Enter a word…any word. Instead of being served an endless list of blue text links, Spezify brings us a new creative and intuitive experience we’ve been waiting for. Spezify searches websites, blogs, images, tweets, even video, arranging the results into a virtual bulletin board. Providing an instant ‘big picture’ overview of your subject. Spezify went live on June 15, quickly gaining fans in the creative industry.
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Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief flipped the switch on artist Cliff Garten’s $1.7 million light sculpture project recently.
Six identical stainless steel sculptures are the inaugural pieces of the city’s revitalized Lancaster Avenue, the new “Avenue of Lights”, located in the southern section of downtown.
According to an article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “…Each sculpture is formed from what seem to be countless steel disks that, like vertebrae, support the sculpture on its ascent. Fully abstract, each sculpture forms a lyrical double-helix of steel, softly twisting on itself. Magnifying the work’s intensity is the presence of a series of colored lights, in shades of orange, lilac, red, blue and green that shine individually and in combination from within the sculpture’s skeletal frame.” | More Images
Photography by David Kozlowski, Dallas Photoworks.
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This may look like something you’d find in central Tokyo, but The Villa is a community building which sits at the heart of the Heerlijkheid park in the town of Hoogvliet in the Netherlands. It was designed by Fat and contains a multi-use hall, offices, and a café. It’s design is intended to create a 21st century civic architecture for a suburban new town. It is a decorated shed, using timber rain screen cladding to create an architecture of communication which evokes Hoogvliet’s industrial past, whilst the references to elements of nature in the entrance and in some of the “cut-work” features of the façade, recall the pastoral ideas on which the design of the new town was originally based.
Inside, the shed-like quality of the building is emphasized by the painting pink of the structure. From the inside, views to the park and surrounding landscape are framed by the delicate intricacies of the external envelope.
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The Cool Hunter Platinum is currently is working on two Pop-Up Skate Park themes – Transformers and Space Invaders.
For the Transformers Skate Park, they commissioned Christiann Klaassen and his amazing team from Rockhunter in London to visualize the recreational and promotional space where design, technology and skate culture meet with a cool Skate Park.
The Cool Hunter Platinum works directly with property developers/hoteliers on creating unique and fresh concepts for boutique and large scale developments including hotels, retail, luxury residences, spas, restaurants and bars.
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“Standing in one of the moss and dirt covered tunnels in Leeds, England, Paul Curtis, “Moose” as he calls himself, saw marks on the wall where the shoulders of unsteady drunks and the fingertips of curious children had exposed the shiny white tile. And with only a pair of socks as his tool, reverse graffiti was born.
No paint. No defacing. Moose makes his art by cleaning; removing the ills of dirt and pollution by de-defacing- wiping away dirt into large type and shapes, leaving nothing behind but a beautiful work of “green art.”
For the past ten years, Moose has been working to perfect his craft. More recently, his skill and notoriety have led to the creation of commissioned pieces as well.
Moose enjoys creating ‘legal graffiti’ although at times has been in the press for being a vandal. But no one has ever been able to make a case against him because as he says, “No one owns the dirt.” “
Excerpt taken from The Reverse Grafitti Project
Posted in Avant-Guarde, Conceptual Art, Contemporary, Eco / Earth Art, Ephemeral, Graffiti | Tagged ephemeral art, Graffiti, green art., green works, Reverse Graffiti, street art | Leave a Comment »
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If you feel a little blonde…or feel like a lot of pink girliness, you can now check into the Barbie Suite at the Palms in Las Vegas. Babysitter not included.![BarbieInteriorlarge[4]](http://fineartsfeedbag.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/barbieinteriorlarge4.jpg?w=300&h=146 "BarbieInteriorlarge[4]")
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As part of a whole new master planned entertainment district called “City of Dreams” in Macau, the Hard Rock Hotel just opened last week. It blends edgy Hard Rock “Western” style culture and design with very subtle hints of Asian culture and design. I think it is the perfect blend of East meets West with an attitude.
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A brand new public “park in the sky” will soon be opening in New York City. The once-abandoned High Line, a 1.5 mile elevated railway that runs along the West Side of Manhattan, has undergone a major face lift.
The High Line was built in 1929 as part of the West Side Improvement Project. The project as a whole was 13 miles long, and intended to eliminate 105 street-level railroad crossings and the accidents between trains, pedestrians, and horses that ensued (so many fatalities occurred that 10th Avenue became known as “Death Avenue”).
The rise of interstate trucking in the 1950’s led to a decline of rail traffic on the High Line – parts of it were torn down in the 1960’s, and the High Line trains eventually stopped running in 1980. Private property owners of land under the High Line lobbied for it’s demolition, but their efforts were met with opposition.
After decades of debate over the fate of the High Line, it was finally decided the abandoned railway would be re-designed as a public park. This amazing new green space, The High Line Sky Park, is set to open this June.
Photos courtesy of Joel Sternfeld
Rendered images courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
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Lego is releasing a new collection based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s most notable architecture. The “Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Architecture Building Sets” will allow adults and kids of all ages to build every single structure made by the architect through 800+ lego pieces. The initial release of the Guggenheim and the Fallingwater hopes to branch out to a new audience that will allow architecture fans to play, build, and learn the significance of some of Wright’s the most popular modern structures in history. 
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Returning to the Grand Hall at Belsay Castle in Northumberland, England, this crystal chandelier sculpture by Stella McCartney is demanding long line ups for a glimse. I love the juxtaposition of the old rough walls with the new shiny horse.
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