sarah sosiak

Mixed Media

Composite of the car-turned-container-garden at Flora Grubb Gardens.

Kiasma

The ramp at Steve Holl's Kiasma (the Finish Museum of Contemporary Art) in Helsinki. More on the building here.

More photos of the building and current installations on Flickr.

hot glass | cold beer

At Public Glass' Hot Glass | Cold Beer fundraiser.

Come on out and help us celebrate Halloween by supporting Public Glass. Select a hand blown drinking vessel, allow us to fill it and sit back to watch and evening of glass blowing demos by Bay Area artist Guido Gerlitz. Music by Loose Change Collective.

victimless leather

The Victimless Leather exhibit at the Design and the Elastic Mind show. A tiny coat made out of living mouse stem cells. I'm glad I saw it before the museum had to kill it:

Paola Antonelli, a senior curator at the museum, had to kill the coat. “It was growing too much,” she said in an interview from a conference in Belgrade. The cells were multiplying so fast that the incubator was beginning to clog. Also, a sleeve was falling off. So after checking with the coat’s creators, a group known as SymbioticA, at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology at the University of Western Australia in Perth, she had the nutrients to the cells stopped.

-- NYTimes

the moment a thought explains itself

Found this in London, on a wall near Oxford Circus. From the comments on Flickr, it appears that there are at least two more out there.