https://vimeo.com/77690647
The ominously nifty video for Dirt by Dublin electronica band Nanu Nanu, directed by Stephen Mogerley and featuring Arlene Caffrey
(Thanks Mick Earley)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xL8rE9DT4g
Today is Black Friday – the chaotic first day of the Christmas shopping season in the States. The annual scramble for special discounts has resulted in four deaths and 64 stampede related injuries since 2006.
Behold the cutting edge of consumer hysteria.
You’ll have seen the Justin Bieber/Harry Styles You Tube comment-off (top) gloriously reconstructed by British actors Grahame Edwards and Eryl Lloyd Parry earlier this week.
Well they’re back already with a sequel – this time dramatising a NSFW argument between Latinsha Duke and MIKEFUCKINGWINS23 on the viral GoPro: Fireman Saves Kitten.
https://vimeo.com/80200103#at=0
A light project entitled Lucid Stead by artist Phillip K Smith III unveiled last month in the high desert at Joshua Tree in Califormia.
Composed of mirror, LED lighting, custom built electronic equipment and Arduino programming amalgamated with a preexisting structure, this architectural intervention, at first, seems alien in context to the bleak landscape. Upon further viewing, Lucid Stead imposes a delirious, almost spiritual experience. Like the enveloping vista that changes hue as time passes, Lucid Stead transforms. In daylight the 70 year old homesteader shack, that serves as the armature of the piece, reflects and refracts the surrounding terrain like a mirage or an hallucination.
Doc Sweets on Arthur Miller’s allegorical tale.
Witchcraft be involved. Also sniffin’ out commies.
Previously: Macbeth
The E-Volo VC200 has become the world’s first electric helicopter to complete a maiden flight, ascending to 22m for several minutes.
Fully disassemblable with 18 rotors controlled by 20 onboard computers, the two-person E-Volo is designed for a 100km range at altitudes up to 1.9km.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFWb8YKCHho#t=25
Heritage by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is a full-scale installation of 99 replica animals drinking from a pool, currently on display at GOMA in Brisbane as part of a larger exhibition called Falling Back To Earth. Inspired by a 2011 trip to Stradbroke Island in Australia, artist Cai Guo-Qiang
Also on display is Head On (2004) – the artist’s extraordinary cascade of 99 replica wolves.
Cai Guo-Qiang discusses the work further at his blog.
In the days leading up to the demolition of a huge warehouse in Brisbane, street artists Sofles, Fintan Magee, Treas and Quench took the opportunity to cover the walls with paint.
Filmmaker Selina Miles captured the whole thing in timelapse.
Soundtrack by DJ Butcher
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The Solar Cross e-bike by Terry Hope of R&D company thekpv has eight 0.1kg photovoltaic panels with reflective sides for indirect sun exposure that power the 22kg bike to a frisky 7km/h.
Granted, it’s not what you’d call aerodynamic, but it only cost $500 to build and wind resistance isn’t really a problem at 7km/h.
The trailer for Sign Painters by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon who, in 2010:
…travelled the United States, documenting the remaining practitioners of this near lost art, but also covering a resurgence of interest in the trade, from both the public and the people holding the purse strings.
Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States. The documentary and book profiles sign painters young and old, from the new vanguard working solo to collaborative shops such as San Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs and New York’s Colossal Media’s Sky High Murals.
The film also features work from Dublin’s great sign-painter, Kevin Freeney.
Screening at Dublin’s Sugar Club on December 5th from 8pm.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)