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When in a ‘Salone-del-mobile’ state of mind. You’ve probably seen museums installing lightbulbs imitating natural daylight. Well this guy created a lightinstallation that actually makes you feel like the sun is shining outside, even though it’s 2AM or hailing tennis balls.

Using nanotechnology Paolo Di Trapani recreates the interaction of sun light and shadows. The shadows won’t be black or grey toned for example, but blue-ish from being under the diffused light of the sky. (more here, you’ll feel like you’re in science class!)  That being said, the installation may not help you cure from a winter depression, but it sure as hell will open some new perspectives to photo studios, obnoxiously dark apartments or more importantly: hospitals. Having this warm light filling up a radiosurgery bunker will definitely influence the psychological and physiological effect on patients.

Hey but wait, this blog is about art right? I also find it fascinating to see that work like this is breaking all borders of science, technology, design, and eventually art. 

Why would this be seen as an artwork? Well, “Like an artist, Di Trapani judges the quality of his light by the quality of the shadows it produces.” says WIRED magazine about the Italian physicist. So did Van Gogh.

CoeLux SRL by Paolo Di Trapani  l  Seen at the ‘Up In The Air’ Exhibition at STUK Leuven, Belgium.

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How a simple curve can move mountains.

One was born 21 years ago, the other only 3. Both are exceptionally powerful, but being a Millennial and all, I congratulate Ogilvy Paris for finding a beautiful way to turn our everyday advertising into something useful. This campaign definitely challenges creatives to think beyond billboard frames. See the casevideo here. 1. Christian Eckart - three Curved Monochrome Paintings + four Small Curved Monochrome Paintings / 2. IBM + Ogilvy & Mather France "Smarter Cities" campaign. 

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Fragments of a year in Toronto.

1. Jonah Brucker-Cohen - Alerting infrastructure! By visiting the MOCCA's (museum of contemporary canadian art) website, you were taking part in the destruction of the gallery / 2. Evan Penny’s production plasters installed at the side hallways of the AGO Toronto. By showcasing its design-in-process, Penny's distorted sculptures look like they all have their skin stripped off and show the truly estranging nature of human figures. / 3. Julia Dault’s Untitled 37, 10:30-1:30 PM, September 17, 2014  > This is the time it took to bend and bundle these plexi structures together. 

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Torontonian Art+Ad.

I'm stating the obvious here, but Toronto has Graffiti every-where.. Every city has it’s own great graffiti pieces, but the truly nice part about Toronto’s graffiti artworks are the thoughts behind it. I’ll mention one for now - and it may not be the most complicated one. The big lettered mural “You’ve changed” at Queen West has an interesting message which can be interpreted as an inspirational message for the patients at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (as it placed right in their front yard) or can be seen as a commentary on the continuously changing dynamic of Toronto. Not even 15 meters apart one wall always has the best catchy ad-quotes. It may not have anything to do with the thought Jesse Harris tried to convey, but LG2 did a good job in making their message stand out as much as it should. To me these 'murals' are a good example on the North American communication: bold, but simple.

/ 1.  You’ve Changed - Jesse Harris  2. #betterforit campaign - LG2 for Nike Canada (more at strategyonline.ca)

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At the opening of their exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York Stefan Sagmeister & co. installed a wall of 10,000 bananas. 

“Green bananas created a pattern against a background of yellow bananas spelling out the sentiment: Self-confidence produces fine results.

After a number of days the green bananas turned yellow too and the type disappeared. When the yellow background bananas turned brown, the type (and the self-confidence) appeared again, only to go away when all bananas turned brown.”

Even though this isn’t one of Sagmeister’s newest work, I think the idea behind it is very current. It’s so true that design, art or craft is a continuous process of learning, practicing and gaining a bit of confidence out of it. Sometimes you gain a lot of it, because you created something people recognize or appreciate, or you accomplished something that is important to you. You can reach that successful event in your life, but eventually your confidence can fade again. Like bananas. 

- I thought this would be an ideal apology for not posting for over a year, and a start of new inspirations, new green bananas coming. ^^

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**The weight of a beard. **A fund for a good cause and a fashion statement throughout the world, catbearding and conchita wurst. Is the hipster hype coming to a turning point?

From growing moustaches as an awareness campaign for men's health to becoming an ambassador in the fight against melanoma thanks to the Beard Season campaign; facial hair is a statement.

So when fashion has picked up this trend, you could see the facial hair growing in every form and style. Beard art, beard pornography and catbearding were next.

Still there's one taboo when it comes to mixing sexes. Maybe Tom Neuwirth a.k.a. Conchita Wurst has reindentified the hype, maybe not... but not too shabby for some facial hair provoking so many questions and discussions huh?

_/ 1.  'Free Your Skin' campaign for __razor company schick - _Y&R new zealand  **2.  **_The Jurist / The Lawyer - __Giuseppe Arcimboldo, painted in 1566   **3.  **Jimmy Niggle's Beard Season Launch Party to fight against melanoma  _ ** 4.  **Bluebeards - Kylie Coutts   **5.  _Giant steelwool rendering of Karl Marx's beard - __Nataliya Slinko  _6.  **A hunt for high tec - Bart Hess

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I love it when you take in culture without knowing.

 Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 Allegro con fuoco / DDB Brussels for B-Classic.

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Düsseldorf Quadriennale no.2, Art in a tunnel.

You can find Pauline M'barek's work: "The Tangible Border" in the basement of the KIT Bar, situated on the Rheinuferpromenade - Düsseldorf.

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1. The exhibition space at the K20 Museum - Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf, picture source: Studio O.E. facebookpage 2. The iphone app: 'Your Exhibition Guide' by Studio Olafur Eliasson

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Politicians discussing global warming. No need to say more. / Isaac Cordal, 'Electoral Campaign', Berlin.

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Dutch Artists Lernert & Sander have unraveled the new collections at Kiki Niesten Maastricht by reducing last season knitted garments from Fall/Winter ‘13 by Céline, Chloé, Jil Sander and Prada to balls of yarn: video here.

They call the balls of yarn "symbols of hope and aspiration", but doesn't it represent the actual value of a garment, or the impermanence of fashion? Nevertheless, these artists are masterminds in creating simple and quirky video's, and some damn good art directors.

++ Funny anecdote: you can actually buy the balls of yarn!

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This man knows how to reframe google streetview. / Discovered and posted by Jon Rafman, more on 9-eyes.com

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Secondhand smoke is firsthand death. / Jung von Matt/Elbe, Hamburg for Deutsche Kinderkrebsstiftung.

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Initially these portraits are part of The Original Extreme Sport campaign for the British television broadcaster Channel 4, but the portrait of Katie Walsh even won the National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. / Agency: Langland UK, Photography: Spencer Murphy.

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I'm so going to do this. The Belgian Olympic Committee (BOIC) has started the countdown to the Winter Games of 2014 with a noteworthy commercial. The Winter Olympic Games have never meant much to the Belgians, but next year there are two contestans, Bart Swings (ice skating) and Seppe Smits (snowboarding) who could actually win a medal. In the ad you see Seppe Smits boarding the 'Belgian mountains' on Jaques Brel's 'Le Plat Pays' (The Flat Country). Slogan: "In Belgium we don't need mountains to win a medal."