This video captures just under two minutes of the action, including the harrowing moment where Baumgartner fell into a dangerous uncontrolled spin
Archive | October, 2012
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Oct
Contemporary art doesn’t get much more fun than this! First created in 1998 with white balloons and then redone many times over, Half the Air in a Given Space is an interactive installation, by British artist Martin Creed, that’s comprised of hundreds or thousands of balloons of the same color. As the name suggests, half a room’s entire volume is filled with air-inflated balloons and then visitors are encouraged to walk through. “It is important to me,” says Creed, “that the situation is normal, that, as usual, the space is full of air; it’s just that half of it [is] inside the balloons.”
Meant to evoke a sense of celebration and remembrance of childhood, the installation is almost guaranteed to leave everyone with a smile on their face.
Last year, Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas was graced with 9,000 giant gold balloons that filled half of an eight-foot high…
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Oct
Artist Jacqueline Lou Skaggs uses single pennies as the canvas for her work. Painting over the presidents’ faces and the monumental buildings pressed into each penny, she formed small, intricate paintings on the surface of twelve found bronze coins as part of the series Tondi Observations. From haystacks to portraits, the artist says that each miniature penny painting “reflects a decision to move away from making “pictorial” images.”
Skaggs says initially the coins were going to be spent and introduced back into the monetary world in exchange for goods. However, as the work became more recognized, it was turned into artwork that hangs on display on the walls of galleries. Rather than viewing the paintings as damage to the original object, penny-art enthusiasts see the artwork as an added value to the American currency. Skaggs says, “Paid tribute no less on the face of discarded coins these iconic images…
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Oct
Germany-based design student Carolin Wanitzek has created a wonderfully whimsical set called The Border that visualizes those few seconds we all experience right when we wake up from a dream. Using colored cardboard, she cut out everything from mountains and trees to skyscrapers and planes, and then photographed her dreamworld scenes in her home studio. She then photographed her actors in a larger studio, and finally combined those images together in Photoshop. Love the mix of craft, illustration and photography.
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Oct
Located in front of the CMP Block building in Taiwan, this art installation presents two sinking cars that are being consumed by a sea of bright green grass. The scene is reminiscent of the aftermaths of a flood, where cars are devoured by the surrounding forces of nature. As remnants of the vehicles peek their heads out of the surface of the grass, they become a memory of a past moment, where a manmade object continues to exist and function in relation to natural boundaries.
There is no clear explanation for how the cars got there or why they are located in the middle of the city. According to the CMP Block website, their building structure is all about sustainability and a respect for nature, and the installation agrees with their motto of always working towards “merging art, aesthetics and nature.”
The project reminds me of Manuel Felisi’s old car’s rooftop…
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Oct
New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach dabbles in a little bit of everything, including painting, photography, book design, and musical performance. Her artwork challenges the expected norms and examines the systems that define our world. She says her work is an attempt to reveal “new spectral and dimensional richness…both within and beyond the limits of perception.”
RGB Colorspace Atlas is a collection of 8x8x8-inch casebound books that present viewers with the RGB (red, green, blue) color model. The model is defined by electronic systems such as computer and television screens, video cameras, and scanners, as well as digital photography, and the theory originates from basic human perceptions of color.
In this project, each book volume is covered in airbrushed cloth and consists of digital, offset printed pages. The collection is a tangible rainbow of colors in the color spectrum. As viewers flip through each volume, gradients of color are visible on…
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