Brooklyn artist Kerry Skarbakka takes photos of himself falling. Using myself as model and with the aid of climbing gear and other rigging, I photograph the body as it dangles from dangerous precipices or tumbles down flights of stairs. The captured gesture of the body is designed for plausiblity of action, which grounds the image in reality.
Gotta look out for Zombies here in San Francisco today.
So for your next belly dancing party, getting really great music is key to a good time. And maybe the outfits, too. But if you want the right music, you gots to load the ipod with songs from of the late Lebanese singer Mohammed El-Bakkar. Download all six albums!
British artist Ian Stevenson likes to draw on rubbish. So I’ve been getting up in the very early hours and with my pens I have been to the outside world and been on an adventure drawing on rubbish. I’ve have many photos and will keep uploading them as the project develops or hopefully you’ll see them in the real world?
Two of the biggest photo houses in the U.S. have joined to created one of the largest free archives of pictures on the internet. The International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House have more than 1,600 images from their photo archives available for browsing on photomuse.org. More than 200,000 images should be online by the time the site is fully set up next year.
A new film by Andrew Douglas asks the question why does so much music and writing come out of the South? In Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus singer Jim White jumps in a rusty car and prowls Southern dirt roads to find out.
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The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis offers live broadcasts of their artist lectures and has them all archived on their site. The lineup on the Walker Channel has included lectures and talks with Paul Auster, Kara Walker and Mike Kelley– and that’s just in the past few weeks. The next live talk will be with Chuck Close on July 24th.
From the good people at Nippon Meat Packers, comes a page with examples and how-tos on the fine art of carving hot dogs.
We all want more power. Otherpower.com shows you how to get it by providing a how-to guide to building your own 17-foot diameter wind turbine. The turbine puts out 3kW+ and 48VDC and can charge a 48V battery bank in 5 MPH winds, makes 400 Watts at 10 MPH, and 1500 Watts in a 16 MPH wind.
Dutch musician and developer Miasnik Shira has created a digital instrument for the performing arts. KEE is a new kind of musical instument that uses bluetooth to translate movement to sound creating sound and image interpreted from intuitive body movement. Check it out in action in this video (10mb).