Gunpowder Forest Bubble, Loris Greaud, 2008 (Palazzo Grassi)
Synthetic resin sculptures covered with gunpowder (15 trees)
Tweezers and the World
That day, we ran to Space, but Space wasn't big enough, and at a loss for anything else to do, we shot paint into the fourth dimension and we called it a good day.
How much does Saudi Arabia hate women? So much so that 15 girls died in a school fire in Mecca in 2002, after “morality police” barred them from fleeing the burning building — and kept firefighters from rescuing them — because the girls were not wearing headscarves and cloaks required in public. And nothing happened. No one was put on trial. Parents were silenced.
(via shrbr)
FUTURE SELF
Interactive light sculpture, combining human movement with responsive illumination. Man can finally dance with machine, in a striking way.
Is the sculpture’s algorithm studying us, or are we studying the sculpture?
(by MADE Blog)
“XYZT” by adrien m / claire b
»have a look at this video of their performances«
(via »new poetry forms«)
The World’s First Vertical Forest Tower, designed by architect Stefano Boeri
Paolo Bona/Reuters: The old tower is damaged after an earthquake in Finale Emilia May 20, 2012. A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy early on Sunday, killing at least three people and causing serious damage to the area’s cultural heritage. The epicentre of the 6.0 magnitude quake, the strongest to hit Italy in three years, was in the plains near Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of the Po River Valley.
The man.
Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni)
Though it is known from only a few specimens, current estimates put its maximum size at 12–14 metres (39–46 ft) long, based on analysis of smaller and immature specimens, making it the largest known invertebrate.
Unlike the giant squid, whose arms and tentacles only have suckers lined with small teeth, the colossal squid’s limbs are also equipped with sharp hooks: some swiveling, others three-pointed.
