Category Archives: Europe

Not Another Independence Day Celebration

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

At 309 meters tall, London’s Shard is now Europe’s tallest building. On July 5th, it will be celebrating the official completion of the external structure. The inauguration will be capped-off by a light show using 12 lasers and 30 massive … Continue reading →

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Another Reason to Visit Vienna

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Passangers passing through the international airport in Vienna, Austria now encounter an amazing art installation at Check-in Area 3. Stradding the corridor to the security checkpoint a towering wall of video monitors forms the ZeitRaum/Textscape. As travelers approach the wall, … Continue reading →

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Surf’s Up

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

This awesome animated film follows a neglected little bookmark on a wild surfing adventure when it’s unexpected liberated one day. “Much better Now” is a wonderfully visually entertaining film created by Phillip Comarella and Simon Griesser from Salon Alpin productions … Continue reading →

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Just In Time For Bloomsday

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Designed for “saunterers, idlers and tech-savvy literati”, and launched just in the nick of time for this year’s Bloomsday celebrations, JoyceWays is a new app developed by students at Boston College in conjunction with Dublin’s Joyce Centre.   The app … Continue reading →

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Barcelona’s Book Train

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Passengers on the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan National Railways) will soon have access to a virtual onboard library on trains in and around Barcelona. Select trains will display posters of forty books along with QR codes. After … Continue reading →

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Anne Frank’s Amsterdam

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

On June 12, 1942 Anne Frank celebrated her 13th birthday in Amsterdam. Her parents gave her a diary with a red and white checkered cover. “I hope I wll be able to confide everything to you, as I have never … Continue reading →

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Rembrandt’s Facebook Timeline

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Amsterdam‘s celebrated Rijksmuseum may be over 200 years-old, but it’s hip to 21st century social media marketing. The museum has cleverly “imagined” what Rembrandt’s Facebook Timeline would look like. “I made a self-portrait. Let me know what you think!”

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Round the World by Chemin Vert

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Rome-based artist/web designer/computer scientist Giacomo Miceli created this beautiful, mind-blowing little video trip across the globe and four seasons. The video titled Chemin Vert uses panoramic frames from Google Street View . There are even better versions of the video … Continue reading →

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Ghosts of Pere Lachaise

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Founded in 1804 in the countryside beyond the Paris city walls, the Cimetiére Pére-Lachaise is now Paris’ largest cemetery. Verdant, hilly, with meandering paths between thousands of sepulchral tombs and monuments this vast city of the dead is one of … Continue reading →

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Bookyard

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Tuscan-born artist Massimo Bartolini has created a charming plein air library for this year’s Track festival in beautiful Ghent, Belgium. Bartolini’s instatallation, Bookyard, is a series of 12 long bookshelves set in the vinyard of the medieval Sint-Pieters Abbey in … Continue reading →

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