Billboards Converted To Swingsets
It’s called “Double Happiness.” From Paris architect Didier Faustino. [via Dude Craft]
installations
Simulated swimming pool with room inside
Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich created this installation, simply called The Swimming Pool, for The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. A 10cm layer of water over a piece of glass separates above from below. It must be a pretty serious piece of glass; some back-of-the-envelope math based on the published dimensions gives 1,100 kg (2400 lbs) of water that it has to support. Plus its own weight. [via Dude Craft]
Staples, a blank wall, and lots of patience
This is the work of French artist Baptiste Debombourg. Some of his other works, including one more staples piece, can be seen here. [via Dude Craft]
My toilets runneth over
It’s like one of those champagne fountains at a wedding. Except, you know, made of toilets. And running water (er, one hopes) instead of booze. A “Duchampagne” fountain, perhaps? No, SRSLY: It’s a 2005 installation called “American Standard” by Vancouver artist Reece Terris. [via Boing to the Boing]
Giant cobweb made of coffee stirrers
I’m going to invent a time machine so I can go back and persuade my parents to name me Jonathan Brilliant, which for now am what made this impressive installation simply called “The Berlin Piece.”
Public staircase turned into piano keyboard
If you’re impatient with the preamble and want to see it work, scan forward to about 0:39.
Chris Vecchio’s meter art
Chris Vecchio spoke at this past Sunday’s Make: Philly event. He’s an artist doing some though-provoking, frequently funny, work centered around the human relationship with technology. Here are some objects from his Meterboxes series. Evolution of Desire Walnut veneer, meter, custom circuitry. The indicator goes quickly off the scale in the “passion” direction and then […]
