http://www.toplolly.com Toplolly Platform For Artistic Ideas Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:01:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Lightning Field (1977) by the American sculptor Walter De Maria, is a work of Land Art situated in a remote area of the high desert of western New Mexico. It is comprised of 400 polished stainless steel poles installed in a grid array measuring one mile by one kilometer. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/07/lightning-field/ Sending it on a maiden voyage it will crash somewhere quite soon, because glass is too heavy and key parts are guaranteed to break off. When it crashes it becomes a scattered sculpture of glass debris at a random location. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/06/glass-airplane/ http://www.toplolly.com/2008/06/swan-turns-crocodile/ Click here for more information about this work and here for a YouTube film. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/06/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/ The puzzle would contain about 5 billion pieces, and cover approx. 38.000 km2. Therefore you'd need the entire continent of Africa to house it. Seventy percent will consist of the world's oceans, which will turn putting the puzzle together into an ordeal of sorts. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/the-biggest-puzzle/ Click here for more information about the crater and here for its location. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/roden-crater/ There are no images of the now evolved artwork. Underwater photography is not useful in imaging because of the limited visibility of the underwater site. Click here for more information about this work. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/ocean-landmark/ The possibilties are endless, but I would propose an image of a baby in the womb, so the tattoo becomes a 'window' of what's happening inside. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/balloon-tattoo/ Click here for more information about the shark. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/the-headington-shark/ Film makers Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak invented a fake supermarket (branded "Ceský Sen"), and created a massive advertising campaign around it. The supermarket was presented as having unprecented scale and low prices. They succeeded in attracting over a thousand shoppers to an empty field for their "grand opening" on ... http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/the-czech-dream/ The construction programme started in February 2007 and involved the careful deconstruction of the façade across three floors of the building, which was then reconstructed and fixed to the enormous pivot installed at the heart of the building. Disturbing and disorientating from a distance, from close-up passers-by have a thrilling ... http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/turning-the-place-over/ http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/floating-boeing/ http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/bird-action-painting/ These castle builders (‘Castellers’) from Spain, were honouring a tradition that dates back to 16th century Tarragona. Click here for more information about this work. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/walking-monument/ In 1968 Wiener created a work for an outdoor exhibition at an American university. He made a series of stakes set in the ground at regular intervals to form a rectangle - twine strung from stake to stake to demark a grid. When students cut down the twine because it ... http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/wiener/ Click here for more information about this work (in Dutch) and here for a YouTube film. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/moving-house/ However, the sun-deprived village has come up with a way to catch some rays - by installing a giant mirror. The mirror, a 8 by 5 meter sheet of steel, was placed on a nearby peak to reflect sunlight onto the town's main square below. The computer-operated mirror will now ... http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/lightbeam/ Click here for more information about the Rabbit, or here to zoom in on the rabbit with Google Earth. http://www.toplolly.com/2008/03/rabbit/ http://www.toplolly.com/2008/03/hole-in-the-cloud/ http://www.toplolly.com/2008/03/intersection-vortex/