Via utnereader:
Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Tree of Codes, that crosses literature with visual art.
Love the execution of book as sculptural object.
I suspect this is one book that may not translate well to an iPad or another e-reader. ;)
This an interesting partnership: Hipstamatic and The Dali Museum, offering the “Dali Museum GoodPak.”
Proceeds from sales of the “GoodPak” benefit the new museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, which is slated to open 1-1-11. In conjunction with the opening, the museum is encouraging Hipstamatic users to submit surreal photos for consideration in a contest "curated" by filmaker/artist John Waters. Finalists’ pics will be displayed at the opening event.
Via keiren-smith:
Via bookshelves:
El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Converted from a theatre.
Oh.Oh.Oh. I want to go to there.
Bookshelf-of-the-week.
Via architizer:
A house carved out of a former church in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The wood-framed church was built in 1930; it had fallen into a disrepair and was converted into a mechanic’s garage before a family with two small children hired Ruud Visser to make over the space.
More details on Architizer.
“Over the past year, an increasing number of classical musicians have been launching into unannounced performances in marketplaces and transit hubs — and videos of these impromptu concerts have reached a wide audience on the internet.”
“So what drives musicians to do this? At the heart of it is the pure satisfaction of making mischief and surprising people. But for most artists, the goal is to bring classical music to people who wouldn’t otherwise hear it. Sometimes, as in the case of the video above, it’s to promote an "official” performance. Other times, there’s no profit involved, and musicians just want to reignite the spirit of fun and improvisation that was behind the music in the first place.“
(via Out Of The Concert Hall, Into The Street: Random Acts Of Classical Music : Deceptive Cadence : NPR)
The sounds of a vegetable orchestra from Austria. I liked the music so much more than I expected to. Click through to see a video.
Musicians playing with their food (and serving post-performance vegetable soup)! The video’s worth watching just to see how the “instruments” are drilled/cut/manipulated to make them playable.
For additional information, visit The Vegetable Orchestra’s Web site.
“I thought that perhaps if people ran into poetry on the streets, if poetry was paired with something eye-catching … then maybe I could persuade them that literature and art can speak to them directly and viscerally.”