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November 7, 2009

Karen O'Leary: Cut-Out Maps

Charlotte, NC-based artist Karen O'Leary reimagines the map as an exchange of negative and positive space. Deftly cutting maps of New York, Paris and London with razor precision, she leaves delicate webs of streets as land and water are cut away. Negative space demarcates land, while meandering grids of paper represents streets. In a recent interview with The Jailbreak, O'Leary said of her work, "I love the idea of a completely familiar object made new and even more beautiful."

I have always been fascinated by maps, and these lacy depictions of real places showing just the roads are captivating to look at.

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October 4, 2009

Dreamer

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September 30, 2009

RojoOut Urban Stage São Paulo

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After São Paulo city officials ordered graffiti cleanup crews to leave work by Os Gemeos and other famous São Paulo street artists alone, art collective and magazine Rojo asked the city's Urban Development Department to allow them to tap artists like Tofer and MWM Graphics to help spice up drab concrete structures across the city. "It was the first time they've allowed it," says Zagg Guimaraes, Rojo's associate director in Brazil. "We're trying to make the city more beautiful." Dubbing the operation RojoOut , the public art exhibit continues a similar three-year project in Barcelona that they started in 2006.

Filed under // architecture Art urbanism

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September 8, 2009

Self-hacked products: The arduino makes it possible - Core77

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On their website, UK industrial design firm Tinker. it! promotes the arduino, a credit-card-sized circuit board laden with sockets and sold by Tinker Tools. What does this little thing do? Well, that depends on you, really--the arduino is aimed at the physical hacker/tinkerer set.

[The arduino] comes with a series of sockets into which tinkerers can plug light or motion sensors and a similar set for plugging whatever gadget they want to control into. Using a laptop, the arduino can be told what to do when a particular event happens - for example, when a motion sensor is triggered, it powers up a motor.

Look at any recent electronic art installation and the chances are that behind the scenes there's an arduino. In fact, [Tinker. it! co-founder Alexandra] Deschamps-Sonsino believes more than 100,000 arduino boards have now been sold around the world, although it is difficult to give an exact figure - in keeping with the open ethos of the movement, plans are available that allow people to make their own.

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August 25, 2009

On the aesthetics of destruction

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Drawings by Rob Voerman.

"Some years ago, I started a body of work in which I try to create the architecture of fictive communities living in remote areas or occupying existing city-landscapes. The communities will consist of a mixture of utopia, destruction and beauty, a symbiosis of hippie-communities from the seventies, with their often highly decorated self-built structures, the cabin of the Uni-bomber hidden in the Montana forests, art-deco and other influences. Romanticism combined with the grim qualities of terror. It is often a direct translation of destruction in a purely aesthetic form.”

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August 20, 2009

Smirk - Alyssa Monks

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This is a painting, not a photo. Go to her site to see more. Interesting stuff.

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July 16, 2009

TV Addicts 2

From sketch book.

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July 16, 2009

TV Addicts 1

From sketchbook. New idea part 1.

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July 14, 2009

MoCo Loco: Dear Diary 1.0 by Marlies Romberg

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For Marlies Romberg, a recent grad of the Utrecht School of Arts, her goal is to "to materialize the ungraspable fast digital world and create an opportunity for nostalgia in this future world." The result is Dear diary 1.0, above, the fusion of the real world and the digital world...

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June 30, 2009