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more about #installation more comments → korybing: I like the idea that the superheroes would continue to wear their costumes around a rest home. This is great, I love seeing art like this. more » Bill-Lee: I always imagined rest home Superman being more Jewish and living in Cleveland. more » Bootknife-Jackson: ...did mr' fantastic have a stroke? more » AmishJohn: Superheroes never age, they just get retconned. more » worldgreatestgirl: Isn't Super Woman Immortal since her mother is a god? more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Forget the magic lasso. Wonder Woman needs a Wonder bra... more » HalOfBorg: I have a few pictures on this topic. more » 0kami: Lauren I need to thank you! I saw this piece when I was in Miami for YoungARTS week 2008. We plucky writing kids were invited to the art kid's exhabit... more » zenpoet: Epic Win of "Mythic Proportions" more » SpammerOvTheGods: put your tentacles up in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care #@! more » Boas_MC: Young Cthulhu always wondered why he could never win at hide and seek... more » LittleDragon: This reminds me of a store in San Francisco that has two legs sticking out of the windows above the door. That store had great wigs. more » Kpibca: If you're not causing property damage can you honestly say you're having fun? more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: very cool. more » alphanumeric1971: He did it wrong. more » -
#conceptart
Superheroes Confront Their Most Terrifying Foe: Old Age
What happens when time and decades of battling evil catches up with the world's greatest heroes? Gilles Barbier's mixed media installation L'Hospice envisions the superheroes who don't die in a blaze of glory, but instead live to see old age. More » -
#conceptart
Giant Green Tentacles Attack Buildings from the Inside
In artist FilthyLuker's street installations, giant inflatable tentacles emerge from buildings and vehicles, creating the sense that a monstrous kraken or Lovecraftian horror is trapped inside. More » -
#conceptart
Indoor Forests Are Eco-Chic Home Accessories for a Deforested World
If all the forests around your home have been cut down, why not just turn your living room into a forest if you want to enjoy the green? That's what they're doing in Los Angeles. More » -
#sculpture
Fiber Optic Sculpture Transforms Field into a Luminous Alien Landscape
To see yourself on an alien planet, you need go no farther than Cornwall, England. That’s where lighting designer Bruce Munro has placed his outdoor installation, “Field of Light.” Thousands of fiber optic cables topped with acrylic orbs illuminate the countryside, giving the impression that the field is populated with bioluminescent vegetation from another world. More » -
#art
Eight Tons of Cardboard Molded Into an Imaginary Landscape
Though this looks like some kind of insane mushroom growth, it's actually special, die-cut cardboard strips put together by the Ball-Nogues Studio for an installation at Rice University. The artists created a digital mockup of the shapes they wanted, ordered 20,000 strips of cardboard cut to the perfect prefab sizes, and put the whole thing together in four days. It's strong enough for people to stand on. Want to see more of it? More » -
#environmentalapocalypse
Freakishly Huge Algae Bloom in London
Massive algae blooms killed seals, birds and sea lions on the California coast earlier this yea because algae exudes a toxin called domoic acid. When these blooms got out of control, aquatic animals would ingest the toxin because the fish they eat had been nibbling on these super-blooms. But those algae blooms were nothing compared to this one, seen in London's Hyde Park last year. More » -
