For months now, director/artist Marco Brambilla and Crush have been working on Civilization, a video installation for the new Standard Hotel in NYC. It was finally installed last week. Civilization, which has been installed in the elevators and is composed of over 400 video clips, takes passengers on a visual trip from Hell to Heaven, as they go up, or from Heaven to Hell, as they go down. Pictures of the installation are here along with full credits and a Q&A with Brambilla and Crush. View the complete video file here or on Vimeo.
Just launched a new site for Levine/Leavitt which includes a dream-team of designers and photographers. Some you’ll recognize, others are bound to become new cpluv favorites. Tim Bret-Day, Danny Clinch, Dimitri Daniloff, Peter Funch, Laziz Hamani, Trujillo-Paumier, Sacha Waldman, Markus Wendler, Adam Larson, Alex Trochut, Anthony Burrill, Brosmind, Graphic Therapy, and Si Scott.
If you look at one thing today, it should be this image. just dont do it while the boss is near.
It looks like the urban park of our dreams is officially open to the public:
Just moments ago, we stood with Mayor Bloomberg, Speaker Quinn, Borough President Stringer, Congressman Nadler, and other leaders and supporters and cut the ribbon on the High Line, officially opening the first section to the public. This historic day is the culmination of ten years of advocacy, planning and construction, and weâre so grateful to everyone who has helped make this opening possible.read more…
It’s truly inspiring to see such an undertaking actually come to fruition, from the unveiling of the design and those gorgeous early renderings by DS+R and Field Operations through all the planting/building (I’ve been following this religiously over the past year or so) by Friends of the High Line up to today with Section 1 being open, it’s definitely something for the city to be immensely proud of. I for one will be heading to NYC as soon as possible to check it out, and can’t wait to see how it evolves. via High Line Blog
Murmur Study
A live Twitter visualization and archive.
Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise
An immersive video installation featuring over 5000 video diaries found on the internet.
Christopher Baker is an artist whose work engages the rich collection of social, technological and ideological networks present in the urban landscape.
Manuel Vason was born in Padova Italy in 1974. Whilst studying at the University of Social Science, Padova, he decided to become a photographer and moved to Milan. There he worked for two years as a studio assistant at Industria Superstudio. In 1998 he moved to London and whilst assisting some of the most highly regarded photographers in the fashion industry he started the project âExposureâ a publication on Live Performance Art (Black Dog Publishing, 2001). In September 2003 He graduated from Central Saint Martins with an MA in Fine Art.
