remove the labels – Gadgets and Life

August is ending and everyone is coming back from the beach. Including the interviews! Jessica Findley lives in Brooklyn where she works as a “freelance designer, illustrator and animator.” That brief description hardly encompasses all Jessica’s many activities and talents: she makes animated movies, crafts reversable dolls, she draws, she is also a web designer [...]

Modell zur Visualisierung enables a visualization of sound based on the impact of magnetic fields on an electron beam. The precisely crafted soundtrack created for this project comprises of a constellation of sine wave tones. A coil within the cathode ray tube receives these frequencies converting them into a magnetic field whose impact becomes visible [...]

It’s Sunday and what else could i do but pay a visit to the world’s biggest dinosaur skeleton at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. The 150-million-year-old skeleton of the Brachiosaurus is 12 metres high by 22 metres long (its femur alone weighs 300kg) and although i’m not at all into that Jurassic Park [...]

There’s currently a fantastic installation at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. The work brings magic and poetry to the otherwise stiff and boring exhibition space located on the dreadful Unter den Linden. As you push the door of the DG open, you enter a totally different universe, with a greenhouse, a wooden construction and plots [...]

I’m officially going back to work today. I’m not sure i’d be able to define what i mean by “work” given that, as my brother would tell you, my life is “a constant holiday anyway”. Well, i do not exactly agree with him and i have until tonight to figure out what to say about [...]

Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man (Amazon USA and UK), by Jessica Bruder. What it says on the tin: Burning Book is both a loving commemoration of the event’s storied history and an enlightening companion for festivalgoers. Bruder explores the unique ethos and breathtaking art installations that have shaped the event, along with [...]

By Richard Kalvar.

Electric Chair, Executions series (Figure 0049) Catherine Chalmers‘ executions series depicts roaches being electrocuted, hung from miniature nooses, and burned at the stake. None of the roaches in the photographs however was actually burned or executed or hung-in fact, the roaches were already dead by the time they were photographed. In the case of the [...]

Global Cities at the Tate Modern in London. It’s a pocket version of an exhibition that was running last year at the Arsenale during Venice Architecture Biennale. Cities, architecture and society, curated by Richard Burdett, focused on the key factors facing large scale metropolitan areas around the world. Last year, some critics were unhappy with [...]

Otto van Busch pointed me to this new course of Fashion & Technology at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University. The course explores the field through a study of clothing and style as socio-cultural communication and an investigation of how emerging technologies can assist in personal expression. After that, practical workshops invite [...]

A Frog series by mi-mi Moscow (Mila Kalnitskaya and Micha Maslennikov) 009 – ring: “Eddy Chlorophyll” 2005 Via new art. More : Mini-interview of Garnet Hertz, Aron’s School for Frogs, Brandon Ballengee’s presentation at Biorama.

Electric Chair, Executions series (Figure 0049) Catherine Chalmers‘ executions series depicts roaches being electrocuted, hung from miniature nooses, and burned at the stake. None of the roaches in the photographs however was actually burned or executed or hung-in fact, the roaches were already dead by the time they were photographed. In the case of the [...]