Thursday, December 31, 2009

Cheap Veteran Flag Holders

IED Barcelona exhibits Doble Mirada



Doble Mirada (‘Double Take’) takes a modern-day look at the city of Barcelona .
Doble Mirada offers a double reading or twofold interpretation of the present and future of Barcelona, through MADinBCN and Marca Barcelona .
It was designed by IED Barcelona students from all over the world specialising in Visual Arts , Communication and Design as a final-year project in collaboration with Barcelona City Council .

The aim is to describe the city through light-hearted yet visionary stories. It reveals the city’s hidden secrets and includes creatively crafted communication aspects to grab the attention of peopleworldwide and presents Barcelona as a unique , dynamic city tightly linked to innovation.



Images by IED Barcelona


Location: Sala Ciutat , C/Ciutat 2, Barcelona
Monday to Saturday from 3 pm to 8 pm, Sunday and bank holidays 10 am 14 pm

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Anasol Vs Preperation H

A BIJOU ART! Bricks Tetris



A Sermoneta was inaugurated "First Festival of Artistic Bijoux and the Candlestick" , an exhibition of unusual and interesting objects and jewelry made with different techniques and materials, halfway between art and craft.
staged at "The Nail Sermoneta" , space art Sermoneta, is open to the public until January 10, 2010 .
Artist and designers exhibit their creations with both traditional materials with unusual materials and recovery: from silver to resins, from ceramics to plastics, from aluminum to fabrics, glass, paper, and reworked to create little masterpieces microsculture unique to wear.
The exhibition aims to highlight how, beyond the material value, the quality of the gem is given by research, experimentation, technique, expression and creativity. How
jewelry made from recycled materials, different from each other, the Dutch Lucia BM Hesselink, who believes deeply in the testing and in flux, or necklaces created with scraps of rubber inner tubes and bicycle Lorena Giuffrida, or the "moedas Vazadas" (literally "pierced coins") or "art on the coins," performed by the technique tunnel that emptied the bottom of the currency gives rise to eclectic jewelry and stylish jewelry or Maria Grazia Palmacci made from everyday objects or metal gear boxes and watch, or the designer Tatiana Moscow Lapteva , which in its collection reinterprets the cultural traditions of his homeland.

















Photos by © D + Arch


editor: Claudio Muolo

authors: Lucia BM Hesselink Stephen Camilli, Alessandra Ciurlo, Clelia De Angelis, Mario De Luca, Diana Maria, Eugenia, Lorena Giuffrida, Maria Grazia Palmacci, Tatiana Lapteva, Barbara Longo, Dedora Mondovi, Carla Nicole, Valentina Pietrosanti, Tommy & Luigi Renzi, Maria Rossella Cosentino Cristina Saggioro, Catherine Saggioro, Milena Stoeva, Elizabeth Tognetti, moedas Vazadas, Ornella Won, Lusilla Voices.


from 12.12.2009 to 10.01.2010

"The Nail Sermoneta"
Piazza del Popolo, 13
Sermoneta (LT)
tel. 347 4096112
barcla@email.it


Thursday, December 10, 2009

Friendship Bracelets Music Note Instructions

raining down on Sydney streets.


Via Abercrombie in Sydney is a tiny lane running between George and Pitt Streets just near Bond Street.
Usually you find there a good breakfast.
You can order Grinders coffee and share a fresh fruit and yoghurt (topped with fresh macadamia nuts) served in an enormous glass bowl.
But it can happen , while you are grabing a bite of your big special sandwich, that a Tetris Brick seems falling down on the walls ready to hit everyone who is walking there.

In that case you will be astonished by looking at these oversize, illuminated Tetris block sculptures floating over your head.
"Giant Tetris"(aka “One More Go One More Go”) was installed from 4Tth of October to the 31st of Jannuary 2009 and is actually part of an broader outdoor art exhibition called Live Lanes – By George!


The larger-than life installation was put together by the guys over at Gaffa Gallery , who clearly have fond memories of the classic brick-stacking puzzler.
The "Live Laneway" strategy is a project of revitalisation for the Sidney City Centre . “Live Laneways” includes a range of creative initiatives to encourage more activity, and recognise the cultural, artistic and historic significance of laneways.
Tetris is a famous video game where the player must sort a simultaneously random but predictable succession of cascading shapes in exchange for points and more time in the game.


Yet here, in Abercrombie Lane, pieces are planted without a definite order , neither there is something resembling a predictable game. The dynamics of game is lost . The street is really very tiny.
Did we really pay attention and enjoy this new City Tetris Game when we are hurriedly crossing the narrow corridors of Abercrombie Lane or when we are waiting in line for a sandwich? And if we do so how this can happen?
Could the forgotten interactive part of the game be improved in such tiny streets?
It is noteworthy that this is a significant initiative to focus the pubblic attention on the need of revitalizing the forgotten but alive laneways of our cities.
And we agree that the creative idea of developing a dynamic and interactive game is really a good starting point to do it.