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Spite your face productions

Spite your face productionsshow off their absolutely incredible lego movies, includingOne: a space odyssey, a tribute to Kubrick’s 2001 andAll of the dead, the one and only lego zombie movie.

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Posted on 8th March 2001 Details

The Rattle In Seattle - Earthquake as Artist

Earthquakes can be artists too. Here’sthe handiwork of the Seattle quake.

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Posted on 11th March 2001 Details

The scratch robot

Check out thescratch robot. It’s a robot attached to a technics SL1210 and a mixer, when you email it, it converts the message into sound created by scratching the record. Online from June 20th, visible in the real world at the ACEC building in Ghent.

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Posted on 7th June 2001 Details

Die Korperwelten

TheDie Korperweltenexhibition is finally coming to Belgium at the end of September. Not to be missed!

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Posted on 5th July 2001 Details

Vectorpark

Vectorparkis a magnificent work of art. It had me mesmerised for ages. click… click… click…

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Posted on 23rd September 2001 Details

D*I*R*T*Ydigital culture

IntroducingD I R T Y, a new French Digital Culture webzine built by Canal+ staff in their spare time. Videos, interviews, art, music, it’s all there, including a complete electronic music compilation in MP3 format free for the taking. It’s projects like these that still give me hope for the web. Keep it up fellas!

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Posted on 24th September 2001 Details

Prof. Gunther von Hagens' Koerperwelten

I finally got the chance to visit theKoerperweltenexhibition and I can recommend it highly. There’s nothing quite like it. Wandering among "plastinated" corpses and organs gives you a completely new perspective on the human body. Not to mention the fact I never thought that, one day, I would stick my head inside a human body and look out through the navel.

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Posted on 2nd October 2001 Details

ITN: Afghan Buddhas resurrected in China

A Chinese entrepreneur is resurrecting the giant Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan bybuilding replicas of them in China.

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Posted on 6th October 2001 Details

Ananova: Judge says dead body exhibition can go on

Ironic news item of the day: a Butcher hascomplained to authoritiesabout the Koerperwelten exhibition here in Brussels because the presence of the bodies of two pregnant women, with their unborn children, was an attack on his private and family life and on butchers in general. His complaint was, of course, rejected.And while I have the chance once again: Go and seethe exhibitionnow! Really!

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Posted on 6th October 2001 Details

Foton Records

If anyone is interested, I’m doing a video installation this Sunday in the city of Kortrijk/Courtrai, near the French border. It’s part of thefoton recordsparticipation in theHappy New Earsfestival. My setup will be inside one of theBroeltorens, medieval toll towers that were part of the old fortifications.

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Posted on 18th October 2001 Details

Guardian: Buffalo boy

A must-read interview withVincent Gallowhere everything from masturbation to politics (or is that the same thing?) get discussed.(thanks, John)

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Posted on 1st November 2001 Details

Scott Blake - Bar Code Art

Bar code artexplores the process of making art with information and technology and exposes what goes into the commercialization of well-known faces.

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Posted on 21st November 2001 Details

Jeffrey Zeldman

Separated at birth?

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Posted on 24th November 2001 Details

Helsingin Sanomat: More than half of art at Kabul National Gallery destroyed or stolen

The most valuable paintings from Kabul’snational art gallerywere hidden in a sealed chamber when everything turned to chaos about 10 years ago. Other works of art had people and animals painted over in order to satisfy the taliban’s ministry for the protection of virtue and the prevention of Vice. Many were also stolen or destroyed.

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Posted on 5th December 2001 Details

Bad News (Warning: heavy - 1.3 MB Flash file)

NeatoBelgian graffiti site, pay attention and you might recognize a few spots.(cheersGery)

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Posted on 17th January 2002 Details

Reseau 33

Check out the urban actions ofReseau 33. Also visitMonsieur A, who you may have met if you’ve walked around Paris.

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Posted on 9th February 2002 Details

The Pitt News - Hard-shelled

A Carnegie Mellon University art student willlive in silence for 3 months, dressed as a lobster, inside a 3-story house that he’s been building for about a year. The purpose of his performance art is tointrigue the audience and to invoke mind expansion.

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Posted on 21st February 2002 Details

Jason Mecier

Cool:edible mosaics, and more.

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Posted on 15th April 2002 Details

Post Gazette: 'Lobster boy' prepares to move to new site

Remember Lobster Boy and his art installation which I posted about here a while back? He’s still there buthas to moveto a new site.

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Posted on 13th May 2002 Details

Luciole Circus

Visit theLuciole Circusand it’s clay characters.

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Posted on 22nd May 2002 Details

David Still :)

Hi, my name is David Still. Have you ever wanted to pretend that you were someone else. Well, now you can! If you want to, you can use me to send someoneelse an email, justuse the form below.

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Posted on 29th May 2002 Details

The Guardian: More sex please, we're Spanish

Spanish experimental theatre group, La Fura dels Baus’new showpromises to be a sensory overload as usual.(thanks John)

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Posted on 19th June 2002 Details

Fridges and Streets

Fridges and Streets. An online project where you can listen to the sound a fridge or the streets associated with its location. I’m situated in thebottom right corner here.

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Posted on 19th June 2002 Details

Wired: Behold: 'Ebola Is Beautiful'

Ebola Is Beautiful. And so are many other examples of BioArt, the artistic side of science.

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Posted on 20th August 2002 Details

Helsingin Sanomat: Nearly two thousand naked and adrift in Helsinki

Sunday morning, 4:30 am, 2000 peoplenaked in a Helsinki market square.

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Posted on 20th August 2002 Details

Rudy Rucker's As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

Rudy Rucker, author ofThe hacker and the antshas written his first non-fiction work, about the life of the painterBruegel.(via Boing Boing)

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Posted on 6th November 2002 Details

Yahoo News: Study Suggests Image Disorder, Art Career Link

A study has found that an occupation or education in art and design could be associated with anincreased risk of body dysmorphic disorder. Hmm, time to get rid of that mirror.

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Posted on 10th November 2002 Details

Grumpkins

Sculpting pumpkins taken toa new level.

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Posted on 20th November 2002 Details

Reuters: Suicide Mistaken for Art Performance

When a woman threw herself out of a Berlin art gallery window, visitors initiallythought it was art.

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Posted on 9th December 2002 Details

Carlee Fernandez

Taxidermy meets sculpture inCarlee Fernandez’s work. It doesn’t make me feel good, that’s for sure.

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Posted on 28th January 2003 Details

Deady Bears

Following up on yesterday’s taxidermist art we now present stuffed toys known asDeady Bears.

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Posted on 29th January 2003 Details

Coin operated electric chair

Crime doesn’t pay, butcoin-operated punishmentdoes.

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Posted on 25th February 2003 Details

Washington Post: The Writing on the Wall

James Peterson created aguerilla mural near ground zeroin New York. Some people are not amused.

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Posted on 16th May 2003 Details

Art on Cows - Brussels 2003

The cows will beinvading Brusselsthis summer.

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Posted on 30th May 2003 Details

house gymnastics

Keep fit at home:house gymnastics

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Posted on 1st July 2003 Details

Die Gestalten Verlag: Writing - Urban Calligraphy And Beyond

Go and grabWriting - Urban Calligraphy And Beyondat your local art bookstore now. Great stuff! Congrats Arthur :)

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Posted on 2nd July 2003 Details

Sticker Nation

Neat!Sticker Nationis back.

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Posted on 5th August 2003 Details

BBC News: Graffiti star sneaks work into Tate

Banksypulls a quick oneon the Tate.

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Posted on 18th October 2003 Details

Inversions by Scott Kim

A Gallery ofinversions, pretty impressive.

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Posted on 12th November 2003 Details

Yakuta

Spice up that GSM phone: colour visuals and polyphonic ringtones made by well-known artists can be found atYakuta.

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Posted on 2nd December 2003 Details

Graffiti Archaeology

Graffiti Archaeologyshows how the painting on San Francisco walls mutates over time.

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Posted on 27th December 2003 Details

Tinygrow

Tinygrowis cute and an incredible time waster to boot.

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Posted on 30th December 2003 Details

Brotron Labs

Need a Death Ray, Atomic Blaster, or New Combat Robot for your Space Age Lounge? TryBrotron Labs.

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Posted on 30th December 2003 Details

CNN: Does PowerPoint make us stupid?

David Byrneturns PowerPoint into art, moving away from the vision of Edward Tufte.

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Posted on 31st December 2003 Details

Cinema Redux

Brendan Dawes reduces movies to their simplest form, a sort ofbasic DNAof editing, colour balance and storyboard.

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Posted on 31st January 2004 Details

Fuckin' Erotic Street Entertainment

Erotic artin the streets of Gent.

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Posted on 13th February 2004 Details

Pictures on Walls

“Art for everybody, made by nobodies” is the manifesto ofPictures on Walls, a great site that sells original art for dirt cheap prices. The “nobodies” include people likeBanksyandJamie Hewlett.

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Posted on 7th April 2004 Details

TechKwonDo__WiFi.Bedouin

TheWiFi.Bedouin art-technology projectis a backpack-mounted independent WiFi node that creates your own little “island internet”. You’re the server, not the client.Imagine setting yourself up in the corner of a WiFi-enabled location (an airport or coffee shop for example) with an SSID that looks official enough to get Joe Public connecting to it. Once he’s hooked up, you serve him your own little prank pages or political statement.

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Posted on 25th April 2004 Details

Unusual Art (direct link to Realvideo file)

For those who missed his performance, here’s a video of artist Benjamin Verdonck whobuilt a giant nestattached to the seventh floor of a skyscraper in the center of Brussels.

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Posted on 10th May 2004 Details

Complexification | Gallery of Computation

See the beauty of mathematics at theGallery of Computation.[via]

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Posted on 31st May 2004 Details

stop bush

The Stop Bush Project, a documentation of anti-Bush feelings from around the planet conveyed through the medium of street art.

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Posted on 17th June 2004 Details

Indymedia Ireland: Don't Mention the War Didn't Work

Anti-war street artfrom Dublin.

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Posted on 27th June 2004 Details

The One-minute vacation

One-minute vacationsare unedited recordings of 60 seconds somewhere else. Close your eyes, put on your headphones, and picture their environment. Alternatively, just use the site as a source of samples for your next experimental opus.

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Posted on 10th July 2004 Details

123KLAN are back

Our masterful French neighbours at123KLANare back with their online street art inspired experiments. Take your time to dig deep, and if it says “don’t click”, I strongly suggest you take the hint.

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Posted on 10th July 2004 Details

Banksy: Stencil Graffiti

Lots of new pieces are up for viewing onBanksy’s website. If you haven’t been there for a while, take a few minutes to go and check them out. And if you’ve never been there, it’s high time you discovered one of the masters of subversive stencil graffiti.

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Posted on 18th July 2004 Details

Fugitive Images

Fugitive imagesis a compendium of street art found across the many neighbourhoods of New York City.

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Posted on 20th July 2004 Details

You Whores

Jimmy Cauty aka Rockman Rock from infamous band/art collective KLF has launchedyouwhores.comwhere you can let the world know what you’re ready to do and what your price is.

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Posted on 21st July 2004 Details

billboart 2004

Billboart 2004is a project, initially opening in Bratislava, that focuses on the presentation of contemporary art in a network of public spaces.Tabula Rasa, the entry from the Nebudu Group is especially compelling.

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Posted on 31st July 2004 Details

ekosystem - NUSIGN * 2.4 - Paris - 9-25 July

Thenusignexhibition in Paris is over and, if like me, you missed it, you can at least check out some of thephotos at ekosystem.Talking of which, does anyone know about anything of that type worth seeing in Paris towards the end of the month? I’ll be there on the 31st to seethe man himself speaking, but will most probably have some free time later in the day.

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Posted on 4th August 2004 Details

BBC News: Guerrilla artist in statue stunt

Banksy pulls offanother glorious stunt, this time it’s made of bronze and weighs 3500 Kg.

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Posted on 5th August 2004 Details

Bomb the system

Bomb The Systemis a trip into the world of New York City graffiti writing. Although it’s a piece of fiction, it seems to capture the vibe pretty well even with the trailer hinting at some Hollywood-pleasing love scenes and deliverance-through-education discourse.There’s no trace of aBelgian release dateto be found, so it’s another one added to the DVD wish list.

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Posted on 14th August 2004 Details

Barcelona Graffiti

An awesome photo album ofBarcelona street artfrom Mark Mcknight.

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Posted on 17th August 2004 Details

Space Invaders Hunters

TheSpace Invader huntersare on the prowl, trying to get a shot of every singlespace invaderon the walls of Paris. I’ll just enjoythe book.

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Posted on 18th September 2004 Details

Strandbeest

Dutch artist Theo Jansen makes amazingorganic beach creaturesbuilt from plastic tubing skeletons and powered by wind. It must quite an experience to sit on the sand and watch a herd of those pass you by. His other creation, theanimaris rhinoceros transport, looks more like a refugee from the Star Wars universe.

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Posted on 26th September 2004 Details

The Zoomquilt - a collaborative art project (2,3 MB Shockwave file)

Load thezoomquilt, grab your cursor keys and select your travel direction, then prepare to be amazed.

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Posted on 5th October 2004 Details

Hanzi Smatter: Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters (Hanzi or Kanji) in Western culture.

Ever wonder if that tattoo on your left arm featuring beautifully crafted chinese characters actually expressed what you thought it did? Time to check:

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Posted on 24th October 2004 Details

Nikita Pashenkov: SpinalCat

Spinalcatis a project where paper records containing drawn or printed markings are placed on traditional vinyl turntables. An optical cartridge on the tonearm interprets the visual signature as programming data for synthesizing and sequencing the music. The possibilities are intriguing.

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Posted on 25th October 2004 Details

Copper Greene

Copper Greene, the guy responsible for the iRaq posters that spoofed the iPod ads, is back at work. This timethe target is citibank.

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Posted on 31st October 2004 Details

Go Above

He signs his creations with the “Above“ moniker. He paints arrows on walls, vehicles and store fronts. He cuts them from wood and throws them up, leaving them hanging from electricity cables.

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Posted on 7th November 2004 Details

ARTE radio.com

Arte Radio, the web-only MP3 radio station run by Franco-Germancultural TV Station Artehas just made its complete MP3 archive available to the public under the creative commons license.With the constant vilification of anything remotely linked to the sharing of audio online these days, it’s a welcome change.

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Posted on 8th November 2004 Details

arofish - the scrawls of war

Arofishis a stencil graffiti artist who traveled through occupied Iraq and Palestine, leaving his spray-painted mark on the walls and accumulating more hazardous experiences than most of us encounter in a lifetime.

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Posted on 17th November 2004 Details

Alice_Bxl - Gallery and Shop

Alice, a new shop dedicated to urban art and culture, recently opened its doors in Brussels. It stocks books, magazines, toys, stickers, t-shirts and more. It also features a gallery dedicated to street art where the first exhibition will be taking place at the end of this month. It looks promising although it felt sort of empty when I visited it last week, it’s a bit early to judge though. The shop’s located at the end of the Rue Dansaert, close to the canal andLe Bonheur, a recent defector to that part of town.

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Posted on 3rd January 2005 Details

Announcing Wooster Podcasts - Show #1: Jon Burgerman

The reference in street art sites, wooster collective, haslaunched a new podcastfeaturing interviews and commentary from leading contempory artists. The first installment stars Jon Burgerman.

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Posted on 4th March 2005 Details

Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums (All of them)

Banksy has taken his covert operations to the States this time and managed to surreptitiouslyplace his art along with descriptive plaque in four top New-York museums. You have to admire the guy’s nerve.

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Posted on 23rd March 2005 Details

Turning turntable scratches into visual patterns: ...

Turning turntable scratches into visual patterns: Valerio Spoletini’s V-Scratch. Neat.

Linked on 21st May 2006 Details

Nabaz’mob, a micro-opera with 100 wifi rabbits on ...

Nabaz’mob, a micro-opera with 100 wifi rabbits on stage (these little fellas)

Linked on 1st June 2006 Details

Banksy’s latest stencil in Bristol has provoked a ...

Banksy’s latest stencil in Bristol has provoked a local debate on its status as art or vandalism. Meanwhile, his work on Israel’s security wall has inspired local Palestinian artists to emulate him.

Linked on 23rd June 2006 Details

Banksy's latest stencil

Banksy's latest stencil in Bristol has provoked a local debate on its status as art or vandalism. Meanwhile, his work on Israel's security wall has inspired local Palestinian artists to emulate him.

Linked on 23rd June 2006 Details

French artist Prune, leaves his dog-child hybrid c...

French artist Prune, leaves his dog-child hybrid chimeras leashed outside bakeries.

Linked on 11th July 2006 Details

Space Invaders with real live people...

Space Invaders with real live people

Linked on 15th July 2006 Details

Art critic Robert Hughes on the dark side of the s...

Art critic Robert Hughes on the dark side of the swinging sixties.

Linked on 22nd August 2006 Details

Projecting animated wild animals from a moving car...

Projecting animated wild animals from a moving car, their speed synchronised to the car wheels, brilliant!

Linked on 29th August 2006 Details

Banksy replaces Paris Hilton CDs in UK shops with ...

Banksy replaces Paris Hilton CDs in UK shops with his own personal interpretations.

Linked on 3rd September 2006 Details

Update on the Banksy vs Paris Hilton story: here a...

Update on the Banksy vs Paris Hilton story: here are some pictures.

Linked on 4th September 2006 Details

Banksy strikes again. Mixing Guantanamo and Disney...

Banksy strikes again. Mixing Guantanamo and Disneyland.

Linked on 11th September 2006 Details

One wall. One week of Japanese Art....

One wall. One week of Japanese Art.

Linked on 24th October 2006 Details

Pssst! Wanna buy some garbage?...

Pssst! Wanna buy some garbage?

Linked on 11th November 2006 Details

Art+Game is an exhibition/event taking place at th...

Art+Game is an exhibition/event taking place at the beginning of December in Brussels that will focus on the relationship between art and video games. The documentary 8 Bit Movie will also be shown.

Linked on 18th November 2006 Details

Santa’s Ghetto has opened its doors in London. It ...

Santa’s Ghetto has opened its doors in London. It features amusements and the work of many artists, including the inevitable Banksy’s take on Michael Jackson.

Linked on 2nd December 2006 Details

Santa's Ghetto has opened its doors in London.

Santa's Ghetto has opened its doors in London. It features amusements and the work of many artists, including the inevitable Banksy's take on Michael Jackson.

Linked on 2nd December 2006 Details

I thought I recognised that car park.

I thought I recognised that car park.

Linked on 6th December 2006 Details

I thought I recognised that car park....

I thought I recognised that car park.

Linked on 6th December 2006 Details

An art-based backlash against Banksy. Amusing....

An art-based backlash against Banksy. Amusing.

Linked on 20th January 2007 Details

Escalator art. Very nice....

Escalator art. Very nice.

Linked on 24th January 2007 Details

Hand-painting, a homograph....

Hand-painting, a homograph.

Linked on 26th January 2007 Details

Nike The Ripper in Munich...

Nike The Ripper in Munich

Linked on 1st February 2007 Details

What happens after the expiration date has passed?...

What happens after the expiration date has passed?

Linked on 7th February 2007 Details

Bringing new life to boarded up homes...

Bringing new life to boarded up homes

Linked on 14th February 2007 Details

WWI plane on top of a New York building....

WWI plane on top of a New York building.

Linked on 7th March 2007 Details

The great Banksy robbery....

The great Banksy robbery.

Linked on 10th March 2007 Details

Seen in the Palazzo Reale in Milan...

Seen in the Palazzo Reale in Milan

Linked on 2nd April 2007 Details

Aram Barthol wondered what real life would look li...

Aram Barthol wondered what real life would look like if we all had our names floating above us like the avatars in World of Warcraft. This is what it looks like in the streets of Gent.

Linked on 5th April 2007 Details

Scraping the vehicle pollution off tunnel walls cr...

Scraping the vehicle pollution off tunnel walls creates the art of Alexandre Orion.

Linked on 22nd April 2007 Details

Street art at Bozar...

Street art at Bozar

Linked on 25th April 2007 Details

The New Yorker covers Banksy...

The New Yorker covers Banksy

Linked on 8th May 2007 Details

Evolution as street art....

Evolution as street art.

Linked on 13th May 2007 Details

Abstractor turns your TV or outdoor video screen i...

Abstractor turns your TV or outdoor video screen into a work of art.

Linked on 9th June 2007 Details

If you’re anywhere near the Tate Modern in London ...

If you’re anywhere near the Tate Modern in London between now and the end of August, Global Cities looks like an interesting exhibition to explore.

Linked on 23rd June 2007 Details

The tunnel house....

The tunnel house.

Linked on 30th June 2007 Details

From whence it came.

From whence it came. Taking the mystery out of mystery meat.

Linked on 17th February 2008 Details

From whence it came. Taking the mystery out of mys...

From whence it came. Taking the mystery out of mystery meat.

Linked on 17th February 2008 Details

The blinkenlights crew have setup a new project in...

The blinkenlights crew have setup a new project in Toronto: Stereoscope. Using the dual city hall buildings as displays. Even rickrolling got its spot.

Linked on 5th October 2008 Details

Blinkenlights Stereoscope

The blinkenlights crew have setup a new project in Toronto: Stereoscope. Using the dual city hall buildings as displays. Even rickrolling got its spot.

Linked on 5th October 2008 Details

British artist puts Royal Mail to the test. Now th...

British artist puts Royal Mail to the test. Now there’s something you can’t do with email.

Linked on 9th October 2008 Details

British artist puts Royal Mail to the test.

British artist puts Royal Mail to the test. Now there's something you can't do with email.

Linked on 9th October 2008 Details

Photoshop adbusting in Berlin....

Photoshop adbusting in Berlin.

Linked on 18th January 2009 Details

Photoshop adbusting in Berlin.

Photoshop adbusting in Berlin.

Linked on 18th January 2009 Details

Urban camouflage...

Urban camouflage

Linked on 5th March 2009 Details

A rare interview with Banksy.

A rare interview with Banksy.

Linked on 11th September 2009 Details

A rare interview with Banksy....

A rare interview with Banksy.

Linked on 11th September 2009 Details

Henry Chalfant wants to restore Style Wars.

Henry Chalfant is looking to get his seminal street art documentary Style Wars restored. If you have a little extra cash floating around, give him a hand.

Linked on 15th May 2010 Details

Henry Chalfant is looking to get his seminal stree...

Henry Chalfant is looking to get his seminal street art documentary Style Wars restored. If you have a little extra cash floating around, give him a hand.

Linked on 15th May 2010 Details

Journey through the layers of the mind

You may have noticed a whole bunch of content pertaining to neural networks "dreaming" making the rounds recently. This is a variation based on image recognition.

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Posted on 3rd July 2015 Details

Memories of a future

French photographer Laurent Kronental has been documenting the typical post-war modernist and optimistic housing estates peppered around Paris. There's a definite old-school sci-fi vibe emanating from them.

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Posted on 13th November 2015 Details

Peter Bellerby—The Globemaker

A short film about Bellerby & Co, artisan globe makers based in London. Incredible craftmanship.

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Posted on 15th May 2016 Details

Passenger warning

I spent a couple of days in London last week. While on a tube journey, this lovely little stealth intervention on a carriage wall caught my eye.

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Posted on 18th November 2016 Details
Tower of babel Tower of babel
Added on 7th December 2017 Details

Social Decay

Social media logos imagined as decaying signage. Beautiful renderings as commentary by Andrei Lacatusu.

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Posted on 10th January 2018 Details

Brutalist cuckoo clocks

I’d love one. Probably way over my budget though.

Linked on 3rd June 2018 Details

What time is death?

Looks like our old friends The KLF/K2 Plant Hire/The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu are planning something for the first annual Toxteth Day Of The Dead.

Linked on 25th August 2018 Details

Insect illustrations inspired by Looney Tunes and horror movies.

British illustrator Richard Wilkinson creates insects based on characters like Bugs Bunny or Jason Voorhees.

Linked on 23rd June 2019 Details

Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo, think about what it means.

Photos of these modernist monuments are frequently shared without context or wrongly attributed to commissioning by Tito. Theirs is a story of historical erasure and lessons from the past we seem to be ignoring yet again.

Linked on 17th August 2019 Details

Uncomfortable Art Tours.

Art historian Alice Procter is on a mission to decolonise museums and galleries with her "Uncomfortable Art Tours". Interesting approach. I'd love to go on one of her tours if we can ever travel to the UK again. The British Museum is pretty much a giant fencing operation when you think about it.

Linked on 24th May 2020 Details

Kathleen Ryan’s decomposing fruit.

Artist Kathleen Ryan creates decomposing fruit sculptures from precious gems. I love the absurdity of it.

Linked on 21st September 2020 Details

Window art in World War 1.

During the first world war, Parisian shop owners would place lines of tape across their windows to avoid flying glass in case of a nearby bombing or explosion. It turned into something of a design contest as they started creating…

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Posted on 11th October 2021 Details

Miniatures by Tatsuya Tanaka.

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You've probably already seen the miniature worlds created by Tatsuya Tanaka. Before watching this video, I was unaware he 3D-printed a lot of his content. His process is impressive and the results even more so.

Added on Nov 12, 2021 Details

Tracking people on public cameras from a single instagram post.

Dries Depoorter built software to scan online public cameras and link them to geotagged instagram posts from the same location. Basically finding people from a single instagram photo and potentially tracking them across any public (or not) camera out there. Technically impressive, yet disturbing.

There was a video on the page too, but it seems to have been pulled due to a copyright claim from Earthcam who, I imagine, weren't very happy about their cameras being used for this.

Linked on 14th September 2022 Details

Floor 796

Just explore this incredible isometric pixel art world in your browser. Filled with tons of little details and references.

Linked on 18th November 2022 Details
Stringed in Bright Brussels. Stringed in Bright Brussels.
Added on 19th February 2023 Details

Plant self-defense

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Artist David Bowen has connected a plant to a robotic arm holding a machete. The electrical signals within the plant control its movement.

Added on Mar 26, 2023 Details

Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine.

German artist Mario Klingemann has made a fluffy robot dog that produces art critiques by pooping them out of its butt.

Linked on 13th June 2023 Details

Strandbeests are still crawling the beaches.

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If you've been around long enough, you've probably seen the Strandbeests of Theo Jansen. Wind-powered kinetic animal-like sculptures that trek across the beaches. He's still at it, now chaining them together.

Added on Oct 13, 2023 Details