Below, I’ve included a news story featuring the”Inflatable Bag Monsters” series of installations, by Joshua Allen Harris (via John Nack On Adobe).
For the series, Harris created various creatures using garbage bags and tape, and situated the creatures above subway exhaust grates throughout downtown New York city, causing the monsters to come to life.
Matthew Taylor has been the Chief Executive of The Royal Society For The Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, also known as The RSA, since 2006. Prior to his relatively new, and prestigious position, he was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister of England.
In his latest presentation for the RSA, which has been featured below, Taylor “explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today, and the role that can be played by organizations such as the RSA.”
What I found most interesting about Taylor’s presentation was his explanation of the three logics, wherein he describes 21st century society as being defined by three very complex schools of thought/logic — “the logic of science and technology”, “the logic of markets”, and “the logic of bureaucracy”.
Not only are these three logics very complicated, and overlap and interact with one another numerous times within the human project ( — human society as a whole), but Taylor claims that they more often than not are independent of a necessary fourth logic — the logic of humanism.
“Rationality can tell us how best to get from A to Z, but without ethical reasoning, we cannot discuss where A to Z should be.”
It seems as a whole, we have learned little from Kant, Mill, and many other great moral thinkers.
Feel free to watch “21st Century Enlightenment” below, and more information on Matthew Taylor and The RSA can be found here:
Do yourself a favor and download some G.O.O.D music by one of Kanye West’s incredibly talented proteges, Big Sean, featuring well-known DJ and producer, Don Cannon.
More information on Big Sean and Don Cannon can be found below, in addition to some video footage of the musician’s recent performance at Rock The Bells:
“The Greatness” by Yi Zhou “utilizes complex 3D modeling software to re-create the face of Pharrell Williams onto a vase inspired by surrealist masks and Greek-style urns.
The films premise follows the progression and eventual degradation of the vase to represent death.
Music for the short film was created by Oscar-winning composer, Ennio Morricone who lends a special sound of mystery.
The film, “The Greatness” will be unveiled at Yi Zhou’s upcoming exhibition titled “I Am Your Simulacrum” which is a retrospective show dating back to 2006.”
“The Temple of A Thousand Bells” is an impressive installation that was created by Laura Belém, and it features a thousand handmade bells which were fabricated by the artist herself.
The installation is accompanied by a narration and original music, and the artist describes her piece as “a work able to touch the “inner being” of the visitors, its heart and soul, something that we shared of universal way and without geographic nor cultural limits. Also I am interested in altering or creating new levels of perception in this public space of Liverpool.”
You can view “The Temple of A Thousand Bells” below (via Design You Trust and Moonward), and more of Laura Belém’s work can be viewed here:
The giant pool is essentially the physical manifestation of Beernaerts’ vision of “a giant indoor diving complex, full of underwater tunnels and chambers.”
“An almost Byzantine maze was what Beernaerts had in mind, and that’s essentially what “Nemo 33″ is. The type of pool you can get lost in if you’re not careful.”
The “33″ featured in the pool’s name exists because the pool’s temperature is always set to 33 degrees celsius, and also because it has a depth of 33 meters.
“Nemo 33″ is one of the most interesting pieces of water-based architecture in the world, and it appears to be one of the most versatile and colossal artificial training grounds for scuba divers in existence.
“Since 2004, over 100,000 divers have visited “Nemo”.
Two videos of the giant pool, as well as images by underwater photographer, Michel Braunstein can be found below (via This Blog Rules).
Check out “The Triangle” — a great presentation by Michael Moschen, wherein the artist employs the use of three balls and a triangle to create a musical and visual piece (via Like Cool).
