Home-improvement fun: Sherwin-Williams’s animated “Paint Chips” videos.
See additional campaign components at if it’s hip, it’s here.
[another hat-tip to @Schwartzie14]
How the judging works on Bravo's 'Work of Art.' →
(via cmonstah)
furniture from Saba Italia
‘Designer Tim Durfee has produced what he calls “Storyboard,” a book-storage unit and chair built from a geometrically simple combination of reclaimed pine boards and a 40’-long nylon strap.’ BLDGBLOG: Storyboard
THX: Codrin from Vancouver
Make your own Damien Hirst!!!
iartistlondon has kits that give you everything you need to make your own masterpieces. So many to choose from, Emin, Banksy, even Mark Quinn’s bloody portrait! I would love the Quinn, but I know that I would accidentally melt it by knocking it out of my freezer when I was grabbing some ice cream. Not a mess I would like to clean up.
From iartistlondon’s Web site:
CONTENTS: PLASTIC HUMAN SIZE SKULL, CRYSTAL BEADS (8,601 PIECES), GLUE, PAINTBRUSH, TWEEZERS, SILVER PAINT, INSTRUCTIONS.
[Patience not included.]
Today’s diversion – Architecture meets dance :: Calatrava at New York City Ballet
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava designed four new sets, including this one, for NYCB’s Architecture of Dance festival, under way through June 27.
After opening night, Calatrava said something remarkable about his experience with the company. He enjoyed the collaboration, of course. But he was also deeply impressed by the old-fashioned narrative and symbolic aspects of ballet. In other words, he seemed to have engaged with the very things that many critics would say he has banished from his architectural work, which is consistently white, orderly and abstract. The world of ballet enticed him with things that are messy, ornamental, human and histrionic. When asked if this will affect his architecture, he said yes. That could be a radical change in direction for the architect.
The $600 billion challenge -- Fortune Magazine →
This is so cool.
This Fortune story is the best one I’ve read so far about the Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge challenge.
More about the pledge effort here.