Category: culture
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Make Your Own Money
Regular readers will know of my mild obsession with Sleeveface related ideas. Well here's the credit crunch version – make your own money.
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Exactitudes
Coincidentally, the day after reading about Random and Directed copying in Mark and Alex's piece, I happen across this project from Dutch photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek who since 1994 have documented a record of "people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity". Exactitudes (a mash up of 'exact'…
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“Everyone Has A Story To Tell”
"I simply ask people to write in my journal. What they write is up to them.". David, a copywriter from Salt Lake City walks up to strangers, gives them his moleskin notebook ("I only use moleskin notebooks"), and asks them to write about whatever they want. Quite a few of them do. "There are so…
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56 Leonard St, Tribeca
Liking this from 'A Daily Dose of Architecture'. A lot. A new development by Herzog & de Meuron (them of the bird's nest) in Tribeca, NY. Just look at that. Most skyscrapers are all smooth lines. This is, well, it's almost pixelated. Like the sort of towers you'd build out of lego as a kid.…
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Dicks Daily
This is one of my favourite photoblogging sites. "A picture every day for the last 6 years, 10 months and 18 days". Which takes some doing. The idea, as Dick says, was to take a picture everyday and "to make sure my camera went wherever I did". Fascinating to think how this must make you…
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Face Your Pockets
Face Your Pockets. Empty your pockets onto a scanner. Stick your face in the middle. Hit scan. HT
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Old Films, New Take
There's a new exhibition just opened at the Cosh Gallery in London (the Flickr set is here, Wallpaper writes about it here) that has challenged a range of artists and designers (Hellovon, Nathan Fox, Marian Bantjes) to create a new take on posters for some of their favourite films. It's an interesting exercise since in…
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Cassette From My Ex
Much chatter around muxtape lately. It has a unique appeal to the generation that earnestly made compilations on C90s. I remember giving one to a girlfriend once. I think it was pretty rubbish from memory (I've had some dodgy taste in music in my time) but I'd even gone as far as decorating the cassette…
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Leaving Home
This made me laugh out loud on a Friday morning. A trailer for the award winning short film Goodbye To The Normals (warning to the sensitive: contains a little bad language): Brilliant Via
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Where’s Waldo 2.0
Canadian artist Melanie Coles has an interesting project on the go – a radically new version of the old 'Where's Waldo' game. Instead of children trying to find Waldo in a picture busy with people (like in the famous books), Melanie has 'hidden' a huge painting of Waldo on a rooftop somewhere in Vancouver. She…