”Zero Worship” is an art installation consisting of 14 metal measuring tapes positioned with their magnetic tips touching at a single point. The tapes are held together by their own structural integrity where zero is the highest point. The piece was built by Irish artist Ivan Twohig who uses everyday objects in his art to […]
Excellent interview with Anthony Dunne (and his work with Fiona Raby) — Design Noir, Dunne and Raby wrote in their 2001 book Design Noir, “Beneath the glossy surface of official design lurks a dark and strange world driven by real human needs. . via Beyond the Beyond. In one well-known project, Dunne and Raby designed an […]
The NYTimes front page reproduced alphabetically with a scalpel and glue by Kim Rugg via Waxy.
Dust off your tape player and join/start an Unsilent Night event in your town. From creator Phil Kline: Every year since 1992 I’ve presented UNSILENT NIGHT, an outdoor ambient music piece for an infinite number of boomboxes. It’s like a Christmas caroling party except that we don’t sing, but rather carry the music, each of […]
Not quite sure if the constantly changing face of this single digit LED clock would be irritating (ok, probably), but it’s an interesting and perhaps rebellious take on the ubiquitous 7-segment project. Economical and initially befuddling to friends/enemies! – Single Digit LED Clock Kit Of course would likely save a lot of dough when building […]
Check out this “moving forest” installation in Amsterdam: ‘Moving Forest’ is NL Architects’ answer to the lack of green in contemporary urban environments. One might occasionally find a carefully designed patch of plants or shrubbery there, but nothing like the majestic parks and shady trees that can be found in historical city centres. So they […]
SSRN-Music and the Market: Song and Stock Volatility by Philip Maymin… via Waxy & Kedrosky…. Philip writes- I compare the annual average beat variance of the songs in the US Billboard Top 100 since its inception in 1958 through 2007 to the standard deviation of returns of the S&P 500 for the same year and […]
