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The Sputnik Observatory

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Artist Jonathan Harris has just announced the release of an interesting project he’s been working on over the last two tears with Sputnik, Inc., a NYC-based nonprofit dedicated to documenting, archiving and disseminating ideas that are shaping contemporary culture. Named Sputnik Observatory, the project is a fascinating collection of inter-connected video interviews with hundreds of leading thinkers in [...]

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Reality TV to Tackle the Art World

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In a new TV concept which would make Andy Warhol grin-ear-to-ear in his grave, the Bravo network has decided to add a new art-based reality show to their roster. Instead of vying for fashion contracts or the title of Top Chef, 13 aspiring artists will be competing against each other for the chance at a [...]

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Bed Stuy Meadow: Transforming a Neighborhood With Flowers

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21st Century Plowshare went on a mission this past April to transform the urban landscape of Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. The group set out to plant wildflower seeds on every single patch of abandoned soil within the neighborhood, creating a massive”urban meadow”. We’ll keep an eye out to watch the results of this interesting rewilding project.
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Sonar Kids: An Electronic Music Festival for Families

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The first edition of Sonar Kids took place recently as part of the Sonar 2009 International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. Where a few hours earlier there were people dancing and drinking, the next morning there was an invasion of strollers, pacifiers, diapers and children holding their parent’s hands.
Sonar Kids mixes the party [...]

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Living Statues in Barcelona

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“Las Ramblas” in Barcelona is well known because of its tourist-packed beaches, Barrio Gótico, Raval—and for its Human statues. People flock to them for photos and amusement, to the extent that the city council wanted to oust the performers for causing too great a scene. This week Barcelona’s Comical Week took  place (La Semana Cómica [...]

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Paper Foldables: Origami Made Easy

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While on the surface, paper-folding may be seem like rather mundane act reserved for junior high distractions like airplanes that miss their mark and triangle footballs, there’s a level of beauty hidden within those creases. But if you’re like us, and have ever struggled with the intricacies of an origami crane or bunny rabbit, you’ll [...]

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Modern Publishing Creating Instant Nostalgia?

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As many magazines go the way of the dodo, other publications are staying strong despite industry woes.  A recent survey of listings on eBay show that people are actively sharing issues of their favorites, even from recently defunct magazines.
Domino Magazine, which folded earlier this year, fetches prices across eBay well above the original news-stand price. [...]

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Elevating the Ordinary: The Food Art of Kevin Van Aelst

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Kevin Van Aelst, a New York Times Magazine photographer, takes playing with food to the next level with his collection of intricately patterned everyday artifacts. The artist statement on Van Aelst’s website captures the motivations for his particular style,
The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life—the [...]

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Greenpeace Report Impacts Illegal Cattle Producers in the Amazon

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Less than two weeks after the release of the Greenpeace report “Slaughtering the Amazon”, which analyzes the Amazon cattle industry, Brazil’s three largest supermarket chains, Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Pão de Açúcar, decided to suspend contracts with suppliers found to be involved with deforestation in the region.
Furthermore, the Brazilian Association of [...]

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Make Your Own Overpriced Art

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Have you ever felt the desire to own your very own majestically crafted art masterpiece, yet been held back due to your restricting budget that falls just that small bit short of the £50M that is required of such a work? Well now the good people at IARTISTLONDON are offering imaginative minded customers the opportunity [...]

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Staring At Glowing Rectangles

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The Onion ‘reports’ that we’re spending 90% of our waking hours staring at glowing rectangles…

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Racy Life-Drawing Classes: The Keyhole Sessions

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Combining elements of a burlesque show with a life-drawing class, Toronto’s Keyhole sessions offer a new kind of artistic educational entertainment. This drawing class uses edgy, (sometimes) costumed models to bring an element of debauchery to practicing art skills.
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Tired of the stuffy standard fare that is the traditional life drawing class? Come look through [...]

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Do Not Attempt to Adjust Your Superhetrodyne Receiver. We are in Charge!

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It’s interesting that just as the unwashed TV watching masses are coping with the drama of going completely digital, within days the annual opera buffo show known in the trade as the “Cannes Lions” will take place.
As the Adverati sit through screenings of the latest TV spots Brazil, Dubai and Timbuktu’s finest have come up [...]

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The Bathhouse

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Shoreditch is a funny old place. Bubbling with Artsy crevices, graffiti covered corners, outrageous forward thinking fashion fiends, the occasional ex Rockstar, shady salons, cheap drugs, expensive booze and a strong conviction in its own hype, Shoreditch isn’t ever without much in the fervently flitting form of the wildly eccentric. That fact is now even [...]

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Video: You Came Out From We Have Band

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This video for We Have Band stands out with its use of face paint animation. The video was made up of 4,816 separate stills, where each frame had to be re-painted, shot, wiped off, and redrawn.

One question we have is why was it made by Wieden+Kennedy? Creatives Ida Gronblom and Fabian Berglund from the agency [...]

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