Tag Archive | "New York"
When Video Games Become Reality
Probably the three characters most associated with video games are a hungry yellow dot, a plumber in red dungarees and a funny looking animal with spiky blue hair and red shoes. We’re talking about Pac Man, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog of course. And then there’s Tetris. Wouldn’t it be awesome if they came to life? Or if you could be part of their world? Well, there are some places where you can…
Continue reading...Walking Between the Twin Towers
Monday, August 24, 2009
It had the character of great art – like ballet: stepping out on a wire almost inexpressibly high above the streets of one of the world’s great cities. It was a long-awaited point of departure and the beginning of an improvised performance as spiritually fulfilling for the man who completed it as it was dizzying for those standing agape as witnesses. It was the first of eight crossings between what were then the highest buildings on earth, and New York was just waking up.
Continue reading...Environmental Graffiti Interviews Light Graffiti Artist Vicki DaSilva
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Vicki DaSilva is a light graffiti legend. Influenced by the birth of graffiti in NYC, she decided to develop her own more ephemeral but no less inspiring take on the art form, making thin air instead of subway cars her canvas, swapping spray cans for light sources, and capturing the play of light in long exposure photography. Here the artist herself talks exclusively to EG.
Continue reading...99 Wolves Run Headlong into a Glass Wall [PICS]
Monday, April 27, 2009
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Like a deer caught in headlights or moths to a flame, these wolves are doomed. It's almost like the artist took a snapshot of them in time, just as the front runners of the huge pack meet with a clear glass wall that painfully stops them in their tracks. Where did all these wolves come from, and why are the rest of them following their leaders to the same horrible fate?
Continue reading...Crime and Corruption in the World’s Oldest Subway Tunnel
Monday, February 9, 2009
Once each month, a busy intersection in Brooklyn, New York, gets just a little bit busier. Traffic cones are set up, and cars are necessarily diverted to ensure the safety of an influx of tourists. In a single file outside the Independence Bank, the crowd's sights are fixed on the single, open manhole in the middle of the street, into which they'll crawl to hear the tale of crime surrounding the oldest subway tunnel in the world.
Continue reading...10 Masterpieces of Lego Sculpture
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
This picture might look like it's been under the Photoshop knife, but it's actually the clinical but no less creative handiwork of Nathan Sawaya, the artist who makes sculptures out of Lego pieces. These photos represent some of his most arty pieces, as shown in his ‘The Art of the Brick’ exhibition, which has toured all over North America – and proven to be a smash hit with kids of all ages.
Continue reading...Incredible Sculptures Made of Raw Meat
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
“Meat After Meat Joy” brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work. That’s right, meat - raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera. In their work the artists are seeking to show the paradoxical nature and symbolism of meat, seeking to show the viewer of their pieces how meat is the essence of our bodies but outside of that context holds no identity and how it also symbolic of the death that follows life, following on from what the exhibition’s curator Heide Harty calls one of the ‘seminal seminal works of sixties happening and performance art,’ Carolee Schneeman's Meat Joy performance.
Continue reading...Spiderman Scales NY Times Building For Global Warming
Friday, June 6, 2008
image via about.com Thousands of people gathered near The New York times building in Manhattan to witness two people climbing the massive skyscraper.
Continue reading...Get A $200 Bird Poo Facial
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
“Honey, think of how lucky we’re about to be! This normally costs $200!” Image from joeycrabb It seems that there’s no limit to what people will submit themselves to if you try to pass it off as “luxury”– a New York spa is offering the $216 [...]
Continue reading...$2.6m LEED-Certified New York Condo
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
It appears that way, at least: a company called Extell Development has opened sales on a LEED-certified condominiums, but with a steep price: 2.6 million dollars and up. Image from Extell Development
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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