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Japanese artist and sculptor Tadashi Kawamata installed chaotic slabs of wood above the courtyard at the kamel mennour gallery in Paris, creating an unsettling haphazard ceiling that blots out the sky.

Affected by the catastrophes that have wreaked havoc in Japan this year, the artist has conceived of his structure as a motionless and deadly wave, in a reference to all those bits of broken wood carried along by the receding tsunami, which saturated the ocean surface with their sheer quantity.

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In architect speak:

To build a house for a poet. To make a house for dreaming, living and dying. A house in which to read, to write and to think. We raised high walls to create a box open to the sky, like a nude, metaphysical garden, with concrete walls and floor. To create an interior world. We dug into the ground to plant leafy trees. And floating in the center, a box filled with the translucent light of the north. Three levels were established. The highest for dreaming. The garden level for living. The deepest level for sleeping.
For dreaming, we created a cloud at the highest point. A library constructed with high walls of light diffused through large translucent glass. With northern light for reading and writing, thinking and feeling. For living, the garden with southern light, sunlight. A space that is all garden, with transparent walls that bring together inside and outside. And for sleeping, perhaps dying, the deepest level. The bedrooms below, as if in a cave. Once again, the cave and the cabin.

Dreaming, living, dying. The house of the poet.

A little too much post rationalisation it seems, but a pure, contemplative space nonetheless, by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza.

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Motion sensitive kinetic art from Tim Lewis at Kinetica Art Fair 2009 that is, for the lack of a better phase, freaky cool.

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Ever stood in from of the works of great artists such as Dali and Rembrandt, and told yourself that it would look a lot better with a cat? Well… now all your fantasies are realities! Fatcatart.ru has a huge collection of famous paintings improved with a cat as its hero.

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Pull the plug on that tenth cup of coffee (dumping the contents onto your table along the way). via BoingBoing Shop.


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American artist Jim Sanborn projected stark geometric shapes onto hills and mountains, creating juicy juxtaposition.

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Part with your GBP48 and you will soon be a proud owner of an artsy and chic 4GB USB drive thats beautiful and poetically named emptyMEMORY by Logical Art.

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A very dedicated (and patient) Matthew Yake collected and lovingly photographed all 237 pieces of trash he found around the bleachers.

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OWN’s (Oprah Winfrey Network) inaugural episode of the Visionaires documentary series, on fashion designer Tom Ford. I always find it intriguing to understand how designers verbalise their own creative process.

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In creating reliefs of slightly displaced squares out of silicon rubber, Alexandra Roozen manages to mystify and intrigue with minimal effort.

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Van Wanten Etcetera executed a great concept, which show the different faces behind the biographies, Anne Frank, Vincent van Gogh, Louis van Gaal and Kader Abdolah. Unfortunately, these books were computer generated, but I am sure there is a way to make real versions of these brilliantly rendered ones.

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I won’t mind having one of these animal lamps from Atelier Abigail Ahern, London.

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Greg Eason isolates different objects by his detailed pencil drawings to form narratives on a sparse canvas.

 

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Photographs are meant to capture a moment in time, no matter how briefly. These high speed photographs of food exploding are captured by Alan Sailor in a millionth of a second.

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Rebecca Schiffman designed a collection of jewelry inspired by architectural motifs from the Upper East Side New York. The collection consists of brooches, pendants, cufflinks, earrings and buttons made of silver and brass.



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Illustrator Casey Girard pushed, squeezed and stuffed animals into their corresponding alphabets to comic results.

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London based TING collects, cleans, arranges and trims old leather belts into beautiful one-of-a-kind tiles that will give any floor or wall instant character and charm.

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Norwegian architects, Snøhetta will be planning the new expansion for SFMOMA. This new expansion will include more exhibition and education space.

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Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira has no qualms about breaking down the walls of museum spaces with his sculptures. These tree trunks almost becomes a part of the museum, weaving in and out of the walls and pillars.

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