Communist Guide to New York City
Last night SMAC visited a book launch of “Communist Guide to New York City” by Yevgeniy Fiks at Common Room.
The guide is a collection of 76 photographs of buildings, public places, and sites in New York City, that are connected to the history of the Communist Party USA, including photos of buildings which housed […]
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
7 hand-made boats created by artist Swoon and her collaborators arrive at Deitch Projects in Long Island City after a 3 week journey on the Hudson river.
Arial, Meet Futura… and Leave the Artsy Farts Behind
Fonts gather in conference to decide whether Zapf Dingbats is worthy of membership.
GreenPix: China’s Next Great Wall
Using thousands of solar photovoltaic capture cells to power the work of digital artists, the GreenPix Zero Energy media wall is the largest solar powered LED display in the world.
The Making of Bjork’s 3D Wanderlust
Video: Curious as to exactly how they shot Bjork’s new 3-D music video for “Wanderlust”, I spoke with Damijan Saccio, co-founder of UVPhactory the post production company for the project. From the initial creative brief from director’s “Encyclopedia Pictura” to production in Long Island City at Matthew Barney’s studio and the the challenges of 3-D post, Damijan walks us through the the production process step-by-step.
Five Prefab Houses at MoMA
SMAC visits the much talked about exhibition at MoMA, Home Delivery. Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. The curator Barry Bergdoll walks us through the 5 houses built especially for the show at an empty lot near the museum.
The Future of the Book
It has been 453 years since Johannes Gutenberg published the first mechanically printed book, and recent developments in electronic ink and more user-friendly mobile displays - including the introduction of Amazon.com?s Kindle reader and Apple?s iPhone - have created a market for electronic ?books? that go far beyond ink-on-pulp publications.
Suzan Szenasy in Conversation with Suzan Globus.
Suzan Szenasy, Editor in Chief of Metropolis magazine interviews Suzan Globus, Interior Designer and Past President of the American Society for Interior Designers.
Geometric Informatics + Velodyne LIDAR = Freaking Sweet
Radiohead releases a new music video that’s not a video. Instead, it’s pure manipulated, visualized data.
