Words About Things

The Danger Global Warming Project was set up to draw attention to the problem of Global Warming through the medium or art. It was organized by the multi-media art collective Blacksmoke in collaboration with Greenpeace. Artists were asked to incorporate Greenpeace’s black and yellow warning tape motif into artworks of any form they saw fit.

Paintings, videos and installations have been submitted from around the world. Those who have taken part range from unknown artists to big names like Philippe Starck, Bruce LaBruce and Billy Childish. Some of the artworks are great, others less so. The main thing however is that they make you think and hopefully they have enough of an effect on you to stick in your mind long after you see them.

DANGER GLOBAL WARMING (recycled by Utah Saints) from Danger Global Warming Project.

A selection of links to interesting things I’ve seen online this week, better late than never!

1. Paul Smith mixes fashion with conceptual art.

2. The World’s Smallest Car is built from a Quad Bike and a Postman Pat ride. [video]

3. The Cultural Significance of Flowers and the Ascent of Man.

4. Amazing entrants to the Online Beatbox Battle. Is this real? Amazing.

5. The average woman ‘spends £9,000 on her hair in her lifetime’.

If, like me, you have an old scanner laying around somewhere you might be about to find a new use for it. Back in the day everyone had a scanner but now they don’t seem quite so useful. If you use a digital camera and don’t work from home, what use are they? Sure you can scan your face but that is only fun for the first 100 times.

First there was ‘Face Your Pockets‘ a site where people scanned and sent in the contents of their pockets surrounding their faces. It’s a lot more interesting than it sounds. Now there is a site call Scanwiches which combines scanning with sandwiches, a winning combination. The scans are actually really well done resulting in nice hi-res images that wouldn’t look completely out of place on a gallery wall. Click on the image below to visit the site.