A French Hotel Room Half Covered In Graffiti

Christopher Jobson | Art and design | February 29, 2012

Graffiti artist Tilt has just finished this colour feast, this eye-popping interior design work for the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille, France. The hotel has five rooms that it reconceptualizes on an annual basis by artists and designers. In this room, called Panic Room, the artist divided the room perfectly down the middle and covered one half in his trademark vibrant and bubbly graffiti and left the other stark white.

Why not take a sneak peek of all five concepts including a room by artist Philippe Baudelocque who draws fantastic illustrations of animals using chalk.

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John Steinbeck’s Six Tips For The Aspiring Writer And His Nobel Prize Speech

Mike Springer | Book reviews and writers | February 29, 2012

John Steinbeck - whose great novel, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’, gave voice to the dispossessed – would have been 110 years old on the 27th February. In this video clip from 1962 Steinbeck receives the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.’ In the same year Steinbeck wrote to a friend with the following six tips for the aspiring writer as he said;

The following are some of the things I have had to do to keep from going nuts
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Amazing Surreal Art Building Photography By Victor Enrich

The Creators Project | Art and design | February 29, 2012

These surreal art photographs of imaginary buildings by artist Victor Enrich are not unlike the work of Filip Dujardin whose digitally manipulated buildings I posted up for you last week. This work is slightly different in that they’re more surreal and outlandish. Both are equally fantastical and worth looking at in detail. If only you could take a walk around inside them.

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Incredible Earth Size Tornadoes On The Sun

Dan Colman | Life in a cultural petri dish | February 29, 2012

Have a look at this video of solar storms on the sun – a phenomenal natural cosmic event. In early February NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory beamed back these incredible images of the sun’s plasma moving violently around the star’s magnetic field. It went on for over 30 hours creating a tornado as large as the Earth itself with gusts reaching up to 300,000 miles per hour.

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Rules And Advice For Wives From The 1920s

Shaun Usher | Life in a cultural petri dish | February 29, 2012

In 1923, the Legal Aid Society of New York City published advice to wives about their menfolk as a list. Here are the ten things you must keep in mind about your other half;

Don’t be extravagant. Nothing appeals more strongly to a man than the prospect of economic independence

Keep your home clean. Nothing is more refreshing to the eyes of the tired, nerve-racked worker than the sight of a well-tidied home

Do not permit your person to become unattractive. A slovenly wife makes a truant husband

Do not receive attention from other men. Husbands are often jealous and some are suspicious without cause. Do not supply the cause. Friendly attentions from others may be received in a spirit of perfect innocence. When reported by the busy-body they become distorted, often criminal

Do not resent reasonable discipline of children by their father. Mothers should not assume that all chastisement of a child by his father is severe and unjustifiable

Do not spend too much time with your mother. You may easily, in such a way, spend too little time at home

Do not accept advice from neighbors, or even stress too greatly that of your own family. Think for yourself. Have a plan of your own for solution of home problems. In all causes consult freely with your husband

Do not disparage your husband

Smile. Be attentive in little things. An indifferent wife is often supplanted by an ardent mistress

Be tactful. Be feminine. Men, in the last analysis, are but over-grown children. They do not mind coaxing, but they resent coercion. Femininity attracts and compels them. Masculinity in the females repels
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Tree Sculptor In North Yorkshire Is Sadly Identified

Christopher Jobson | Art and design | February 28, 2012

Recently, in a wooded area in North Yorkshire in the UK, three sculptures were found carved into a number of felled trees by an unknown artist. As you can see they are not the work of an amateur, rather they’re beautifully made and realised by someone with alot of skill. Once found the papers began to label the work ‘ guerrilla style’ (I hate that expression) and soon began looking for the artist. Not that it was hard to find him.

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Tilt Shift Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

Christopher Jobson | Film and animation | February 28, 2012

Seeing as we’re in between Carnival (which is always on in the lead up to Shrove Tuesday) and the St. Patrick Celebrations I thought this would be an opportune time to bring you this video by Keith Loutit and Jarbas Agnelli. It’s a tilt shift video that was shot during the 2011 Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro and – due to the tilt shift technique - turns this annual spectacle into a delightfully miniaturized version that could be what happens when a kids bedroom gets turned into a wild party when everyone has gone out

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A Vertical Urban Farming Greenhouse In Sweden

The Creators Project | Film and animation | February 28, 2012

Scientists expect there to be approximately nine billion people living on Earth by 2050. Most will be living in urban environments which are becoming more polluted and populated everyday while climate change is casting an increasingly problematic shadow over the future of our planet. In the midst of this architects are beginning to look for long term solutions to these problems.

In Milan, Stefano Boeri is working on the World’s first vertical forest and in Linkoping, Sweden, Plantagon and engineering firm Sweco have been working on a vertical farming greenhouse. It’s called the World’s first Plantagon Greenhouse for Urban Agriculture and is a possible solution to the problems we all face when it comes to producing food in a sustainable way. It’s designed to grow low maintenance green vegetables – meaning they won’t need to be transported miles to the consumer – and filter air of pollutants from any nearby factories.

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Jim Henson Pilots The Muppet Show with Adult Episode, ‘Sex and Violence’

Mike Springer | Film and animation | February 28, 2012

In the early 1970s, Jim Henson was worried that the Muppets were being typecast as only children’s entertainment. So in December of 1974 he produced a pilot episode for ‘The Muppet Show’ and gave it a name that was about as far away from ‘Sesame Street’ as you could get. It was called ‘Sex and Violence’.

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Playing Music And Turntables Without Records

The Creators Project | Everything about music | February 28, 2012

Japanese musician and composer Otomo Yoshihide has followed in the footsteps of John Cage with his Ensemble series in which he plays with turntables – deriving music from them without ever placing a record on the plate.

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Glorious Food Is The Theme Of This Months Brownbread Mixtape

brownbreadmixtape | Life in a cultural petri dish | February 27, 2012

Skills exchange member Kalle Ryan is hosting the wonderful ‘Brownbread Mixtape’ this coming Wednesday 29th February at The Stag’s Head pub, Dublin. The theme for this month is my favourite subject, ‘Food’, and will be MCed by Kalle Ryan and co – hosted by resident sound man Enda Roche. There’s a fantastic line up with a mixture of spoken word, music and comedy.

The following brilliant performers will be on the lineup:

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Quasi Object Photography Explores Nature Using Unnatural Methods

The Creators Project | Photography | February 27, 2012

lorenzo oggiano microscopic photography

Yes they’re a bit disgusting looking, as are most microscopic photographs, however, the difference between your average close up of an ant head or the cellular structure of a beetle and what you see here are that artist Lorenzo Oggiano has created these images. They’re not real. They’re what he calls Quasi-Objects; a collection of 3D generated videos and pictures he has been creating since 2003. He calls the process ‘organic re-design’. A reference to the microcosmic worlds of science and nature.

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Inspirations: A Short Film Celebrating the Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher

Dan Colman | Film and animation | February 27, 2012

Most of us are familiar with the work of Dutch graphic artist and mathematician M.C.Escher. He is most famous for his so-called impossible structures such as; Ascending and Descending (see above), Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky and Water I or Reptiles.

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Paradise Parking: Vintage Cars Reclaimed by Nature

Christopher Jobson | Art and design | February 27, 2012

These eerie images from the series, ‘Paradise Parking ‘by photographer Peter Lippmann are almost a study, an exploration of the remains of human existence – as if are no longer here, gone, disappeared off the face of the planet, nature having taken over technology.

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Jean-Luc Godard Films The Rolling Stones Recording ‘Sympathy for the Devil’

Dan Colman | Film and animation | February 27, 2012

In 2008, Martin Scorsese brought the Rolling Stones to film in his documentary, ‘Shine a Light’ but 40 years previous another giant of modern cinema had a similar idea. Jean-Luc Godard, one of the founders of New Wave French cinema, directed ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ during the political upheavals of the summer of 1968.

The film is part rockumentary, part advertisement for left-wing ideals that were alive at the time. In the video below Godard takes you inside the recording sessions of the Rolling Stones’ classic song and as the clip goes on you can see the song unfold.

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