21 Balançoires. That’s French for 21 swings.
How would you like to hit the playground and find that the swings play music as you fly back and forth? Sounds pretty fantastic, right? For Montreal residents, it’s a reality. 21 Balançoires (21 Swings) is a new project from Canadian design group Daily Tous Les Jours, who are known for making super awesome public art installations. […]
9/11: a view from space
September 11, 2001. We all remember exactly where were, what we were doing, and how we felt when we heard the disastrous news about the World Trade Centers. But for Frank Culbertson, his memories of that day are as unique as they come. You see, Frank’s an astronaut. When he realized what was happening in his beloved country, […]
Paint rollers & projectors. So European.
We appreciate artists. They’re innovative & imaginative & creative. When I saw Video Painting Europe, it encompassed all that and more. Created by artists Blake Shaw (who was studying New Media Art at Bennington College when he first came up with the brilliant idea of video painting) and Bruno Levy (born in Paris and completed a […]
The rainbow connection
Every spring in India, Hindus all across the country celebrate Holi – the festival of colors. It is tradition to toss colored powder into the air, signifying the triumph of ‘good’ over ‘evil’ and allowing people the liberty to celebrate the beauty of a new season in a creative way. BBC had this to say: Holi is a […]
TED Talk with Candy Chang
What do you want to do before you die? We’ve asked it before, and I’m sure we’ll ask it again. The below TED talk features Candy Chang asking the question and giving us the chance to answer it ourselves.
Beasts of the Southern Wild? Yes please.
Have you heard of Beasts of the Southern Wild? Here’s a rundown of the film as told by Sundance: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in “the Bathtub,” a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a […]
Who knew light graffiti was a thing? Not us.
If you were to take street art, add LED lights and water guns, then you’d collectively come up with the coolest art project I’ve seen in a while. Water Light Graffiti is a project that started in Poitiers, France in July by creative genius Antonin Fourneau and his friends at Digitalarti Artlab. Basically they cover a […]
Turning the world inside out
In 2011, an artist from France named JR (#nolastname #mysterious) was selected for the Ted Prize and awarded $100,000 for a global art project called The Inside Out Project. JR takes photos of people across the globe in their “true face”, and with the help of wheat paste, posts these photos in bizarre places. Since 2011, […]
We love books. And fungi. Apparently.
If you asked our staff to name the things they love, I guarantee that somewhere in the top five would be art and books. And if there was ever a way to utilize those two things together, we would all simply overdose on excitement. Get ready for all the overdosing. The folks at Jardin de la […]
Summer 2012 Olympics: All things closing ceremony
We’re not quite ready to let go of the Summer 2012 Olympics, especially after this photo spread we found in The Atlantic. Three words: Spice Girls Reunion. Check out all the photos here. (Photo credit: The Atlantic)