Art on Fire – Italian Museum Director Burns Art in Protest
Earlier this year, artist and curator Antonio Manfredi announced he would set fire to the permanent collection of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, located outside of Naples, to protest the lack offunding of the arts in Italy. Earlier this week he went into action. With live webcams running, he set fire to painting by French artist Séverine Bourguignon, who watched the ceremony via Skype. A [...]
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Enri¢hed : Cereal Art by Tattfoo Tan
Crispy flakes, popped rice, “It’s grrrreat!” Over one hundred years ago, pieces of grain started to be part of the American diet in the form of cereal. Today cereal is eaten in more than 80 million bowls each day. The prepared breakfast cereal was part of the early vegetarian movement. Quaker oats and cracked wheat were some of the early forms [...]
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Notacon Conference: Creativity, Community, and Technology
This past weekend I attended my first hacker conference. Notacon is a conference-style event that is for people who like to “build, make, break and hack stuff.” I was able to attend a part of the 3-day event showcases technologies, philosophy and creativity, and learned more about the hacker community. I’m not a hacker, and it was my first time [...]
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Newspaper Wood: Paper Pages Turn into Wood
NewspaperWood by Vij5 and Mieke Meijer is a unique example of upcyling materials and flipping the resource to product process. Instead of using wood as a source to make paper, NewspaperWood uses the paper to make wood. The design came out of Meijer’s project at the Design Academy Eindhoven. For a student design project, Meijer took stacks of newspapers, glued [...]
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Pic Nic Pants – Pants with a Built in Table
Have you ever wanted to just sit down and eat lunch? A new pair of pants that also acts as a table might be able to help you eat in any location. The pants were created by an experimental Italian design company called Acquacalda,. The Picnic Pants have a special panel that becomes a flat surface to balance your plate [...]
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