great balls of (fire) and light!

I like balls... yes i do...

I especially like them when they're all strung up and lit up in a spectrum of pretty colors! (what on earth were you thinking?!)






check out Mark Reigelman's outdoor installation at the cleveland museum of art just in time for their summer solstice event. Entitled "White Cloud", the installation features 100 eight-foot weather balloons strung up to resemble clouds and come nightfall, colors are projected onto them so they look like pretty marbles!




Similarly, Light Play an urban installation by Michael Levine and KPMB for the Luminato Festival in Toronto back in 2008, has taken the whole concept of lighted chinese lanterns to a whole new level.. absolutely gorgeous!!!

spiderman's lair

'tape installation' is a site specific installation by croation design collective, foruse/numen. showcased at the DMY international design festival in Berlin, the entire installation is yes, made entirely out of tape -700 rolls of adhesive tape no less. the collective has descrived their work as 'parasitic' and reminiscent of UFOs - i just think it looks like spiderman's lair.

here's a little note on the construction process: the tendons of multiple layers of transparent adhesive tape were firstly stretched in between the constructions. the following continuous wrapping of tendons resulted in a complex, amorphous surface through a process similar to the growth of organic forms.

definitely do check out their website to see the rest of their tape installations (particularly love the viennese piece) : http://www.foruse.info

dirrrty money

'Cashback' by vincent jacquier is an interactive installation that shows how one can alter the perception of an object by allowing it to express a virtual content directly linked to its physical aspect. here users are asked to take out a banknote from their wallets and re-evaluate its innocence. Once placed on the cashback glass, the note seeks to reveal its true twisted nature as a stripper appears and begins her provocative dance move. The higher the note's value, the more 'content' you get. Different sides of the banknote also dictate what kind of stripper you get (male or female).

While i totally see the artist's intention in the work, i just like the fact that the piece reminds me of all the times i've wanted to see a strip show and give the dancers some of my dollar bills! haha! seriously though, i like how the work questions the nature of currency and money and it's implicit 'whorish-ness' for lack of a better/more intellectual term.

body con art

and you thought you had body image issues....

Korean artist Bohyun Yoon created 'Mirror costume' as a means to interrogate reality and to integrate that with the everyday experience of contemporary society. It plays with the idea of perception, what is real and what is not.

I personally think it reflects more on the idea of self-perception, on our own delusions about self and how we perceive ourselves may not actually be reality at all. So the question is, is what i see in the mirror the real me? or am i made to believe it as a result of society's reflection on my psyche? (this is me after having watched 'inception' which is a brilliant movie btw)

for more information about the artist: http://www.bohyunyoon.com

phantom chair

'i’ve chosen to represent this shape as slices, similar to an mri scan in order to make visible
its complex 3 dimensional geometry. the chair is metaphorically and physically carved out
of a sliced box '

Re-configuring and re-casting the classic Panton chair into a silent phantom, Australian architect Chris Bosse has created a stunning piece of work that recalls the work of futurist art. The frantic lines gives the chair a sexy silhouette and almost looks like it was created out of light.

Part of the re-loved exhibition at the powerhouse museum, sydney

Color me bad!

Softlab studios has designed a fabulous installation at the Bridge Gallery in NYC entitled "Chromatex.me". Printed on high gloss paper and held together by paper clips (?!) the installation will transform the gallery into a virtual color tunnel/vortex. I can just imagine how great it'll be...it's like walking into a real life visualization of a 3-d vortex drawing.

full story here

floating presence

Created by Spanish designers Luzinterruptus, Floating Presence is the last of a series of public light interventions featuring 80 lit beings inhabiting the rivers in the eastern mountains of la mancha.

both surreal and creepy, the installation almost seem like traces of a journey through the town and brings to mind the idea of death and how spirits travel across the river to the underworld... for a pop cultural reference, think of the scenes in 'clash of the titans' where Perseus and gang head down to the underworld to look for Medusa.

full story here

sharpie liquid pencil

Hark! i hear angels singing! harps playing!

The geniuses at Sharpie just created the Sharpie Liquid Pencil that writes like a pen, erases like a pencil and stays permanent after three days...and get this... no need to change the lead at all! hallelujah for developments in writing instruments!! and to think just years ago, the 'pen eraser' was the coolest invention in my mind.

tripped out dance floor ?!

Currently on view at CACSA, aussie artist Sam Songailo's media centre is one trippy, neo-glo project that reminds me of J.T's music video for "Rock your body" (ok, it's a little bit of a far stretch, but you know what I mean)... anyway, I love the acid colors and the intricate patterning detail!!




Just for comparison purposes... and also an excuse for me to giggle at his hawtness ;)

it's all a matter of perspective

brilliant typography work/installation by joseph egan + hunter thomson.





http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/11093/joseph-egan-hunter-thomson-anamorphic-typography.html



which also brings to mind the work of Felice Varini - I love the play on perspectives and interactivity between the viewer and the work.


the last piece by varini was done in Singapore as part of the Singapore Biennial in '08? coolness! props to my peeps!!