This is Fun. An interactive website designed by Josh Worth showing the scale of the universe if the moon represents only a single pixel.

via Geekology.

In 1993 Kowloon Walled City, once thought to be the most densely populated place on earth, was demolished.  The high-rise ghetto known as the “brothel of the East”,  was a labyrinth of dark corridors, interconnected dwellings and informal housing.

Prior to demolition a team of inspectors, engineers, and cultural anthropologist Hiroaki Kani, spent a considerable time surveying the city documenting every nook and cranny.

In 1997 Iwanami Shoten and Kowloon City Exploration Team published their findings in  “大図解九龍城 大型本“. It’s pièce de résistance being an amazing  cross-section panorama of the ultra-high-density space.

Explore the sketch in 4716 x 1754 detail.

via deconcrete.

via Spoon & Tamago

Congratulations to JODI for winning the inaugural Prix Net Art, an International Award for Net Art.

Explore some of their selected works curtesy of (Prix Art):

http://wwwwwww.jodi.org/(1995)

A screen of garbled green text looks like a broken website, until the viewer checks the HTML code through the browser’s ‘View Source’ function and realizes that the page is generated from a text drawing of a nuclear missile.

Geo Goo (2008)

A software-driven artwork built on Google Maps that uses “dropped pins” and other features for creating user-generated maps to create a frenetic animation.

asdfg.jodi.org (1998)

An experimental website, using randomly generated ASCII art and Javascript.

For more visit Prix Net Art. PNA is co-organized by Center for Art and Technology (CCIA), Rhizome and TASML | Tsinghua University Art and Science Media Lab.

Track: Roy’s “Acowpella Beatbox” album at: roykafri.bandcamp.com/

“Made out of love and admiration for all the musicians and visual artists who’s art we grew up listening to and staring at.”

“As a child I already had fantasies about roadsigns when I was riding my bicycle.”

– Bart Eysink Smeets via rebel:art.

Objects 1847 meters found in Helmut Smit‘s studio. Photo by Lotte Stekelenburg

extension lead 10 m

extension cord red 25 m

extension cord yellow 20 m

extension cord green 12 m

extension cord white 3 m

extension cord IKEA KOPPLA 5 m

installation wire black 100 m

rope brown 100 m

rope white 20 m

rope off white 20 m

rope IKEA blue10 m

rope black/blue/white 20 m

sisal rope 45 m

polypropylene rope yellow 45 m

polypropylene rope blue 45 m

polypropylene rope brown 45 m

flexible tube 5 m

nail band 10 m

tape measure 3 m

tape measure 30 m

iron wire 1,5mm green 25 m

iron wire 50 m

iron wire green Gamma 50 m

iron wire green Skandia 50 m

clothesline 20 m

tensioning strap orange 5 m

tensioning strap blue 4 m

stretching foil 150 m

coaxial cable 5 m

yarn 65 m

sandpaper roll kwb 5 m

sandpaper roll 5 m

electrical wire black 5 m

electrical wire white 5 m

electrical wire brown 5 m

electrical wire with switch 2 m

elastic band 10 m

thread 100 m

masons line 40 m

phone cord 2 m

iron cord 3 m

melamine edge 2,5 m

nylon thread 25 m

bandage 4 m

plaster tape 5 m

duct tape 50 m

insulating tape black 4,5 m

insulating tape brown 4,5 m

insulating tape yellow/green 4,5 m

insulating tape blue 4,5 m

insulating tape green 25 m

masking tape Elma 25 m

masking tape Tesa 50 m

12mm masking tape 50 m

masking tape purple 25 m

double sided foam tape 1,5 m

double sided carpet tape 5 m

sealing tape 5 m

aluminum tape 5 m

packing tape Scotch 66 m

packing tape Tesa 66 m

packing tape fragile 66 m

packing tape transparant Scotch 66 m

packing tape transparant Zeeman 25 m

adhesive tape 33 m

adhesive tape crystal 33 m

teflon tape 12 m

April Dauscha uses the body to investigate the ideas of morality, mourning and mortification. She looks towards costume history, traditional Catholic rituals and themes in 19th century literature to feed her obsession with transformation, reconciliation and communication through dress.