The Wind Shaped Pavilion is a design proposal for a large fabric structure that can be used as a public or private pavilion. As a lightweight fabric structure, the wind slowly and randomly rotates each of the six segments around a central open support frame. This continually alters the shape of the pavilion, while at the same time generating electrical power for its nighttime illumination…Great alternative for the future!
Here’s a cool graffiti animation made in Brussels and it reminds me of this animated urban projection!
This can be useful for anonymous museum visits…
Last week I was asked to take my camera with me and to shoot as much as possible words in the streets for an upcoming urban typographic project…The Visual Dictionary is a collaborative online project of words in the real world I recently discovered. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it…i love it!
Everybody should go to Charleroi and see the Araki Nobuyoshi retrospective called “A la vie la mort”. The exhibition celebrates the forty-year career of Araki Nobuyoshi, Japan’s best known living photographer. Unfortunately we arrived late on Sunday and we only had 30 minutes to run across all his pictures (and polaroids). It’s really beautiful. But beware of the local christians: they are against the exhibition because of a giant nude photography on the main building who’s facing the street. A couple of weeks ago, they threw some molotov bombs at it and now that poor lady has been molested with grey paint (see above). Let’s hope I won’t go to hell because I saw that exhibition.
PS: don’t go to Charleroi unless you have a good reason to go…
Bill Shannon has a bilateral hip deformity, but that doesn’t keep him from breakdancing or skateboarding with his crutches. Total respect!
Well, I’m still renovating my house and as expected there are some delays for numerous reasons so I have plenty of time to look for a decent kitchen. I won’t buy a branded kitchen as I prefer something custom made and functional. I’m not a cook at all but the kitchen is a place where you spend a lot of time, so for me it’s an important place in a house. As we’re finalizing the plans for the kitchen, here are some inspirations from the Designboom 2006 competition. The entry above called “taste dj” is quite amazing and reminds me of Charley Case’s video installation comparing a cook and a scratcher or Mathew Herbert’s concert at Sonar where he was cooking on stage while sampling the sounds and feeding the audience at the end of his gig. Mmmm, Kitchen Inferno! Burn Baby! Burn!
Really cool pictures from New Jersey’s Sam Bassett
…said in 1974 spoken word prophet Gil Scott Heron. His 1982’s B Movie is also worth checking!
This is functional kitsch: the wrong becomes the new right. By adding a function to an otherwise grotesque object, it acquires new aesthetic values, becoming an object of desire. This woofer holds the mids between an addition to your sound system and your loyal 4 footed companion. Available in a co-axial two way speaker system version (two dogs). Barking not included!
