Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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Canadian visual artist Kim Rugg has patience and glue, and her art requires a lot of both.

The front pages of the newspapers shown above, for example, were taken apart with an X-ACTO knife, letter by letter, then rearranged in alphabetical order.

So what is Kim Rugg at? She’s taking the piss out of the print media, what it says and how it says it.

Or, as the gallery owner puts it:

Through her re-appropriation of medium and meaning, she effectively highlights the innately slanted nature of the distribution of information as well as its messengers.

Yes.

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Rickard Bengtsson shot footage of the water-skidding and sand jumping shenanigans of his mates, then added slow motion with Twixtor, an app that can slow down or speed up the frame rate of videos.

Wetly mesmeric.

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Things fall down the crack in the back of the sofa. This we know. Now though, design studio Daisuke Motogi Architecture have re-purposed that flaw into a design feature.

Behold: the Lost In Sofa chair.

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The Sandwich Movie – an animation from writer and director Sean Christensen – tells the story of a very important sandwich his sister made him on the occasion of his first overseas trip.

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