Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Earth
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
Just to satisfy my current fascination with satellite images of the earth.
by Michael Konig and NASA
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
J.R.
Parisian street artist (or as he likes to be called – photograffeur; graffeur being French for graffiti artist) J.R. uses huge photographs printed on waterproof vinyl to plaster over slums in Brazil, Cambodia and Kenya, where the vinyl doubles as new roofs for ramshackle houses. His latest project finds him in Shanghai, where he’s working on a largely unauthorized photo-pasting project to draw attention to the city’s demolition of historic neighbourhoods.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Freddy Sam
Favela Painting
The Dutch artist duo Haas&Hahn, creators of the Favela Painting Project, have ended up in the third stage of their amazing project called ‘O Morro’.
This project involves employing the inhabitants of a favela to paint their own houses according to a pre-arranged pattern. It will turn their community into an artwork of epic scale and will produce an explosion of color. Visible from the center of Rio, ‘O Morro’ will draw attention to the city’s bleak social situation.
This project involves employing the inhabitants of a favela to paint their own houses according to a pre-arranged pattern. It will turn their community into an artwork of epic scale and will produce an explosion of color. Visible from the center of Rio, ‘O Morro’ will draw attention to the city’s bleak social situation.
Haas&Hahn came up with the idea of creating community-driven art interventions in Brazil, which became the Favela Painting Project in 2006. Their efforts yielded two murals which were painted in Vila Cruzeiro, Rio’s most notorious slum, in collaboration with local youth. The artworks received worldwide coverage and have become points of pride in the community and throughout Rio.
Donations can be made to support the ‘O Morro’ project!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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