To raise awareness for Nike’s sweatshop labor and Adam Brandejs has stitched together his own pair of basketball shoes with what looks like real human skin.
The shoe even moves, or better yet, twitches. The shoe is stitched together with multiple pieces of latex rubber cast out of moulds made from the artists own skin, as well as: steel, gear [...]
Animatronic Nike Flesh Shoe
Houston & Broadway Pixels
Those of you who’ve strolled down Houston Street in New York City within the past month have probably noticed the new art installation on both sides of the traffic heavy street. The artists used standard chain linked fences and inserted bright plastic diamond cutouts into each mesh, creating a “pixel” look. I’m happy to see [...]
Word Clock
I’ve never been a fan of the default screen savers that come included with new computers. Photos of generic beach scenes and flowers bore me. I usually scour the web for something that will set my machine apart from the rest and make my friends glance over at my monitor when it turns on to protect my screen from [...]
dot.dot.dot
We’ve all navigated through websites ending in .com, .net, .org, .gov, and .edu, and in recent years been to a few sites ending in .biz, .us, .tv, and more. This is all soon to change. The internet body, more formally known as The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), voted today to allow [...]
The Dynamic Tower
Incredibly creative architect Dr. David Fisher is the creator of the crazy new “Dynamic Tower”, an eco friendly apartment building said to be the “world’s first building in motion”.
The Dynamic Tower comes with a voice activated device allowing each tenant to rotate their floor independently at different speeds. This “results in a unique and ever [...]
Science Machine
Brooklyn resident, art director, designer, and illustrator Chad Pugh uses the new Portishead album and Adobe Illustrator to create a tech nerd’s wet dream.
Vimeo, a website which enables users to “connect through video” commissioned Pugh to create the piece as their login illustration. This video is a truncated version of what was 40 hours of work to create [...]
June 26th INVASIONS @ 7ELEVEN Gallery
7Eleven Gallery, a project envisioned by three native New Yorkers and friends.
The 3 curators Sabrina Blaichman, Caroline Copley and Genevieve Hudson-Price will hold their premiere art showing on June 26th from 7pm - 10 pm. The new Greenwich Village space in will house “Invasions”, the first showing of a summer art series. This show will feature the artists: Sebastian Black, Theo A. [...]
Barcode Plantage
One can find it on almost all products: the bar code. Everyone knows that the bar code is used to facilitate the cashing and recording of goods in stores. But which information is actually encoded within the bar code?
Barcode Plantage by Daniel A. Becker, visually renders the data hidden within a barcode. Once a bar [...]
NY Licensing Expo
I’ve attended a number of trade shows around the world as both a spectator and presenter. One thing that has always baffled me is the relative monotony in almost all trade show booths. The formula seems to be: floor space + 4 walls + branding/signage + tables/chairs and thats about it. Considering the insane amount [...]
Blogging Agency
Has the Internet swept away the world of publishing and hard copy books??? Does light reading now mean opening your computer and scrolling thru the bookmarks to check if your fave blog has been updated. Ask Kate Lee her opinion on the topic. Kate Lee got a write up in the New Yorker with a [...]
Foam cut type
Anyone who’s ever tried to make a clean cut into foam, let alone a clean shape, knows how hard it can be. I just found this interesting video featuring foam cut lettering done by designer John Caserta. Caserta says,
“I spent two semesters experimenting with a hot-wire foam cutter. Using this room-sized machine, I applied speed [...]
Broadway Linear Crystal Chandelier by James R. Moder
I’m not much of a chandelier fan but I think this is really interesting. I’m still not sure I’d hang it in my house. Would you?
The James R. Moder Broadway Linear Crystal Chandelier is old-world, crystal magnificence in a contemporary setting. Crystals hang from both ends of multiple strands that can be wound around the [...]
Squirrel Heaven
Sam Sanfiliipo has created a taxidermied utopia to help keep the minds of the grieving occupied. His world of dioramas exists in the basement of an unassuming funeral home in Madison, WI. The museum is also home to hundreds of other trophies including fish, raccoons, and at least a couple of badgers.
Apparently anyone can [...]
OE-Cake: 2D animation fun!
I’m not quite sure of anything productive you can do with the OE-Cake software, but am sure you will love it! OE-Cake! is demonstration software for 2D-based multi-physics simulation. It is similar to drawing images using paint software. You create objects and can see them move according to the laws of physics.
This software supports [...]
Herman Miller Aeron
If you are reading this post, you probably spend hours a day staring at a computer screen. You are probably also 20-something, in pretty good shape, active, and care about your well-being. Like myself, I also work long hours, at the office, home, or wherever myself and my laptop are. I have recently decided to [...]
Yeondoo Jung: Drawings becoming reality
Kid’s draw the darndest things, but what are they actually trying to translate onto paper? Yeondoo Jung has transformed the imaginative mind of children into a beautiful photography series. It’s pretty.
Jay Gard: DoubleGard
Half Gallery (208 Forsyth St, New York, New York, 10002) will feature DoubleGard from June 10th - July 10th. It’s the first solo show for German sculptor Jay Gard, a former assistant to Tom Sachs. The chain of command, the grandeur of artifice and the empowerment struggle: all are themes you’ll find three -dimensionalized in this ambitious [...]
Streaming Videos: Bending the rules
It’s no secret that you can download streaming video from sites like YouTube.com or Google Video. But did you know that you can also download other streaming video, as well as convert that video into a format that can be played in iTunes? I’ve written a little guide on one of the ways that you [...]
The Stanton Chapter
Serf and Mint of 1134NYC have moved from The Canal Chapter to a new location on Stanton Street. Guess what they’ve called the new gallery… The Stanton Chapter (located at 176 Stanton St - NEW YORK CITY). Unlike the previous space, they’re now in a store front.
For the launch they’ve converted it into a bedroom, [...]
YouTube link hack
I just learned a cool little trick for playing YouTube videos. By doing this super simple hack you can produce a clean page with just the video content.
1. Copy the YouTube URL
Ex. http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Zf7wMDufoI
2. Erase the “WATCH?“
3. Change the “ = ” for another “ / ”
Ex: http://www.youtube.com/v/5 Zf7wMDufoI
In other words, do this:
Youtube´s url + dash, v, dash + alphanumeric video [...]
Ashes of Pringles can designer put in a Pringles can!
You’re probably wondering why I chose to write about the inventor of the Pringles can dying, and not Yves Saint Laurent’s death. Well, it’s obviously because this is much more interesting.
Anyways. Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died at age 89. Apparently he was so proud of his invention that a portion of his ashes was [...]
Flash in your PDF
My friends know that I’m not a big fan of Flash, but when I heard this news it did make me tingle a little bit inside. Adobe’s release of Adobe Acrobat 9 will allow you to embed Flash SWF’s into your documents. This will certainly change the way we think of presentations.
“Adobe Systems on Monday [...]
Android Scan
While surfing the net today, I came across an amazing mobile application called Android Scan. The name may sound super geeky, but it’s actually pretty amazing, and I cannot wait to give it a try for myself.
The Andoid Scan official website describes the software as an “application that finds pricing and metadata for anything [...]
Dan Witz: Escaping People
Dan Wirtz is primarly known for his street paintings. Rather than spray painting walls, he paints various highly detailed imagery on walls around New York City. His most recent project features hands trying to escape from vents on the sides of various buildings in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
While he’s not the first person to do graffiti / [...]
Hillary Clinton presents Project T-shirt
Apparently the Clinton campaign heard about all the great press Obama has been getting for his campaign’s well designed swag and they want in. Hillary Clinton’s website has added a new threadless-esque feature encouraging visitors to post their own t-shirt designs. The five best rated t-shirts will be printed and sold via the Clinton Campaign [...]
Add-Art for Firefox
AAA (A nti A dvertising A gency) has created a new add on for Firefox entitled ‘AddArt‘. This interesting add-on replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators.
Many people already have plugins that replace ads with blank space. “AddArt attempts to [...]
