Created for a new housing area in helsinki, finland. ‘colour curtains’ is a set of 30 paintings laminated on glass, cut out of various shapes installed on the corridor windows of the building. the paintings were done in water colours using a print glass technique where the images are laminated between two 6mm glass panels and cut into shape.
The Body Machines below is based on a poster by the artist Fritz Kahn from 1927. After a hard day at work I couldn’t help but relate to the subject who revealed all for this picture. Kahn cleverly depicts the nervous system as a complex electronic signalling system, complete with buttons, charts and busy workers. Fritz Kahn’s books and illustrations explored the inner machinery of the human body, using metaphors of modern industrial life. Kahn turned the brain into a complex factory with light projectors, conveyor belts, secretaries and cinema screens; he showed the journeys of blood cells as locomotives encircling the globe; and he compared bones to modern building materials such as reinforced concrete.
Creative Time presents Playing the building, a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
Mark Alexander on Van Gogh Coffee Mug "I won’t lie – we do listen to our members. It’s good that we can ear our views like this, I’ll be sure to pass it on to our rebranding team, I hear it’s ear-xactly what they’re looking for. Kudos."
John Nash on Van Gogh Coffee Mug "If you replace all current mugs and cups within the centres with these, perhaps you could re-brand to earOffice? Sorry, could not resist that one but will now get back to work!"
Mark Alexander on Green Skyscrapers "Alex – welcome to Dubai! Extravagance and a flagrant disregard for the environment are rife – if it can be done, it will be done and the more expensive the better. A fertile ground for entrepreneurs and innovators, but at what cost? "
Alex on Green Skyscrapers "Great idea , but not sure how ‘green’ this will actually be. How will they generate the huge amounts of energy it will take to rotate each of the floors. Don’t tell me a few photovoltaic cells can keep this in motion."
Mark Alexander on Fur is back – and this time, it’s USB "A nice thought RJ Peters – perhaps we should start petitioning agencies and organisations who can put these words into effect, to do so – it’s an innovation in itself and valuable resource redistribution and efficiency – so it makes good sense. As to whether these items look good – it is difficult..."