Those lucky enough to be strolling along the Sumida River in central Tokyo last week were treated to a visual feast of 100,000 “simulated” hotaru (fireflies) floating down the river. As part of the inaugural Tokyo Hotaru Festival, Panasonic provided the LED lights, or “prayer stars,” for the festivities. Each glowing ball, made to resemble a . . . → Read More: 100,000 solar powered fireflies float through Tokyo   Work by Escif Work by Escif The Katowice Street Art Festival in Katowice, Poland, is currently hosting some of the world’s most talented street artists. Getting the most attention so far is a huge new mural by Valencia, Spain-based, street artist Escif which features an enormous on/off switch on the side of a building. There are . . . → Read More: The 2012 Katowice Street Art Festival in Poland 
German artist Cornelia Konrads builds site-specific installations in public spaces around the world which challenge our perceptions of gravity and time. Using materials like rocks and branches, the artist is most well-known for creating stacked objects which appear to be in the midst of a skyward ascension or a downward fall. Konrads says, “I like to . . . → Read More: Land art that defies gravity by Cornelia Konrads 
English artist Simon Beck creates enormous geometric patterns around the frozen lakes of Savoie, France. Patiently plodding through the snow in raquettes (or snowshoes), Beck’s forms vary from festive snow flakes, to spirograph bursts, to mathematical patterns that create stunning, sometimes 3D, designs when viewed from higher levels. The artist forms precise marks by using a handheld . . . → Read More: Enormous geometric snow art by Simon Beck  "Biographies" approximately 5,000 books pouring out of a building in Madrid (by Alicia Martin) The past few months there have been a slew of articles in the news about art sculptures/installations that use books as their basic building block. For your enjoyment, amusement, or horror, I’ve compiled the best of them together in this post. Some . . . → Read More: Recent art sculptures/installations that use books as their building blocks 
As if the California coastline weren’t beautiful enough… landscape artist Andreas Amador has to take a garden rake and etch doodles in the sand! Originally inspired by the crop circles phenomenon in the UK, Amador has been painting organic and geometric shapes on the beach for the past 12 years. Using Google Earth to discern the right . . . → Read More: Sand paintings along the California coast left by Andres Amador  JR's work at the intersection of Beverly and Sweetzer in LA French street artist, photographer, and TED Prize winner JR has returned to Los Angeles. Continuing his Wrinkles in the City tour, JR is plastering enormous photographs of the city’s older residents on the side of buildings and towers. These are the faces of ordinary people who . . . → Read More: JR returns to the streets of Los Angeles 
Unclaimed space in downtown San Francisco? Artists Jenny Chapman and Mark Reigelman have discovered it – above and between two buildings. Floating above the restaurant Le Central, “Manifest Destiny!,” a Southern Exposure offsite public art project, consists of a tiny rustic cabin complete with ivory curtains. “Using a 19th-century architectural style and vintage building materials, the . . . → Read More: Jenny Chapman and Mark Reigelman proclaim “Manifest Destiny!” on unclaimed space in downtown San Francisco 
Check out this enormous snow drawing created by landscape artist Sonja Hinrichsen. Hinrichsen and a team of 5 volunteers tracked a series of circles into the snow at Rabbit Ears pass in Steamboat, Colorado. What happens when the temperature rises? The San Francisco based artist said, “I’m not so into making art that lasts… The world is . . . → Read More: Snow drawing by Sonja Hinrichsen 
15 feet tall, 250 lbs of vinyl … whatever it is I’d love to see it in my neighborhood. The giant blown up red ball is the child of architect and artist Kurt Perschke. In the “RedBall Project,” this charismatic object gets ensconced in various urban places around the world – St. Louis, Taipai, Sydney, Aru . . . → Read More: The “Red Ball Project” by Kurt Perschke |
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