Martin John Callanan's "A Planetary Order"

This image shows 3D computer model and not the finished globe

Martin John Callanan has created A Planetary Order (Terrestrial Cloud Globe) as part of his residency at University College London's Environment Institute.

Callanan writes:

A Planetary Order is a terrestrial globe showing clouds from one single moment in time, thereby subtly highlighting the fragility and interdependence of the Earth’s environmental systems.

The launch party for A Planetary Order and Extraordinary Clouds (a book by Richard Hamblyn, the writer-in-residence at the Institute) is today (June 30th) in the University College London's main quadrangle at Gower Street at 6:30 pm.


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Mike Patterson's "Commuter"

Commuter (1981), Mike Patterson

Commuter is the Student Academy Award winning animation by Mike Patterson. Patterson is the animator behind Ah-Ha's groundbreaking Take On Me music video.

If you haven't already seen it, the "literal" version of Take On Me is worth a few chuckles: "Band Montage!"

[via BBV]

TPG: Stephanie Dean's "Still Life with Strawberries"

Still Life with Strawberries (edition of 50) by Stephanie Dean is the latest offering by The Present Group.

The Present Group is an art subscription service--subscribers receive 4 contemporary artworks per year. Benjamin Rosenbaum and my Anthroptic was TPG's premiere issue.

Stephanie on the Modern Groceries Series:

I am creating a series of still life photographs focusing on the way our purchased food is packaged and consumed. By setting common foods in their packaging and labeling direct from the grocery store into traditional nature mort compositions, our most common and necessary items of life -- food -- are jolted into historical focus. The viewers’ various degrees of knowledge of Dutch still life paintings will be the measure by which the photographs will either found or further the perceived rift between ourselves and nature, and ourselves and our food sources.

DIY residencies in DIY stores

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tout terrain

matin d'automne

Paul Souviron and Antoine Lejolivet's Encastrable series is guerrilla art "residencies"/interventions at Paris-area megastores--mainly Home Depot like places. The artists create amusing tableaus using the materials stocked by the store.

[via WWMNA]

Story that takes 1,000 years to read

Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats responds to the hyper-fast media cycles by writing a story that will take a millennium to tell.

His story is printed on a the cover of Opium Magazine. When exposed to the sun's ultraviolet light, the words will become visible at the rate of one word per century. Of course, that rate is subject to variation based upon the eroding ozone layer (or taking an ultraviolet lamp to it).

[via Wired via Jason Kottke]

Jamie O'Shea's "3:2"

9:40 am Jan 9 (2:30 am Jan 11) double exposure, actual time vs imagined time

Jamie O'Shea writes:

3:2 was an experiment in time travel. On Jan 01 2008 at 12:00 am central, I sealed myself in a room with a slow clock, artificial day and night, and delayed internet. I remained in this artificial time warp until January 19th your time, or January 13th my time. I am now living forever in the future.

last bit of sunlight as room is sealed off

Artificial Sun and Delayed Outside feed

The Small Glass (after Duchamp)

It was an inadvertent intervention... but I like it (and it does still work).