If you have ever visited the awe-inspiring King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, or if you have seen the wonderful holiday choir concerts from the 16th century English Perpendicular Gothic church, you will enjoy the short film below from a trippy light show presented there a few weeks ago.
The magical and poetic projections were created by Mexican artist Miguel Chevalier to accompany speeches by local luminaries such as Stephen Hawking.
Brooklyn-based designer Tom Harman took a three day train journey from New York City to San Francisco this September. Along the way, he took short videos using his iPhone. He edited the footage into a compelling under five minute video. Take a look:
If you follow TBTP, you are probably aware of my admiration for street artist Seth Globepainter aka Jukien Malland. This week, following the horrific terror attacks in Paris, he left a simple, but moving message for the world. Using one of his wonderful child characters, he painted the longtime Paris city motto on a wall at Place Ménilmontant in Belleville. The very apt Latin phrase Fluctuat nec mergitur means “tossed but not sunk”.
Comedian Greg Benson may be from Texas, but he effing loves New York City. His highly condensed, expletive-laden tour of the city hits just enough of the highlights to feel his love for the Big Apple. If you can handle the language, it will put you in a New York state of mind too.
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Sean Yoro, aka “Hula”, is a Hawaii-born, New York City-based artist who made waves last year with a series of photorealistic murals of women that he painted from his surfboard. His latest project, called “The Warning”, involves equally dramatic paintings on sheets of acrylic, which are fixed to icebergs.
Completed at an undisclosed location in the North American Arctic, the project aims to raise awareness about people already being affected by rising sea levels due to climate change.
I’m always ambivalent when I see a new set of book art collages from British artist Alexander Korzer-Robinson. The Bristol-based artist’s work is undeniably brilliant and original, but I can’t help cringing when I think about the irreplaceable 19th and 20th century volumes that are destroyed in the process.
Korzer-Robinson creates the amazing 3D collages by painstakingly cutting out the text and leaving just the images from books in a process that took months to refine. Here’s how he describes the work:
The book pieces in the pictures have been made by cutting into the books, cutting around some of the illustrations and removing others. The composition is built only using the imagery that is already in a particular volume. I try to create hints of a narrative in my pieces without being too concrete, and this is something people seem to respond to. It is an invitation to the viewer to engage with the imagery, to enter into a dialogue with what they see.
You see more of the work and even purchase prints of the collages on the artist’s website.
TOMO Mags is a converted short bus that rolls around Houston (and sometimes Austin) Texas offering print periodical lovers the chance to purchase hard to find indie magazines and journals. The mobile magazine shop, which turns up at coffee shops, galleries, art spaces, and retail stores, stocks more than 200 periodicals from around the world.
The unique rolling newsstand was created by partners Vico Puentes and Keiwing Chong. You can follow TOMO on Facebook to see where they’ll turn up next.
Many years ago, on my second or third visit to London it finally dawned on me that it was often much quicker to walk to some locations than to take the Underground. Now Transport for London has finally created the first official Tube map showing the walking times between nearly all of the stations in the network. The clever map will be a real boon for confused tourists who often misjudge the distances between London’s tourist attractions. Now they can make more efficient use of their limited time and maybe even get to know the city a little better.
You can access a pdf version of the full map here..
images: ©TFL
LeVar Burton, beloved host of the Reading Rainbow Public Television show and star of Star Trek: The Next Generation shares “11 of the most beautiful sentences in literature” in this little video below:
I rarely endorse Kickstarter projects, but Call Me Ishmael is a worthy literary project that deserves attention. Honored by the National Book Foundation with the Innovations in Reading Prize, Call Me Ishmael has already surpassed its modest Kickstarter goal. Inspired by the famous opening line of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby-Dick, the Call Me Ishmael Phone uses repurposed vintage payphones to help book lovers discover great reads. This video explains it all:
Travel Between The Pages 