It’s just a test of a 3D software. But it’s impressing enough to show. Thanks for the tip, Howard Rheingold.

street tests from Najork on Vimeo.

The Golden Institute for Energy in Colorado was the premier research and development facility for energy technologies in an alternate reality where Jimmy Carter had defeated Ronald Reagan in the US election of 1981. Equipped with virtually unlimited funding to make the United States the most energy-rich nation on the planet, its scientific and technical advancements were rapid and often groundbreaking.

Its scope ranged from planetary engineering to the enabling of individual participation and profit from the creation of electricity. Notable projects include the development of the state of Nevada into a weather experimentation zone and the new gold rush in the form of lightning-harvesters that followed, or major modifications made to the national infrastructure in an attempt to use freeways as a power plants. The institute’s vision continues to inform the American consciousness to this day. In relation to energy preservation and harnessing, but also in terms of man’s relationship to the forces of nature.

Sascha Pohflepp – The Golden Institute from Plugimi on Vimeo.

With a series of pictures about poverty amongst students, two students from the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts (École Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs Strasbourg) won Paris Match’s (a french weekly magazine) annual prize for student photojournalism. The intersting point and the problem (at least for the jury of Paris Match) was that those pictures were not documentary reality but purposely posed – a mocumentary.

The cheque with the prize money was blocked after the two creators, Guillaume Chauvin and Rémi Hubert, read out their statement, that “they had wanted to make a powerful artistic gesture attacking the voyeurism and gullibility of parts of the press.” (The Independent)

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Making people wonder is probably the only way to get them out of their daily grind for some seconds. However getting this done is really hard as mainstream advertising’s daily business is to break rules and cross even the most delicate borders.

A very intensive way is to do a performance on the streets as face-to-face human-to-human is the most emotional approach. But this takes a lot of time and energy. Mark Jenkins found a way – he did not put himself on the street to get the message across, but employed dummies to this job for him. Out came some really disturbing stuff.

The installations of Mark Jenkins evoke a different perspective and transport the viewer into a different reality. A reality where anyone can be Mark Jenkins.

This one’s dedicated to all the students working on their final thesis or senior project. It shows the suffering on deadlines, doubts and dreads that artists and designers have to fight against while trying to finish their work.

Bang-yao Liu, a student from the Savannah College of Art and Design made it subject to his senior project. For him post-it notes were the real enemies in his work.

This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.

So if you are suffering too much make it topic of your thesis to deal with your psychological creativity blocades before you enter real life. Interesting is also the making-of movie.
Found via Wooster Collective.