Los Angeles-based video artist Zach King has made a name for himself with his quick-cut style Vines, even making it to the semi-official Best Vines of 2013 compilation clip. Now you can watch and be baffled for seven straight minutes as King pulls kittens from computers, jumps through walls, and fries a ping pong ball like an egg, among dozens of others tricks.
Thanks to Bill Litfin for today’s fodder.
Estonian designer Pavel Sidorenko has created ‘Cities’, a collection of 15 wall clocks depicting different iconic locations for his ‘ReVinyl’ series. Old records are cut to show the silhouettes of buildings and environments associated with each city while keeping the original record label as is. The repurposing of the material gives it a new function while reminding the users of the days of acoustic recordings.
Thanks to Christopher Olvis for today’s fodder.
Caine Monroy, a nine year old, was forced to spend his summer vacation at his father’s auto parts store in East LA. To pass the time Caine used discarded boxes to build an elaborate cardboard arcade, complete with tickets and prizes. The arcade only had one customer, which happened to be short filmmaker Nirvan Mullick that had some ideas to boost Caine’s fan base.
California artist Chris Burden and his chief engineer Zak Cook spent four years to creating the toy car mega city that is Metropolis II. The installation measures 20′ x 30′ and features 1,100 cars in constant motion on the eighteen different road ways. Burben’s goal, when building Metropolis II, was less about making a scale model of a city, but more about recreating the energy of a city.
A collector recently purchased the installation for “millions” of dollars, but was gracious enough to donate it to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for display over the next 10 years.
Thanks to Joe Koufman for today’s fodder.
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