The One Day on Earth Project [art]

The One Day on Earth Project is one of the most comprehensive and coolest global crowdsourcing projects ever, and I am excited to participate. True to my form, I recorded a video log to commemorate the day.



More YouTube videos here.


via PBS.com:

Friday is 11/11/11, and the minds behind the documentary and online video archive known as "One Day on Earth" are hoping thousands of people around the world will film a moment in their lives this day.

Other filmmakers have used crowd-sourced footage to recreate life in a day, but what sets "One Day on Earth" apart is the online community that has grown around it since its experimental launch around the date 10/10/10, said founder and director Kyle Ruddick, who conceptualized and started the project in 2008 by reaching out to people from his home laptop.

The project's participants have since grown to 20,000, and they not only can submit their own video but can draw on the website's archive to create their own masterpieces.

One Day on Earth on the Web:

Facebook

Twitter

YouTube

Multi-Media "Bomb Shelter" Art Exhibit in NYC [street art, film]

A "Bomb Shelter" multi-media art exhibit has been erected in NYC's Washington Square Park district in "attempts to recreate the fear the Israelis face during rocket attacks."

The "Bomb Shelter" after being (legally) tagged by graffiti artists.

Below is the director's cut of the 1986 New York Subway film.

Interesting note: the film features trains with graffiti; these trains were phased out in 1989 with the "clean train" policy.

Authenticity [video].

Last night I was feeling inspired while listening to "Fake Empire" by The National, so I put together this video using footage I have taken over the past couple of years since moving out to California.

The Logo Rainbow [awesome]

The Logo Rainbow, via Dan Meth.com.

Crowd-Sourced Johnny Cash Video is Pure Win [digital media]

250,000 people in 172 countries participated in this amazing crowd-sourcing project to create Johnny Cash's final video.

In SF: Batman: Yesterday and Tomorrow

Showing at the Cartoon Art Museum through June 6. $2-6


From SF Weekly:


Batman is many things to many people: hero, gay icon, debonair billionaire, foiler of world-domination plans. He's also an historical figure suitable for course credit and maybe the guy who prevented you from being slowly lowered into that vat of hot oil. To artists, however, he’s often a blank slate, ready to be re-invented into the caped crusader of their choosing. At the exhibit “Batman: Yesterday and Tomorrow,” we get to see the work of six of the most famous side by side. There’s Bob Kane and Bill Finger, the original 1939 artists; Neal Adams, who redefined the character in the 1970s; the legendary Frank Miller; Pepe Moreno, responsible for the first computer-generated Batman graphic novel; and Paul Pope, who puts Batman in 2039. The exhibit also features a selection of Batman manga, a ‘60s style that didn’t get noticed in the U.S. until 2008, thanks to a book by Chip Kidd.