Liquid Glass est le titre d’une série de splendides clichés réalisés par Jean Bérard Fotografia. Réalisées au sein de leur studio situé à Mexico City, ces images mélangent avec une maîtrise impressionnante le verre et le liquide permettant de créer une illusion. A découvrir dans la suite.
Inspired by the natural occurrence of water condensing onto leaves, the Leaf system uses the same principle to collect dew before filtering and turning it into usable water. A solar powered thermoregulator ensures the surface temp is always below the dewpoint of the surrounding air, triggering drops to form and slide into the carbon/sand filtering layers located in the “stem.” Depending on humidity, the unit can collect up to 15 liters of water every day!
Designer: Anurag Sarda
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Tim Tadder est un photographe qui a eu l’idée de proposer à des hommes de les immortaliser au moment de l’explosion de ballons remplis d’eau près de leur visage. Cette série d’images fortement colorées appelée « Water Wigs » donne l’impression que ces derniers se coiffent de perruques d’eau.
Focus sur l’impressionnant spectacle « Water Illumination », avec cette compilation de photographies prises à Tokyo durant le Odaiba Water Illumination Show. Projetant avec un impressionnant écran de 60 mètres sur 23 des images de baleines ou requins, le rendu très réussi est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Spraying a wall with water creates graffiti with tiny points of light instead of paint in this installation by French artist Antonin Forneau (+ movie).
Water Light Graffiti is made of thousands of LED lights that light up when they come into contact with water.
Participants can use paintbrushes, sponges, fingers or spray cans to sketch out words and pictures.
The project was unveiled in Poitiers, France, between 22 and 24 July this year while Forneau was in residence at the DigitalArti Artlab.
Other projects involving water we’ve featured recently include a sprinkler that paints rainbows and a series of fountains with added furniture.
Photographs are by Quentin Chevrier at DigitalArti Artlab.
Here’s some more information about the project:
Water Light Graffiti is a surface made of thousands of LEDs illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch a brightness message or just to draw.
Water Light Graffiti is a wall for ephemeral messages in the urban space without deterioration. A wall to communicate and share magically in the city. For a few weeks, Antonin Fourneau has been working in residence at Digitalarti Artlab on the Water Light Graffiti project.
After several tries, prototypes and material improvements, Water Light Graffiti was finally ready to take place for a few days in a public space, which happened to be Poitiers. From July 22nd to 24th, Poitiers inhabitants could discover and try Water Light Graffiti with the artist, the Digitalarti Artlab team and Painthouse, a graffiti collective, invited for demonstrations.
Water Light Graffiti is a project by Antonin Fourneau.
Engineer: Jordan McRae
Design Structure: Guillaume Stagnaro
Graffiti performance: Collectif Painthouse
Assistant team: Clement Ducerf and all the ArtLab volunteers
ArtLab Manager: Jason Cook
Filming: Sarah Taurinya & Quentin Chevrier
Photographs: Quentin Chevrier
Music: Jankenpopp
Editing and titles: Formidable Studio and Maïa Bompoutou
Support: Ville de Poitiers and Centre Culturel Saint Exupéry
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Découverte de cet étonnant mur de LED réactif au contact de l’eau. Un projet intitulé sobrement « Water Light Graffiti » par Antonin Fourneau et produit par Digitalarti. Voici en images et vidéo son utilisation pour la première fois dans les rues de Poitiers fin Juillet 2012, par le collectif de graffeurs Painthouse et le public.
This sprinkler by Dutch artist Edwin Deen sprays jets of coloured water to turn a room into a rainbow (+ slideshow + movie).
Deen used a simple garden sprinkler and seven colour pigments to create the small device.
The sprinkler was first shown at the TAG gallery in The Hague and is now on show at Ampelhaus in Rotterdam until 28 August. From 30 August it will be part of exhibition Barry at the W in the W139 gallery in Amsterdam.
We’ve previously featured a window made of glass prisms which cast rainbows on the floor.
Above image is by Niels Post
Photography is by Edwin Deen except where otherwise stated.
Above image is by Ampelhaus
Here’s some more information from the artist:
Edwin Deen, Liquid Rainbow, 2011
Color pigment, an electric tap, a few metres of hose and a plain garden sprinkler. These are the ingredients Edwin Deen used to create something seemingly impossible: he materialised a rainbow. Liquid Rainbow plays with the tension that occurs when the sun on a rainy day sends its rays to the earth and fills the sky with the elusive promise of a rainbow. The heedless visitor never knows when Liquid Rainbow will enter into force, but when the installation is spraying surprise and joy are never far away. The repetition of the spray movement intensifies the seven colors on the white wall. That change is barely perceptible, but provides ‘Liquid Rainbow’ with indeed a tangible dimension.
Edwin Deen (1980, Linschoten, NL) is interested in physical processes and the use of everyday objects and base materials. Through experimentation and aesthetic images he emphasises that which we usually neglect in a graceful and attractive, but interesting way. (Text by Lise Lotte ten Voorde.)
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Portugese studio LIKEarchitects and fashion designer Ricardo Dourado have used beach loungers, garden furniture and toys to get the people of Guimarães in Portugal paddling in the city’s fountains (+ slideshow).
Yellow loungers are lined up inside one narrow fountain, while a deeper fountain can now be accessed by sets of swimming pool stairs.
A wide but shallow fountain is filled with stripy parasols, as well as plastic tables and chairs.
The ‘Olympic pool’ contains inflatable rings and the ‘playland pool’ is full of colourful plastic balls.
Named Fountain Hacks, the temporary installations have won the Performance Architecture prize for urban interventions as part of Guimarães’ year as a European Capital of Culture.
Another ‘urban hack’ we’ve featured on Dezeen is a project by lighting designers Luzinterruptus to stick 400 illuminated silicone nipples onto statues in Madrid.
Photography is by Dinis Sottomayor, apart from where otherwise stated.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
Concept: Located in the interior of Portugal, Guimarães presents a high number of fountains with the quest to reduce somehow the summertime heat. Our proposal, to be implemented during the hottest months, is to intervene on these fountains, enhancing their use by creating a new (water)land of urban opportunities.
Above image is by Francisca Sottomayor
Unexpected pertinence: Extending the current notions of public space, the inhabitants of Guimarães are invited to take the maximum profit of these (waterful) mo(nu)ments. The concept is to promote an occupation of the water public spaces by redefining city’s physical limits and deleting the social predefined boundaries. This project is not about beauty, but reinvention – it is about fountain-use upgrade design.
Urban plug-in: Fountain Hacks is an interventive system that takes advantage of the dichotomy between traditional and new – adding new elements to valorise the pre-existence. (Re)Using standard pool stairs, typical waterslides or domestic showers, Fountain Hacks is far away of being an average place.
Above image is by Francisca Sottomayor
Social happening: Like Anita Ekberg’s scene at Fontana di Trevi in Federico Fellini’s ‘Dolce Vita’, Guimarães inhabitants will be free to experience the city fountains in a real, uninhibited, way. Taking advantage of the fountains centrality in public spaces, this project seeks to promote these daily actions as a freshly (!) social happening – fountains will become the stage where citizens and tourists are the real-time actors.
Low-tech, maximum effect: Quick and simple to implement, low-tech urban hacks shows city-users they must be part of the city urban planning, calling for a use of public space where hacking becomes an energetic, optimistic design approach. Fountain Hacks promotes places to enjoy and refresh: put your feet into the water as you have always wished; try on the social shower and invite your neighbour to join you; make part of the city users! Bathing suits, towels and changing rooms will, of course, be available for the unprepared adventurers.
Unusual place: Fountain Hacks is a bizarre strategy for extraordinary gathering that goes beyond the long-time established, surprising people with the unexpected and inviting to unforeseen actions. Calling for the contribution of passers-by, Fountain Hacks (re)creates the contemporary use of the public space in a constant dynamic of surprise.
Above image is by Francisca Sottomayor
Playful masterplan: Bringing joy to the city, this playful strategy is a Masterplan for a city whose inhabitants will become happier – bathing in fountains is a public demonstration of happiness, only seen when the city’s soccer club achieves something remarkable. Fountain Hacks is about the urban renewal based on the idea that the key to evolve into a pulsating city is to promote the active inhabitancy by the community.
Collective outcome: Fountain Hacks is not a static architecture. It’s a developing system on taking advantage of urban equipments and extending its fields of action. It’s a win-win situation, an urban symbiosis, able to adapt to new contexts and therefore replicable in the essence. It explores the potential of using a traditional monument as platform for a new urban space and questions the social barriers that forbid us to fully enjoy the common space.
Fountain Hacks is a project by a team formed by the architects Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto (LIKEarchitects) with the fashion designer Ricardo Dourado.
Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto are architects formed by FAUP, in 2008. In 2010, upon completion of their course and internship, they founded LIKEarchitects, a studio devoted to the design of ephemeral architectures and intervention in public space. Being of an experimental, provocative and innovative nature, the LIKEarchitects collective is now formed by the young Portuguese architects Diogo Aguiar, João Jesus and Teresa Otto, seeks to combine their basilar architectural knowledge acquired in the renowned Faculty of Architecture of Oporto with other more radical architectural experiences they have had in worldwide reference studios such as UNStudio and OMA in The Netherlands and RCR Arquitectes, in Spain.
The proposed temporary structures, which are attentive to the current socio-economic scenario, aim to boost places and involve the community in a critical participation of urban space, having Installation, Happening and Urban Art as references. LIKEarchitects’ work has been awarded several prizes and been published both in national and international specialized magazines and books.
Ricardo Dourado is a young fashion designer formed in CITEX, in 2003. Upon completion of his course he was invited to present his collection at ModaLisboa in 2004, maintaining its presence in this important Portuguese fashion event since then. In parallel, Ricardo Dourado is also part of the design team of the company Polopique, with studios in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. Its recent, but already vast, resume stands out from the nomination for the “Golden Globes” as Best Stylist 2010, the teaching of “streetwear design” in CITEX (2004-2009) as well as its presence with the collection SS10 in the “Wonder Room” of Selfrigdes in London.
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Inspired by the human body’s own natural thermoregulation system, the Botl is a clever design that, like us, uses sweat as its primary cooling mechanism. If you’ve ever had a cold drink outside in the sun, you’ve see beads of water drip down the side. The Botl features a unique porous skin that holds on to this “perspiration” so that when the user is riding a bike, the breeze hits the bottle and keeps the beverage cooler longer. Genius!
Designer: Benjamin Helle
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Iceland’s small-batch spirit distilled over lava rocks
Only a handful of components are necessary for making Reyka vodka: a grain spirit made from quality wheat and barley, water, geothermal energy, lava rock filtration and a custom-crafted, copper Carter-Head still. The incredibly smooth spirit is the upshot of Iceland’s pristine environment, which affords the distillery an extremely pure brewing process. We recently had the chance to meet with Reyka’s master distiller Kristmar Olafsson in Borgarnes, who shed greater insight on their small-batch production.
Steam produced by molten rock is funneled in a stainless steel pipe to the distillery, where it heats Olafsson’s beautiful Carter-Head gin still, which was handcrafted in Scotland. One of only six in the world, Reyka’s earns the unique distinction of being the only one used for crafting vodka. This gives Olafsson the advantage of controlling the spirit’s path, manually manipulating the machine throughout the process and capturing only the best part of the spirit for bottling. Traditional vodka stills force the distiller to use the entire spirit from beginning to end, and in order to remove impurities it has to be distilled again.
“When we start to distill—this is just like when you’re boiling water in the kitchen—the vapors start to rise up when the spirit is close to 100 degrees [celsius], and we keep it inside the tower here in the beginning because when the vapors start to rise up it passes through a lot of copper pipes. Everything is created just to remove impurities from the spirit, and we distillate, or boil it, for about 30-40 minutes and keep it always inside the tower. The lightest ingredients stay in the upper part of the still, and that’s the part we are removing from the spirit. These are the impurities that give it a bad taste and bad smell.”
Olafsson removes about 30-40 liters of impure liquid in this initial process, which is simply discarded. He knows when the time is up by his expert sense of smell, and the remaining desirable vapor is pushed to another tower in the still, cooled down for a bit and returned to a liquid state. They then distill about 1,200 liters of 96% alcohol for five or six hours, resulting in the spirit that is used for Reyka later on. The last 250 liters is significantly weaker at around 35% alcohol, which they separate and use for flavor-infused vodkas like Opal Red.
To bring the spirit down to a more drinkable 80 proof, they blend it with water from the nearby Grábrók spring, ideally located on a 4,000-year-old lava field. This is then run through actual lava rocks—which they change about every three months—for the ultimate in natural filtration.
One taste of Reyka vodka and it’s clear that something is different. It feels silky on the palate, and the clean flavor is easily sipped neat. Currently the eight-person team at Reyka is producing around only 400,000 bottles a year, but Olafsson hopes to increase this over time, slowly but surely. His distribution approach is not unlike that of his distillation process, both the result of extreme patience and well-earned instinct.
You can purchase Reyka at shops throughout the U.S. and U.K. (as well as in Iceland) for around $20 a 750ml bottle.
See more images in the slideshow. Photos by Karen Day
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