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180,000 hand-sized clay figurines

This is crazy – “…For the Biennale, Gormley has shipped out his Asian Field, an installation of 180,000 hand-sized clay figurines. Three hundred and fifty villagers in southern China individually crafted the figurines in just five days from more than 100 tonnes of red clay. Together, the figurines form a vast sea of bodies that […]

Mario soup – art from NES cartridges

Mario soup – art from NES cartridges

Ben Fry dumped the ROMs of old NES cartridges and made these cool looking posters – “Any piece of executable code is also commingled with data, ranging from simple sentences of text for error messages to entire sets of graphics for the application. In older cartridge-based console games, the images for each of the small […]