A pleasing LEGO kinetic sculpture by Josh DaVid.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
As if It hadn’t sufficiently whetted appetites for season 2 (which starts on October 27th), Netflix promos its landmark series with a range of appropriately low res tributes to posters from 80s horror movies Firestarter, Alien (a few months short of the 80s in fairness), Stand By Me, A Nightmare On Elm Street and Evil Dead.
From top: Jean Claude Juncker as seen by the Daily Telegraph‘s Patrick Blower and Mr Juncker’s state of the union speech delivered yesterday
Yesterday.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivered his annual State of the Union speech.
Readers should note that, on RTÉ’s Six One last night, Tony Connolly reported:
“I think people will be going through his speech quite carefully. I mean, look, he says he’s not an integration fanatic and his underlying theme today was he wants a Europe of freedom, of equality, of opportunity and the rule of law.
“And you could see where he was trying to balance, perhaps more ambitious roles for Europe with things that would really chime with public opinion – creating jobs, developing the digital agenda, protecting people against terrorism, having greater intelligence sharing among member states.
“Issues like migration, he said, obviously Europe had a responsibility to show solidarity with the downtrodden from other parts of the world. But, balancing that, by saying if you were an illegal migrant and you had lost your right to stay, then you should be sent home.
“I think the Irish Government will be looking very carefully at this idea of dropping the veto on any corporate tax legislation, a very sensitive issue for Ireland. It was in the written speech and it was dropped from the delivery.
“Now I’m led to believe that the delivery is what counts but the fact that he was kind of putting it out there, in the written speech, will raise some questions.
Nailed It
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Some Neck
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The courtyard of San Francisco City Hall, adorably giraffed by yarnbombing sisters Jill and Lorna Watt as part of an ongoing arboreal /civic knitting project.
Sure isn’t it well for some?
I Love Lamp
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Installations by Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen in and around the forests of his scenic homeland.
It’s all about the balance of nature and human culture, if you’re interested.
By Danish poster makers Jeppe Knudsen Ringsted and Nicolai Søndergaard.
‘Continents’ of animals with place names and natural terrain named after the subspecies.
More infuriating objects from The Uncomfortable – a series of deliberately inconvenient household items created by headwrecking Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani.
Previously: The Uncomfortable Project
Unrealism
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An experimental art film by Maxim Zhestkov featuring the movement of over two billion black and white spheres in a series of enclosed spaces.
The physics of each animation (flow, diffusion, pressure, etc.) is displayed by subtle text on the walls of each space. Zhestkov sez:
The film is a trial to explore the idea that everything around us and inside us is made from simple elements or blocks which can be arranged in complex relationships and become compound structures. We could project this idea into emotions, behaviors, thought processes, relationships, life, planets and the universe.
Now for yiz.