Art Installation
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Anti oil installation in Berlin at least I think it is

At a secret location…

Phlegm Comics . 

Tees Valley Arts on behalf of Middlesbrough Council with partners Halcrow are seeking expressions of interest from Landscape Architects, Designers, Artists and Architects for an ideas competition for 'roadscape'.

The project offers an opportunity to prototype an idea with a view to seeing its adoption in significant adjacent areas in both East and West Middlesbrough.

An initial brief is available at www.ribacompetitions.com take the link to 'new competitions'. A DVD of the site with interviews with the client group, maps aerial photography and background documents can be obtained from the Riba Competitions office at RIBA Competitions Office | 6 Melbourne Street | Leeds LS2 7PS | Tel: 0113 2341335 | Fax: 0113 2460744

In the first instance you are asked to submit an expression of interest by the 8th  January 2007. Details of how to do so are available from the initial brief that can be downloaded from www.ribacompetitions.com

Alexandre Orion is cleaning São Paulo’s tunnels by scraping the deposited vehicle exhaust soot from the walls to make hundreds of skulls. Even though the police turned up several times, they couldn't do much as cleaning is no crime. After some time the São Paulo municipal authority started their own cleaning mission, consequently only cleaning the parts already cleaned by Alexandre. Again the skulls appeared on the remaining soot "canvas", and this time the city decided to clean all of the tunnels.

via placeboKatz and Birdhouse.

D*face show private view Thursday 12th 6-9pm

BLEK LE RAT'S FIRST SOLO UK EXHIBITION, 12TH Oct - 13th Nov Leonard Street Gallery, 73 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4QS

'Everytime I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well. Only twenty years earlier…' Banksy

Grandfather of the stencil, all-round street art legend and cheese-eating surrender monkey, Blek Le Rat (Xavier Prou), is also getting his first UK solo show — on the same night as D*Face. Art fight! Art fight! Art fight!

The exhibition, we are reliably informed, will be a complete overview of Blek's work from the last three decades and should give the current interest in street art what the boffins are already calling 'a historical context'.

A message from Go:

This is Sheffield calling. Our city needs your help.
 
We've had an idea to change the way the world sees Sheffield. To make our city better. It's a project called Cooling The Towers. But it's all under threat. Please take five minutes to read this email. Then forward it to everyone else.

This is the best idea Sheffield ever had.

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COOLING THE TOWERS

There are two cooling towers on the edge of Sheffield, next to Meadowhall and the M1.

Currently they mean grey, industrial, Full Monty. Sheffield is over.

We want to turn them into massive works of public art that mean what Sheffield is now: green, creative and different. And amazing.

We've been working on this for two years and from running an initial competition for ideas in our fanzine GO ( www.dontgo.co.uk ), we're now working with Channel 4 as one of the winners of their Big Art Project ( www.channel4.com/bigart). Channel 4 love the idea, and have applied for funding to make it a reality. This is possible. We're almost there.

BUT there's a baddy in the story. They're a big baddy. The owners of the site are called Eon. They own Powergen. After four months of negotiations, and all our arguments for why this is a good idea (which you can find on our website) they've decided to knock the towers down and build another industrial shed.

Sheffield wins again.

We think this is too good an idea and too good a chance for Sheffield to just give up, and let them have their way. Knocking these towers down will be a tragedy.

So we need your help.

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What if you're not from Sheffield? This still affects you. It's just another example of A Big Corporation with no brains doing what they want and ignoring people like you and me. We're not luddites and we're not revolutionaries. We've just got a good idea and they're not interested in listening. Who decides how our cities develop, what they mean? Us or them?

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HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO:

SIGN THIS PETITION. Someone's already set a petition up. You can see how strongly people feel. Sign it here http://www.petitiononline.com/tct2/petition.html

GO TO OUR MYSPACE. We're working on a proper website, but for now this is the digital HQ. This is where you'll information and updates. Be our friend. Get your friends to be our friends. www.myspace.com/coolingthetowers

EMAIL EON. Tell them why they're wrong. For some sample text, click here. Email the chief exec here: paul.golby@eon-uk.com That's Dr Paul Golby to you. Evidently he's not got a doctorate in Doing The Right Thing. It only takes five minutes. Do it now.

TURN EON OFF. If you're a customer, tell them you'll change power suppliers if the towers are knocked down. In fact, just do it now. Why not go a bit greener? Eon produce more CO2 every year than the whole of Croatia. Change to Ecotricity www.ecotricity.co.uk/switch

SHOW YOUR FACE. We're going to create a photographic petition. As well as a list of names, we want to actually show the world how many people support these towers and this project. So if you do, take a picture of yourself, or the towers, or of you holding the phrase 'THE TOWERS ARE OURS' and send it to us with your name and location. We'll put it on the website. And tell your friends to do it too. Send it here go.sheffield@gmail.com

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We love this city so much. We're not going to sit back and watch it lose out again. We're tired of Sheffield being the loser. We want people across the world to know what this city means, realise how brilliant it is.

We don't want another toys r us.

Please help us.

Love from

GO X

Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.

via wooster collective

Little people - a tiny street art project (via Wooster Collective)