On The Ground Looking Up

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Random images I have saved to my desktop over the last few weeks.

Target Missed The Boat On This one

Talk about an experience that Target should have sponsored. Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama took an all white room and gave children colored dots to place wherever they want. The results as you can see are pretty extraordinary.

The Artist

The experience, entitled 'Obliteration Room' was designed for the Queensland Art Gallery's ‘APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’. So if you are in the neighborhood, check it out.

24 Hours On Flickr

Just saw this on The Creators Project. Erik Kessels (of KellelsKramer fame) created this installation. 24 hours in the life of Flickr. It focuses on the explosion in digital photography and it's existence online. The installation represents all of the photos uploaded to Flickr during a 24 hour period, about a million of them. And that is just Flickr, imagine if we added all of them added to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Picassa, etc.

We are creating a lot of content out there folks, maybe it is time to start making sure it is worth our digital attention.

More here.

Get Your Hands Dirty

I abolutely LOVE this sentiment and execution from artist Roland Tiangco.

This is only a slice of the full experience. See the whole sequence here.

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Stop Tweeting Boring Shit

And other amazing signs for purchase from the Division of Labor.

Banksy Does #OccupyLondon

Banksy created a new Monopoly influenced work dedicated to the community of protesters at the Occupy London movement's camp, at St.Paul's Cathedral.

It has since been 'adopted' by the protesters.

 

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#Occupy LEGOLAND @ #OWS

Amazing photo from Chris Rojas @ #Occupy Wall Street. He has been spending the week down there and some of his pics are outstanding.

Nagi Noda's Hair Hats Have Guerrilla Stunt Written All Over Them

I have seen these across a few blogs recently, but the more I look at them, the more I realize that if someone adapts this idea for a public spectacle, it will get some serious attention.

Nagi Noda's Hair Hats (click for interactive image)

When is the Westminster dog show again?

Originally seen on Blog Gamil

 

Creative Guerrillas Take On White Supremacists

In one of the more brilliant guerrilla initiatives I have seen in a while, a group called Exit Deutschland sent a large batch of t-shirts to an right wing event on August 6th in Germany to be distributed to attendees. The shirts bore a skull and crossbones and the message 'Hardcore Rebels - National and Free.'  The rub is that after the first washing, the message changed to read 'If your T-shirt can do it, so can you. We'll help to free you from right-wing extremism.'

While we don't know how many minds it changed, it was a great awareness activation and I am sure it got under the skin of the target group they most want to effect.

It also reminds me of the protest clothing line targeting airport security's use of x-ray scanners from 4th Amendment Wear.  If you have not seen that, it was wonderful as well.

 

VIA and ThePentagon.