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March 10, 2010

1024 bits of you and me

Another amazing Kickstarter project - For every $10 you pledge, you receive a 5”x5” mini painting inspired by a word or phrase you submit. The goal: A giant installation of 1,024 such paintings.

November 29, 2009

Bands of color in four directions & all combinations, 1971

Bands of color in four directions & all combinations, 1971

After the disappointment of the King Tut exhibit, it was fab to find a piece of art which made me smile, and erupted every geek OCD cortex in my brain!

September 1, 2009

Dirt Po(or)ster

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE FEW OF US STILL WILLING TO GET OUR HANDS DIRTY.

July 17, 2009

Eggs Of History

Eggs. Dressed as historical figures. Obviously.

July 6, 2009

One & Other

A fantastically brilliant, stupid, and downright British arts project. Every hour, a different Briton stands on the “Fourth Plinth” in London’s Trafalgar Square and does whatever they want. The live webcam is somewhere between fascinating and deathly dull. In summary: Amazing.

June 25, 2009

Slide lobby art

Slide lobby art

New art was hung yesterday in the lobby at 301 Brannan. Bonus: You'll have something to read while waiting for the elevator (it incorporates a page from "A Projection of Species Extinction")

November 23, 2008

b3ta.com challenge: recreating album covers

The “Screamadelica” salad is my favourite.

November 16, 2008

Poolga. iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us.

Some gorgeous photos and illustrations, at just the right size to be your iPhone wallpaper.

August 18, 2008

Braid's ending explained

SPOILER, natch. Internet theorising about a non-obvious subtext to Braid’s story. If Portal was a video-game short-story, is Braid a video-game poem?

May 24, 2008

Biggest Drawing in the World

An artist uses the planet as his canvas, sketching a self-portrait by shipping a GPS-tracking briefcase around the world.

April 10, 2008

Ten Thousand Cents

Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill.

January 25, 2008

Boston Sports Propaganda

Fantastic limited-edition screen prints celebrating the Sox and the Pats. I’m trying to convince Joy that some of these would be dashing on our living room walls.

December 20, 2007

Passage

Beautiful game/piece of art. Play it for five minutes (important note: you can move up and down, as well as left and right), then read the creator’s statement. Lovely.

November 27, 2007

Sleevage : Album Cover Blog. Music, Art, Design.

Great blog analysing and documenting album cover design.

October 24, 2007

Flickr: Photos from etchasketchist

Etch-a-Sketch art on Flickr. Some stunningly detailed stuff in here!

April 17, 2007

DNA11 - From Life Comes Art

Get rather spiffy looking wall-art produced, based upon the DNA of you and your loved ones. A “snip” at $390+

March 12, 2007

Spamtrap

Art. “When a new spam email is detected by the installation, it automatically prints it out. The printed email slides down a track into the shredder that analyzes it.”

February 17, 2007

Peter Callesen's Framed A4 Papercuts

Amazing artwork created from a single sheet of A4 paper.

December 11, 2006

Le mètre cube de sperme. Participez!

A French artist wishes to gather and display 1000 litres of chilled spunk/spooge/love porridge. Sign up for your free “donation kit”. No, really.

September 16, 2006

LA///BANSKY'S "BARELY LEGAL" SHOW VIP SNEAK PEEK...

Snapshots from Banksy’s installation in LA.

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