Open Box I & II are optical illusions made by Krystina Naylor for a specific location. Would love to have one.

found at It’s Nice That

I just love Nicolas Sassoon his animated gif style. The rotating 3D objects with their pattern shading … truly nice. His created “Island Study” for a benefit compilation for Japan.

You could say that the “Thermochromic Clock” by CW&T looks like any other 4-digit 7-segment timepiece, but this one just works quite different.

Each segment in the display is made with a length of nichrome wire and then covered by a thick layer of black thermochromic paint. Time is displayed by applying voltage to the nichrome wire. As the wire sustains an electric current, it heats up the surrounding thermochromic paint, causing it to become transparent.

I want one.

found at CreativeApplications.Net

Just like last year, I’m organizing a SPEED SHOW next Thursday, July 21st, in Berlin. A SPEED SHOW is an exhibition format developed by Aram Bartholl.

The basic idea of this exhibition format is to create a gallery like opening situation for browser based internet art in a public cyber-cafe / internet-shop for one night. The exhibition format is free and can be applied by anyone at any place.

The titel of this years SPEED SHOW is “YOUR BROWSER IS MY KINGDOM”. There won’t be just animated gifs, but all kinds of different browser artworks.

So I invite you all to come and bring you friends and your friends’ friends!
Here are the details for the SPEED SHOW:

Thursday 21th of July 2011, 20:00 – 23:00
or@nien net
Oranienstrasse 185, Berlin (google maps link)

You can also rsvp for this event on Facebook.

There’ll be 18 screens showing you the best online art.
This is an alphabetical list with the already confirmed artists:
Anatoliy Demidov, Andrey Yazev, Chris Shier, Constant Dullaart, Duncan Alexander, Evan Roth, Joel Holmberg, Michael Manning, Mitch Trale, Niko Princen, Paul Flannery, Rafaël Rozendaal, Sinae Kim, Stephanie Davidson, Tabor Robak

These paintings by Buddy Nestor are actually quite creepy, but you just can’t look away, can you?

found at acidolatte

Bricks is a photo series from the current issue of Apartamento magazine. It created by Ana Dominguez and Omar Sosa and photographed by Nacho Alegre, who was assisted by Robbie Whitehead.

found at The Fox Is Black & iGNANT

The biannual Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal collection is one of the few fashion things I’m always looking forward too. It’s always entertaining. So here are my 2 picks of the FW 2011/2012 collection.

A shearling lined parka assembled of 4 backpacks.

If you’re a runner, then you might recognize the pattern on this shirt … it’s the design of the X-Socks Run Speed One. And make sure to have a closer look at the “shoes” in this collection.

tipped off by DIS Magazine

A few months ago, Felice Varini had an exhibition at the Gallery Römeraphotheke in Zürich, Switzerland. He created a new piece on-site called “Clin d’oeil à l’angle”. The graphic forms in his installations can only be seen from one exact viewpoint. If you don’t know what I mean: have a look here.
“Clin d’oeil à l’angle” is just a little different than his other pieces, this time you had to look at it in a mirror.

Tele-Present Water by David Bowen.

This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy Station 46246 (49°59’7″ N 145°5’20″ W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure installed at The National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland. The result was a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location.

found at creativeapplications.net

“Alphabetized Bible” by Tauba Auerbach.

found at pietmondriaan