Portable Urban River by LuzinterruptusShedding light on the importance of Earth’s most abundant resource, Luzinterruptus literally packaged light with some colourful inhabitants of the essential liquid refreshment in Caracas, Venezuela, producing an artificial river in the streets. Local residents took home some of the 2,000 bags so that not a drop would be wasted. Click [...]
Since 2002 artist, dancer and choreographer William Forsythe has traveled with his audio/visual installation Scattered Crowd, created by suspending thousands of balloons in galleries, museums, banks and other architecturally significant spaces. Though the photos clearly do the work visual justice I think it’s hard to truly appreciate the full sensory experience without walking through the [...]
Between 1969–1972, Howard Smith recorded interviews with scores of rock stars and cultural icons. As a Village Voice columnist and radio personality on WPLJ FM, Smith sat down for revealing, personal conversations with Eric Clapton, Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison, Buckminster Fuller, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia and Hugh Hefner, to name just a few. He interviewed [...]
100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos mission. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist’s rendition based on NGC [...]
Australian photographer Shantanu Starick is trying to travel the world, for free. How? We’ll let Starick explain. “As a professional photographer I’m trading my services for a few days, photographing any subject, in return for the necessities: Food Shelter Transport Occasionally people trade personal necessities, items of clothing, equipment, flights etc. This is discussed before [...]
After spending a year in New York, Thai photographer Benz Thanachart found Thailand’s anti social subway rides needed to be changed. So he came up with Smartphone, a project designed to bring out a reaction in people. “I got into the subway, shouted out a random word that is completely unrelated to the situation and [...]
A collaboration between creative director Anna Burns and photographer Thomas Brown, “Pop Pop Bang” is a series of installations that explores “the masculine world of B-Movies”. Using the themes of said movies – girls, guns and explosives – and twisting it against a very British backdrop, the duo created a wall of umbrellas displaying elements [...]
For many of us, it is impossible to imagine what it would be like to fight in a war, and for many of those who have had to it is impossible to forget. Photographer Lalage Snow documented the faces of several British soldiers before, during, and after their operational deployment in Afghanistan. The series of [...]
Photographer Mats Petersson has just finished a fantastic project that looks at the landscapes created by forest fires. “For me, fire evokes complex questions about our origins, the power of nature, and the future of our planet.” Firewatch is a series that documents Petersson’s experiences with nature’s strength. Using his trusty Hassleblad camera, the artist [...]
There are more than 300 languages spoken in London, making it the most diverse place on earth, at least linguistically speaking. Between 2001 and 2005, photographer Richard Hooker visited various bus stops across London and shot film photographs of the people waiting for their rides to arrive. The 136 photographs he captured show the city’s [...]
