Two posts in a row from the land of the chewing gum ban.
Titled simply as “Singapore”, this is an installation piece by Thai artist Wit Pimkanchanapong (sounds like popcorn in a microwave oven), created for this year's Singapore Biennale.
The interactive artwork allows visitors to write their own notes on stickers provided by the artist and paste them onto a Google Earth image-map of Singapore. So kind of Web Minus 1.0.
So the artist is getting everyone else to a load of work, basically, just to create a roomful of litter. My father was right - all artists are lazy workshy fops, living in squalor.
Google has launched a creative awards competition in Singapore, to recognise the most creative uses of Google tools. Those Singaporeans only need look to this very blog for inspiration. Or drugs.
I couldn't think of anything else to say or show, so here's a random picture:
Like most people, I often find myself spending hours walking around the virtual streets of Pittsburgh in Google Streetview. It's not like there's anything else to do here in London. Well I thought I had stumbled upon the world's most exciting street, but then I discovered I had been conned.
I'm disgusted.
Two American artists have created what they term 'the first artistic intervention in Google Street View.' Yes indeed. Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley approached Google with the idea of creating a series of staged tableaux along one street in Pittsburgh.
They include firemen rescuing a cat from a tree, a giant chicken sculpture, a woman dressed in a ham suit, a fake marathon, a rehearsing garage band, a mad scientist lab complete with "love laser", a high school marching band, a woman escaping from a window using a rope made from bed sheets and a medieval sword fight.
The project, called Street With A View, "introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View", said Hewlett and Kinsley on their website.
I can see cities 'managing their brand' (yuk) in this way in the future. But hey - the world always needs more giant chicken sculptures.
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