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Tag: art
Extreme Green Guerrillas
RFID marked animals for messaging, giving up on healthy or fairtrade food in favor of locally produced food and genetically modified urban vermin like the Piguail Pigeon-Quail hybrid. And at 20 they get an earring that will euthanize them painlessly at 40
Damien Hirst
Placed outside of the White Cube Gallery Masons yard at 3:30 in response to the Damien Hirst’s “For The Love of God” diamond skull exhibition.
fucking with damien hirst has to be one of the most meta fucks of all time.
a life-size platinum skull set with 8601 high-quality diamonds. If, as expected, it sells for around $100m this month, it will become the single most expensive piece of contemporary art ever created. Or the most outrageous piece of bling.
2008-09-13:
More than 180 people work for him, creating Damien Hirsts. 2 specialists oversee the formaldehyde unit, which on a visit in July contained 4 dead ponies, a wild boar, an upended cow and, in good “Godfather” style, a horse’s head in a plastic bag.
Download Finished!
transforms and re-publishes films from P2P networks and online archives. Found footage becomes the rough material for the transformation machine, which translates the underlying data structure of the films onto the surface of the screen.
US Self-Portrait
Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: 15M sheets of office paper (5 minutes of paper use); 106K aluminum cans (30 seconds of can consumption) and so on.
Wow. Mind-boggling.
Cans Seurat, 2007
2022-03-04: A conceptually similar piece:
These images combine photography and computer generated elements in an effort to visualize the output of various mines in South Africa. The CGI objects represent scale models of the materials removed from the ground. By doing so, the intention is to create a kind of visualization of the merits and shortfalls of this industry that has shaped the history and economy of the country so radically.
Zombie Last Supper
NYC Memory Panorama
Stephen, an autistic artist, has a savant’s gift: take him up in a helicopter and show him a city, just once, and he’ll draw you a near-perfect panorama of it later, drawing that even include the right number of windows, “so accurate it’s practically a blueprint.”
i wonder whether we’ll have perfect recall via brain surgery or via implants first 🙂
Remote War
Log on, aim and fire, and if you’re good enough the round from the paintball gun will splatter him with faux blood.
brilliant.
Master Color
The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?
Doll Face
cyborg fashion anxiety
Gregor J. Rothfuss 