La Niche: January 2008

Wednesday 30 January 2008

Grid me up before you go go

Cool website where you get to design the content.
Check out the archive at the top right to see people's contributions.
http://banal.ch/

Friday 25 January 2008

"A radio station in Glasgow City Center, Scotland, came up with a brilliant way to promote their launch! An empty guitar stand invited people to help themselves to an air guitar to be played while listening to their station, of course!"

via FrostFireCube.

Strawberry- Stilton-Cod pie

Funny series of ads by DDB Paris Ad Agency
for Brandt Fridges about Mixed flavours.

Wednesday 23 January 2008

To be green you must!

" Prince Charles beamed all the way to Dubai
The Prince of Wales was beamed in Star Trek-style for his first appearance as a hologram when he delivered a powerful speech on the environment to the world's leaders before vanishing into thin air.

A life-size, three-dimensional image of the Prince was projected onto the stage of the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.

Prince Charles was beamed for his first appearance as a hologram
Telegraph TV: The holographic appearance saved 20 tons of carbon waste

The Prince was reluctant to attend the summit in person because the flights for him and his entourage would have generated an estimated 20 tons of carbon waste.

In comparison the hologram is thought to have left a carbon footprint equivalent to a lightbulb."

Can't wait for Her Majesty's Lightsaber.

Watch the video here

3,2,1 Dog!

74 Ballons, 54 seconds, 1 dog.

The Senster

"Edward Ihnatowicz was a Cybernetic Sculptor active in the late 1960's and early 1970's. His ground-breaking sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience, and reached their height with The Senster, a large (15 feet long), hydraulic robot commissioned by the electronics giant, Philips, for their permanent showplace, the Evoluon, in Eindhoven in 1970. The sculpture used sound and movement sensors to react to the behaviour of the visitors. It was one of the first computer controlled interactive robotic works of art."

Website here.

Who's who

"Malwarez is a series of visualization of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code. For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity. Therefore the patterns and rhythms found in the data drive the configuration of the artificial organism."

By Alex Dragulescu .

Thursday 17 January 2008

Paso Doble

Yesterday was the opening of "Paso Doble" the new perfomance by Miquel Barceló and Josef Nadj at the Barbican. (so no i was not at the not-so-secret Radiohead gig on Brick lane :) )

"Ten tons of wet clay become a playground for an artist and a choreographer in this adventurous collaboration. With startling physicality the two performers axe, sling, slap, shape and reshape the soft clay, using giant tools and their own bodies to produce amazing shapes and structures.

Exploring the act of artistic creation itself, Paso Doble gives a vivid and visceral glimpse into the obsessions, anxieties and excitement experienced by artists in the process of making unconventional new work. Coated in clay like living sculptures, the two performers are almost absorbed into their canvas– themselves a part of the endless work-in-progress."

A pretty impressive show worth seeing.
If you're in the area, hurry up, it'll only last for 4 days.

More info here

Tuesday 15 January 2008

And justice for all

Brilliant stuff. I can think of so many places where i could have stick these up.

New Feltron

Well, what can i say, i loved the 2006 one, i love the 2007 one.
Impressive quality design here.

Monday 14 January 2008

Camille Rousseau

Interesting work from Camille Rousseau, a talented multi-task designer
from France. Check her website here!

Sunday 13 January 2008

Crevecoeur

Went to a cool gig last night where
the frenchies from Crevecoeur where playing.
A nurturing and atmospherical music definitely worth checking out!
Website or Myspace.

Nada Prlja

ADVANCED SCIENCE OF MORPHOLOGY
2006
Nada Prlja
Public Art Project
Marble Arch Park, London
26 flags 120x180cm,26 poles 7m.

"Advanced Science of Morphology is sited at Marble Arch where 26 flags depicting the morphed national flags of former Yugoslavian countries have replaced the flags of the current EU member countries."

Check her website.

Via VVORK.