Batman and The Avengers

Age and life

3 recently-viewed videos connect on these themes.

Filmmaker Jeroen Wolf went around Amsterdam asking people to say their age.





And Danny MacAskill shows some skills through the streets of San Francisco and writes poetry with a bike (and a good video editor).

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Our solar system.

Green trouble

DC thinks it’s pushing the envelope by making its newest Green Lantern an American Muslim. I wasn’t going to say anything, but then I started reading the comments on the web… “Is Muslim Green Lantern going to stone gay Green Lantern to death?”

But the real question is, how come that darn space ring can only pick American males to yield its powers? And does he have to be masked and holding a gun?

Brazil in the art spotlight

“The same people who rest in hammocks can, whenever necessary, build a new capital in three years' time.” 

The Brazilian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale brings a homage to Brasilia’s co-architect Lúcio Costa…

…and an homage apparently to soap-opera by architect and movie director Marcio Kogan.

Meanwhile in Brazil, Spanish artist Jaume Plensa erects an enormous head out of the Guanabara Bay, part of art project OIR (Other Ideas for Rio).

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Root.

4D typography

"A type that can be seen from all angles." By Spanish graphic design firm Lo Siento.

via Design Boom

More lights

Some more beautiful time-lapse images.

A drawing

PSB not Facebook friends

 

“We’re not on Facebook. We think it’s sinister and horrible. Pet Shop Boys are but we’re not.”

Neil Tennant, interview with The Art Desk

Brazilian art in Toronto

From a small exhibit of migrating Brazilian photographers and artists at the Toronto City Hall.

Toronto on Air Show day

From my friend Andy's balcony.

Animated thoughts

Very cool mini-doc about concepts in animation.

Lights

A beautiful time-lapsed view at LA.

 

CNE 2012

Speaking of Canadiana, this week marks the end of the CNE - the annual Canadian National Exhibition - and incidentally the end of summer in Toronto. Some moments from this year's EX.

Butter bust of Toronto mayor Rob Ford, fictionally reading (a book by his arch-nemesis Margaret Atwood, nonetheless).

An alpaca.

And a lamb.

Tiny Canadian images

So the CN Tower projects tiny Canadian images that nobody can see up and down its shaft and a guy with a lot of time in his hands saw this:

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Pre-Elysium

The Boys are hustling with the upcoming release of Elysium, which is sounding more and more intriguing from the samples available on the net. The album, referred by Neil as their most "beautiful" and "deep", has a lot of references to middle age apparently, even though they are aging quite well after an awkward phase in the early 2000’s.

They will be playing the entire album live next week in Berlin and have just announced a new single, “Leaving”, another rather subdued choice, with more-sad-than-happy lyrics and some totally throwback PSB sounds. Potential for huge remixes.

In a recent interview to Vanity Fair, Neil talks about the being involved in the Olympics, the new album and how the video for Domino Dancing might have ruined things in America for them. He also talks about how pop music isn't always given its proper credit:

"There’s always been this ancient war between pop and rock. Rock is meant to be significant, therefore people write about it in terms of significance. Pop is meant to be throwaway."

And on an exclusive video for The Huffington Post UK, Chris can barely disguise his boredom. Classic.

Compare to 1986.

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Diorama map of Rio de Janeiro by Sohei Nishino.

From above

Somewhere above the Eastern seaboard of the United States.