Date posted: March 23, 2008

Great Stuff I Found Online

Human Tetris, a project by French-Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond has just won a YouTube award in the category creative. It's pretty funny and quite inventive. Using the same idea he has also created human versions of Pong, Space Invaders and Pole Position.

It reminded me of PacManhattan, which takes PacMan to the streets of New York.

Things I have learned in my life so far is a fascinating site to accompany the awesome book of the same title by graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister.

British artist Natasha Archdale creates nudes that look like drawings from a distance, but are made of carefully cut clippings from the Financial Times. The result is quite wonderful.

Browsing through my bookmarks I came across some interesting projects and artists.

Delete! is an installation project by Austrian artists/designers Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf. Summer 2005 they removed all the commercial messages in an average shopping street in Vienna and replaced them with yellow banners.

Ordnung muss sein! is another project by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf. The way products in a supermarket are presented is based on extensive market research and various financial and marketing considerations. For this project Steinbrener and Dempf created some different forms of order.

Dorothy Napangardi is an Australian aboriginal artist who creates some fascinating, intricate paintings.

An amazing collection of Russian and/or Soviet propaganda posters from 1917 to 1991.

South-Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee has created stunning models of Looney Tunes characters such as Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner.

Wang Qingsong is one of the most interesting Chinese artists of the moment. He creates large tableau vivants and stages large-scale performances which he then photographs.

The UbuWeb Sound and Film and Video archive continues expanding. I will have to post a selection of some of my favourite fragments some time. On January 16, 2004 the BBC Symphony Orchestra premiered an orchestral transcription of John Cage's 4'33". Ja Ja Ja Ja by Joseph Beuys remains one of the best lectures ever given. It was presented at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1968 if I'm not mistaken.