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In the digital age, time-lapse videos have become as ubiquitous as Facebook or smartphones. We're not mad, since we've been known to post our fair share of time-lapse vids here on SHFT, but at the same time, the world doesn't really need many more. Or so we thought, until we saw this mind-bending clip from Jeff Frost that takes time-lapse techniques to another level. Combining......read more
In his hotly anticipated new show at the Guggenheim Museum, Mexican-American artist Gabriel Orozco explores the fertile territory where nature and humanity intersect. The exhibition, entitled Asterisms, is a two-part sculptural and photographic installation comprising thousands of items of trash that he collected from a playing field near his home in New York and a protected......read more
Every year in June, New York City’s Governors Island plays host to FIGMENT, an art and cultural festival that transforms the island a large-scale collaborative artwork. The 2013 edition will feature this winning sculptural entry from Studio Klimoski Chang Architects called "Head In the Clouds." Riffing on the image of daydreaming in the park, designers Jason Klimoski......read more
Growing up in tornado-prone western Kansas, Lori Nix witnessed her fair share of natural disasters. Add to that her childhood interest in disaster movies and we have a women who says she may be "a little obsessed" with the apocalypse. In her latest series, "The City," the photojournalist-turned-artist imagines a post-apocalyptic urban environment that is emptied of human......read more
We tend to think of subway stations as drab, functional spaces that exist to serve one purpose: moving humans from A to B. But as we recently saw with Nick Frank's beautiful, eerie photos of the Munich subway system, that's not necessarily the case. But the subway station beautification game belongs to Sweden's largest city. Over the last 55 years, Stockholm has commissioned 150 artists to fill......read more
The massive plastic trash vortex in the North Pacific is one of the world's most depressing environmental issues. It's terrifying, really. Just thinking about it is enough to send me into the fetal position. Melbourne-based photographer Kim Preston faces up to the problem of plastic pollution with "Plastic Pacific," a new series of photos that find everyday plastic......read more
Simon Beck dons snowshoes before walking around in freshly falled snow to create these massive, ephemeral art installations. The British artist, whose work spotted on Colossal, has been making the installations since 2004: Each work takes the 54-year-old artist anywhere between 6 hours and two days to complete, an impressive physical feat aided from years of competitive......read more
For her series Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten, Santa Monica-based artist Diane Meyer added embroidery to square sections of photos she shot during time spent in New Jersey, Italy, and the American West. Using the time-honored craft of hand-stitching, Meyer created pixelated squares on the snapshots, making a multi-layered comment about nostalgia and photography. According to the......read more
In France, winter is generally a drab, grey affair. But photographer Florent Tanet found a way to inject some color into the season with these images inspired by the bounty of produce found in a Parisian food emporium. Arranging fruits and veggies by color, Tanet created playful still-life photos of everyday foods. The series, titled "A Colorful Winter," is currently on display at La grande......read more
Rick Rubin is near the top of the list of the famous people who like to chill with. The legendary record producer, who famously launched Def Jam with Russell Simmons from his NYU dorm room, is not only one of most important architects in the history of popular music, but also a sage-figure on the path to spiritual enlightenment. In this short film, created by Alison Chernick for Nowness, Rubin......read more
