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Industrialist Bernardo Paz Industrialist Bernardo Paz has created the most ambitious contemporary art museum ever — in the depths or the Brazilian jungle. Inhotim opened in 2006 and it currently features 17 galleries spread over 300 acres. The permanent collection alone totals around 500 large works. Above: Creative Commons photo by thefuturistics. 1,400 Inhotim photos [...]
In 1984 the city of Philadelphia was a mess of ugly graffiti ‘tags’. Then Jane Golden set to work off the graffiti and then painted vibrant murals in their place. Since 1984 her Mural Arts Program has cleaned and re-covered covered 3,000 walls in the city — and in the process has become the largest [...]
The art of stained glass, alive and well in England. Intelligent Life magazine profiles the work of Tom Denny, which has a visual style not far from that of the early Samuel Palmer. Above: Tewkesbury, England, windows by Tom Denny.
Return to PrairyErth is a new documentary feature that has recently premièred in the USA. It’s based on the place featured in William Least-Heat Moon’s seminal book Prairyerth: a deep map (1991)… “The movie examines the Flint Hills through four seasons and the changes Heat-Moon has seen [...] since first writing his book”.
Award-winning new architecture in North Staffordshire…
The famous Fell Types as free open-source Truetype (.ttf) fonts, created by Ignio Marini. So named because they were imported by John Fell of the Oxford University Press, from Holland circa 1670–1672, to bypass government interference in printing.
Sintel, the open source animated movie made with the free Blender 2.5, has just been released to download.
Immaculate Telegraphy makes stonepunk art-tech… “Using no modern tools or materials and relying entirely on material found on the ground in the wilderness, a telegraph switch producing .7 volts of electricity was completed in November 2009. Using the techniques learned during Immaculate Telegraphy, an entire telegraphic network could have been constructed in the stone age.”
Land of Giants — pylon designs for Landsnet, the Icelandic electricity company.
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