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A response to Brexit - this largescale installation depicts a conspicuously yellow forklift overwhelmed in its attempt to raise a wooden crate. A solitary choreography between two common objects of function conveys a sense of heavy exasperation. Monolithic in presence, the work sits isolated on a plane, highlighting the symbiotic yet lifeless existence of both objects.

1 month to design 3 months to build on Brexit

#art #brexit #engineering #social commentary #sculpture #public art

In the near-decade city leaders have spent deciding what to do with Christchurch's red zone, it has found its own path.

#earthquake #christchurch #decay

#book arts #sequence #time #longnow

Paper engineer Matthew Shlian (previously here and here) combines intricate geometric tessellations with exact folds and creases to form bas-relief sculptures. Shlian has been crafting his paper artworks for several years. In recent sculptures the artist has introduced a vibrant color palette that s

#paper #folding #3D #geometry

Jessica Wynne has been taking photos of mathematicians' blackboards for the past year or so, some of which were featured recently

#math #chalk #analog #shapes #infoviz

#stop motion #sewing #color

I Have Your Heart is a four-minute stop-motion animation film that took illustrator Molly Crabapple, animator Jim Batt, and musician Kim Boekbinder nearly two years to produce. Boekbinder and Crabapple had the idea for the film, which they scored to the former's song "The Organ Donor's March," and together they found Batt (on Twitter, natch). The story follows a young woman who needs a heart transplant, and receives a donor heart form a bad-boy would-be suitor (who is also, somehow, a cat). With her new heart, the woman escapes from her stifling, bourgeois family and runs away with a dashing sea captain (who is also, somehow, a cat). Boekbinder tells Boing Boing that the song was inspired by an old This American Life story about a girl who received a donor heart from a boy who had been shot and killed by gang members who mistook him for his older brother. "I was struck by how this young girl felt so much pressure to have a really good life," says Boekbinder. "That in order to deserve another person's heart, she had to be good enough for two people."

#paper #stop motion #music

This video was created with over 12,000 pieces of construction paper, shown as it was shot, with no effects added in post. "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home"…

#stop motion #paper #music #color

Overcrowding, poor sanitation and limited health care in the Rohingya refugee areas of Bangladesh is a “recipe for disaster”.

#data #rohingya #infoviz #human rights

This is one of several alphabets assembled by Belgian type designer Clotilde Olyff from stones collected at the beach. Here are

#type #rocks #found typography

possible systems case study

#education #conservation #watch dog #systems #CP

Welcome to Opal Creek Ancient Forestry Center

systems case study option

#education #conservation #systems #CP

Abstract: The Art of Design is back for a second season on Netflix beginning September 25. The folks featured this time around a

Strangely reliant to tonight R&I class

#film #pop design #gnawing

The logical reaction to learning about climate change is terminal despair. I realized this when I first learned enough of the basic physics of climate change to start including it in my physics cla…

#complexity #climate change #grief #science

This University of Michigan Art Librarian purchased an artist’s book made of 20 slices of American cheese.

#bookarts #alternative materials #cheese #books

Removing CO2 through the accelerated weathering of olivine rock on beaches

interesting concept but problematic to implement on the scale require to make much difference

#climate #science #geology #olivne #chemestry

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