Meet Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius. Sick of people illegally parking in the bike lanes of the Lithuanian capital, he decided to take matters into his own hands. “I’ve had enough of these drivers parking their luxury cars on bike lanes and pedestrian crossings,” he said. “This tank is a good tool to solve the problem of parking in the wrong place.” We might add that it also looks like he’s having a lot of fun while “problem solving.” Can you imagine what would happen if Mayor Bloomberg pulled stunt like this? [Photo credit: Telegraph via GOOD]
Prepare to have your mind blown. It took Redditor smsilton two hours and about 150 shots to capture the above photo of an MC Escher painting as seen through a water drop. “The hardest part was focusing,” he explains. “In the set up picture you can see a piece of string above the eye dropper. I would let that hang down off the eye dropper and focus on that, then move it and squeeze the dropper and the shutter at almost the same time. I have like 30ish more pictures with the drop clearly in the shot but the sketch behind it isn’t in focus, this was the clearest one I got.” Click through to check out a closeup, along with a behind-the-scenes shot of how he set up the image.
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For his new series Ink Riders, Italian photographer and digital artist Albert Seveso — who is probably best known on the internet for his “sperm shaping” technique — captures images of LEGO surfer dudes deftly navigating waves of blue ink and water. We find them almost as mind-boggling as those tattooed LEGOs that Barcelona’s Grey agency created last year to help promote Pilot Extra-Fine ball-pens. Click through to see some additional photos of the tiny kahunas in action.
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Thirty years ago Chris Bray, the younger of the two men in the shots above, snapped a photo of him and his dad at the initial launch of the STS-1/Columbia. Last week, they returned to the Kennedy Space Center to recreate it at the final launch of the STS-135/Atlantis. We’re not sure what we find more impressive: Bray’s dedication to capturing an image that bookends this era of the space program so nicely, or the fact that his cotton shirt seems to have held up so well over the years. Get a more detailed look at the side-by-side photos here. [Boing Boing via Reddit]
Like a modern day version of Rainbow Brite’s Color Castle, Olafur Eliasson’s latest installation, Your rainbow panorama, is a candy-colored platform atop the ARoS Museum of Art that provides a 360º view of the city of Arhus, Denmark. Simply put, after looking at the magical photos, we really, really want to go to there. “I see Your rainbow panorama as an orientation tool,” explains Eliasson in his artist statement. “Dividing Aarhus into color zones, it has the qualities of a lighthouse: it draws attention not only to itself, but also to your physical location in Aarhus. For people living in the city and moving through the different times of day, the work becomes a compass in time and space.” Click through for some additional images of the work.
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When Olek yarn bombed the Wall Street bull back in December, we thought that nothing could top it. Apparently we were wrong. If you live in New York, check out her 15′x14′ crocheted studio apartment — complete with walls covered with text messages from former lovers — at the Christopher Henry Gallery through May 28th. If you’re lucky, you might even catch a peek of the sleeping artist; she’s reportedly been sleeping at the gallery, because it’s really her bed in the installation. [Photo credit: Dean Kaufman via New York Magazine]
Hot on the heels of The Atlantic’s trend piece on the growing popularity of travel to desolate locations like Roswell and Chernobyl, our friends at Gadling have put together a photo roundup of 10 abandoned cities that might strike your fancy. Our favorite of the bunch? The Sanzhi District of Taiwan, which is home to abandoned pod-shaped buildings (also known as “UFO houses”) like the one above; originally built back in the ’70s, the strange structures were intended to be part of a resort marketed at US military officers, but funding fell through.
Our friends at My Modern Met have posted a full photo preview of MOCA’s Art in the Streets — the very first major US museum exhibition of graffiti and street art — but Banksy’s stunning stained glass window is the piece that we felt the most compelled to share. According to reports, Banksy worked on the piece with a group of LA students, and it took them three or four days to complete. Click through for additional shots.
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Yes, it’s a silly pun, but it made us laugh. Anyone know who is responsible for this new piece? Or what exactly it’s supposed to mean? [via Wooster Collective]
Milan-based street artist Guildor explains, “Writing on water is like writing down a thought in order to keep it secure even when it is shaken by the course of life, to distinguish the important things from those you should just let flow by.” Click through to see photos of his other foam “statements,” as well as a video of the artist at work.
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