Pinhegg, created by Francesco Capponi, is a pinhole camera crafted from an eggshell. The “camera” is only good for one shot and must be sacrificed in order to reveal the image.
Learn how to build your own Pinhegg here.
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Ernesto Neto: crazy huperculture in the vertigo of the world
brazilian artist Erneto Neto has created ‘crazy hyperculture in the vertigo of the world’. neto has created a insulated, suspended labyrinth covers the entirety of the space. the tactile installation is one in which the gallery goer enters the sculpture, walking from the entrance of the ground floor to the sky-path the artist created. strung through out the membrane are small satchels containing spices of various color and scent, further engaging the viewer with the interactive sculpture. the work is formed with the ideals of neo-concreto, ‘places the spectator at the center of creative action’ concept in mind, engaging many of the viewer’s senses in order for the individual to fully comprehend the piece.
‘crazy hyperculture in the vertigo of the world’ was developed for installation at faena arts center, in buenos aires, argentina.
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Inheritance, Cathie Bleck
Several weeks ago, I met with street artist Keizer to talk about his work and thoughts on graffiti and the continuing uprising in Egypt. This is the first part of Uprisings in Translation’s Keizer series.
“Freedom Has Many Forms”
Keizer came up with “Keizer” (pronounced “kay-zer”) because…
Though she survived the (acid) attack, it inflicted ghastly wounds; virtually melting Fakhra’s face, blinding her in one eye, sealing her lips, shriveling the skin on her face and torso and burning her hair. In a coma for six long months, and then having come to, but in a pathetic suicidal state for another six – all the while at Karachi’s Civil Hospital, where she discovered she had been pregnant and miscarried – Fakhra somehow found the will to go on. Meanwhile, her sister’s mother-in-law, Shahida Malik, had already registered an FIR against Bilal but, maintains Fakhra, Bilal later confessed to her that he had friends at the police station. Hence, he was subsequently declared an “absconder,” because the police “could not find him.”
The guy who did this to his wife is from the Khar family - the same family from which Pakistan’s current foreign minister comes from, who is, ironically, a woman. This is the condition of that country, not to mention the status of women. My message to my Pakistan friends is that, before they shout about how women’s rights in Pakistan are getting better because a supermodel is now the minister of foreign affairs, they should take a look at how things go inside this very family.
- Jahanzeb Hussain
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