| Putting joy in design!
Artist Laura Gilbert was featured today on CNN for her stunt “The Zero Dollar.” Laura passed out 10,000 fake “zero dollars” at the New York Stock Exchange to passerby’s. Who knows, maybe those bills will be worth something one day, being that they were signed by Laura.
Laura stated that the zero dollar project was [...]
Most people won’t make the effort to bend over and pickup a penny from the street. Chevrolet tested this idea by creating placing a 20 foot billboard in London and covering it with over 20,000 pennies. The pennies were all plucked from the billboard in less than 30 minutes.
Chevrolet’s Les Turton said: “There have been some [...]
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 [...]
Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel has finally been completed. An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope has been installed at both ends which miraculously allows people to see right through the Earth from London [...]
May 17, 2008 will be the second Harold Hunter Day. It will be held at the Manhattan Bridge Skate Park. Pete Rock, Vinny Ponte and Neil Nice will be DJing and performing from from 12 to 6pm. A limited edition Harold Hunter skateboard, tee shirt and book will be available for sale at the after party. Portion [...]
Rauschenberg died Monday of heart failure at 82, it was announced Tuesday by Jennifer Joy, his representative at PaceWildenstein gallery in New York. His use of odd and everyday articles earned him regard as a pioneer in pop art, first gaining fame in the 1950s.
“The most famous thing he said was that he worked in [...]
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck [...]
Shepard Fairey, the 38-year-old street artist who’s garnered mainstream attention recently thanks to the “Progress” and “Hope” posters he designed for Barack Obama’s campaign, is rapidly losing his vision due to a lifelong battle with diabetes. According to one source close to Fairey, he could be legally blind by the end of the year.
“That’s why [...]
Google has long said that its best hope for future growth comes from mobile devices. Today, Google moved to bring that future a bit closer.
The Internet search giant joined an industry consortium that plans to build a next-generation wireless data network. Google is investing $500 million in the project, which is led by Spring and [...]
Pascal Dangin is the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. Art directors and admen call him when they want someone who looks less than great to look great, someone who looks great to look amazing, or someone who looks amazing already—whether by dint of DNA or M·A·C—to look, as is the mode, superhuman. (Christy Turlington, for [...]
