The Jellyfish theatre is constructed entirely from recycled materials including pallets and water cooler containers.Its a project by artist and architect Martin Kaltwasse and Folke Kobberling in collaboration with the Red Room film and theatre company.
There’s more info at Oikosproject.com and an article on the Guardian’s website here.
Site Gallery have a new online media player where audio from their archive is available. At the moment it is in Beta with a limited amount of material accessible. They are working on digitising more material from the archive.
A photo of a partially buried keyboard in a computer dump in Ghana. It is taken from a slideshow on the New York Times website.
“In Agbogbloshie, a slum in Accra, the capital of Ghana, adults and children tear away at computers from abroad to get at the precious metals inside. Copper is perhaps the most desirable, then brass, then aluminum, then zinc. At the dump, the machines are dismantled and often burned to extract metals for resale. The equipment in this digital cemetery come mainly from Europe and the United States, sometimes as secondhand donations meant to reduce the “digital divide” — the disparity in computer access between poor nations and rich.
Update: The photographer is Pieter Hugo
This animated image shows a structure called a hyperboloid of one sheet. It is a curved form made up of only straight lines and is one of several strucutre discussed in this blog post by “Miss Cellania” (via boingboing).
Curated by Patrick T. Murphy, Director of the Royal Hibernian Academy, the show brings together for the first time work made in a variety of media by Tadhg McSweeney, Paul McKinley, Maria McKinney and Niall de Buitléar. The exhibition showcases paintings, drawings and sculptural works made by the Irish Residential Studio Artists and highlights the value of the Award as a catalyst for the subsequent development of their practices at an important point in their careers.
Preview Thursday, 15 July 2010, 6 to 8pm
Continues until 21 August
Trailer for “William Eggleston in the Real World” documentary
Winston Eggleston on his father’s work.
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