One Hundred and Eight is an interactive wall-mounted Installation mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans.
Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences of inflation and deflation create the impression of lively and moving creatures which waft slowly around like a shoal. But as soon a viewer comes close it instantly reacts by drawing back and tentatively following the movements of the observer. As long as he remains in a certain area in front of the installation it dynamically reacts to the viewers motion. As soon it does no longer detect someone close it reorganizes itself after a while and gently restarts wobbling around.
www.nilsvoelker.com
2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
a camera, a computer, a microcontroller
and countless screws
summer/autumn 2010
This is so cool. reminds me a bit of an installation I saw in MMX in Berlin by Elke Graalfs (check it out on artcation).
I just absolutely LOVE these paintings by Nicholas Bohac. They merge simplicity of form and complexity of color to create a surreal illustrative landscape. LOVE!
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I’ve been following Yulia Gorodinski for a while now. I always really get excited when I see her pop up in my google reader… however I make sure not to click at work. Her works are very revealing but I find them to be absolutely beautiful. innocent and provocative. Follow her blog at http://yuliagorodinski.tumblr.com/. The best part? She is both the model and the photographer..
This is just a wonderful project done by Caitlin Parker called “Let The Outside In.” I absolutely love this series. Nature taking over a little house… all the animals that visit. It makes me wish I lived in the woods! Here is what Caitlin has to say about the project:
This is a 4 minute excerpt of what will be a ten minute long time lapse video. These four minutes span the months of August through January, the ten minute final version will span exactly one year, May 2009 through May 2010. Motion sensor cameras capture this miniature house deteriorating, seasons coming and going, curious animals passing through, and plants growing and dying. The stills captured during the year have been selectively edited into the final video, titled “Let the Outside In”.
This is unbelievable. I would love to have experienced this!
Clouds are important elements of our atmosphere, framing outdoor space and filtering sunlight. They are the visible part of the terrestrial water cycle, carrying water— the source of life—from the oceans to the land. Clouds find balance within stable equilibria and naturally sustain themselves, embodying and releasing solar energy. The ability to touch, feel, and walk through the clouds is a notion drawn from many of our fantasies. Gazing out of airplane windows, high above the earth, we often daydream of what it might be like to live in this ethereal world of fluffy vapor.
TRANSSOLAR & Tetsuo Kondo Architects create Cloudscapes where visitors can experience a real cloud from below, within, and above floating in the center of the Arsenale. Visitors find a path that is akin the normal experience of walking through a garden. The path winds through Cloudscapes appearing and disappearing. Sometimes people only see the other people across the cloud while the path is obscured. The structure consists of a 4.3 meter high ramp that allows visitors to sit above the cloud. Simply, the structure leans on the existing Arsenale columns. The cloud is always changing so the experience of the path is also dynamic.
The cloud is based on the physical phenomenon of saturated air, condensation droplets floating in the space and condensation seeds. The atmospheres above and below the cloud have different qualities of light, temperature, and humidity, separating the spaces by a filter effect. The cloud can be touched, and it can be felt as different microclimatic conditions coincide. The scene is set underneath an artificial sky where the cloud can be touched and felt as different micro-climatic conditions coincide and where people are changing the cloud and meeting each other.
In terms of being personally moved by art, for some reason photography only captures my attention every so often. I can appreciate it often, but not often does it really resonate within me deeply. I ran across this image on Triangle Triangle. It was taken by Anthony Goicolea. It is outstanding.
The winners of the Europan 10 competition have been announced a few days ago. Europan is a European federation of national organisations, which manages architectural competitions followed by building or study projects. Only young European architects are invited direct their ideas and visions to issues of city development, urban planning and architecture.
I am loving this truthful video of Saul Bass discussing beauty, craft, and aesthetic VS money, time, and business. And how everything that is beautiful costs money and time to make it so – it is cheap to make ugly things.
“It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.” – Saul Bass
In San Francisco, I went to the Museum of Modern Art there. It was really awesome to see some art in person that I had always just seen images of. It was also great so see some new things. Here are my IPhone photos of the time spent there.
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