In jest of Clint Eastwood's bizarre speech at the 2012 RNC where spoke to an empty chair on stage and gave birth to a new meme, "Eastwooding," someone added an empty chair to the actor's cutout which overlooks the Glendale Freeway.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_40B9m4tI&feature=player_embedded What do you think of artist Daniel Wurtzel's experiential installation "Magic Carpet" where a red fabric twists and floats about in a vortex of air? For me?
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.
2 art directors and 28 artists collaborated to create this deck of cards featuring some of the players that contributed to the economic crash.
The Venice Biennale commissioned artists Julian Charrierre and Julius Von Bismarcke to transform pigeons in the city into a more colorful variety.
The lucky birds have been coloured using an extraordinary conveyor-belt mechanism that was first tested in Copenhagen. After landing in a box that looks a little like a CCTV camera, they are pushed through a system where they are (apparently) harmlessly spray-painted and then let out the other side in a strange airbrush metamorphosis.
Prettier to look at but still damn annoying pigeons.
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/33698394] The Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging and filmmaker Brent Hoff hosted the first annual "Love Competition" where 7 people, ages ranging from 10 to 75, "...spent five minutes in an fMRI machine, thinking deeply about love and allowing the imaging technology to measure activity in their dopamine, serotonin and ocytocin/vasopressin pathways."
Brent's short film documenting these participants reaction to this experiment makes this worth watching. Who would you think about?
Pitch perfect by McSweeney's (as usual).
Sutro: The early bloomer withers first. You peaked with a portrait of a cowboy sleeping on a bench at LAX, setting your popularity expectations unreasonably high. Every photo you have taken or will take since then will be nothing more than an increasingly desperate attempt to recreate the magic of that exquisitely lit lone ranger.
Open invite for stalkers: More of my Instagram photos collected here.
Created by Yasutoki Kariya as part of his senior thesis at Musashino Art University in Tokyo.
A clever piece by Andrew Lewicki (previously mentioned here).
Adam Niklewicz, Sometime Last January I Had Awoken in the Morning with My Hand Up
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Maybe I'm being influenced by all the baby photos posted by friends which have taken over my Facebook and Instagram feed, but this photo by Julie Blackmon (appropriately) titled "Baby Toss" is kind of amazing.
Magnus Gjoen, "Worries Go Down Better with Soup." Calling Warhol.
Hyde or Die snapped this on Glendale Blvd in Los Angeles.
Italian artist Piero Manzoni created 90 of these tin cans in 1961 that are ostensibly filled with the artist's feces. Some claim they are actually filled with plaster, however "an art dealer from the Gallery Blu in Milan claims to have detected a fecal odour emanating from a can." In 2008 one of the tins sold at a Sotheby's auction for £97,250 or approximately $153,625.
Heeled roller skates by Ron Ulicny. A lot of his pieces are quite clever.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IFFxSBx-P0U] This is an interesting video that explains how the Getty Museum in LA protect their artwork in the event of an earthquake. Surprisingly bubble wrap is not involved.
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Joel Zimmer snapped this shout out by someone who really likes "Total Recall" and also happened to have a Sharpie marker handy.
Mark Jenkins toasts bread in Rome. I think I'll just get the bagel (un-toasted).
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/39657770] A neat collaboration between Liu Bolin, my favorite urban camouflager and popular street art paster JR.
This portrait project by Shizuka Yokomizo from 1998 to 2000 is voyeuristic, totally creepy and I completely love it:
Shizuka Yokomizo left several anonymous letters on the doorsteps of random ground floor apartments that read:
“Dear Stranger,
I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…. I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening.”
The letter specified a certain ten-minute period during which the artist would approach, take the picture, and slip back into the darkness. She would only reveal her identity once her subjects received a print and contact information (so that they could let her know if they objected to their portrait being exhibited).
Yokomizo made sure that when the photos were taken, the light would be too dark outside to see her — it would only allow her subjects to see their own reflections in the window they were looking out of.