Big Bang, Big Boom: The Story of Evolution, Told in Graffiti // #blu #streetart

The Amazing Brain Pickings blog recently made me aware of the latest creation by Italian street artist BLU; a stop-motion movie illustrating the story of evolution in the most brilliant way – and it becomes even more impressive when knowing that it was appearantly made with no post-production. Read the original post at Brain Pickings [...]

Tetris Everywhere!

Flickr user group L-plate Big Cheese has curated an impressive and funny gallery titled Tetris Everywhere, which shows the tetrism that is all around us. Watch gallery @ Flickr

0100101110101101.org strikes again #tacticalmedia

Brooklyn-based art activism group 0100101110101101.org has once again made a brilliant and thought-provoking tactical media strike – this time titled ‘No Fun’ and targeting the development in the contemporary online mediascape. From their subsequent press release: “Thousand of people watched powerless while a person was hanging from the ceiling, slowly swinging, for hours and hours. [...]

FAT Labs vs. Google

Last week here in Berlin the Transmediale Festival took place – and it was great. However, the icing on the cake is to be attributed entirely to Berlin’s own FAT Labs art activism group (Free Art & Technology), who not only had an intriguing stall at the festival itself (titled ‘Fuck Google‘), but also put [...]

“Google Xistence: Because life is too short for social interaction”

About a week ago, I ran across a hilarious prank called Google Xistence that offered people to take care of the time consuming social media “stuff” by sending out randomly generated status updates and tweets for you, so that you would have time to get some work done. The site even bolstered the brilliant slogan: [...]

Update on the Facebook vs. Suicidemachine issue

After the story came out about how Facebook is trying to tyranize a small Dutch web-service, that helps people disconnect from social media services, quite a lot of attention has been drawn to the case. Especially on the wonderful Nettime-mailinglist where people gather to discuss issues of net criticism. One of the most interesting posts, [...]

New York urban art chair-tracking experiment

Check out this funny urban experiment: You (that would be Blue Dot Studio) put out design chairs in the street at random sites in New York city, then trace them with GPS and video cams. Blu Dot Real Good Experiment from Real Good Chair on Vimeo.

Remixed Danish tourist poster reflects the brutal Copenhagen police actions

Check out this brilliantly made remix of the classic old ‘Wonderful Copenhagen’ poster, made by Camilla Brodersen. A remix that so accurately visualizes the political shift in mentality that has happened in Denmark over the last 5-6 years. I found it at Boing Boing – read the original post here.

Web 2.0-services as old book covers

For everyone with a weak spot for the graphical aesthetics of book covers in the 70′s (which includes me), the mashup of those with current web 2.0-services by artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal (aka Hulk4598, or Rétrofuturs) is both hilarious and beautiful. Below is a couple of my favorites – and you can see the entire series [...]

Street art censorship in Vancouver, Canada

This is something I have never heard of before: Authorities taking action to remove politically offensive street art. Nevertheless, this is what has happened in Vancouver, Canada, where an art gallery owner has received an order to remove a controversial mural on the outside walls of the gallery. Local newspaper The Globe & Mail writes: [...]