Colour by Numbers

In Stockholm, you can use your phone to control a light sculpture. It is pretty cool that you can alter the cityscape by dialing your phone.

Colour by numbers is a 72 meters high light installation at Telefonplan in Stockholm. “A tower stands at Telefonplan. Austere, slim and dark; rising towards the sky like an exclamation mark. A tower is an archetypical creator of place: it breaks in and becomes an event in a continuous landscape. This characteristic is emphasized by the illuminated windows of this particular tower – but the patterns and colours also vary constantly. The tower speaks in a sign language composed of light. But what is the tower at Telefonplan saying, and who gives the architectonic form meaning?”. On the website under live video you can see a live video image of the tower and also read instructions for how to control the light installation over the phone.

Pop Art Stampede in Paris

A fibre-glass cow titled “Time for Seduction,” and dressed by French lingerie designer Chantal Thomass.

The herd of fibreglass bovines will be spread through the centre of the capital from Thursday, including along some famous landmarks, such as the Champs-Elysees, the Garnier Opera and in the chic Saint-Germain district.

Among them is a sculpture of a cow with a helmet cycling along with a milk-cart, a blue cow lying down with a baby angel nestled on its back, and a cow draped in Christian Lacroix chintz at the underground entry to the Louvre.

Via Yahoo.

Pearl One, Knit Two, Biker Chic Just for You

Knitting a motorcycle cozy reminds me vaguely of a time past, when a friend of mine covered a lounge chair in frosting. Impressive effort and generally a crowd pleaser…

Garth from Extreme Craft pointed us to a fantastic story he did on artist Theresa Honeywell who created this knit motorcycle which is on display now through April 30th at the Georgia Museum of Art. Honeywell’s work explores the cool tough male world with her pieces like the knit tool belt, knit jackammer, as well as embroidery work of tattoo designs.

Orange Peel Art

Bored and wanting to boost your vitamin C intake?

While many will discard the peel when they eat an orange, others will save the zest for later use. There are a few who will turn it into a work of art. Jeu d’oranges is a site that hosts a monthly orange peel sculpting contest. The name of the site means Orange Game, or Game of Oranges. To enter your creation, you must carve it out of one whole piece of peel and photograph it on a black background, without letting it harden and dry. Every 15 days, the peel with the greatest number of votes will be posted on the homepage.

Haha, Wedding Robots!

I just saw a Google advertisement on this site for ‘Welding Robots’, which I had mistakenly read as ‘Wedding Robots‘… which turn out to exist!

Wedding photographers could be put out of a job by a robot developed by scientists at Washington University in St Louis in the US.

The machine, called Lewis, looks like an upside down dustbin with a digital camera on top.

It is programmed to wander around a room, picking out people’s faces and taking photographs.

Dust and Lint Covered Dollhouses

Welcome to the Dollhouse, unless you have allergies that is.

Maria Adelaida Lopez, a Colombian-born artist, covers doll-houses with vacuum-cleaner lint in tribute to her days working as a house-cleaner while taking her Master’s in Philiadelphia, and in tribute to the “other Marias” who still clean house. She collects full vacuum bags from others to continue with her art.

Butter Vader

I love butter. Show me a 1,000 lb butter sculpture of Darth Vader and Yoda, and I will invite you to the most stylish corn roast you’ve ever imagined.

“Each year at the Tulsa State Fair, an artist is commissioned to make a sculpture out of butter. In past years, cows, farmers, and baseball players were created out of hundreds of pounds of butter. This year, in celebration of Star Wars’s final episode, TSF is featuring Darth Vader and Yoda, all dairy-like.”

The Terranauts are Coming!

This is truly novel idea for a vehicle piloted by a fish.

Seith Weiner has created a vehicule piloted by a fish and propelled by 2 drive wheels, each driven by its own servomotor. The fish steers the vessel by its movements. A camera above the cockpit tracks the movements of the Terranaut (that’s the name of the fish-pilot). Its location is then wirelessly transmitted to a remote processing station where the data is converted into motion commands and transmitted back to the motion controller of the vehicle.

An Exhaustive List of Lenin Statues

For whatever reason Lenin statues litter the globe.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Lenin statues were pushed over and beheaded as a symbol of the society’s new openness. (That means in the countries occupied by the Russians). In Russia Lenin statues are however still a common sight. Most cities have at least one statue of Lenin and it is usually placed at Lenin square at the most central location. Small towns (up to 20 000 inhabitants) usually have an ugly low budget version or a bust instead.

2005 Canstruction Vancouver competition

More hotdogs represented in art… is it a sign that artist’s have no money? Who knows, all I know is it’s all made from cans…

My favorite is the 3,160 can model of a breaching shark. Very cool. The tornado too. Heck, they’re all cool! Be sure to check out the slide show of past entries as well. There’s a great entry of an Etch A Sketch made from large Hunt’s Tomato cans–complete with artwork on the screen–that looks to be about 7 feet tall!