Art

Caterina Fake is sewing a dress entirely out of labels from other clothes, and she’s soliciting raw materials for the project.

If you have any clothing you are throwing out or giving away (or even if you’re not) would you do me a favor and cut the labels out of them and send them to me? I am trying to make a dress that is contructed entirely of labels for a show at the Helen Pitt this coming spring. I’ve cut all the labels out of my own clothes, and they aren’t nearly enough. I can only make a little doll-sized dress.

Human Pacman is a project of the Mixed Reality Lab of the National University of Singapore. Players don back pack computers, VR gloves, and ‘mixed reality’ goggles which overlay virtual cookies — shown as floating spheres — on a first person view of the real world. Aided by a helper who can view the entire game board, players realise their pacman fantasies as they physically move around in a wide-area setting, eating cookies and avoiding monsters

Moving onto something a little more cultured is a gallery of amazing three dimensional footpath chalk drawings by Kurt Wenner

Woo hoo! You can now buy Nathan Jurevicius prints from the Outré Gallery. I am very tempted by ‘Cat Guru’ and ‘Blue Kitty’.
An exhibition of his fine work has also been announced entitled ‘Girls and other Scary Things Toys, Prints and Sculptures by Nathan Jurevicius’, which opens 16 January 2004 at the Outré Gallery in Melbourne. Fingers crossed it’ll be heading over to Sydney as well.

Adobe’s CS range means new software, new packaging, new name and of course new icons. Checkout the icon for Illustrator CS posted on What Do I Know.
Hmmm… pink flower = a vector illustration program. Adobe what the hell are you thinking? Okay, so it goes with new packaging, but it says nothing about what the application does. If they wanted to keep flower graphics from the packaging, then surely they could’ve done something to it to show hey, it’s a vector illustration program. Even if the flower was drawn in Illustrator, (maybe it was?), or showed node points or a pen tool, or even use the same masking technique from the packaging.
Guess I’ll have to download the tryouts just to see the rest of the bouquet. They should at least have a purple one.

Arthur Radebaugh was an illustrator who teased the world with his images of the future. A place where we would all have Rocketeer jetpacks and hover cars. And all the cool stuff came with chrome, fins and streamlining

Bizarre and artistic boots for the lady who knows how to wield a whip

What? Cinder Blue, Deep Arctic, Champagne Bubble with a dash of Newtral and a hint of Soda Green? That is so 2003. Get the new 2004 Consumer Directions Palette from the CMG (Colour Marketing Group).
Haven’t been able to find any swatches yet but shall keep you posted. Names such as Jolt, Grow, Tickle, See and Coppertunity are quite intriguing.

A window between cities that allows people hundreds or even thousands of miles apart to meet and talk in real time could make its debut in Britain next year.

Tholos, named after a type of circular ancient Greek temple, consists of a large round screen nearly 10ft high and 23ft wide. Its designers hope to see one of the first two in the world become a new tourist attraction in the centre of London.

The London Tholos would be linked to an identical one in Vienna. Through them, people in both cities will be able to see and hear each other in real time.
The cylindrical structure contains a unique technology that simultaneously transmits and receives high definition live moving images. People standing in front of London’s Tholos would see a wrap-around picture of the scene in Vienna.

At the same time, a similar London image is displayed in the Austrian capital. Citizens in both countries would be able to face each other and talk via an array of directional microphones and loudspeakers, which keep conversations private.

Effectively, it is like meeting up in the town square — except that you might be on different continents.

Given the necessary sponsors and planning permission, Tholos screens twinning London and Vienna could be up and running by the second quarter of next year. There are ambitious plans to expand the system into a network linking at least 16 European cities by 2008, and then others in North America and Asia.

Looking for bonsai accessories that are both stylish and highly amusing? The good folks at Crash Bonsai have the answer.

Feòrag, who scoffs at religious loonies, has illustrations and photos of plush Cthulhus up to no good

A global search by the Tate gallery has unearthed 500 lost works by JMW Turner. Some have never been seen in public; others have not been displayed since the death of possibly Britain’s most important painter