My Personal Universe

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

Curious to discover what the the Big Bang most likely looked like, Zhan Wang blew up a massive boulder from the suburbs of Shandong and captured the result on six HD cameras recording at 2,000 FPS. The Chinese sculptor then used his renderings to recreate the scene moments after using mirrored stainless steel in an interactive studio space.

The Obliteration Room

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

This fantastic installation at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art by artist Yayoi Kusama takes interactive art to a whole new level. Starting with a blank white room the artist invited children to take part using a massive collection of colored dot stickers. The result is a multi-colored wonderland of childish joy.

Encyclopedic Landscapes

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

An apparent commentary on the eroding nature of underutilized knowledge, Guy Laramee has taken old volumes and created ranges of paginated land in a new sculpture series. What start as massive bluffs decay into ranges, crevices before ultimately flattening out into empty plains.