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The man behind the masking tape

Tokyo-based PingMag introduces the world to the art of Shuetsu Sato. He’s a guard at Tokyo’s largest train station but sometimes he constructs huge signs directing the passengers where they need to go. He makes the letters for these signs out of masking tape.
His transient tape art became so popular that film artist collective TrioFour [...]

Images from water drops.

Bitfall is:
a physical water sculpture with 128 synchronized magnetic valves, so that a wall of falling water drops can be perceived as a graphical bitmap matrix. a computer application selects currently popular keywords from news websites, & displays them on the transparent ‘information curtain’. the ‘information flow’ metaphor literally demonstrates the dynamic & ever-changing character [...]

A Monocle video report from Murmansk

Monocle’s Shaun Walker reports on the revival of Murmansk [wiki, map]. In the wake of the Cold War, the far-north Russian naval port went south; it seems to be doing much better now.

Video: Urban Sensing, Social Networking, And The Third Thing

From YouTube’s Google Channel: Urban Sensing, Social Networking, And The Third Thing.

Dérive

Dérive is a way of experiencing the city, put forth by philosopher Guy Debord, who said:
In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain [...]

“Oh, Christ” is the new “Don’t tase me, bro.”

“Oh, Christ” is the new “Don’t tase me, bro.”