Culture jamming

The “Spore 1.1” project is a self-sustaining ecosystem for a rubber tree plant purchased from Home Depot where the economic health of Home Depot stock value is analyzed and used to control the watering of the plant through a custom built circuit. If the company does poorly and the plant dies, the plant is returned […]

I love this, Michel de Broin’s dumpster hot tub. The dumpster is used to frame its contents – 1649 litres of filtered, chlorinated water. Its interior is lined with waterproof blue material while a pump and filter system ensures the purity of its contents. Powerful jets stimulate the sensorial experience.

Holy cow, I can’t wait to see the Swarovski crystal-encrusted one of these for the Miss America pageant: the Pork Princess bacon tiara. Heed the warning, though: You are going to be working with an enzyme that bonds protein. You are made of protein. Unless you want to glue your lungs together or glue your […]

One of my favorite artists, Evan Roth, is working on a project that will be released soon – the pictures say it all, it’s a “carry on” communication system. These metal places contain messages which will appear when they are X-Rayed. The project isn’t quite done yet, Evan needs access to an X-Ray machine to […]

This plaster installation piece by PROMETHEUS is at Infart in Bassano, Italy. Anybody know any more about it? Via Who Killed Bambi.