We always tell people "think big"... "dream big"... "the sky's the limit"... "the world is your oyster"... Well, in this case, canvas. With the help of express shipping company DHL, Erik Nordenankar has created the "Biggest Drawing in the World " measuring 40,076,592 meters x 4,009,153 meters. Using a GPS unit packed in a "Pelican" hardcase as his pencil, Erik shipped the case with specific cooridnates enabling the world to become the paper. 55 days later, when the case arrived back home, Erik downloaded the GPS information and the single "stroke" of 110,664 kilometers generated a simple self-portrait.
Check out the video below and then hit the jump for more pics and another behind the scenes.
Oh, did I mention that Derry, Northern Ireland was one of the stops when we were there? If you look closely, you can actually see us waving at the plane.
In a time when "connecting" with people across continents is as easy clicking a little red button beside a screenname, Paul St. George is offering a more "analog" method of encountering others.
On Thursday, "an optical device called a
"telectroscope" was placed at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn and
another one on the Thames River in London" enabling counterparts on the two continents to interact without the benefit of video conferencing or cable tv. The exhibition continues through June 15.
"Spectators
stepped up to the machine on both sides of the Atlantic and waved and
wrote greetings to each other in real time on wipe-off message boards. They
told knock-knock jokes, asked about the weather and found time for a
few shout-outs to Queen Elizabeth and the Manchester United soccer team."
Publicists will say only that it uses fiberoptic communication. St. George is sticking with his own version. Weaving
a tale that begins with finding plans in his grandmother's attic, he sticks to his story that he discovered a secret tunnel
under the Atlantic Ocean from New York to London which his great-grandfather
began over a century ago.
Click the photos below to enlarge and check out the official website for more information and to read about this incredible "discovery."
More than 3000 A4 sheets of colored paper were used to make this video for Gush. The piece is produced by the Solab production company, and is carried out by Romain Chassain. In this day and age of digital special effects (a great example is in the new Coldplay spot), there's something unique about going old school. Stop motion is incredible if nothing more than the sheer effort and time it takes. Check it...
The new video "Slow Fade" by Casting Crowns was produced by Erwin Brothers Motion Pictures (the company I'm doing some freelancing for) and it was selected and hit Yahoo's Music Video Premiere as their top video... check it.
Last November I posted about some creepy but awesome stop motion work done in a warehouse. Well, Blu strikes again... only bigger... better... and outdoors.
Coldplay unveiled the new artwork for "Viva La Vida" slated to be released next week digitally and in stores on May 17th. They are also playing two free shows... Brixton Academy in London and Madison Square Garden in NYC. If you can't swing getting to either of the shows, you can still get a freebie by heading over to Coldplay.com today to download the single "Violet Hill" for free. According to an interview from Rolling Stone, Chris Martin said they really experimented with this album and took some risks. I guess we'll see a week from now on Tuesday, May 6th.
via Jess Potter
UPDATE: Below is a comment and clarification from my "source".
Comment:
Wow. Look who still never checks his sources. The single "Violet Hill" will be released for digital purchase on May 6, not the whole album. It's free to download from their website for a week and then you'll have to purchase it.
And "Viva La Vida . . ." won't be released until JUNE 17, not May.
Recently I posted about tricked out game tables and it looks like the move has shifted to board games as well. Restoration Hardware is offering a Premier Edition Clue with " nine sunken rooms, each rendered in precise detail, right down to the furnishings." I loved Clue when I was a kid and there aren't many things funnier than Tim Curry in the 1985 movie rendition. I don't know if I could drop $149 on a board game though.... unless maybe it was Candy Land.
"WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use
language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in
order of commonness."
This is actually a fun simple site. You can run searches on words to see where they rank... your name for instance. Because you can see the words before and after it's actually quite amusing when you see which ones are connected. In keeping with American politics, I found these for instance...
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