today and tomorrow

‘Les Bains des Docks‘ is a 5000 m² aquatic complex in Le Havre (France), designed by Jean Nouvel.
Photos by Clément Guillaume.

found at designws

Héctor Serrano Studio designed this installation called Waterdrop for Roca. Hunderds of sticks with a light on top, can move up and down. Together they can mimic a water surface. This effect was achieved by attaching those sticks to a flexible platter. In that way, the movement is very organic, water like. Have a look for yourself: the Waterdrop video.

Fountain by Massimo Bartolini.
found at pan-dan

‘A touch of Green’ is the title of the exhibition by Droog Design in Milan. Here are 2 projects that I picked out:

‘Table Tap’ by Arnout Visser. A simple and funny idea.

‘Massive Infection’ by Pieke Bergmans. She worked together with a glass blower to create these crystal vases who are pressed (still hot) onto the wooden objects and then leave black burned stains. This one of the best things I’ve seen for a while! She has a lot more projects like this one on her website.

‘Fountain PKW’ by Sylvie Fleury.

‘The Way Things Go‘ is a film by Peter Fischli & David Weiss, an artists duo from Switzerland. It’s a 30 minutes chain reaction video made in 1987, and definitely worth watching. I can also recommend the video work by Roman Signer.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

And as a little extra, this piece called ‘Masturbine’ by the same artists, part of their Équilibres.

Drop it like it’s hot! Dropclock, a 137 MB screensaver! Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with Helvetica Heavy dropping into water in super slow-motion. Nifty!
I don’t understand why you need an $15 license, maybe you get extra options …
Made by tha ltd.

Here are 2 other installations from the From Spark to Pixel exhibition. First: Hemisphere by Ulf Langheinrich. You had to lie on the floor under a gigantic hemisphere on which abstract animations where projected together with sound and stroboscopes. You had to lie there to experience it, but maybe this video gives you an idea.

An other installation was Ondulation by Thomas McIntosh. It’s basically a thin layer of water with some speakers beneath it. Due to the position of the speakers and the different frequencies, amazing wave patterns appeared. The water surface mirrored the light onto the wall so you could see the effect better.
There are some more pictures and 2 videos on the website.

‘The Replenishing Body‘ is a new project by SHOWstudio … again, great stuff. Make sure that you check out the gallery and the videos.
Here’s their description of the project:

Inspired by Evian’s discovery that it takes the human body six weeks to replenish with water, SHOWstudio has partnered with Evian to devise a fun, interactive video installation that allows visitors to the exhibit to become part of one big replenishing body. Using a 25 section, touch-screen video grid located at the Beyond the Valley gallery boutique on Newburgh St, W1 from 15-22 September, visitors are invited to make a one -second video recording of a close-up section of their body, which will be added to a constantly moving, composite video portrait. Each participant will make their recording on top of a previous one so that the videogrid itself becomes a continually replenishing body.

Sakurasaku by Hironao Tsuboi.