Thanks to everyone who made it to the Collision Conference today! As I mentioned in my talk, I’m offering a challenge to those of you who what to try your hand at making Living Art, and I’d love to see what you come up with. Check back Tuesday for all the contest deets to be announced.

-Alexx

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I’m getting really interested in contextual art and these are fantastic examples. If you’ve never seen his work before, these are little scenes painstakingly painted in the street to be viewed from a specific vantage point and lens. People are encourage to interact with the painting as if the scene were real.

“I wanted to play with positives and negatives to encouraged people to think twice about everything they see” -Edgar Muller

-Alexx
Hat-tip: Eileen @ Irish Thymes

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This is Keith’s ninth video. Combining the techniques of tilt-shift and timelapse, Keith’s goal “is to present Sydney as the Model City, and help people take a second look at places that are very familiar to them.” Taking a second look is a great way to describe these works of living art. Each video has it’s own song that molds into the videos style and mood, creating a whole other world. With each new release, I see new elements being added that bring a whole new perspective to everyday life.

Check out more of his videos here.
-Andrew

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This is cool. These are images of the German government in late night talks trying to save a car company. I love the visual symbolism here. It’s as if the man lighting the cigarette is nailed to a cross, almost completely submerged in hell. Great stuff.

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We’re big fans of Obscura Digital here. Kudos to them for consistently pushing to create unique content with a big ol’ cool factor. Great job of using the projection plane (the building) to create living art.

-Alexx

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LED lights have always amazed me and they seem to be popping up as beautiful art pieces. I would love to have this Wind Activated LED display somewhere in my city at night. This was made by Jason Krugman.

“Conceptually, this project developed out of an idea to create a modular system that does not rely on a central decision making hub, such as a computer…Wind is one of the few natural phenomena that can penetrate the dense urban environment. However, we can’t see it because it needs a media to propagate through. The city, constructed of glass, steel and concrete, is intentionally rigid, not allowing nature to affect it. By purposefully adding a physical media for the wind to affect, we can make it a prominently visible feature of the urban environment, bringing natural beauty into densest urban thicket.”

-Andrew

via Kanye West

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Before traveling to Brazil, Jimmie Rodgers camoflaged his camera in hopes that it would prevent people from stealing it. Using only tape and a sharpie Jimmie made his camera ugly.

“I was able to take over 5,000 pictures with it in Brazil. I was able to follow around a number of well known graffiti artists, and you can check out some of the pics here. I was also able to go into some fairly dangerous areas, and walk out with my camera. I was even mugged a second time, and they left my camera alone, and took my $20 cell phone instead.

The reason wasn’t just the camera. It was my whole image. All my clothes I had bought in the communities, and I had little of anything on me when I went out. Speaking some Portuguese helped as well. I also NEVER took pictures of people openly (you’ll get your camera taken regardless). I don’t advocate going into the same areas I went, but try to be smart anytime you are in a place that theft is common.”

-Andrew

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I came across this on Vimeo’s staff picks the other night. I was won over immediately by the comical sound effects. The creature that resembles a dog is also so adorable I’m ashamed to like it so much. Story and sound effects aside though, Nelson has an incredible imagination and an amazing artistic style. He is very talented and he is destined for great things if he keeps it up! After a little more research into him, I found that he’s also made a couple videos without animation that also show great promise. I really hope he ends up in charge wherever he works though, because I’d love to see a movie filled with the creations from Mr. Boles mind.

-Andrew

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“I paint astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs.”

-Scott Listfield

I stumbled upon Scott’s artwork today and it automatically hits home to me just because of its digital futuristic style and pop culture references. Plus, I just really like astronauts and dinosaurs. What is really interesting about this artwork however, is that these paintings are Scott’s vision of how the future was perceived in movies from the 60s, 70s, and 80s mixed with how the ‘future’ turned out in reality.

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-Andrew

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