seeing red...a lot of red

Over the weekend, a group of vandals claiming

to be neofuturists poured red dye into Trevi fountain.

As the fountain began to cycle the water through, it

soon spouted red water. They say the fountain is not

permanently damaged and that they marble statues

did not absorb any of the dye.

The vandals who took responsibility were

apparently protesting expenses incurred during

the Rome film festival - a nod to the red carpet.

They were insprired by the Futurist movement

of the early 20th century.

Makes for an interesting photo.

lite brite

Artist Richard Box recently finshed an installation of

1000 fluorescent tubes lined up in rows that flicker

to light. They are powered by the electromagnetic fields

surrounding the power lines that run overhead.

Read more and see photos here. Via Coudal.

good for something

Inhabitat has a great post about a true Cradle to Cradle concept that

Heineken introduced in 1663. It's called the WOBO (world bottle) and

it is a beer bottle that can be used as a brick after the beer has

been drunk.

The idea was conceived by architect John Habraken after Alfred

Heineken came to him with a problem. He had recently been to the

caribbean and noticed that they had a lack of affordable building

materials and beaches littered with bottles. The bottles can be

layed horizontally and stacked in traditional brick and mortar

construction.

coffee pusher

Jessica Statz sent a link to the Illy 'Push Button House' that was

part of this year's Venice Biennale. Illy sponsor's the event and has

presence there with illycaffe. Architect Adam Kalkin designed a

shipping container to transform into a fully functioning 'home cafe'

and did it completely out of recyclable materials. The industrial

container reveals and beautifly clean white and sparkling interior.

If you're lucky enough duck to be shopping in New York this holiday

season, the illycaffe will be temporarliy installed at Time Warner center.

These great tiles we saw a year or so ago at the Kvadrat showroom

in Denmark are now in prodcution. Designed by the super talented

duo of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, these flexible foam fabric tiles

can be connected together to create an infinate number of designs.

They can create and/or divide space, are a means to soundproof,

and are made from sustainble fabrics to boot. See Kvadrat for

more information and great design tools for using the product.

gtank

Please join us for gTank today at 5pm in DS3. Our most recent
product design will be discussed, reviewed.

Come! There's booze! And engaging conversation!

about town

This weekend.....

Chicago International Film Festival

Oct. 4th through Oct. 17th

MCA 40th Anniversary Events

-Free admission through November

-$40 Membership (usually $65)

-Rock On after party

Sat. 6th

-Intonation/MCA

Sun. 7th

-Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967

Through Jan. 6th

LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon

Sun.7th

and how it affects you getting around chicago

pretty pony

These rugs from Kyle Bunting feel more like art for the floor
than your standard rug. And maybe a bit like they deserve to be
experienced with bare feet! Kyle is a Texas based artist who hand
makes all of the rugs to order.
Check out his site for more luscious patterns and additional information.

coolest water feature ever

Elizabeth Gilmore sent this great video of an artist who creates words out of water as it falls.

drink light

Stewart Haygarth is a London lighting design who created a pretty

amazing fixture out of 416 disposable wine glasses and a fluorescent

tube. It was an exhibit for the London Design Festival last month.

Check out his site here.

build it

Bjarke Ingals Group (aka BIG), a Danish architecture firm, built

this model of a proposed housing development in Copenhagen

completely out of legos. Check out this time lapse video of the

construction (via gizmodo). If only we had this much time and

well, 250,000 legos.