SWIMMING WITH WATERMELONS

Sigalit Landau (born in 1969 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli sculptor, video and installation artist. In 2008 she has made an extrairdinary video exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York – The Dead Sea. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.

She has produced several works that explore her native Israeli landscape in a performative way, primarily through a video trilogy that experiments with circular movements and the act of spinning. In her brilliant work, the Dead Sea, Landau emerges from a coil of watermelons which are buoyant in the Dead Sea water. This video installation shows the artist floating in a spiral of green watermelons until the coil slowly unravels. The film was shot in mid August 2004 in the area of Sdom south of Masada.

She is floating locked inside the spiral layers between the center and the periphery of the sweet raft. She is reaching out against the direction of the turning raft towards a small area in the spiral where the fruit is wounded, red and exposed like herself to the sting of the salt. The salt solution of the dead sea enables everything to float on its illusive surface. The spiral gradually becomes a thin green line abandoning the viewer.

The intensely red flesh of the fruits is revealed as they disappear, leaving the azure surface of the water nearly monochromatic. In addition, a constellation of sculptural lamp-like objects made of barbed wire have been submerged in the salt-saturated Dead Sea and dried in the desert sun, forming a crystallized surface. The exhibition is lit by the self-illuminated moving images and salt-crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.

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Self energy converting sunglasses

Designed by Hyun-Joong Kim and Kwang-Seok Jeong, the SIG or ‘Self-Energy Converting Sunglasses’ is the latest innovative device for powering your gadgets. The multifunctional sun glasses come with dye solar cells, used with nano technology, lenses that turns sun rays into electrical energy, which is good enough to power all sort of small gadgets. While a power jack at the rear of the frame connects to juice up your gadgets.

Usability:

Apart from the style statement, the Self-Energy Converting Sunglasses will protect your eyes from the harmful radiations of the sun. And there is nothing like being a part of the eco-drive going on across the world.

via: www.thedesignblog.org

GET HAPPY!!!! the law of attraction....

This is the original source material for the current Law of Attraction wave that is sweeping the world, and it is the 21st century inspiration for thousands of books, films, essays and lectures that are responsible for the current paradigm shift in consciousness.

Here you will find accurate clarification of the basics of theLaw of Attraction and practical applications as well as up-to-the-moment leading-edge expanding information regarding the Law of Attraction. (Also known as "The Teachings of Abraham")

This is the fountainhead of the information upon which the hit movie, “The Secret” was based.

A lot more on www.abraham-hicks.com

HAVE A VERY HAPPY DAY !!!!!!

find your chakra balance through you nose!!!

aveda chakra balance

A little background:
The spine and the human energy field contain chakras, or energy centers, that vibrate at different frequencies. Each chakra presents us with the opportunity to establish a root relationship and to satisfy a deep soul desire. Each frequency holds the gift of a certain power, which enhances our human experience on Planet Earth. As we tune into this power, we are internally empowered to deal with the specific life challenges of that energy center or chakra and as a consequence to live more whole, meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Chakra 1 is the center where we ground ourselves and take care of our basic needs. When the root chakra is balanced, one has good energy, a feeling of security and a healthy body awareness.
Chakra 2 is the center of vitality and sensation where we move beyond our basic needs into relationships with others. When the pleasure chakra is balanced, one has stable energy, alertness, unblocked emotions and is connected to all five senses.
Chakra 3 is the center of motivation where we set our intentions and desires. When the power chakra is balanced, one achieves goals, is self-confident and has strong motivation and direction.
Chakra 4 is the center of sympathy, empathy and love. When the heart chakra is balanced, one feels love and connection to self and others.
Chakra 5 is the center of creativity, self-expression and communication. When the throat chakra is balanced, one has inner trust, inner reliance and easily expresses their ideas and thoughts.
Chakra 6 is the center of intuition, imagination and balance. When the intuition chakra is balanced, one feels strong intuition, a connection to oneself and mentally fit.
Chakra 7 is the center of connecting to something greater than oneself, and expressing wisdom and enlightenment. When the crown chakra is balanced, one feels strong, unclouded and joy for life.

Aveda has created an authentic fusion of pure essential oils blended to balance the root chakra according to Ayurveda, the ancient healing art of India. info from www.yogainyou.com

aveda chakra balance

gardening is never been so easy

I always loved the idea of growing herbs and vegetables out of the garden contest. Vegetable and herb plant are so good looking that i find the perfect also indoors in a kitchen but also in a dining room !
Well these guys at www.pottingshedcreations.com combine the art of gardening with the art of design and created "grow bottles" using as containers recycled restaurant wine bottles to grow basil, oregano, chives, parsley and mint.
I guess they would look stunning on every desk of a contemporary jazzy loft office space....not to mention the garden scent.

another great example is www.racinecarre.com.   


RACINE CARRE launches its new collections “High Culture” and “ Ready to Grow” with ecolo-chic looks, or pop or glamour airs.
You can grow basil, lawn, wheat or peas, the containers have magnets on the bottom and can be displayed horizontally.

Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with.

Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every four months to highlight another country.  Each Conflict Kitchen iteration is augmented by events, performances, and discussion about the culture, politics, and issues at stake with each country we focus on.

We are currently presenting the second iteration of Conflict Kitchen via Bolani Pazi, an Afghan take-out restaurant that serves a savory homemade afghan turnover filled with either  pumpkin, spinach, lentils, or potatoes and leeks. Developed in collaboration with members of the Afghan community, our bolani comes packaged in a custom-designed wrapper that includes interviews with Afghans both in Afghanistan and the United States on subjects ranging from Afghan food and culture to the current geopolitical turmoil.

Through food, wrappers, programming, and daily interactions with customers, Conflict Kitchen creates an ongoing platform for first-person discussion of international conflict, culture, and politics. In addition, the project introduces a rotating venue for culinary and cultural diversity in Pittsburgh, as future iterations will focus on  North Korea, Venezuela, and more.

Conflict Kitchen is a project by John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski and is funded by the Sprout Fund,The Waffle Shop, the Center for the Arts in Society, and the sale of food. Graphic design by Brett Yasko. Architectural design by Pablo Garcia of POiNT. Special thanks to Illah Nourbakhsh, Sohrab Kashani, Marti Louw, Harrison Apple, Sara Faradji, Courtney Wittekind, Jasmine Friedrich, Hilary Baribeau, Angel Gonzlaez, and all of those from the Iranian community who supplied us with their input and perceptions.

from : www.conflictkitchen.org

20 must have info on the web

What’s a cookie? How do I protect myself on the web? And most importantly: What happens if a truck runs over my laptop? For things you’ve always wanted to know about the web but were afraid to ask, read on…www.20thingsilearned.com

downtown pop up park in New york

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As New York continues to get hit by blizzards, city dwellers longing for a picnic without the risk of frostbite can head downtown to the OpenHouse Gallery at 201 Mulberry Street, where a pop-up park opened on January 8. The gallery has been converted into an indoor park, with fake grass, rocks, trees, a pond and bird sounds. While there's not enough room to toss around a frisbee, park-goers can play bocce ball and croquet, or attend a daily yoga session from 12-1 ($15 suggested donation). There's also a seesaw for the kids.

Open daily from 11am to 6pm until the end of the month, the Pop-Up Park is the latest development in New York City's ever-evolving park system. From the famous High Lineto a park to be built on shipping containers, New York is making sure its residents have cool green spaces to take a time out.

get a luxury home in 7 days

Meka was created by three friends, one a designer, one an architect, and the other a developer, looking to create well designed, alternative dwellings that could be made and sold at affordable prices. Beyond aspirations for typical prefabricated reasoning, and after years of extensive online market research, they found myriad examples from which to compare and consider. Aware of the sheer volume of shipping container buildings existing around the world, and of the many individuals and companies that had built incredible varieties and styles of this particular typology, still they found no easy way to order or procure them. ‘Meka’ (an acronym for modular, environmental, kinetic, assembly), is a combination of their design considerations with a manufacturing and ordering solution that delivers the most cost savings available on the planet. The result was to produce the most luxurious living spaces with a clean modern sensibility, at super affordable prices. These products will surpass expectations. Don’t be a skeptic, be a cynic, and then believe it. Ethos is everything. Ego is nothing.

Done in 7 days.....not too bad !www.mekaworld.com

what if ...... stop breathe respect

what if....people could stop for a minute, take a deep breath and be aware of who they really are, where are they going and why. Temporary public art can be a social interactive event promoting positive thinking. please consider adding your comment on what respect is for you posting your comment, photo or video on www.stopbreatherespect.com  . It will be part of an art exibition by artist Fabio Pietrantonio  www.fabiopietrantonio.com  already held in Milano and now proposed to other key cities in the world such as New York, Paris, Berlin, Osaka, Auschwitz, Jerusalem.