hyper real” characters. Looking at his characters I can’t help but imagine that they live and breathe.
we*heart*prints - Robert Hardgrave
Farmer Bob on We (heart) Prints!
Generator.x: Software and generative strategies in art and design
“Generator.x is a conference and exhibition examining the current role of software and generative strategies in art and design.”
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Logic and design in art, science & mathematics - Krome Barratt
Spotted on a generative art blog. Library use only at the SFPL.
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Gabriel Dunne - quilime.com
Also gave the Processing workshop at the Maker Faire today. Showed some examples of processing being used to create effects that are then composited into music videos and commercials. Created the piece “Celestial Mechanics”
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Aaron Koblin
Gave the Processing workshop I attended at the Maker Faire today. He did the totally beautiful air traffic visualization “Flight Patterns”. Design|Media Arts student/teacher.
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Uruk Videomachine - Dijon, France
French projection artists use the facade of a town hall as a canvas for their animations. Neat integration of features of the architecture into the animated piece.
the box doodle project
Box scraps turned art. Great gallery of visitor submitted characters and illustrations.
BLDGBLOG: “The city as an avatar of itself”
Totally cool.
Notes on the Denial of Perspective 02 - Felice Varini
“Felice Varini paints (lines, concentric circles, triangles) on things (tunnels, castles, groovy interiors). A seemingly random smattering of elements that, viewed from a specific point in space, coalesce into a tangible planar element.”
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Dialtones (A Telesymphony)
A concert performed entirely through the ringing of the audience’s mobile phones. (2001 - Austria, Switzerland)
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.