This is the preview of a film called PressPausePlay. It's about the change in the creative industry due to technical progress. Sometimes it's a bit tacky, but in its essence it's right.
Daniel Palacios from Córdoba did this experiment with a rubber band tied to two motors. Via Vimeo Staff.
Two English bloods, Walter Hutton and Patrick Waterhouse, are re-interpreting Dante's Inferno (aka The Divine Commedy), one of the greatest masterpiece of western literature written in the 14th century by Italian writer Dante Alighieri.
Een lek in het zwijgen (boot, dekzijl, glas, continu geluid van een neuriënde man) and Boekenkast (bibliotheek met 60 m omgekeerde boeken) by Jan van der Veer.
There is an amazing new publication by Roma (Amsterdam): Book with recent photographic work by Uta Eisenreich focussing on the shortcomings of our cognitive tool-kit. A NOT B walks us along the fine line between common sense and uncommon nonsense in a realm reminiscent of pre-school books, assessment tests and optical illusions. Design: Julia Born.
Australia based collective Summit Of The Minds is founded by Christian Ghezzi, Scott Heinrich and Kingston Trinder.
Cathy told me recently about a real dare devil: Guillaume Néry base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole in Long Island, Bahamas, filmed by Julie Gautieron. Amazing!
Blitz shows his skills on the Koshkas, a very weird and lovely percussion, to support Ghana's All Stars at the cup.
Still like this a lot, video and track.
Can you knit like that? Amazing photography by Phyllis Galembo. Again, via Does It Float.
Large-scale color photographs from 2005 to 2006 reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo's work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, as well as the homegrown custom of Halloween in the United States.