Fat Monkey

Amazing installation entitled "Fat Monkey" by Macaco Gardo for the Pixelshow 2010 conference in Sao Paulo, Brasil. The students made this huge monkey out of thousands of colorful flip-flops! Pretty cool!

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The Non-Sign

"On the US-Canadian border, a billboard advertising fresh air, or no advertising, or imagination. Either way, it's beautiful."

By Lead Pencil Studio.

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Clothespin

Cool sculpture installation by Mehmet Ali Uysal in the Park Chaudfontaine, Belgium.

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The Middle Finger

The awesome statue you see in the pics is placed in the middle of Piazza Affari in Milano, in front of the “Milano Stock Exchange” this week, the sculpture was reallized by Maurizio Cattelan, an Italian contemporary artist.

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3D Illusion To Slow Down Traffic

Preventable, BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation, and the District of West Vancouver have launched a 3D illusion geared to make drivers slow down at high-risk intersections.

An optical illusion of a little girl chasing a ball has been installed.
The 3D illusion rises up gradually from about 100 feet away and fades away by the time a driver approaches.

Warning signs leading up to the illusion were installed to prepare drivers.
The goal is to draw attention to the risk of children running onto the road.

More info here.

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Kinetic Wall: A Vertical Lake Building Facade

International design studio Urban Art Projects puts the soothing effects of water into an unlikely place; the side of Brisbane, Australia’s airport car park.

This project is being developed with artist Ned Kahn. It is called a “Kinetic Wall,” and it will essentially be an eight-story-tall public art installation. Seen from the outside, the installation will look like a vertical body of water, complete with gentle waves and natural movement. From the inside of the building, the movement of the facade will create beautiful patterns in sunlight on the interior surfaces.

The effect is created with 250,000 aluminum panels which are loosely suspended so as to move gently with the wind.

It also helps provide passive cooling and ventilation for the car park, cutting down on energy costs and keeping the building more comfortable all year long. The new parking garage, complete with the unique facade, will be completed in late 2011.

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The Giant Fort Of Books

Slovakian artist Matej Kren‘s installation Scanner, currently on display in Italy at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, is like one of our bookworm childhood fantasies sprung to life: It’s a giant fort made out of thousands of books!

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Obsessions Make My Life Worse And My Work Better

A work of art entirely made out of coins, composed by Sagmeister Inc. in September 2008 for the Droog Event 2: Urban Play. The public installation consisted of 250.000 Euro cent coins and covered more than 300sqm on a square in Amsterdam.

More about it here.

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Oversized Furniture

Los Angeles based artist Robert Therrien creates giant versions of familiar household items.
Larger than life giant objects include plates, tables and chairs.

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