Jonny Fu has been invited by London Design Festival and Nissan to participate at the East meets West Exhibition at Nissan Design Centre Europe. The event feature different artis and designer bridging the distance between easter and western culture. Jonny Fu is pulling a few old and new tricks out of the sleeves. The installation also incl. a costumized life size Jonny Fu vehicle…
Nissan Design Europe
181 Harrow Rd
London W2 6NB
United Kingdom
Opening Times:
23rd – 25th October 2009
Open daily from 1am -6pm
Transport:
Nearest Tube: Paddington Station
More Info:
www.jonnyfu.org
www.londondesignfestival.com
Heavy Artillery and its extended family are invading from all over Europe to transform the entire gallery. This means Aroe, Insa, Gary, Roid, Giroe, Twesh, Storm, Mr Wany, Gebes and Nylon.
Prescription Art Gallery
115 Church Street
Brighton
BN1 1UE
Green Day Presents: ‘The Art of Rock’ Curated By Logan Hicks
23.10.09 – 01.11.09
In November 2008 the seed for the Green Day Art Project was planted. The concept was to choose eighteen international artists to informally collaborate with GreenDay. Each artist would receive lyrics to one of the songs from the soon to be released 21st Century Breakdown.Then they would produce a piece of art that was influenced, or inspired by the lyrics of the song. Although the artists had the lyrics, they did not have the music that accompanied the words.The results from that collaboration are presented in this show.
Featured Artists:
M-CITY // MARIUSZ WARAS-MEGGS-PEAT WOLLAEGER-PISA73-RON ENGLISH-SADHU-SIXTEN-THE LONDON POLICE-WILL BARRAS-ADAM (5100) FEIBELMAN-BROKEN CROW-C215 // CHRISTIAN GUÉMY-CHRIS STAIN-COMPONENT-DABS // MYLA-EELUS-JEREMIAH GARCIA-LOGAN HICKS-LUCAMALEONTE
STOLENSPACE GALLERY
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
United Kingdom
Metropolis
New Works from Holly Thoburn & Peter Michael
22 October – 19 November 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday 22 October 6-8pm
Sesame Gallery, Upper Street, N1 0PD
Campbarbossa in association with the Sesame Gallery is pleased to announce Metropolis, an exhibition exploring London in the Facebook era – a time of virtual relationships and neglected physical environments – portrayed through the work of two artists: Peter Michael and Holly Thoburn.
Bringing these two painters together, Metropolis tells the story of how our fascination with virtual life has an inevitable impact of our physical world and relationships, and of the strange, alienating, and yet somehow character-building effects this has on its people.
The sound is sped up in the video due to the mod using a PAL rom, and the system running it at the speed of a NTSC rom.
The LaCie portable hard drive with its brushed aluminum wrapping and mirror-polished chrome finish has attained the solid look and performance even for rough handling. The designers have given it a brilliant touch of elegance which can be revealed through its status LED light that glows in orange color with the signature “+” of the manufacturer. By simply touching the chrome surface will launch an application or trigger a shortcut followed by turning the orange light into green. If you hold your touch for a little longer, the device will back up your data automatically from the desktop or notebook. Desktop LaCie hard drives come in one or two terabyte storage capacity, while the portable version features 320 GB and 500 GB capacity.
Designer : Philippe Starck
Vestige is car design proposal for Aston Martin with representative scarab wings, cooperatively driven by Fincato, Magrini and Bernardi, keeping the design similar with Khepri, the Egyptian God. The unique cutting edge outlook of the car will get added attention of people with its superb combination of sleek metallic white body along with black tinted roof along with windows. Besides, the extraordinary rims are another highlighted feature that is worth noticing during the first look. This concept vehicle comprises four electric motors and powerful Wankel engine with supercharging abilities. This supercar can house three passengers including the driver and ensures completely silent movement as a result of using silent electric motors.
Designer : Bernardi, Fincato, and Magrini
Think you had the world’s greatest treehouse as a kid? Well this guy’s got you beat. Horace Burgess’s treehouse is located somewhere near Crossville, Tennessee and stands over 97-feet tall thanks to the 80-foot white oak tree it was built around which also happens to be about 12-feet in diameter at its base. It has 11 floors, somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 to 10,000 square feet, a miniature basketball court and is held together by roughly 258,000 nails. If you can think of a better way to spend $12,000, I’d like to hear it. For more details visit usatoday.
Cardboard is a mundane material, so often cast off and thrown away or recycled – but these 12 artists have transformed it into objects that are anything but disposable. From expressive little faces made of toilet paper tubes to an entire cardboard city, these works of art range from temporary installations to durable sculptures that are imaginative and eco-friendly.
Junior Fritz Jaquet
(images via: <a href="http://En Derin.com/weird-toilet-paper-roll-sculptures-by-junior-jacquet/%20″>Village of Joy)
The lowly toilet paper roll has many surprising uses, but perhaps none are quite so full of personality as the ‘origami’ sculptures of Junior Fritz Jacquet. This paper artist paints the inner cardboard tubes from toilet paper and folds them into expressive faces, each distinct and charming despite their humble origins.
Peeta
(images via: Peeta.net)
Italian artist Peeta is renowned for his graffiti, but it’s his 3-D interpretations of his art that make him really stand out from the crowd. Cardboard is among the materials Peeta has used to transform written graffiti into complex forms that have been featured in galleries around the world.
Fantastic Norway Architecture
(images via: Arch Daily)
While living in a cardboard box is about as far from high-end architecture as it gets, a firm called Fantastic Norway Architecture managed to make hundreds of them into a unique hanging art installation. The boxes form a pixelated-looking ‘cloud’ suspended from the ceiling at the Center for Design and Architecture.
Mike Leavitt
(images via: Sneaker News)
Seattle-based artist Mike Leavitt created a series of cardboard shoes for the ‘Don’t Stop Object Shopping’ exhibition at NYC’s Fuse Gallery last April. The sculptures show what shoes like Air Jordan IVs, adidas Gazelles and Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars would look like in recyclable form.
“These are aimed at examining consumerism and the current state of the economy,” Leavitt told Arrested Motion. “I’ve found a rhythm with making them, I’m learning new fabrication tricks which I’m still excited to apply, and continue to have tons of ideas on how to expand the series.”
Jözef Sumichrast
(images via: Jozef.com)
Sculptor Jözef Sumichrast says he can’t find any inspiration in traditional artists’ materials, so he has turned to cardboard, shellac and drywall screws among other unusual media.
Of this piece, Sumichrast says, “Sometimes when I work for a couple of days without sleep fatigue sets in. These are the times when I see movement. Out of the corner of my eye a shape or undesirable object moves across the floor or falls from the ceiling. Recently… one of these shapes was a large rabbit. Though the rabbit appeared only for an instant, its image remains with me.”
“I did not want to completely refine or cast this piece. The image came and vanished so quickly that I felt it needed an unfinished appearance. The medium for “Wall Rabbit” is industrial cardboard. The use of cardboard is a backlash against technology. However, I have found that when this lowly material is sanded, it is elevated to velvet.”
Paul Orzech
(images via: PaulOrzech.com)
Artist Paul Orzech’s sculptures don’t look like they’re made of cardboard either – but that’s because they’re not, technically, though the material plays a large role in his technique. But Orzech uses strips of cardboard to form his designs before firing them in a kiln, resulting in cavities that are filled with molten bronze.
Joseph DeLappe
(images via: Instructables & Winnie Shek)
Artist Joseph DeLappe created a 17-foot-tall cardboard figure of his avatar in the video game Second Life, MGandhi Chakrabarti. In March of 2008, DeLappe and his avatar walked through Second Life for 26 days to reenact the real Ghandi’s 1930s Salt March. DeLappe used a Nordic Trak Walkfit to travel the 248-mile length of Gandhi’s original march, six hours a day for 24 days, converting his steps into those of his avatar. He provides instructions for creating the cardboard Ghandi at Instructables.
Miika Nyyssonen
(images via: Miika Nyyssonen)
Miika Nyyssonen used cardboard as the main component in his interactive Olin Hall Gallery installation ‘M the Machine’. 700 cardboard boxes were cut according to ten different models, each surface containing between one and ten square holes that provide partial views of other interior spaces and of three sets of home movies from three decades as the viewer moves within the work, simulating the workings of memory.
Ana Serrano
(images via: Reuben Miller)
The colorful and whimsical cardboard sculpture of Ana Serrano, including the pictured piece ‘Cartoonlandia’, are tiny imaginary worlds brought to life. The artist says, “Recently I’ve been working with cardboard because I find it easy to handle and manipulate, but also I like that it’s a mundane and familiar material.”
Ann Weber
(images via: Culture Vulture, Art Business)
Ann Weber’s gourds, spires, pods, Russian samovars and other figures stand as tall as 16 feet, towering over the artist herself and shining with a patina of shellac. Weber, of California, began her career as a ceramic artist but began working in cardboard in the early ‘90s, intrigued by the idea of using such mundane materials.
Shigeru Ban
(images via: Dezeen, Inhabitat)
Is cardboard strong enough to be used in real architectural structures? Shigeru Ban believes it is, and he has created several surprisingly sturdy structures to prove it. Among his creations are a bridge across the Gardon River of France and a temporary tower on the South Bank in London, both made from cardboard tubes.
Cardboard Institute of Technology
(image via: Complex)
Not to be outdone by any other artist or organization, the Cardboard Institute of Technology created an entire cardboard city called “Cardburg”, exhibited at the Cell Space gallery in San Francisco in 2008. So what, exactly, is the ‘Cardboard Institute of Technology’? It’s a group of cardboard artists who, according to their website, “pride themselves in their well-honed hot glue and box-cutting skills.”
Even More Urban Light Graffiti
Architectural light graffiti, or projection bombing, falls somewhere curiously in between.
Just as there’s more to food than pizza, there’s more to leaning towers than Pisa. These 13 slanted spires show that staying on the straight & narrow isn’t all it’s cracked up to be; though if gravity has anything to say about it, cracked up is destined to be their ultimate fate.
The Leaning Tower of Niles, Illinois, USA
(images via: Roadside UK, City-Data and Jodola)
It may sound like the title of an episode of Frasier but The Leaning Tower Of Niles actually does exist, and has done so since 1934. A half-sized twin to the mother of all leaning towers in Pisa, Italy, the Illinois tribute stands 94 ft tall and leans outward 7 ft, 4 inches. You can’t enter this tower, however, as the exterior is just a facade built to disguise what is essentially just a water tower. It does have some pretty fountains around the base, however.
The Leaning Tower of San Pietro di Castello, Venice, Italy
(images via: Slowtrav)
Venice has it’s share of leaning towers, a consequence of great age and waterlogged soil. One of the most outstanding (if not entirely upstanding) is the Leaning Tower of San Pietro di Castello. Clad in bright but heavy Istrian stone, this charming bell tower has complemented San Martino church on the Venetian island of Burano since 1463.
Tower of the Milices, Rome, Italy
(images via: Virtual Tourist and Filor91)
The Torre delle Milizie was begun in the year 1200 and finished around 1280. Originally having three stories, a great earthquake in 1348 shook the top story to pieces. The main tower, however, has remained firmly standing though it has acquired a pronounced tilt over the past 800 years. Scientists and engineers examining the approximately 150 ft. tall Torre delle Milizie say its current 1.36 degree tilt towards the north-east will increase a further degree over the next 600 years, assuming another great earthquake doesn’t finish the job before then.
The Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield, UK
(images via: Pictures Of England, Tywkiwdbi and Allposters)
The Church of St Mary and All Saints in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, has acquired many legends over the centuries to try and explain why its spire is so radically twisted. One of the more amusing purports that the spire was shocked to see a virgin getting married at the church and twisted around to get a better look. A more scientific explanation is that a shortage of skilled workers in the mid-1400s when the church was being built resulted in green, un-cured wood being used to construct the spire. When about 50 tons of lead shingles were attached to the spire, the wood couldn’t take the weight and began a slo-mo buckling from the stress.
The Greyfriars Tower, King’s Lynn, UK
(images via: James Rye, BBC and BC/West-Norfolk)
The 92 ft tall Greyfriars Tower is all that’s left of once-mighty Franciscan abbey demolished in 1538 during King Henry VIII’s purge of monasticism and dissolution of the abbeys. The tower was left standing because it was a useful landmark for seafarers – a lightless lighthouse as it were. With a current lean of 27 inches or approximately 1 degree (the Tower of Pisa leans 3.98 degrees), Greyfriars Tower was stabilized by workmen in 2006 after fears were expressed that it could collapse onto the Theatre Royal just adjacent.
Temple Church, Bristol, UK
(images via: Looking At Buildings, Archidave and ChurchCrawler)
Measured from the top, Bristol’s Temple Church leans out about 5 feet but is in no danger of toppling over. The 114 ft tall church, dating from 1312 and not completed until 1460, was built on the site of a dismantled church belonging to the Knights Templar. German bombing during World War II’s “Bristol Blitz” caused irreparable damage to the church’s interior and in 1958 the building was taken into state care by English Heritage.
Caerphilly Castle, Wales
(images via: InfoBritain, Planetware and Chronicle)
One of the medieval age’s largest and most formidable castles, Caerphilly Castle guarded the border between England and Wales while presenting a bulwark against any uprising by the Welsh. Construction on the castle was begun in 1268 by Gilbert de Clare and it was not significantly damaged until the English Civil War of the 1640’s, when one of its towers suffered a very obvious tilt. English Heritage, which now oversees the castle, has finished its restoration but decided to leave the leaning tower as is.
The Round Tower Of The Kilmacduagh Monastery, Ireland
(images via: Sacred Sites and A Student Of History)
At 110 feet, the Round Tower of the Kilmacduagh Monastery is the tallest of its kind in all Ireland. The tower, located near the town of Gort in County Galway, is smoothly finished with its entrance door opening 26 feet off the ground – a very effective refuge for the monks and their treasured religious relics when threatened by marauding Vikings (an all too common event). It’s estimated that the monastery was first established in the 7th century and the tower was built sometime in the 10th century. The tower leans outward some 1.5 feet but is in no danger of falling.
Suurhusen Church, East Frisia, Germany
(images via: Wikipedia, Solidaridad and Cafeterra)
Stated by the Guinness World Book of Records to be “the most tilted tower in the world”, the Suurhusen Church’s highest point leans at an extreme angle of 5.1939 degrees, a startling stat only mitigated by the building’s relatively modest 90 ft height. Though constructed in 1450, the church tower only began to lean in the 19th century when the marshy land it was built upon was drained. The church steeple was closed in 1975 for safety reasons but was reopened a decade later – one must assume it’s now safer than it looks.
Oldehove Church Tower, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
(images via: Holland.com, Hindrik and Dromo)
The Old Tower in Leeuwarden, Fryslan, NL, was supposed to be even taller and grander than the images above show, but after construction began in 1529 and the tower reached a certain height and weight, it began to lean and all work on it was halted in 1533. It’s probably no coincidence that the tower’s main architect, Jacob van Aaken, died 1532 – such things don’t look good on one’s resume.
Oude Kerk, Delft, the Netherlands
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The Oude Kerk (Old Church) in the Dutch city of Delft stands just over 245 feet high and leans about 6.5 feet away from vertical, quite noticable to somebody standing off to the side. Construction first began on the church in 1246 and the tower was built between 1325 and 1350. Inside the tower resides a massive bell weighing nearly 9 tons. The bell, cast in the year 1570, is only rung occasionally due to the fear of damaging vibrations but between you and I, who’d want a 9-ton bell swinging away at the top of a 245ft tall leaning tower?
Nevyansk “Falling Tower”, Sverdlovsk, Russia
(images via: Tesis-Yekaterinburg TA, Absolute Astronomy and Konstantin Grishin)
Nevyanskaya Tower leans into the chill wind coming off Russia’s Ural Mountains in the city of Sverdlovsk. Built in the first part of the 18th century, the 189 ft tall tower leans just over 7 ft out from the vertical. he tower was built by Akinfiy Demidov, an associate of Czar Peter the Great and a rumored counterfeiter – traces of gold and silver have been found in the tower’s main chimney.
Huqiu Tower, Suzhou City, China
(images via: Ironrodart, Phototravel and Good Wish Holiday)
The seven-story, 157 ft high, 8-sided Huqiu Tower was built between 959-961 on the city of Suzhou’s Tiger Hill. It didn’t start leaning until the 17th century. A curious feature of this tower is that it has no internal staircases – anyone wanting to visit the upper floors did so via the use of movable ladders. The top of the tower leans out by just over 7.5 feet, a consequence of the 7,000 ton tower being built partly on rock and partly on soil, causing 2 of the supporting columns to crack.
A new slant on architecture or a tower infernal? Beauty, even if flawed, remains in the eye of the beholder and symmetry is just one of many characteristics a noteworthy building can display.
7 Abandoned Cities and Towns of the World
Check out these urban abandonments of the post-modern world.
Oh, and sticking all sorts of things through their cheeks.
