Ocean overview (brief) from Dan Torop on Vimeo.
I’ve worked on the digital Ocean since 2000. It is a real-time, physics based, interactive manifestation of the ocean.
I was spending a lot of time out at the ocean, photographing the waves. It was sublime. But, apparently, also determined by the laws of physics? So I researched a bit, found some fluid dynamics math, and began work on an implementation of the ocean.
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New Jersey-based recycling and upcycling design studio, TerraCycle, recently renovated their offices using all sorts of trash. Walls were built from old bottles. Chairs were re-covered in Capri Sun pouches. And, yes, a ticking clock made from pregnancy tests. See more images and the full story here.
Hannah Whitaker, Dome, 2009
Consisting of 42 acres, Bear Island is part of a small archipelago in East Penobscot Bay, about 11 miles east of Camden. Along with forests and fields, the island has a dock and several traditional New England wood frame buildings. Though Buckminister Fuller once built a 21-foot tensegrity dome that was recently reconstructed, none of his designs were used on the island for shelter. Bear Island’s draw, for Fuller, was its primitive simplicity.Â
For a fascinating read about Buckminister Fuller’s summers spent on Bear Island in Maine, click here.
Argentinean-born Tin Ojeda, a Montauk-based painter and surfer who created the Drug Money Art clothing line started by spray painting boards. Now he designs and prints hand-crafted t-shirts, scarves, books and boards that are sold around the world.
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Roni Horn, no title from Still Water (The River Thames, for Example), 1999, fifteen offset lithographs, each 30 1/2 x 41 1/2".
Some Thames is literally the idea of a finite thing having an infinite range of appearance or expression because of its inseparable relation to other things, which is what water is — its relation to other things.
When I look at water I’m entering into an event of relation. Rather than an object, water becomes a form — of consciousness, or time, of physicality, of the human condition, of anything I desire to project on it, of anything I want it to be.
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You can almost hear the “click clacking” of Coney Island’s famous Cyclone roller coaster when you look at the white laser-cut metal base of this lounge chair. One of several items in Uhuru‘s Coney Island Line, this piece is crafted from reclaimed wood from the demolished iconic boardwalk. “The Ipe, first installed on the boardwalk in the late 1940’s, has weathered in the sun, salt, and snow for 70 years. The design is inspired by the duality of Coney Island- its whimsical, colorful summers and melancholy winters,” says the design & build Red Hook company. “The pieces interpret the architecture of the desolate dreamscape: low-rise buildings patched with signs and seasonal layers of paint, beneath the towering old-fashioned roller coaster.”
Lee Lozano at the Van Abbe Museum
“Now I realize that the wave series must be kept private, within the studio, to be available only to those people I like enough to invite over, or those who have the chutzpah to come uninvited. Make another kind of art for the outside world.â€
––Lee Lozano on her “Wave” Series, April 3, 1969.
San Francisco based artist Serena Mitnik Miller watercolor on paper (above) and custom painting on a board (below). See more of her work here: twobirdsfly.blogspot.com.
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