BitMAPS: Writing on the wall

Here is a great video inspired by Bitmaps which is an image made up of pixels. The simple manufacturing used to create these unique forms in the vacuum former are brilliant. The tiles created are put together as a bathroom wall surface described as "an inexpensive patterned wall" projectione.com. The negative and positive design remind be of the tactile quality found in braille writing. Writing on the wall.

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Popaganda. Less Chilling More Killing

This is work that was posted up in New York. Its anti-consumerist posters work well. In Belfast all illegal posters are painted over every couple of days leaving black rectangles all over the City. If the council put local art work or street interventions over the illegal posters it would make a big difference.

Check out some more street interventions at Popaganda.com

Below is an interesting trailer for a posters intervention film.

Architecture: Guinness Style

This Guinness advert is showing how the landscape could be changed in an instant. It is similar to the idea of the Immediate City that I was reading about recently. This version is a lot more manly with damns being built by hand, grass being pulled over mountains and cliffs being split with a hammer. Its a classic.

Star Slime on Black Mountain

I first came across star slime when I was getting a talk from a warden from the Council who worked at Black mountain. Star Slime is a white gooey jelly substance found in the countryside. It was tested in Queens and was found to be neither plant nor animal. I heard its a delcasy in Japan this might be just a urban myth. Ever since I heard of star slime I have asked different experts who might have heard of it. Know I asked could give me any information. I found these interesting links which gives some possible answers to this puzzle BBC Nature&Outdoors and BBC Scotland . Here is a new report on it http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/articles/jelly/

Pixel Building in Shanghai expo 2010

At the Shanghai Expo the Korean pavilion looks as if it has been pixelated. Really impressive work my Mass Studies studio. The symbols on each tile look amazing. Does anyone remember multilink cubes? Good Times.

DIY Manufactering

Some of my favorite projects are when I get to make real working prototypes. This flatpack roto moulder can step up quality and manufacturing possibilities. Its priced at £255 which could be seen as over priced when you could just shake your mould about for a couple of hours to get the same effect. Check out more work at Studio my first

Nazi Berlin in Donegal Street

I Was walking to the Uni of Ulster through Donegal Street yesterday and thought I had walked into Nazi Germany. There was a large Nazi poster and German street signs all put up in the space of 24hours. It looked impressive. If a real City could be transformed this easily it would be class. Guerrilla City.