2010/11/25
2Shy Kiev Mural
Originally calling Paris home, graffiti artist 2Shy
has been plying his trade in Liege.
He recently partnered with Kiev, Ukraine
gallery Lavra and the French Ukrainian Institute
to create a massive 18 meter by 15 meter mural.
Located on the side of a building,
the artwork comprises of a maze like structure.
The piece represents the beginnings of 2Shy’s large scale,
multi-artist “Muralissimo” project.
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HypeBeast
2010/11/24
Times Square to Art Square
So this crazy Dutchman Justus Bruns wants
to swap all of the ads in Times Square
into a giant art gallery within five years!
Hence, Prospect Times Square 2 Art Square, a.k.a. TS2AS.
It’s going to cost a lo-o-o-o-ot of money,
but first, a lil Kickstarter to kindle the fire.
See the fearlessly idealistic infographic video below.
Bruns says he’d love to get
big artists like Pipilotti Rist or Bill Viola.
Wouldn’t that be something…
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AnimalNewYork
2010/11/14
The tunnel people of Las Vegas: How 1,000 live in flooded labyrinth under Sin City's shimmering strip
Deep beneath Vegas’s glittering lights lies a sinister labyrinth inhabited by poisonous spiders and a man nicknamed The Troll who wields an iron bar.
But astonishingly, the 200 miles of flood tunnels are also home to 1,000 people who eke out a living in the strip’s dark underbelly.
Some, like Steven and his girlfriend Kathryn, have furnished their home with considerable care - their 400sq ft 'bungalow' boasts a double bed, a wardrobe and even a bookshelf.
Deeper underground: Steven and Kathryn live in a 400sq ft 'bungalow' under Las Vegas which they have lovingly furnished with other people's castoffs
One man's junk... Tunnel residents have created wardrobes for their clothes and salvaged furniture to make the subterranean world more homely. However, there is little they can do about the water on the floor
They have been there for five years, fashioning a shower out of a water cooler, hanging paintings on the walls and collating a library from abandoned books.
Their possessions, however, are carefully placed in plastic crates to stop them getting soaked by the noxious water pooling on the floor.
'Our bed came from a skip oustide an apartment complex,' Steven explains. 'It's mainly stuff people dump that we pick up. One man's junk is another man's gold.
‘We get the stuff late at night so people don't see us because it's kind of embarrassing.’
Steven was forced into the tunnels three years ago after his heroin addiction led to him losing his job.
He says he is now clean and the pair survive by ‘credit hustling’ in the casinos, donning second-hand clothes to check the slot machines for chips accidently left behind.
Astonishingly, Steven claims he once found $997 (£609) on one machine.
Further into the maze are Amy and Junior who married in the Shalimar Chapel – one of Vegas’s most popular venues - before returning to the tunnels for their honeymoon.
They lost their home when they became addicted to drugs after the death of their son Brady at four months old.
‘I heard Las Vegas was a good place for jobs,’ Amy said. ‘But it was tough and we started living under the staircase outside the MGM casino.
‘Then we met a guy who lived in the tunnels. We’ve been down here ever since.’
Matthew O’Brien, a reporter who stumbled across the tunnel people when he was researching a murder case, has set up The Shine A Light foundation to help.
Graffiti artists have turned this area of the tunnel network into a gallery: The channels stretch for more than 200 miles under the ground
‘These are normal people of all ages who’ve lost their way, generally after a traumatic event,’ he said.
‘Many are war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress.
‘It’s not known how many children are living there, as they’re kept out of sight, but I’ve seen evidence of them – toys and teddy bears.’
O’Brien has published a book on the tunnel people called Beneath The Neon.
These evocative images which show the community's astonishing way of life were taken by Austin Hargrave, a British photographer now based in the U.S.
They show how the destitute and hopeless have constructed a community beneath the city and have even dedicated one section of tunnels to an art gallery filled with intricate graffiti.
Back above ground: The blazing lights of the strip give no indication of the city's dark underbelly
Entrance: The towers and fantastical buildings of Vegas can be seen in the background
Chink of light: Most of the people who live underground have fallen into destitution after struggling with drink, drugs or mental health problems
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Author Matthew O’Brien has written a book
about these people and the way they live called
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas.
But astonishingly, the 200 miles of flood tunnels are also home to 1,000 people who eke out a living in the strip’s dark underbelly.
Some, like Steven and his girlfriend Kathryn, have furnished their home with considerable care - their 400sq ft 'bungalow' boasts a double bed, a wardrobe and even a bookshelf.
Deeper underground: Steven and Kathryn live in a 400sq ft 'bungalow' under Las Vegas which they have lovingly furnished with other people's castoffs
One man's junk... Tunnel residents have created wardrobes for their clothes and salvaged furniture to make the subterranean world more homely. However, there is little they can do about the water on the floor
They have been there for five years, fashioning a shower out of a water cooler, hanging paintings on the walls and collating a library from abandoned books.
Their possessions, however, are carefully placed in plastic crates to stop them getting soaked by the noxious water pooling on the floor.
'Our bed came from a skip oustide an apartment complex,' Steven explains. 'It's mainly stuff people dump that we pick up. One man's junk is another man's gold.
‘We get the stuff late at night so people don't see us because it's kind of embarrassing.’
Steven was forced into the tunnels three years ago after his heroin addiction led to him losing his job.
He says he is now clean and the pair survive by ‘credit hustling’ in the casinos, donning second-hand clothes to check the slot machines for chips accidently left behind.
Astonishingly, Steven claims he once found $997 (£609) on one machine.
Further into the maze are Amy and Junior who married in the Shalimar Chapel – one of Vegas’s most popular venues - before returning to the tunnels for their honeymoon.
They lost their home when they became addicted to drugs after the death of their son Brady at four months old.
‘I heard Las Vegas was a good place for jobs,’ Amy said. ‘But it was tough and we started living under the staircase outside the MGM casino.
‘Then we met a guy who lived in the tunnels. We’ve been down here ever since.’
Matthew O’Brien, a reporter who stumbled across the tunnel people when he was researching a murder case, has set up The Shine A Light foundation to help.
Graffiti artists have turned this area of the tunnel network into a gallery: The channels stretch for more than 200 miles under the ground
‘These are normal people of all ages who’ve lost their way, generally after a traumatic event,’ he said.
‘Many are war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress.
‘It’s not known how many children are living there, as they’re kept out of sight, but I’ve seen evidence of them – toys and teddy bears.’
O’Brien has published a book on the tunnel people called Beneath The Neon.
These evocative images which show the community's astonishing way of life were taken by Austin Hargrave, a British photographer now based in the U.S.
They show how the destitute and hopeless have constructed a community beneath the city and have even dedicated one section of tunnels to an art gallery filled with intricate graffiti.
Back above ground: The blazing lights of the strip give no indication of the city's dark underbelly
Entrance: The towers and fantastical buildings of Vegas can be seen in the background
Chink of light: Most of the people who live underground have fallen into destitution after struggling with drink, drugs or mental health problems
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DailyMail
Author Matthew O’Brien has written a book
about these people and the way they live called
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas.
2010/11/09
Nicaragua Accidentally Invades Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps
from the oops dept
You would think that military professionals would rely
on something other than Google Maps
in determining where countries have their borders.
However, down in Central America,
there's apparently been something of an international incident,
after a Nicaraguan military commander,
using Google Maps as his guide,
brought his troops into Costa Rica.
He insists that he was just following what Google Maps said,
and that he never intended to go into the neighboring country.
Yet... the report also notes that there was a Costa Rican flag there,
which the Nicaraguans took down and replaced with their own flag.
You would think, at that point,
that everyone involved might double check
to make sure they were on the right side of the border.
After raising their own flag,
the Nicaraguans apparently set up camp,
cleaned up a nearby river
(nice of them)
and then dumped sediment into Costa Rican territory
(not so nice of them).
If this truly is an honest mistake,
then hopefully nothing more is made of it,
but it sounds like Costa Rican citizens
are quite upset about the whole thing,
leading Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla
to go on TV to ask citizens to
"be calm...
amid the outrage that these events provoke within us."
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TechDirt.com
2010/11/07
Viral Advertising Videos (2009)
Viral videos are one of the Internet’s best entertainment mediums.
They teach, impress, and–perhaps most importantly–help you pass the time.
Companies know this.
When they commission top international
advertising firms to produce Internet videos,
they use “going viral” as a measure of success.
Marketing videos can help bolster a company’s reputation,
increase sales, and foster positive associations in consumers’ minds.
Or, as the Microsoft and Nokia videos below prove,
they can lack product association, but still be viral.
Here are the best some marketing videos from 2009.
Samsung chose to promote its LED TVs using LED lights mounted on…sheep.
This sensational video employs skilled shepherds
and cameramen to create un-baa-lievable results.
Views on YouTube (at time of writing):
13,143,111 million
Microsoft sponsored this video of Swiss
stuntman Bruno Kammerl executing a mind-blowing waterslide jump.
Clad only in neoprene, Kammerl flies more than
100 feet into a tiny pool of water.
How a waterslide jump relates to
Microsoft’s Office Project 2007 is
something of a mystery,
but that’s just who fronted this flabbergasting fake.
Views on YouTube (at time of writing):
4,872,549 million
Virgin Mobile Australia released this video of
Robert Van Winkle (formerly Vanilla Ice)
apologizing for his first album.
His apology, which is sincere, covers both his sound and his look.
The shock value of this video lies in its uniqueness.
Views on YouTube (at time of writing):
1,516,245 million
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Business Pund
They teach, impress, and–perhaps most importantly–help you pass the time.
Companies know this.
When they commission top international
advertising firms to produce Internet videos,
they use “going viral” as a measure of success.
Marketing videos can help bolster a company’s reputation,
increase sales, and foster positive associations in consumers’ minds.
Or, as the Microsoft and Nokia videos below prove,
they can lack product association, but still be viral.
Here are the best some marketing videos from 2009.
Samsung chose to promote its LED TVs using LED lights mounted on…sheep.
This sensational video employs skilled shepherds
and cameramen to create un-baa-lievable results.
Views on YouTube (at time of writing):
13,143,111 million
Microsoft sponsored this video of Swiss
stuntman Bruno Kammerl executing a mind-blowing waterslide jump.
Clad only in neoprene, Kammerl flies more than
100 feet into a tiny pool of water.
How a waterslide jump relates to
Microsoft’s Office Project 2007 is
something of a mystery,
but that’s just who fronted this flabbergasting fake.
Views on YouTube (at time of writing):
4,872,549 million
Virgin Mobile Australia released this video of
Robert Van Winkle (formerly Vanilla Ice)
apologizing for his first album.
His apology, which is sincere, covers both his sound and his look.
The shock value of this video lies in its uniqueness.
Views on YouTube (at time of writing):
1,516,245 million
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Business Pund
2010/11/05
Os Gêmeos timmelapse in Scotland
The Graffiti Project - Timelapse edit from Novak Collective on Vimeo.
The idea was simple and original:
take the vibrant and often transient art form of Brazilian graffiti,
out of its predominantly urban context and apply
it to the ancient and permanent walls of an historic rural castle in Scotland.
Kelburn brought together four of the world’s
leading graffiti artists from Brazil to work alongside Scottish talent,
to create a unique burst of colour,
embracing the walls and turrets of the south side of Kelburn Castle.
On a building steeped in rural conservative perceptions,
this bold and shocking artistic statement received huge media attention,
while challenging the public’s understanding
of both urban graffiti art and the British institution the building represents.
It is a project of contrasts and collaboration that bridges between cultures,
rural and urban realms and unites two proud and very different cultures.
The project involved the artists and organizers
living together in the Castle for approximately one month,
documented by various forms of media.
The artists had time to share and explore new ideas,
from both sides of the equator, culminating in a one-off,
giant piece of collaborative art.
The timeline documentation and
edit was produced by Preamptive
(part of NOVAK Collective).
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Bates AIO 12oz Blog
Google Mobile Girl videos in Japan
GOOGLE MOBILE GIRL from Marek Okon on Vimeo.
Andrew Lim says:
Google rarely advertises its services
but it seems that in Japan not many people
know that Google search is
“just as powerful on mobile devices as it is on PCs.”
So Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo were tasked
with creating an ad campaign to set the record straight.
Instead of just coming up with a bunch of
boring ads though, Wieden+Kennedy created
a 'mobile girl' named Mobaco and put together
an series of short films that show
how useful Google Mobile is.
The results are awesome as you’ll see in the video below.
The taxi driver character is spot-on!
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BoingBoing.Net
2010/11/03
Google the future
^click image to enlarge^
After an unspecified time spent following the shoreline,
Taylor and Nova finally do discover the truth that
Dr. Zaius warned them about;
Taylor stops the horse and dismounts,
staring up in disbelief at an object
not quite clear to the viewer yet.
He begins approaching the object before descending
into a fit of rage and screaming:
"We finally really did it.
You maniacs!
You blew it up!
Damn you.
God damn you all to hell!"
The picture zooms out to reveal
the charred remnants of the Statue of Liberty,
half-submerged in the shoreline,
revealing that the planet he was on was
actually Earth the whole time,
and that the paradise that became
The Forbidden Zone was once New York City.
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