August 18, 2008
Bruno Taylor's Playful Spaces
“71% of adults used to play on the streets when they were young. 21% of children do so now. Are we designing children and play out of the public realm?
This project is a study into different ways of bringing play back into public space. It focuses on ways of incorporating incidental play in the public realm by not so much as having separate play equipment that dictates the users but by using existing furniture and architectural elements that indicate playful behaviour for all.
It asks us to question the current framework for public space and whether it is sufficient while also giving permission for young people to play in public.
Play as you go…” Bruno Taylor."
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| July 24, 2008
Judith Supine Hits New York's East River
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June 6, 2008
Shit We're Diggin': Jan Vormann's Lego Wall Crack Fillers in Bocchignano, Italy
You can see more of Jan Vormann's project here. They are quite beautiful.
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June 4, 2008
Get Me Out Of Here!
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May 30, 2008
Seen On The Streets Of Milwaukee
From Relic: "some milwaukee wisconsin midwest shit. after hoops are taken down in a local playground."
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May 13, 2008
Sam3 Hits The Bull Outside Madrid
More from Sam3 here.
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January 7, 2008
Fresh Stuff From Zonenkinder in Germany
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November 22, 2007
"Next year it will be no road, it will be water again."
Henk Hofstra's blue road in Drachten (Holland) stretches 1000 meters long.
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Shit We're Diggin': The Torn Billboard Art of Alexandre Farto
You can see more of Alexandre's work here.
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October 25, 2007
Hmm....
Location: Princess Street In Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Shit We're Diggin': Edina Tokodi's "Green Graffiti"
You can learn more about Edina's work on Inhabitat.
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Seen On A Draw Bridge in Amsterdam
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October 22, 2007
Turning The Trevi Fountain Red
From EternallyCool.net:
'On October 19th, the waters of Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain turned blood red when a man threw paint into the basin in a bizarre act of vandalism apparently inspired by the Futurists of the early 20th century.
The man, reportedly wearing a beret and a light-colored jacket, struck at around 4.30 pm and then disappeared into the crowd of tourists, leaving behind a pile of leaflets. The fountain, which re-uses the same water in a continuous cycle, soon started spurting red water into the air from its jets, providing an unprecedented spectacle which tourists immediately began photographing. Police arrived and technicians briefly shut off the water before restoring a clear flow.
Experts said the baroque fountain was not permanently damaged and the marble statues depicting the sea deity Neptune on his chariot had not absorbed the color.
“There shouldn’t be any relevant damage,” said Eugenio La Rocca, superintendent for Rome’s monuments.
The news agency ANSA reported that a box was found near the fountain containing leaflets by a group that claimed responsibility for the act. The leaflets found beside the fountain claimed that the coloring of the monument had been carried out by ‘FTM Futurist Action 2007,’ a group which has not been heard of before.
The leaflets state that the group aims to battle against “everything and everyone with a spirit of healthy violence” and to turn this “grey bourgeois society into a triumph of color.” As well, the leaflets proclaim that the red paint was a protest for expenses incurred in organizing the Rome Film Festival and symbolically referred to the event’s red carpet."
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October 14, 2007
Seen On The Streets of Florence
(To explain, the gun in the statue is pointing at the wall where the dead man is)
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October 11, 2007
Wilson + Radcliffe's Wire Lamborghini
"The work questions the combustion engine, celebrates bicycle efficiency and the striking design of the Lamborghini arguably one of the most iconic super cars of all time, as well as Wilson and Radcliffes commitment to clever and thoughtful craftsmanship. Wilson + Radcliffe are deeply passionate about cars and bikes and have seen each other¹s work at various exhibitions over the last few years. Artcars gave them the opportunity to collaborate on this project. Walk the plank commissioned the piece of work for the uk¹s first ART CAR parade that was held in Manchester last recently."
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Sam3's Ugly Ducklings
"Many cities repopulate their urban rivers with ducks and swans to somehow clean their visible sewage waters. This installation hopes to clean the reality of the ducks which inhabit these sewage waters by adapting rubbish into their forms
During a whole week plastic bottles will be floated over River Segura. The bottles will be bird shaped, aquatic species, and will form groups and families. All materials used in this installation will be recycled materials and will try not to disturb the inhabitants as much as possible.
If the animal cannot adapt to its environment, the environment must adapt to the animal."
... Sam3
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October 9, 2007
Leon Reid IV Hits The Streets of Syracuse
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September 13, 2007
Underfoot in Sao Paulo
"we are 6emeia, a project created by SAO! and Delafuent, and we are from Sao Paulo city, Brasil and since July 06 we are making that kind of painting in the streets of Sao Paulo"
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August 6, 2007
Judith Supine Goes Big Off The Manhattan Bridge
More at Gothamist.
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July 30, 2007
Going Big With Rice in Inakadate
Each year since 1993 the farmers of the Japanese town of Inakadate have been creating massive images with rice by growing a purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice alongside the local green-leafed tsugaru-roman rice.
More images here.
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July 4, 2007
Visual Language in Bangkok
From Future Perfect, a series of photos from Bangkok showing the use of fingers to communicate which floor you are walking up to.
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June 8, 2007
Shit We're Diggin: Doris Salcedo's Stacked Chairs
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"...This amazing art installation was made by Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo for the International Instanbul Biennale in 2003. She used over 1,550 chairs stacked on an empty lot between two buildings!"
"Doris Salcedo makes sculptures and installations that function as political and mental archaeology, using domestic materials charged with significance and suffused with meanings accumulated over years of use in everyday life. Salcedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means." --White Cube
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Human Topiary Seen On The Streets of Vancouver
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Thanks, Kathreen!
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May 3, 2007
26 Surf Street
"In February 2007, a group of artists, eight in all, traveled to a house located at 26 Surf Street at Merrick’s Beach in Victoria Australia, with a rare opportunity to do whatever they wished with the house, but with only a few days to work before demolition began. The group had met a few times, and had loosely discussed possible ideas, but there was no common project that necessarily united them. Some members knew the owners of the house, others came to the house as strangers, armed with tools and industrial equipment.."
You can see the documentation of the project here.
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April 30, 2007
David Böhm's Massive Smilely Face
See the project here.
(Thanks, Momo)
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April 16, 2007
Every Image Has A Story - "Emperor Constantino"
"The concept of this "installation" in Milan was PLAY DONT MAKE WAR. So the statue of the Roman Emperor Costantino is holding a big ballon that means playing and having fun"... BNNI.
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April 13, 2007
Toilet Fantasies
Frank Zappa
Knudzich's tiny Toilet Fantasies installations have appeared on doors at the Norwegian School of Economics and around Bergen, Noway. You can see the series here.
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April 6, 2007
UrbanIrony from Truth in Wrocław, Poland
More on the project here and here.
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March 8, 2007
Every Image Has A Story - "the Sarajevo Rose"
"As I was passing through Sarajevo I couldn't help but notice the effects of the Bosnian War. It's everywhere, in the buildings, in the people, in the graveyards that stretch blocks and blocks. But the most impactful of these markings are on the street. While walking the city you are sure to come across a splattering pattern of pock-marks from where a mortar round hit.
To signify places of significant deaths, the explosion marks are filled in with red resin to create the Sarajevo Rose."
... erik
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March 1, 2007
Blow The City
If you live in Ghent, Belgium you may have noticed that everywhere you went, tons of painted balloons suddenly appeared all over the city.
Using Myspace to launch a call for submission, a young girl collected over 400 balloons which people from all over the world drew on. She filled them with helium and put them up in major areas of Ghent.
You can see more here.
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February 24, 2007
Madelon Galland's STUMP project
"The STUMP project began in 1999 on the sidewalks of New York City — the sidewalk plots where there are tree stumps are generally neglected spaces left to collect debris. The tree stumps reminded me of the childhood story, The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein, in which a tree has given of herself to the point of being diminished to a stump, but selflessly perks herself up to give to the last, by providing a seat for the beloved boy who is now an aged man. To upholster the sidewalk stump was a way to honor that which had been diminished, and bring it back into relationship with the neighborhood."... artist Madelon Galland.
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February 13, 2007
Urban Curators
From UrbanCurators.com:
Mission Statement
"The goal of the Urban Curators project is to engage the public in the celebration of the decaying urban environment, recog- nizing its inherent aesthetic qualities as well as the important role that it plays within our cultural habitat. The project achieves its goal by elevating common, overlooked objects and spaces within the city of Providence, Rhode Island to the level of high art.
The project achieves this elevation by literally hanging gold, gallery-style frames in derelict spaces within the city, framing objects and views that are of aesthetic or cultural value. By utilizing frames that one might expect to find in an art museum or gallery, viewers are forced to make connections between the urban landscape and the museum environment. Viewers are likewise encouraged to reconsider their prior conceptions of beauty and worth, understanding that the spontaneity of decay offers an alternative aesthetic to excessive design.
Humans have for centuries sought after the grandeur of ruins that were once the glory of ancient cultures, recognizing them as windows into the lives of past civilizations. The Urban Curators project proposes that we should likewise cherish those ruins that reflect modern-day consumerism and industr- ialization, realizing them as vehicles by which we can gain insight into our own society.
The frames themselves are hung with double-sided hardware tape and are easily removed without harm to the spaces in which they are placed. While this is a necessary component of the project, it likewise means that each frame will hang only temporarily. Due to the transient nature of the project, its success requires time and effort from not only the Urban Curators team, but from the community as a whole. While the project was originally born by six Rhode Island School of Design students, it cannot continue without input and partic- ipation from others. We hope that the community will interact with the project – finding our frames, removing them, relocating them, and installing their own."
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February 3, 2007
Back to The Elements - An Urban Campfire
In Jena, Germany, the artist Steven Brown brought the power of the camp fire back into the urban environment.
In front of the town's City Hall on the main square, Steven built a stone hearth each night for 10 days (Jan 14-23 2007). He simply built and burned a fire from sunset until midnight. Each night people stopped by and lingered and shared stories. There was no press and word spread the old-fashioned way. Slowly, there became a regular base of people who came every night to interact (and often bring the artist food and drink).
Here's his artist statement:
Gather Change Gather
Steven Matthew Brown
Markt, Jena
14.01.2007 - 23.01.2007
On January 14, 2007, a small open cobblestone hearth appeared on the central Market of Jena. Small fires were built and tended from dusk until midnight for 10 consecutive nights. People periodically stopped to inquire about the fire, often staying for a while to talk or share stories. Under each day’s fire, pieces of fireproof glass captured a permanent record of the burning, a pyrograph in soot and carbon. At the end of each day’s burning the hearth was disassembled and the glass stored. A book containing carbon paper was used as a journal to collect a two-layer written impression of events. Once filled, one set of carbon copies was torn from the book and rebound in another smaller book.
Around the fire I met people I would likely not have otherwise met. As in life, strangers slowly became friends. Some returned every night, and some brought companions. Each person activated and helped define the experience