Archive | June 4, 2009

Cheap, Easy and Maybe Just Wrong



Bruce Marsh Commented on Josef Albers in reference a recent post on Giorgio Morandi. He presented the challenge of finding three colors that would create the sense of two colors overlapping – if I understand correctly. It made me wonder if this daunting task could be automatically solved by the …

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“I Am DAIN”



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Raphael’s “Flowers of Cans”



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From Raphael:

“i get the trash and i show your sweats beauty and put on bucket of trash. then the returns the about to the trash thank you!”

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Fresh Stuff From Jim Darling in Beacon, NY

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From Jim:

“Walking up close to one of my favorite buildings in town, I noticed the collapsed tunnel that goes under the old factory. The door and window coverings made for a nice pair of eyes. To paint the right eye I balanced on some rusty pipes that stick out from the ground. Once the eyes were finished, the building asked me for a smoke and so I gave him one.”

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Rob Ray’s Bucky’s Animal Spirit

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“Bucky’s Animal Spirit” is a clever public intervention disguised as an ATM Machine installed surreptitiously in a downtown office building… next to an actual ATM.

Rob tells us…

“I installed this video game in a Troy, NY downtown office building on May 1st 2009 hoping people would think it was an actual ATM machine.

I was quite pleased to see they did not want to punch my face off when they realized it was not an ATM at all, but an arcade game where they help “Bucky the Beaver” save money in the Shitty Economy.

Check out the full documentation here.

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