I’d just sit and watch the clock all day! I’m even fantasizing about flying to Dubai to do it. That’s where Stockholm-based designers Bastian Bischoff and Per Emanuelsson are exhibiting this utterly brilliant timepiece during Design Days Dubai 2013. In 2011, Bischoff and Emanuelsson came up with their first optical illusion Clock Clock – “a…
Tag Archive: environmental art
All Mediums are Huge – #2 – Anamorphic Apple Slices
The most exciting interactive art today in public and private spaces – hands down – is anamorphic art – in all its variations! Google alerts show it’s spreading across the globe like wildfire! Anamorphic art inspires with its ingenuity. The great thing about it in a down economy is that it requires next to no…
San Francisco’s Got Tunnel Vision! But Utah Started It!
Displayed in a BART station under San Francisco is a 3-D total-immersion optical illusion tunnel wrap of Utah’s Delicate Arch. Watch as commuters experience the astonishing merging of a glorious Utah desert panorama: Delicate Arch http://vimeo.com/struckinc/montgomerytunnel, as they walk between the anamorphic murals on both walls and floor and under successive slices of the Delicate…
Greenpeace’s 3D Street Art Warns About Toxic Chemicals in Our Laundry
This article, written by Amanda Coen, 03/22/12, as seen in ecouterre.com, is reproduced below in its entirety. Yes, your eyes do deceive you. Greenpeace activists conspired with Planet Streetpainting artists to create a mind-bending optical illusion at the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam on Tuesday. The occasion? The release of the environmental nonprofit’s third “Detox”…
Do Nothing for the Next 10 Minutes but Watch this Clock!
Mind-Blowing 3-D Video Mapping The following is quoted from an article by Chris Jablonski, Emerging Tech reporter for zdnet.com. “For decades, artists like Krzysztof Wodiczko have created large-scale video projections on architectural facades and monuments. These days the craft includes 3D video mapping technologies that can accurately align projected images with a building’s exterior or…
I Spy Halloween Decorations and Inspirations
Need to decorate for Halloween on a shoestring? Check out these optical illusion assemblages by artist James Hopkins. His series of compositions named “Vanitas” are comprised of household objects arranged on plain bookshelves to form images of skulls. What a clever job of seeing forms of objects (freed from their everyday use). To Hopkins, teeth…
The World Was Supposed to End Last Week.
On schedule, July 16, 2011. A grassy 3-D slant anamorphosis optical illusion globe entitled “Qui Croire?” (“Who to Believe?”), designed by French artist François Abélanet to focus attention on environmental issues, was to have been removed from in front of Paris City Hall last week. While Abélanet’s green world is probably gone, the earth’s environmental…
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