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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
See Your Sea Food Up Close In Norway
The Norwegian architecture group Snøhetta has released images of its design for Under, Europe’s first underwater restaurant in Lindesnes, Norway. The project is set to begin construction in February 2018, with a concrete cuboid half-submerged like a monolithic shipwreck off … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Restaurants, Tourism
Tagged Lindesnes, Norway, VisitNorway
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Is it still street art if it’s on the highway
A highway rest stop may seem like an unlikely venue for a major art exhibition, but this year’s La Triennale in the Swiss Canton Valais was held at the Relais du Saint-Bernard on the A9 Autoroute near Martigny. Some thirty … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Museums, Public Transport, Restaurants
Tagged Martigny, Switzerland, Valais
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Paper Trails
Paper Trail is a very trippy short film from artist Jake Fried. The brilliant animation is created with hundreds of individually constructed individuals pages, which consist of ink drawings, whiteout, and collage. Each image is then scanned to become a single … Continue reading
Museum Match Game
Vienna-based photographer Stefan Draschan has been having some fun serendipitously capturing museum goers with complimentary attire matching artwork in a clever series. The images, shot in major art museums around Europe, create an amusing, aesthetic dialogue between viewer and painting.
Spooky Stories & Inconceivable Tales
Inspired by pulp periodicals and pop culture, Massachusetts-based illustrator Stephen Andrade creates brilliant retro-style magazine covers for imagined publications. Andrade cleverly incorporates contemporary television, cinema, and literary references in his 40s and 50s style cover art.
Posted in Art, Books, Film, USA
Tagged Bob's Burgers, Cover Art, Illustration, Magazines, Princess Bride
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Napoleon’s Kindle
Unlike our maniacal Emperor wanabee, Napoleon Bonaparte was a devoted book lover. He was such a serious reader that in 1803 he commissioned the creation of the wonderful traveling library pictured above to take on military campaigns. The leather-lines, velvet-trimmed … Continue reading
Mind Your Metro Manners
The Los Angeles subway system thought it was a novel idea to use a Sailor Moon-inspired anime-like character named Super Kind Girl to star in a new series of PSA videos encouraging good public transportation manners. Each of the bilingual … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Asia, Film, Public Transport, Tourism, USA
Tagged Anime, California, Los Angeles, Metro, Subway
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
This week, Chinese dissident artist and human rights activist Ai WeiWei launched a multi-site, crowdfunded project in New York City titled “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”. The three centerpieces of the project utilize metal fencing materials and are located in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Asia, USA
Tagged Ai Weiwei, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, Queens, Washington Square
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Bookstore Taboo
Tabook is an amusing short film that takes on the silliness of cultural taboos. In Amsterdam-based director Dario van Vree’s animated short a young woman endures the pitfalls of book browsing in a puritanical society. The cheeky film was created with … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Film
Tagged 2D animation, Bookshops
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