Street art is always surprising. This sample of 2011’s best crop is an example.
via STREET ART UTOPIA.
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Stanley Kubrick’s Dramatic Photos of 1940s New York City
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“…before he became famous for directing films like A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, and Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick was a poor kid from the Bronx who worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. (He was their youngest staff photographer on record.) Kubrick’s striking black and white images of 1940s New York City — which were often shot on the sly, his camera concealed in a paper bag with a hole in it — hint at the dark beauty and psychological drama of his later creative output.”
Flavorwire » Stanley Kubrick’s Dramatic Photos of 1940s New York City.
The Craigslist Project turns Internet anonymity into art
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I would have never thought you could turn craigslist into art. For those who don’t know (really?), craigslist is one of the oldest – if not the oldest – free classified sites on the web. There’s really everything there, kind of a cesspool in some sections. Heck, I found a couple of jobs on craigslist and they weren’t all that enjoyable. Caveat emptor.
This is pretty cool work!
The Craigslist Project, Samantha Allen’s first exhibit, is a collection of original photographs and written ads that she submitted to the popular classifieds website in the hopes that she might receive intriguing or otherwise noteworthy responses — which, for the most part, she did.
via The Craigslist Project turns Internet anonymity into art on BlogTO
That’s a lot of Rubik’s Cubes
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4242 Rubik’s cube cubes and many hours of work were needed to achieve this triple portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.
Original site is in German, so here’s a rough translation (with the help of google, that is):
4242 Rubik’s cube cubes and many hours of work. The result is an approximately 5.8 m wide and 2.9 m high portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. Pete Fecteau , with the help of YouCanDoTheRubiks, First Park Congregational Church, The Student Advancement Foundation and Cooley Law School produced about half a ton of heavy work of art. A a computer-generated blueprint was used for the presentation of his ‘Dream Big’, which got him in the top 50 of 1700 participants of the ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
via Dream Big | Ignant.
Lego army invades Chalkfestival to “Free” Ego Leonard – Boing Boing
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Absolutely awesome chalk painting!
Lego army invades Chalkfestival to “Free” Ego Leonard – Boing Boing.
Beyond infinity immersive installation
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‘beyond infinity’, a multisensory installation by french artist and theorist serge salat, interweaves mirrors, light, music,
and fractal art in an architecture that conflates visitors’ perceptions of space. sponsored by buick cars and usable during the events
as a vehicle showroom, the work is installed at shanghai’s westgate mall from september 16th through 18th, 2011.