This spot for Czech automaker Skoda’s new crossover SUV is a beautifully done ad. The ads features Glass harp player Petr Spatina (check out his website here.) It is interesting and captivating. While automobiles and glass harp players seem unrelated, the ad ties them together with ”perfect harmony.”
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Beautiful Public Safety Announcement
This PSA which was featured on AdFreak.com from the UK is not like any I have ever seen before. Images of a father pretending to drive in his living room as his family watches takes a turn as he begins to ”crash.” Thankfully, his wife and daughter take hold of him where a seat belt would. This powerful spot ends with the father putting his hand around his family and then the tag line ”Embrace Life.” Check it out, and tell us what you think.
The third annual Beaux-Art’s Ball at the Portland Art Museum is approaching on February 6th from 8:00-2:00 am. The Ball will be electrified by unbridled creativity, incorporating interactive art and performance and culminating in appearances by Seattle burlesque star Lily Verlaine, Gang of Four’s Dave Allen, and New York rock band Morningwood. The event will be hosted by the Young Patrons of the Portland Art Museum to help fund Museum education programs. The theme of the evening is Icon: Come as You Art, and guests are encouraged to let their own art icons inspire their attire. Guests may mingle with performers whose bodies are painted to resemble iconic works of art, and will enjoy hosted cocktails, beer and wine, and hors d’oeuvres.
Tickets are available at the Portland Art Museum or online
In December of 2009 self professed copy right violator and graffiti artist Evan Roth photographed over 2,400 graffiti tags found in each of Paris’s 20 districts. Photographs were then archived, tagged and sorted by letter. The ten most commonly used letters by Paris graffiti writers (A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U) were identified for further study. Evan explains that the sets are not intended to display the “best” graffiti tags in Paris, but rather aim to highlight the diversity of forms ranging from upper case to lowercase, simple to complex and legible to cryptic. His work is now on display at the Foundation Cartier-Born in the Streets graffiti exhibition in Paris. Click here to see the video Graffiti Taxonomy
Recently Roth and artist/developer Chris Sugrue created an app that allows graffiti artists to create and database multidimensional tags. This app is part of an ongoing study on the motion of graffiti. Artists use the app to create four dimensional tags that can be saved as GML (graffiti markup language). This project is open source and invites others to use the archived data to create new application and visualizations.
Edgar Mueller – 3D Pavement Art
This guy’s work is ridiculous!
Edgar Mueller – 3D Pavement Art – A Master of street painting uses the street as a canvas. If one looks from the right spot, its three-dimensional painting becomes the perfect illusion. He paints over large areas of urban public life and gives them a new appearance, thereby challenging the perceptions of passers-by.
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