From the official Blox website:
What are Bloxes?
Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight .
Check out their website for more information.
Rhizome has rolled out a great redesign of its website. This example of artwork by Nathan Selikoff is derived from mathematical formulas.
The San Francisco Emotion Map is a project brought to us by Christian Nold and sponsored by Southern Exposure.
Here's how it worked: 98 participants walked around the Mission District in San Francisco. Each participant wore a Bio Mapping device which recorded the wearer’s Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), an indicator of emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. The volunteers also made comments into recording devices as they explored the neighborhood.
By plotting GSR in relation to geography, Nold produced an “emotion map” that highlights points of high and low arousal. Nold has constructed maps that
provide a powerful visual image demonstrating how specific locations are experienced by members of that community.
(via SprogBlog)
A baby the shape of the moon
Hangs by its ear from a tree,
Illuminates the ground with soft
Coos of blue light.
What kind of world,
Where the sky abandons
Such a sound leaking from the knees
Bending over a nervous fire.
What kind of hand,
To crawl like kudzu up and down
These walls, where inside
Warm regions flower mice
And spider the corners
With resonant threads.
History repeats itself in the shape
Of black trousers joined at the legs.
In the pockets, gravity circles
Bulging at the sight of light,
Splitting at the seams,
Bearing a twin to describe itself--
A sum of sounds; night swallowing
Night, curling into a ball
And falling asleep
Sucking its milky thumb.
by Gary Joseph Cohen
published in Isotope
Collaborations between artists of different media are often among the most exciting art around. I was really happy when I first discovered "Cartoon Physics," a series of comic strips that combine poetry by Nick Flynn and graphic art by Josh Neufeld.
Another project that Flynn and Neufeld created together is called Father Outside. It's really stunning, in my humble opinion.
