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- Glass Flower Pot
Botanists have secrets and we must learn them. Did you know some plants perform better when their roots are directly exposed to sunlight? A common example is the popular orchid. Every time I buy one, it dies within weeks. The Life Pot is a clear glass container that shows subsoil growth. That plant’s roots become part of the sculptural element. Don’t worry about breaking it because it’s made from Pyrex glass.
- Dimensions: 150 x 150 x 170 mm
- Material: Pyrex Glass
- Distribution: Sotanosiete
Designers: Jomi Marco & Josep Armengol
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nuralt's shared items in Google Reader - Patchwork Orange: Art of Fixing Buildings with LEGO Blocks [ Filed under More or in the Installation Art category ]
A missing brick here and chipped stone there show the normal marks of wear and tear on the structures and streets of a city, but filling them in with multi-colored LEGO bricks makes them stand out in sharp relief with their surroundings – especially in a place like Berlin.
Titled ‘Dispatchwork’ (a linguistic play on ‘dispatching’ and ‘patching’ the holes), this is part urban art installation, part historical highlighting (since many of the gaps date back to World War II) and part method of calling attention to buildings that could use some help.
Jan Vormann has been toying with LEGO pieces for a long time in various artistic capacities – as well as infilling structural holes with mirrors and other attention-getting materials.
It may look haphazard at first, but there is an art to the process: identifying gaps is naturally subjective, and filling them in is both a creative and crafty act that can involve turning corners and working with existing structural details.
He started this project himself but (surprise!) many people stopped and signed themselves up to lend a hand when they saw what he was doing, grasping handfuls of LEGOs to help fill building voids and remodel life-sized brick-less spaces with miniature toy bricks of many colors.
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nuralt's shared items in Google Reader - There will always be funny T-shirts like this one;
Even if there are more advanced ways of communication.
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nuralt's shared items in Google Reader - Psst. Wanna Buy The Batman BatPod?A 1:1 replica of the famous Batman BatPod motorcycle is on sale. A mere US$100,000 will get you this monster.
But you've got to supply the guns, and it's not even street legal.
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