The public of Montreal were encouraged to share their thoughts on what they wanted to happen in their public arena - or more specifically, in a new public space in the city’s newly built Quartier des Spectacles.
They wrote their thoughts on balloons, some of which people took away or let float off into the hustle of the city. The installation is called Musee des possibles.
Love it!
(Source: vimeo.com)
Hilla Shamia’s Wood Casting series beautifully marries wood with aluminum.
The negative factor of burnt wood is transformed into aesthetic and emotional value. Preservation of the natural form of the tree trunk within the explicit boundaries. The general,squared form intensifies the artificial feeling, and in the same time keeps the memory of the material.
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At first glance, you’d think this was a standard Photoshopped image but this is actually the clever work of Spanish street-art collective Boamistura. With words like BELEZA, AMOR, FIRMEZA, ORGULHO, that can only be made out when standing in a certain position, the collective bring colour and expression to the favela’s once drab walls.
Certainly, the Brazilian favelas have had their share of vibrant makeovers in the past with Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn’s “favela painting” project a few years back and French artist JR’s giant poster campaign, featured in this blog.
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Sparrows once nested in the holes of a bare wall in the barrio de Grazia in Barcelona. When the walls were repaired and the holes filled in, the sparrows disappeared.
A local architecture studio put up these colourful bird houses, and now the sparrows are back! Love it :)
Via Collabcubed
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Jaujac’s Tapis Rouge; reminding people that green countryside is never too far away!
