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"The Waterfalls flowed in the East River. The Gates snaked through Central Park. Now New York's latest large-scale public art project is being exhibited in an even unlikelier space: your wallet." New York Times 11/20/09

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Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema is recalled as a collaboration between Duchamp and Man Ray, but it was really a collaboration between May Ray and Duchamp’s female alter ego Rrose Selavy (c’est la vie, geddit?). It was made with Duchamp’s kinetic sculptures, the Rotoreliefs, which I have written about before here. The title Anemic Cinema is a near palindrome. Previously on Dangerous Minds: Dreams Money Can...

Going West is a beautiful short film illustrating the worlds in a book, incorporating papercraft to make something dreamlike and wonderful. It was animated by Andersen M Studio.

NZ Book Council - Going West (via @GreatDismal)
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Schöner Walkthrough durch WK Interacts aktuelle Ausstellung „How to Blow Yourself Up“.

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"QUANTUM SHOT" #48 Link - article by Simon Rose and Avi Abrams Sometimes ex libris is more valuable than the book containing it Ex libris, meaning ‘from the library of’, or ‘from the books of’ is a Latin expression attached to the art form of bookplates. These are stamps or labels that appear inside books to denote ownership, and range from the simple to the decorative and elaborate, to the obscure...

Go ahead, change your life if you have the time as MUSICVISION PHOENIX is twenty tracks that changed their lives.

MUSICVISION PHOENIX from Guillaume Delaperriere on Vimeo.

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Sweet stop frame animation of a paper book come to life with narration from Andersen M Studio. Going west.

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Very beautiful sequence of liquids shot with a macro lens and from below. The video is also accompanied by a fitting ambient soundtrack.

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A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop, an exhibit opening Friday in New York, features life-size models of the great inventor’s machines, including his Mechanical Lion (pictured), weapons of war and flying machines.

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Hansel and Gretel Remade For Vogue by Annie Leibowitz. Using elaborate sets and costumes, she recreates the story of Hansel and Gretel. Vouge December 2009

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Machinarium - 2d Flash adventure game. Demo from the main page.

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Created by Christian Bannister, the three-dimensional forms morph and vibrate using visuals programmed in Processing. Controls use multiple touch points on a screen via Community Core Vision and reacTIVision, with sound from Logic, Reaktor, and Max/MSP.

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Amazing 'hidden' poster art The Sun By STAFF REPORTER AN inventive artist has turned his photos into a set of posters — and blended them back into their surroundings in these incredible pics. ... and more »...

The 3D cities roll out continues at increasing pace - the movie below captured by YourWorldIn3D details Valencia, Spain:



Its certainly impressive, Google's increasingly strong focus on geographic information is of note... ...

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"Nothing. (laughter) No, it was a joke in the dressing rooms at Judson. We were all naming categories of visual art practitioners and someone said, 'We were doing postmodern dance at Judson.' We all cracked up and no one countered us." Voice of Dance 11/17/09

Sketches, paintings and assorted surreal doodles from an upcoming book and art exhibit demonstrate the expansive visual vocabulary of one of Hollywood's most interesting filmmakers.

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Pimp my gallery: red-light district comes to the National Gallery Metro Contemporary art is so loud these days – all superstar artists and provocative takes on sex, death and religion – that a traditional institute has really ... Amsterdam red light exhibit for National GalleryBelfast Telegraph Red-Light Demoiselles Hang Out in London National Gallery ShowBloomberg Kienholz: The Hoe...

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I like Lady Gaga’s new single Bad Romance a lot more than I do her star performance in artist Francesco Vezzoli’s “The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again.” Debuted this Saturday at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the piece included Gaga herself playing Damien Hirst’s rotating pink piano, a row of Russian Bolshoi ballet dancers wearing Frank Gehry Muccia Prada and Baz Luhrmann, and Vezzoli’s interpretive needle point. Admittedly I didn’t see the work in person, but from the documentation I’ve seen it would appear the piece offers all short lived interests of an all-star game — a lot of famous people, none of them at their best.

Presumably some time after the performance, The Wall Street Journal asked Gaga what art meant to her.

“For me, art is a lie, and the artists are there to create lies we kill when we make it true. Francesco and I were like warriors on stage, trying to make a true moment….Art is life, life is art -– the question is what came first?”

Or to put it another way, “Life isn’t meaningful unless we’re creating”? Anyone else care to take a stab at this? I feel like I’m reading tea leaves.

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Kindle users cover your eyes! This is an excellent stop-motion video that spans over two months, 3,000 photographs and 35 books documenting the making of the book “The Complex of All of These.” (via HYST)

Esquire releases their first ever Augmented Reality Issue.

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China calls for return of art treasures from abroad Reuters Chinese art, whether ancient or more contemporary, has fetched record prices at international auctions in recent years, and at times defying the global ... and more »...

Aberrations, an exhibition of Jim Kazanjian’s hallucinatory photo-composites are pretty amazing.

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