Art

October 29, 2012

Magical Blue Crystals Cover an Entire Room

Seizure is a large-scale installation by British artist Roger Hiorns in which he used unexpected materials to transform an everyday room into a giant piece of art. To create the site-specific installation, Hiorns covered the surface of the interior with plastic sheeting. He then poured more than 20,000 gallons of boiling copper sulphate solution into the abandoned space and let the liquid cool for three weeks.

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October 25, 2012

Happy Birdhouses Installed in Cities Worldwide

As buildings continue to pop up in growing cities, urban-dwelling birds and wildlife are in need of more options for cozy places to live. Thoughtful to these needs, artist Thomas Winther, aka Dambo, initiated the Happy City Birds project. To kick the project off, the artist spent just two weeks building 250 birdhouses out of free and recycled materials (with one exception, he had to purchase $40 worth of nails).

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October 19, 2012

Oreo’s Clever Campaign: The Daily Twist

In what can only be called a stroke of marketing genius, Kraft Foods, the maker of Oreo cookies, launched an awesome marketing campaign this year called the Daily Twist where they took holidays, important weeks, trending events and major news stories and turned them into creative portraits using Oreo cookies.

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