Starchitecture

The husband finally has a website that displays his gorgeous architectural designs. I'm sure that he's up for quite a career.

Statistics as art

Chris Jordan transforms abstract statistical figures into compelling peices of contemporary art:

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books.

(Thanks to Michael Sengpiel)

Gregor Schneider cube Hamburg

A family event called me back into my hometown Hamburg over the weekend. The spae between the Galerie der Gegenwart and the Kunsthalle currently hosts Gregor Schneider's "Cube Hamburg, 2007" - a massive black cube that was banned from the biennale in Venice because organizers feared it might provoke islamic extremists responses due to its similarity with the Kaba in Mekka. Although I was told that the artist denied any intentional similarity during the presentation of his work, I consider the resemblance as quite striking. I really liked it.

Anarchic collaborative LED art

What a neat idea: Instead of vandalizing the walls next to your favorite section of your train ride to work/university/whereever with pointless graffitti, you can you channel your artistic aggession into something much more subtle: LED throwies! The Web 2.0 version of grafitti. An LED throwie is a little glowing LED with a battery and a magnet attached to it. You can build one yourself (instructions here) for less than 1 EUR apiece. The idea is build hundreds of them, to wait until nighttime, grab some friends and toss them to metal surfaces. Anarchic collaborative LED art. Batteries last for 1-2 weeks depending on the color of the LED.