I love these striking black and white surreal images created by Noell Oszvald, a 24 year old visual artist from Budapest, Hungary. Noell only shoots in black and white because she finds colors to be distracting.  “I feel the same way … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Art
The Melting House by Alex Chinneck
There’s always something cool happening in London. I wish I was on the other side of the planet right now, so I could attend MERGE Festival 2014, check out its music events and discover the latest art projects. I was … Continue reading
Ai Weiwei and his 3,144 Bicycles Installation in Toronto
Ai Weiwei, the famous controvert, contemporary and conceptual artist & activist from China, and the most powerful artist of 2011 by The British magazine Art Review, is presenting a new edition of his stunning Forever Bicycles installation from 2011. At the current Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in … Continue reading
Ai Weiwei Exhibition “Absent†with 21 works and 1000 bicycles
In the past we have already written about this famous controvert, contemporary, conceptual artist & activist from China, Ai Weiwei (two blog posts, China censors Ai Weiwei, and Ai Weiwei does Barcelona in a pool full of milk). We are happy … Continue reading
BETTER CITY, BETTER LIFE – Shanghai Expo 2010, UK Pavilion
We absolutely love the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. Mastermind behind it is Heatherwick Studios, run by acclaimed architect Thomas Heatherwick. The Pavilion’s design seeks to engage meaningfully with the Expo’s theme, “Better City, Better Life“. It veers from … Continue reading
Windcuts
Windcuts [flickr.com] consists of various experiments that turn quantitative sensor data into visually compelling physical instantiations. Wind movement measurement data, such as wind direction, velocity and temperature, was used as the foundation to generate a 3D form, which was then … Continue reading
We Are All Animals
We received an email by SLip, a french artist working on collage and cyanotype technic especially on his collection W3A – We Are All Animals. We liked the idea (and final result) and are happy to share it with you. … Continue reading
Dot. Dot. Polka dot.
Polka dots are back in ‘fashion’. Not that they were ever out. While polka dots are ancient, they first became common on clothing in the late nineteenth century in Britain. At the same time polka music was extremely popular and … Continue reading
First Spring; a movie by Prada + Yang Fudong
Inspired by the Chinese adage that “the whole year’s work depends on a good start in spring”, this bold and beautiful film (9,17 mins) represents an exciting new direction for Prada’s visual communications at the start of this decade. Featuring … Continue reading
Ai WeiWei does Barcelona in a pool full of milk
The Mies van der Rohe Pavilion is the object of an intervention that reflects upon the use of buildings and how we perceive them as unique and inalterable spaces. Artist Ai Weiwei, one of the most distinguished figures of Chinese … Continue reading
your own collab with Joshua Davis
Here at LA76 are big fans of Joshua Davis for several different reasons. His work as an early Flash pioneer with Praystation and he was a one of the first people to release their Flash code as open source so … Continue reading
Gangs of Kabukicho by Watanabe Katsumi
I found a post about Watanabe Katsumi on The Moment blog, really liked the imagery and wanted to share it with you… Despite recent attempts at gentrification, Kabukicho in the East Shinjuku section of Tokyo remains the city’s seedy underbelly. … Continue reading