SFZero Profiled by WSJ (3)
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The Wall Street Journal put together this profile of SFZero. SFZero is a Collaborative Production Game. Players build characters by completing tasks for their groups and increasing their Score. The goals of play include meeting new people, exploring the city, and participating in non-consumer leisure activities. Cool project and a nice video, but we’re not sure why the WSJ scored the video with such annoying music.
Bring Back Crystal Pepsi (6)
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Some clever pranksters managed to get this sign onto MSNBC’s coverage of the DNC on Monday night. I saw it live and found it quite hilarious. I found it a little less funny when I realized the DNC was taking place at the Pepsi Center (I thought it was a total non-sequitur,) but it’s still awesome to see something this silly in a crowd otherwise filled with 9/11 conspiracy theorists. via Agent Skwrl
David Byrne’s Bike Racks (6)
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Talking Head David Byrne designed some awesome bike racks for the NYC Department of Transportation. Amazingly, the DOT swiftly gave him the green light to turn his sketches into reality. Gothamist has a great photo gallery of all of the racks installed so far.
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The Strand Race (5)
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Last weekend, GuerilLA held an impromptu Finish Line on The Strand in Manhattan Beach, CA. The race was complete with a Finish Line sign, finish line tape, water tables, supportive signs, journalists, photographers, videographers, and a large cheering group of people spread along a quarter mile of The Strand. Runners and cyclists had no idea that they were actually near the end of a marathon, until the last second!
Bus Stop Swing (5)
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6 US Activists Detained in China (3)
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We’ve just learned that six US activists have been detained in China. Five Americans were detained for displaying the above banner (using 500 LED “Throwies”.) Video of the action: In addition, our friend James Powderly of the Graffiti Research Lab has been detained now for over 24 hours after police got word of his plans to project “Free Tibet” onto Beijing buildings using his new “Green Lantern” LASER stencil. The same Green Lantern LASER was ...
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Upcoming: Feel the Dream (2)
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We’ve gotten word of a huge project that is attempting to throw a series of parties and dance mobs to celebrate the upcoming 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Check out their site if you want to get involved or help them organize.
Air Ape (3)
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Double-Taker (Snout) (2)
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Double-Taker (Snout) is a project created by Golan Levin for the Robot 250 Festival in Pittsburgh. He writes: The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant’s trunk, which responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity. Sited on a low roof above a museum entrance, and governed by a real-time machine vision algorithm, Double-Taker (Snout) orients itself towards ...
Gas Station Covered in Blankets (4)
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via Unusual Life: Tired of seeing the abandoned eyesore on a daily basis, artist Jennifer Marsh decided to cover this old gas station in 5,000 square feet of fabric. With the help of professional and amateur artists from 15 countries and more than 2,500 grade-school students in 29 states, Marsh covered the 50-year-old former Citgo station — pumps, light stands, signs and all — with more than 3,000 fiber panels that are crocheted, knitted, quilted ...
Upcoming: Ferris Bueller Parade (NYC) (1)
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New York artist Mina Karimi sent us this cool sounding request for participants: On September 6th, I am staging a large performance art piece that requires 6-8 hundred people recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller at the Deitch Art Parade in Soho. I am recruiting secret agents in the audience of the parade to mimic the extras in the movie as my Ferris float approaches. In order to fully reproduce the spirit of the ...
Bodies in Urban Spaces (2)
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via Design Boom: art director willi dorner and photographer lisa rastl have collaborated on two project combining humans in odd formations and unusual locations. ‘hängende gärten’ and ‘bodies in urban spaces’ both set out to explore the “relationship between body, space and architecture”. the urban based series was created as a set of human sculptures which were spread throughout the city of vienna. the artist has effectively transformed the human body into form, a complete ...
Mall Marathon (1)
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Michigan Improv recently created a marathon inside a shopping mall. The runners ran through the mall and then finished by freezing in place just before the finish line, which was cleverly chosen to be right in front of the retail chain Finish Line.
Snake Game Played on Dorm Windows (9)
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A student group in Poland executed a series of projects where they used the lights in their dorm room to create awesomeness. In the above video you can see a game of Snake and a bit of Pong at the very end. Their YouTube channel has several other videos, including this James Bond video: There have been several examples of students using the same technique to create massive games of Tetris. Here’s a video a ...
Cuprocking (4)
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Cuprocking is the brain child of Sydney based artist Andy Uprock. By mapping out large areas of cyclone fencing and sticking plastic cups into the existing diamond shaped holes, Andy transforms streets and public areas into floating walk-by galleries. Andy typically uses around 2,500 individual cups for each piece and recycles them between each project. via PSFK Another very cool similar project worth checking out: You Are Beautiful
Man On Wire (4)
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Man on Wire is a new documentary currently in limited release about an amazing stunt that took place at the World Trade Center in 1974. On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman called Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire suspended between New York’s twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After an hour dancing on the wire, with no safety net or harness, he was arrested and thrown into an underground prison. Until that ...
The Golden Ass (6)
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Street artist Mark Jenkins makes, among other things, awesome human sculptures out of tape and then dresses them and puts them in public places. His latest project is The Golden Ass. In an area of Barcelona packed with “golden statue” type street performers, he constructed a sculpture that looked like a human in a horse costume. Everyone who encountered it assumed it was a performer being incredibly still. He writes: “…it’s much easier to make ...
Michael Jackson Roof Prank (3)
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For Scene Diego’s latest mission, they got a crowd to pretend Michael Jackson was dining on a fancy rooftop restaurant. They write: 85 Agents showed up on a clear Saturday night in June. The mission? We started a dirty little rumor that Michael Jackson was having dinner on the rooftop of Stingaree in Downtown San Diego. We had no idea we would double the size of our group with this little fib. Our 85 agents ...
