This has to be my favorite Improve Everywhere stunt. Getting over 200 people to stand perfectly still for five minutes in Grand Central Station, NY. The participants really got creative with the frozen moments that they created, and by the looks of it must have really freaked out the people that were not in on the stunt.
This is quite frankly speaking, one of the most moving and spectacular things I think I have ever seen! I can't believe that this passed my by, as it took place in London about 18 months ago. If you have not seen it, watch the YouTube video below and be amazed.
This epic street theatre featuring gigantic puppets was entitled 'The Sultans Elephant' and is the fifth in a series of works that have enchanted crowds across cities worldwide. Performed by the Royal de Luxe theatre company
The girl genuinely seems to take on a life of her own, and is disturbingly realistic at times. When she moves and looks towards the child sat swinging on her arm I was blown away. These guys really know how to 'animate', and to do so on such an epic scale is awe inspiring.
The music featured in the video is Decollage by Les Balayeurs Du Desert, and can be bought here from iTunes.
More spectacular images of the event can be seen on the Flickr page of Simon Crubellier. I have used his photo's here in this post.
More information can be found on the official site, or from the Wikipedia entry.
The Little Bird project was initiated by Daniel Arendt and Christian Lindemann, graphic designers working in Germany, who asked illustrators worldwide to contribute an illustration of a 'little bird'. Apart from the weath of really cool submissions, the project's blog site of submissions is a great location to find cool illustration talent, especially as the subject matter means that the illustrators can easily be compared amongst each other.
The submissions can be seen online here. You can also by a poster containing all of the works, with a large cut of the profits going to UNICEF
I do not know if this project was run by the same guys as 'Bunny'. If you did not see the Bunny project, run on occassion of the Pictoplasma character design conference, Check this out. The same concept as 'Little Bird', but...yes you guessed it with rabbits!
Here are some of my favorite 'little birds'.
Marcos Zerene aka FormatBrain
Cecymeade
Sandra Schmalz
Eliane Mancera
Just got back from Florence where I was a part of the team that put on this show. It was great fun! Enjoy!
Faile yesterday announced their first solo show in New York City that will take run from Thursday, June 7th to Sunday, June 10th. It will feature only works on canvas and wood. Faile also announced that they will also be releasing new prints sometime in August.
The location will be announced the evening before the show via the Faile site
Pervasive Animation - Location: Tate Modern
Friday 2 to Sunday 4 March 2007
Animation has an unlimited potential to visually represent events, scenarios and forms that have little or no relation to our experience of the 'real' world. Implemented in many ways, in many disciplines, it is increasingly influencing our perception and experience of the world we live in.
Especially since the digital shift, the uses of animation are no longer exclusive to cinema, and animation's origins in pre-cinematic optical experiments through avant-garde experimental film continue to evolve in fascinating ways. Artists increasingly incorporate animation in installations and exhibitions, architects use computer animation software to create narratives of space in time, and scientists use it to interpret abstract concepts for a breadth of industries ranging from biomedicine to nanoworlds. Pervasive Animation provides a dynamic international forum to explore animation's myriad forms and applications across a wide band of creative and professional practice.
The conference's contributors include Norman Klein, Michael Snow, Vivian Sobchack, Tom Gunning, Anthony McCall, George Griffin, Suzanne Buchan, Beatriz Colomina, Edwin Carels, Siegfried Zielinski, Lisa Cartwright, Johnny Hardstaff and Esther Leslie.
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Neil Boorman will burn all of this branded possesions on Sept 17th, London. His blog documents the build up to this drastic moment in his life - and naturally fuels the promotion of the event and subsequent book of the event.
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