Spotted on zoomdoggle – although these slightly larger than normal eyes look like a bit of photoshop magic, they’re actually extra-wide contact lenses. These are made by a variety of companies including Geo and Dueba, and cost $US30-$50 per pair.
Novelty lenses are nothing new, but I found this big eyed, not-quite human look (that’s so [...]

Although this might look like it’s drifting away from live performance somewhat, bear with me…
For a couple of years now I’ve been intrigued by the idea of portable audiovisual units and the MobMov manaifesto sets out one way of making those dreams into reality.
I loved the idea of showing old cartoons from the Internet Archive, [...]

I spent part of today thinking about chalk and marketing; wondering if a graffiti campaign would work for the Catapult festival.
It wouldn’t have to be very complicated…

Julian Beever

…just a simple statement along the lines of Arthur Stace’s Eternity:

I think the spiral from the catapult logo would be perfect – not too intrusive; enigmatic and visually [...]

Browsing through flickr today I came across this interesting image:

Unicycle Lane
It’s a lane marker in Portland. Apparently they have a whole bunch of interesting images on their roads. You can see some on Joe Biel’s mini-documentary, “Martinis in the Bike Lane” (there’s a short version here on YouTube).
Of course, this started me wondering how I [...]

taking the park to the people. This idea goes a step beyond guerrilla benching (reported by space hijackers back in 2006).

This project is a study into different ways of bringing play back into public space. It focuses on ways of incorporating incidental play in the public realm by not so much as having separate play [...]