2012-12-05
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Top: Seizure by Roger Hiorns for Artangel, 2008. (photograph: Nick Cobbing/Artangel).
Bottom: The Crystal Dome by André Heller, Brian Eno, Susanne Schmögner for Swarovski, 2012. (via)
2012-09-10
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Step Aboard BART, an Oakland Tribune special, from Bay Area Rapid Transit celebrates 40 years of service at the same paper’s website.
2012-05-03
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IKB 79 by Yves Klein from the Tate Collection. From their text summary:
IKB 79 was one of nearly two hundred blue monochrome paintings Yves Klein made during his short life.
Klein did not give titles to these works but after his death in 1962, his widow Rotraut Klein-Moquay numbered all the known blue monochromes IKB 1 to IKB 194, a sequence which did not reflect their chronological order.
The letters IKB stand for International Klein Blue, a distinctive ultramarine which Klein registered as a trademark colour in 1957. He considered that this colour had a quality close to pure space and he associated it with immaterial values beyond what can be seen or touched.
2012-04-29
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Sky images with Pantone-style colour labels on Flickr.
There’s more at the artist’s website.
2012-04-11
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Skycatcher Wallpaper. A monumental wallpaper made from 88 thousand images of the sky above Amsterdam (taken from Luna Maurer’s sky-catcher project), created by Jonathan Puckey and Luna Maurer at the Museum De Paviljoens, 2007. Each vertical strip is exactly one day and contains 144 images and you can see the duration of the days change by the size of the blue bar (daytime).
You can see DST too (although it looks like time is running from top to bottom, rather than bottom to top).
See also: the Ken Murphy’s History of the Sky project for San Francisco’s Exploratorium (previously).
2012-04-04
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Top: photograph of drone and moon over Afghanistan, Kirsty Wrigglesworth/ AP.
Bottom: glitched version from a thumbnail of the same image, Dan Catt/ GuardianAmbientHeadlineRadio.
(Source: Flickr / revdancatt)
2012-03-29
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Motorway junction posters by Melissa Price, at Print Process.
I could have sworn I posted these already, but I can’t find any sign that I did. I was reminded of them by fact that the V&A is selling the A2 versions in their shop, to tie in with the British Design exhibition (which runs until 12 August 2012).
They also remind me of my previous post about the motorway strip maps in 1980s AA handbooks. So clean, so minimal, so nice.
