The Global Rainbow « Hungeree

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Artist Yvette Mattern’s Global projection shot into the night sky from Scrabo Tower in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, on the evening of March 16, 2012. The Global marks 100 days until the opening of the 2012 Arts Festival which runs for three months and kicks off alongside the Games in on June 21, 2012.

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nude people

Spencer Tunick (born January 1, 1967) is an American artist. He is best known for his installations that feature large numbers of posed in artistic formations. These installations are often situated in urban locations throughout the world, although he has also done some “Beyond The City” woodland and beach installations and still does individuals and small groups occasionally. Tunick is the subject of three HBO documentaries, Naked States, Naked World, and Positively Naked. His models are unpaid volunteers who receive a limited edition photo as compensation.

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Madrid Water Fountains Spill Light

Some gorgeous new installations have just popped up on our radar that involve jars and lights. Anonymous collective Luzinterruptus, who’s known for their interesting installations in public spaces, collected glass containers for four months and then displayed them around Madrid’s public fountains. Why? It’s a statement to show that over 50% of public fountains are now dismantled, broken or just dry. As an expensive and inconvenient alternative, must be bought in bottles. To criticize the administration for this much needed public service, they wanted to show, in a symbolic way, drinking running through the streets.

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Rashad Alakbarov, amazing shadow art

Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create and paintings on walls.

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Magnificent Scribbled Line Digital Portraits

Artists like Ayaka Ito use computer programming to create something new and exciting.Graphic designer and illustrator Ito, who originally hails from but currently resides in New York City, tells that she began her Scribbled project in 2008 for a ’3D Motion & Particle’ course offered at her alma mater, Rochester Institute of Technology. She has a history of incorporating into her artwork but adding an element of programming couldn’t have been accomplished without her collaborator Randy Church. The duo used applications like Flash and Photoshop to break down the photographic images and build them back up into intriguing portraits composed of a series of interweaving lines.

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Before I Die

Before I Die is an idea so simple as it is of incredible emotional impact. The idea came to Candy Chang, who lives in a suburb of New Orleans, which has transformed the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood into a giant whiteboard where residents can write on the wall and share what is important to them.

Before I Die is a public project that transforms neglected areas of construction in places where you can discover the hopes and dreams of the . A reminder to ourselves and what is more important…

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A Giant Spinning Human Head Water Fountain Is Oddly Mesmerizing

is a 14-ton that’s shaped like a human head. On top of that, the is made with over 35 steel layers that can independently rotate 360 degrees to re-arrange its face and trip your brains out.

The mirrored water fountain is made by Czech sculptor David Černý and is located in Whitehall Technology Park in , North Carolina.

Live streaming video of the sculpture in motion can be viewed online at www.metalmorphosis.tv

via A Giant Spinning Human Head Water Fountain Is Oddly Mesmerizing.

Exhibition in Tokyo Turns Aquarium into Works of Art

Visitors take pictures of goldfish displayed during the ‘ Aquarium’ at Nihonbashi Mitsui Hall in , on Tuesday, September 6. (Franck Robichon / EPA)

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Ron Arad’s Curtain Call – YouTube

Ron Arad and his team reveal the ideas behind Curtain Call – an 360 degree at the Roundhouse in , 9-29 August 2011.

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Ai Weiwei – Circle of Animals

artist Ai Weiwei’s work is the first ever contemporary to go on display in the historic courtyard of Somerset House. It is also the first major outdoor public by the artist in .

The monumental installation comprises 12 bronze animal heads, re-creations of the traditional Chinese zodiac sculptures which once adorned the of Yuanming Yuan, an imperial retreat in Beijing. The installation is part of an International Tour which started in New York.

via Ai Weiwei – Circle of Animals – Thibault Mauras-Cartier.

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