Posts tagged Objects
What do you do with expired or otherwise unwanted credit cards?
Kristal Romano turns them into wearable art.
wrong way, 2013
digital photograph
Robin Antar: The woman who makes me wish food were made out of stone… instead of
edibleperishable ingredients…her realistic food sculptures in stone merge traditional techniques with contemporary imagery… its awesome…
Robin Antar: The woman who makes me wish food were made out of stone… instead of
edibleperishable ingredients…her realistic food sculptures in stone merge traditional techniques with contemporary imagery… its awesome…
Chopcycle riders, from the Bruce Pascal Collection of Rare, Unusual and Prototype Hotwheels
Everyday rubbish fabricated entirely from paper
Untitled Project: ANY THING YOU WANT is a fascinating new undertaking from friend of Significant Objects Conrad Bakker.
Bakker has made hand-carved versions of a variety of objects and products — see his site — and that practice continues here with an interesting twist: He will make a hand-carved version of something you used to own:
The world is filled with things. Things that are made, things that are bought and sold, things that are collected and displayed, things that are hidden or lost, things that will all eventually disappear.
These things reveal themselves to us through their uses and their physical matter, but also through their absences. Consider that pocketknife lost while camping, that coveted designer handbag that was never purchased, the classic rock album thrown away by a careless parent, or that dog-eared copy of Walden that was lent to a friend who has yet to give it back. These unavailable things have the capacity to generate a provocative negative space in our daily lives that can slowly turn into a demanding absence.
Untitled Project: ANY THING YOU WANT is designed to help fill your empty space of longing with a real, hand-carved and painted sculpture, a tangible simulation of that specific thing you want. This simulated thing will stand in for and point to the very thing you want even as it foregrounds the absence of the real thing. This project is positioned somewhere between a custom carved/painted sculpture-to-order service and a surrogate replacement agency for lost or missing things. In every way, Untitled Project: ANY THING YOU WANT provides us with an extended opportunity to think about things.
More here: Untitled Project: ANY THING YOU WANT (pdf)And/or here: UNTITLED PROJECT: ANY THING YOU WANT
George Maciunas “Flux Smile Machine” c 1970
A gag that forces you to smile, or rather to makes an awful grimace, “making it an atavistic and threatening gesture directed against bourgeois society.”
A two-legged stool, a lamp on a pole that turns on when lifted, a broom with two handles and a brush with very long hair. The objects made by Köppen have recognizable parts but their function is unknown.
“By ridding objects of a predetermined ‘perfect’ function, we can be free to discover them and rediscover ourselves in the process. … I have sought a way for individuals to start afresh and redefine themselves by reshaping the things around them.”
Royal College of Art student Gabriele Meldaikyte has designed a set of interactive exhibits for a museum of iPhone gestures
“There are five multi-touch gestures forming the language we use between our fingers and iPhone screens,” says Meldaikyte. “This is the way we communicate, navigate and give commands to our iPhones.”
She used wood and acrylic to make five 3D objects that recreate the physical actions required to operate a touch-screen smartphone, using newspaper clippings, book pages and paper maps to represent the data being manipulated.
From the exhibition Soviet Design 1950-1980’s at the Moscow Design Museum
An exploration of tangible vs. virtual in relation to real and perceived value. Using Google Image Search, the designers browsed through some of the most expensive and often famous jewelry in the world, and the resulting low-res images were stolen, doctored, then transfered to leather, creating a tangible new incarnation.
Stolen Jewels by mike and maaike
Via Book of Joe
From a holeless cheesegrater to a double-heeled stiletto, artist Jeremy Hutchison has created a range of dysfunctional products as a comment on global consumption.
More: Erratum: the luxury brand mass producing objects that don’t work | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Here’s the trailer, which seems impossible to embed, and that’s too bad.
Artist Robert Wechsler creates amazing sculptural cubes by joining pennies in perfect orientation to one another…more
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