If you’re just strolling down the street or driving in your car, you’d never notice anything weird with this house in Raleigh, North Carolina. It looks like a house is supposed to look. You can imagine the family that lives there and the weekday dinners they throw for the neighborhood. You can imagine the kids in the yard. But no. It’s not a real house. This home hides a noisy water pump station for the city. What?
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This week Joerg invited some students from the Technical University of Munich to create general mayhem with him via a steel axe. But an axe by itself isn’t menacing/relevant enough. It obviously has to double as a slingshot. And it does! The handle of the axe is hollow . . .
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The optical drive may be making its exit in the world of personal computing, but at least it seems to still have a place in artistic architecture. Aram Bartholl — the man behind New York City’s infamous USB dead drops — has installed a DVD burner into the side of the Museum of the Moving Image to promote HOT, an art exhibition described as “a group show about video that is not video.” Passersby who pop in a blank DVD-R will be rewarded with a digital copy of the show and the satisfaction of finally having something to do with their aging stash of unused optical media. Just how do you install PC hardware in a museum wall? Drill an enormous hole, of course — check out a video of the installation for yourself after the break.
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