In 1982 Larry Walters, nicknamed ‘Lawnchair Larry’, travelled to an altitude of over 15.000 feet (4600 m.) strapped to an ordinary lawn chair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it.
Also see this post: The space chair project (commercial)
‘DeLorean reflecting a Gerhard Richter painting’ (2010)
‘Hummer reflecting an Ellsworth Kelly’ (2010)
‘Honda Civic reflecting a Monet’ (2010) by Jon Rafman.
View a lot of other paintjobs by Jon Rafman at Brandnewpaintjob.com.
‘Harness’ (2006)
The compulsive energy of a running mouse generates a music box (Brahm’s Lullaby).
‘Applied geometry’ (2004)
‘Vacancy’ (2006) (altered toaster) by Robert Wechsler.
‘My Most Favourite Art’ (2004 – 2009)
My Most Favourite Art’ is an installation made of exhibition plates, which Maria Anwander has stolen and collected from different galeries and museums since 2004. Only criterion for the theft of a plate is her fascination for the work which belongs to it.
‘Everyones’ Best Friends’ (2009) by Maria Anwander.
Cutouts of banknote-portraits from eight different currencies. (via)
‘Federer – Nadal, Heiliger – Bill’ (2007)
‘Woman, Voice, Car, Horn’ (2010) by Bas Schevers.
More recent work by Bas:
‘Refait’ (2009) by Pied la Biche.
‘Refait’ is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. Each sequence takes place in one or several locations and then the city temporarily becomes the lab for unsual experiments.
A way to overcome a lost football match…
‘Deep Play’ (2007) by Harun Farocki.
‘Deep Play’ brings together 12 different perspectives on one of the biggest broadcasting events ever – the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany, seen by an estimated 1.5 billion viewers worldwide. The screens combine the artist’s own footage, FIFA footage, digital analyses and 2D and 3D animation sequences, so that we see the event from unexpected viewpoints.
‘Machine that can make one potato orbit another one (Apparat, mit dem eine Kartoffel eine andere umkreisen kann)’ (1969) by Sigmar Polke.
‘The perverse threesome of the pencil, the paper and the rubber’ (2009) by Steven Emmanuel
‘Canvases’ by Brad Troemel.
Check out his great blog The Jogging. I will post some more of his work soon!
