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Perfect Lovers by Terry Berlier
About the piece:
Perfect Lovers represents the cross sections of two trees, a familiar reference to nature’s clock and a dramatic visualization to time. This large-scale installation illustrates that the life-span of a tree is measured in centuries, and by inference, reminds us that human life is most often measured in decades. In a fast-paced, short-attention-span culture, this vivid reminder gives us pause. The “clocks” also reference Felix Gonzalez-Torres piece Untitled (Perfect Lovers) that is comprised of two synchronized clocks that inevitably become out of synch. Similarly, this piece serves as a symbol of time’s inexorable flow.
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Yayoi Kusama has been working out her obsession with polka dots and infinity over a decades long career. Suffering from hallucinations and residing in a Japanese psychiatric institution, she uses art as a way to communicate her visions. For her current retrospective at the Tate Modern she has created Filled with the Brilliance of Life, her largest infinity room yet. Made up of hundreds of lights and mirrors, it must be dazzling to see in person. It will be on display through June 5.
Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder by Nike Savvas was a 2005 installation made up of hundreds of bouncy balls suspended on strings.
This is a tardigrade, also known as a”water bear” or “moss piglet.” It is probably the coolest fucking microscopic life form that you’ve never heard of. Besides looking like miniature, animatronic gummy bears, tardigrades can live at temperatures close to absolute zero. Before you Google what absolute zero is, it’s -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit (lol no parenthetical Celsius conversion for the rest of the world haha). That’s pretty fucking cold. Anyways, tardigrades are tiny little living things that eat shit inside of mosses and whatnot. They can survive in any environment (including outer space), are able to go without water for up to 10 years, and are like a million bajillion years old (they originated in the Cretaceous period for you kids that understand whatever that means).
BAM, TARDIGRADES.
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The Medusae Collection of lamps from Roxy Russell Design
Russell on the collection:
The ocean is such a boundless source of inspiration for myself and many other people, in all fields. Unfortunately, I am also very concerned about the fragile state of it’s very complex eco-system.
I wanted to bring to the surface, and illuminate the growing problem of plastic polluting our oceans in a way that makes people inspired to help. We have a floating island of plastic garbage in the Pacific that is twice the size of Texas. Up to 70 percent of this plastic is below the surface, broken down into tiny pieces,becoming a toxic part of the eco-system. Countless fish and birds die from mistaking these bits for food…
Many times when we think “eco” or “going green” we think of what’s on the surface, where we live…with this series I’d like to inspire people to look a little deeper.
(Source: theohpioneer, via meganleestudio)
This “jungle in the sky” isn’t just an imaginative design for the future, it is being built right now in Singapore.
About the project:
WOHA Architects are completely changing how skyscrapers are built with their Park Royal Tower in Singapore, which will feature twice as much greenery as the nearby Hong Lim Park. The high-end office and hotel tower features a podium absolutely overrun with vertical gardens, contoured green pathways, water features, and leafy terraces. When it is completed later this year, this groundbreaking project will boast a whopping 15,000 square meters of green space!
Tiger and Turtle - Magic Mountain is a walkable outdoor large-scale public sculpture on the Heinrich-Hildebrand-Höhe in Duisburg designed by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth. Built to resemble a rollercoaster (right down to the impossible to traverse loop), the walkway is intended to represent both the speed and limitations of our human endeavors.
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Anne Lindberg uses thousands of strings to play with our perception in her large scale installations.
Lindberg on her work:
Neurologists have determined that the old brain holds the seat of our most primal understandings of the world. Goodwill, security, fear, anxiety, self-protection, gravity, sexuality, and compulsive behaviors generate from this lower cerebral core.
My sculpture and drawings inhabit a non-verbal place resonant with such primal human conditions. Systemic and non-representational, these works are subtle, rhythmic, abstract, and immersive. I find beauty and disturbance through shifts in tool, layering and material to create passages of tone, density, speed, path and frequency within a system. In recent room-sized installations, I discovered an optical and spatial phenomenon that excites me as the work spans the outer reaches of our peripheral vision. The work references physiological systems – such as heartbeat, respiration, neural paths, equilibrium - and psychological states.
Philosophy posters by Max Temkin is a Kickstarter project that’s already raised 10 times its original goal with over 2 weeks left to go. It’s not just a good idea, it’s a whole bunch of them. Temkin has designed posters featuring quotes from 10 of history’s greatest thinkers.
American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse is a fascinating 2009 story by Wired about the creation of the mysterious Georgia Guidestones.
Here’s an excerpt:
Called the Georgia Guidestones, the monument is a mystery—nobody knows exactly who commissioned it or why. The only clues to its origin are on a nearby plaque on the ground—which gives the dimensions and explains a series of intricate notches and holes that correspond to the movements of the sun and stars—and the “guides” themselves, directives carved into the rocks. These instructions appear in eight languages ranging from English to Swahili and reflect a peculiar New Age ideology. Some are vaguely eugenic (GUIDE REPRODUCTION WISELY—IMPROVING FITNESS AND DIVERSITY); others prescribe standard-issue hippie mysticism (PRIZE TRUTH—BEAUTY—LOVE—SEEKING HARMONY WITH THE INFINITE).
What’s most widely agreed upon—based on the evidence available—is that the Guidestones are meant to instruct the dazed survivors of some impending apocalypse as they attempt to reconstitute civilization. Not everyone is comfortable with this notion. A few days before I visited, the stones had been splattered with polyurethane and spray-painted with graffiti, including slogans like “Death to the new world order.” This defacement was the first serious act of vandalism in the Guidestones’ history, but it was hardly the first objection to their existence. In fact, for more than three decades this uncanny structure in the heart of the Bible Belt has been generating responses that range from enchantment to horror. Supporters (notable among them Yoko Ono) have praised the messages as a stirring call to rational thinking, akin to Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason. Opponents have attacked them as the Ten Commandments of the Antichrist.
Continue reading about the monument and the anonymous stranger that requested them here or check out a new interactive web series about it here.
City Silhouettes by Jasper James
