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Guitar Pedals, An Interactive Art Installation of 96 Guitar Effects Pedals by David Byrne
“Guitar Pedals” by David Byrne is an interactive art installation of 96 guitar effects pedals that are connected to one another as well as to a guitar and amplifier (video by Todo Mundo). Viewers are invited to step on the pedals, creating layered guitar effects.
Sponsored by Boss? Filed under: installation art. (via curiositycounts)
Edward Tufte’s Philosophical Road Signs
Using the format of diamond signs that provide alerts and warnings about the road ahead, this series of works on canvas shows philosophical alerts, imperatives, and thoughts about the path past and future. This all started with real diamond signs made by a traffic sign company. I placed them along a curved road leading to my sculpture fields.
“Art is art and everything else is everything else” is Ad Reinhardt, and “Just show up” is supposedly something Woody Allen wears on a t-shirt.
Filed under: signs
“Try Harder,” an Otis Redding Motivational Poster Installation by Jason Lazarus
From April 1 to May 1, 16 pianos will hit the streets of Austin as part of Art Week Austin hosted by Art Alliance Austin. Located throughout downtown in public parks, streets and squares, the pianos are for any member of the public to play.
This is the kind of installation art I love. Thanks, @bonitasarita!
A tractor-trailer hauling industrial printer cartridges rolled over this morning on the ramp from Route 128 North to Interstate 95 North in Peabody, spewing ink across the roadway.
Before I Die… in NOLA - Candy Chang
Candy Chang turned the side of an abandoned house in New Orleans into a chalkboard where people can write what they’d like to accomplish before they die.
Filed under: chalkboards
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“What Jackson said to Andy (All Artists are EIther Cowboys or Indians)” by Nathan Coley, 2008, powder coated aluminum with florescent lamps
Thx, defacedbook. Photo by Alicia Kan.
“It’s freezing in here,” by David Shrigley:
A neon sign I made a while ago. Currently displayed in an attic.
