January 20, 2008

the house of water



A rainwater capturing installation by Christoph Roßner.

Visual trickery

An example of visual trickery, playing with existing things without doing anything to the object physically.

playing with light

traffic sculpture in London




Here's one of my favorite funny art piece located near my place when I was in London. First I saw it, I thought there must have loads of accidents happen for sure. But I saw none!!! all the drivers seem to be able to manage it perfectly :-P

January 17, 2008

January 16, 2008

Work by Santiago Cirugeda

Strategies for subversive urban occupation
Public Domain Occupation with skips
Sevilla, 1997



House enlarging with scaffolding
Sevilla, 1998



Tree occupation with insect house
Sevilla, 2001


from his website:
Reasons for building one-self an urban reserve can be as many as citizens are, that dare doing it. What man can certainly say, is that this personal and intimate action takes place outside everything politicians and professionals may plan, it follows ways that are labelled by difference, by independence, and it makes obvious that the citizen plays a very important role in the development and construction of the environment he lives in.

Public gardening interventions

In Istanbul, 2005 via Culiblog:


Smack dab in the middle of the Üskudar ferry terminal, ad hoc growers have cultivated tomatoes in all of the planters.

City Farming Plant Modules by N55, 2003