Amazing “Temple” installation from Faile in Lisbon, Portugal. Integrating their work into the surroundings like never before, the Faile crew have excelled themselves.

They’ve brought to life in mosaic, sculpture, and bas-relief their iconic posters and images to create the Faile Temple. Materials include ceramic, marble, bronze, cast iron, steel, limestone, and mosaic. And it’s massive! Measuring 16ft. width x 30ft. length x 14ft. height.

Find the temple here, between these dates:

Portugal Arte 10 — July 16 – September 5th, 2010
Praça dos Restauradores Square – Lisbon, Portugal

More information, and 43 pictures can be seen at the FaileTemple site.

Siiiick! Sling shot your SMS messages on to a wall. Anyone know how it works? How long they stay up there for? Get in touch with me!

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Notorious B.I.G verse from Juicy on a “money green leather sofa” as spotted by Todd Selby, in Neistat Brothers‘ house. Word(s).

Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw, the two masked artists from New York City in the video below, are the minds behind a new multimedia performance collaboration called Sweat Shoppe. Their aim? The intersection of art, music and technology to create something that has an element of pop accessibility. Sweat Shoppe recently showed our friends at Babelgum how to paint video at SCOPE Art Fair in Miami. “We started off doing this in the streets,” they explain. “We’d find a building that we like with the right light conditions, pull up, clamp something in some car batteries, and do our thing.”

Battle of Branchage from seeper on Vimeo.

Interactive architecture, light mapping, and digital technology.

more of their work on the seeper website

20 years since the wall came down – nice photoessay from the Boston Globe

- their photoblog “The Big Picture” is well worth subscribing to (we mentioned it before, twice)

super super slow posting this. saw it a while back but totally forgots to post it.

from the official Stages wesbite:

Lance Armstrong and Nike unite to launch STAGES, a global art exhibition to raise funds and awareness for the fight against cancer.

Over twenty renowned artists have donated their time and creativity to express the LIVESTRONG message and raise funds for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which is committed to inspiring and empowering people affected by cancer.

STAGES is more than an event. It is a unique celebration of human potential inspired by Lance and dedicated to the fight against cancer.

It unites the world of art, philanthropy, and sport by bringing together some of the most renowned figures in art to produce work inspired by Lance and his fight against cancer. All work is available for purchase with proceeds directly benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Join the fight. LIVESTRONG.

City of God’s Son is an incredible synesthesic montage and re-working of a story that never really happened, but did for anyone who’s ever listened to 90s beats, watched gangster flicks and explored a city at night. Featuring “Nas“, “Jay” and “Ghost” as themselves, but not really, and narrated by Joe Bataan, director Kenzo Digital has created a world of magical realism for his a coming of age story. Set in a city much like New York but hidden deep within a jungle, the City is the other star of this musical/soundscape/movie for the blind/art installation.

More than a mere remix or mash-up, City of God’s Son explores the icons of “the gangster” through the media’s obsession as well as hip hop’s itself, using sounds, samples, original contextual quotes and references in an homage to arguably hip-hop’s most culturally potent era. It is as multilayered and as subtle as it is compelling. Huffington Post puts it thus:

COGS is part Sin City, part Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio programming, and part Nas’ Illmatic.

It features reworkings and quotes from Nas, Jay-Z and Ghostfce Killa, but also Samuel L Jackson, Delroy Lindo, Biggie Smalls, Raekwon and more, and can be experienced in full this Summer as Kenzo Digital presents a new form of cinema, theater, and opera, based on City of God’s Son, in New York’s Chelsea art district.

There, the listener will be able to experience City of God’s Son in the form it was initially intended — as a psychedelic, abstract combination of visual and audio sensory over-stimulation and deprivation in a unique outdoor setting.

Meanwhile, watch the trailer above, and download the “aural” experience here.

With thanks to The Huffington Post