- Artist Plans to Give Birth in Art Gallery, in Front of an Audience
- Japanese Artist Paints Incredible Portraits on iPod Touch and iPad
- The Wedding House – World’s Smallest Five-Star Hotel
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Posted: 10 Oct 2011 07:49 AM PDT Brooklyn performance artist Marni Kotak plans to have her baby in an art gallery, before an audience, during a performance she hopes will convince people “that human life itself is the most profound work of art, and that therefore giving birth, the greatest expression of life, is the highest form of art." Entitled “The Birth of Baby X” Marni’s performance will be the craziest thing that happened in the art world since Marion Laval Jeantet injected herself with horse blood. She is due sometime in the next five weeks, and visitors entering the Bushwick's Microscope Gallery are warned the baby could arrive at any time. The artist has chosen the place as a “birthing room” and will spend every day there until she has her baby. "I have decided to do this because I want to show people that, as in my previous performances, real life is the best performance art," she said.  Enjoying the support of her husband, midwife and doula, Marni Kotak says she is mentally prepared to go through childbirth in front of an audience, and says she is no more nervous about the whole thing than if she were having the baby at home or in a hospital. So not to get bored until the baby decided to come out, visitors at the art gallery can watch other works of Kotak’s related to her pregnancy, including a video where she films the audience at a summer festival and projects their faces on her belly. Marni Kotak has been known to shock audiences with her performances, which include staged re-enactments of her own birth, losing her virginity in a blue Plymouth and attending her father’s funeral.  After she performs “The Birth of Baby X” Marni Kotak will apparently continue to present her life experiences as works of art in a work entitled “Raising Baby X” in which she will probably include changing diapers, sleepless nights and crying fits. via NY Post Artist Plans to Give Birth in Art Gallery, in Front of an Audience was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 06:39 AM PDT Japanese artist Seikou Yamaoka uses a $2.99 application called ArtStudio, and his fingertips to create incredible-looking portraits on his iPod Touch and iPad. And he does it all during a long train commute. It’s amazing what some people can do with their hands, but Seikou Yamaoka’s work is even more impressive considering he only uses his fingertips. By tapping and sliding his fingertip over the 3.5-inch screen of an iPod Touch, he creates beautiful portraits that look a lot like they’ve been painted with watercolor. That’s actually the talented artist’s goal – to produce images that look more like watercolour paintings than digital artworks. He uses ArtStudio, a cheap application available on the Apple App Store to create complex colorful images over several hours, during a train commute to work. He starts with a blank canvas, draws an outline of the face he’s about to reproduce and carefully adds strokes of color until it looks like a real painting. Apart from his unusual talent of using Apple’s gadgets to create portraits, Yamaoka likes to paint the old fashioned way, using watercolor or oil-based paint.  Just like Rajacenna or Juan Francisco Casas‘ works of art, Seikou Yamaoka’s masterpieces look too good to be true, so it’s always nice when artists make a timelapse video of how they do what they do. Check it out at the bottom and also visit Seikou’s Facebook page for more of his spectacular art.       Japanese Artist Paints Incredible Portraits on iPod Touch and iPad was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 12:59 AM PDT At 2.5 meters wide and with just 53 square meters of floor space, the Eh Häusel (Wedding House) in Amberg, Germany is the world’s smallest hotel, and a five-star one at that. From the outside, the Eh Häusel looks like it’s been pushed into the narrow space between two neighboring buildings, but it’s the interior that’s supposed to impress its guests. The hotel is set up on 6 staggered floors and has all the features you’re used to finding in a luxury hotel, including a very comfortable bed, fireplace, fine furniture, flat screen TV and spa bathroom. Guests from as far as China or Mexico pay 240 euros to spend a night at the world’s smallest hotel, and believe it or not the Eh Häusel is fully booked many months in advance. Of course that’s partly due to the fact that’s it’s so small it can only be occupied by one couple at a time.  Photo by Eh Häusl But the Wedding House wasn’t always a luxury hotel. It was built in 1728, in a time when the Amberg town council decided couples could only get married if they owned a residence. A resourceful merchant came up with the idea of building a small and cheap enough house in the 2.5 meter space between two buildings and offered it two young couples who wanted to get married. They lived in it for a few weeks than sold it to other lovebirds who wanted to be legally married, and with different newlyweds occupying it every few weeks, it became known as the Wedding House. Legend has it people who spend one night at the Eh Häusl live happily ever after and never get divorced. Photo by Eh Häusl Couples who have stayed at the unique Amberg hotel say it has every convenience you can imagine, despite the tight spaces, and that’s it’s the prefect place to spend a romantic night with your partner. |
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