Barbara Kruger's skatepark installation

Kruger’s installation at LES Coleman Skatepark looks good!!

Ignorance is bliss.

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Dutch artist Guda Koster

"The limitations and insecurity of the human being, his fears and obsessions, his vanity and his desires are nicely captured in the humorous and challenging works of the Dutch artist Guda Koster. Her work, which mixes installation and photography, uses costume as an inventory of enigmatic figures and proposes to the spectator to go beyond appearances."

Exactly ... what's not to love.

"Clothing doesn’t just have a function but also conveys a message. In our everyday lives, we communicate identity and social position primarily by means of our clothing. Clothing can be seen as a visual art form that expresses the way we see ourselves and our relationship with the world around us."

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Mirror Mirror on the wall

Very nice, neon signs in a mirror show the duality of human beings. Installation 'Here - Not there' by Camilo Matiz.

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Murmur By Richard Barnes

OTTO photographer Richard Barnes is a wonderful photographer as it is, but this installation is more, it's awesome! Permanent installation Murmur.

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Light Chain

This is cool. Constellaction: Small pyramids which reacts on light. Put them next to each other and they react on each other. Fairylike. A project by panGenerator.

CONSTELLACTION from ◥ panGenerator on Vimeo.

JR @ Unseen

Last wednesday my day was good. After a very hectic monday and tuesday, preparing a fair, preparing a presentation, giving a presentation, I had almost no energy to go to the opening of the photography fair Unseen. But because of a friend of a friend I could go as the VIP biotch! Opening was as every other art-scene opening. My friend and I decided to go and walk around to see if anything else was already open. I passed the location on the Westergasfabriek where one of my favorite artists JR was showing his new project Inside Out. And guess what, they were still building the installation but I could go in, take photo's and talk to a project manager. Unfortunately JR himself wasn't there, he has a solo show in the States.

Amsterdam Unseen was the first city the Inside Out van went to. Next stop is London. You don't know JR? Shame on you! Perhaps you heard about his Women Are Heroes project in Kenya. One of the producers told me they're still going back to work on this project. It's spreading out. This year when they arrived they got questions like: You took photographs of my neighbour, why nog from me?

The Inside Out project he started after winning the TED prize in California in 2011. It's a global participatory art project with the potential to change the world.

Why I like JR's projects so much? I'm always a sucker for  art combined with street art and giving back to the community. Below the photo's I took at Unseen. Feel free to re-blog but be nice, mention me as copyright holder of the photo and JR as copyright holder of the project.

Web Works By Chiharu Shiota

I'm getting real uncomfortable watching these installations. In a positive way. I wonder how it feels being in the middle of them. This is the art work from Chiharu Shiota, an artist born in Japan, living in the new art metropole of the world, Berlin.

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Assault Rifle

This Assault Rifle is created from 1,200 suspended ping pong balls by multimedia artist Michael Murphy. Viewed from the right angle the ping pong balls transform in an AR-15 assault rifle.

"Historically, the black ball was used in secret ballots to signify opposition. Here they are used openly to signify opposition to the gun culture and culture of violence that we currently have in the United States."

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Dyskograf

This is so cool! Be a DJ with a marker.

"DYSKOGRAF is a graphic disk reader. Each disc is created by visitors to the installation by way of felt tip pens provided for their use. The mechanism then reads the disk, translating the drawing into a musical sequence."

Dyskograf from Jesse Lucas on Vimeo.

Swinging Guitar

Swinging Guitar by Nik Colk Void.

Nik Colk Void: Swing from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.

Chris Burden - Metropolis II

A short doc about Metropolis II, a kinetic sculpture that took Chris Burden four years to build.

HeyHeyHey 'Melvin The Machine'

"In this movie filmed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Eindhoven, the ringing of an alarm clock triggers a chain of events that opens umbrellas, spins paper windmills, starts a fire and releases a set of parachuting toy animals."

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Melvin the Machine by HEYHEYHEY from Dezeen on Vimeo.

Seth Goldstein 'Why Knot'

You won't save time with this kinetic sculpture ... but it is cool!

Superheadz Create Forest With Harinezumi Cameras

"Superheadz have produced a special installation using its Digital Harinezumi cameras and content created by over thirty international artists, including filmmaker Patrice Leconte, actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, Harmony Korine and more."

"In a world where remixes and loops, samplings and downloads, Google, Amazon, and Youtube became our necessity, people have stopped watching television, and going to record shops and book stores. However, to experience Harinezumi no Mori, you just have to get out; and come experience the moment."



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