A series of drawings by Steve Lambert, created to hang in various rooms in your home. Likely to generate some curious/awkward moments when you have guests over.

Limited edition prints are for sale online.

Related entry: The most awkward 404 Not Found page on the internet

• www.visitsteve.com

Back in May the National Gallery of Denmark invited seven progressive musicians to create a piece of music based on their interpretations of an art work in the museum's collection.

The musical interpretations have been released one at a time, and now they are all available as an app that allows users to listen to the music, either at the museum or at home while exploring high-res photos of the art that served as inspiration.

Museum goers without smarthphones can borrow a handheld device at the museum. The app is in Danish but given the limited amount of content it should be possible for anyone to navigate and enjoy.

Music Made by Art features:
Giana Factory (painting by Abildgaard)
Stoffer & Maskinen (painting by Ejnar Nielsen)
Kasper Bjørke (painting by Valdemar S. Møllers)
Darkness Falls (painting by Casper David Friedrich)
Turboweekend (sculpture by Niels Hansen Jacobsen)
Thulebasen (painting by Jørgen Valentin Sonne)
Trentemøller (painting by an unknown artist)

• More info at The National Gallery of Denmark + Get the app on iTunes

Copenhagen Metro is helping promote talented Danish authors, poets and graphic artists by distributing their works at various Metro stations.

The project is a result of a competition held earlier this year, which led to the publication of 13 small booklets that are offered to passengers free of charge.

The booklets have been published in 300.000 copies, and they are also available for download.

Metro-Literature is produced by Copenhagen Metro in collaboration with the Italian initiative Subway Letteratura.

• www.metro-litteratur.dk

The Szpilman Award is awarded to ephemeral art works - or in other words: works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time.

The winner of the 2011 award has just been announced, and the award goes to the Slovakian artist Jaroslav Kyša.

Kyša is awarded for the work 'The Barrier' in which he uses doves to create disturbance in the city of London by secretly scattering their favorite fodder in front of shops or across busy streets.

Another brilliant work (and a personal favorite) among the top six nominees is David Horvitz's Public Access (PDF link).
David Horvitz drove up the coast of California and stopped at about 50 different coastal access points along the trip where he took a picture of the ocean with himself within the frame of the photograph. Using different user accounts and IP's, he then he uploaded the pictures to the Wikipedia-articles of each of these places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palos_Verdes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaviota,_California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pismo_Beach,_California

Editor debate on Wikipedia.

The pictures have supposedly been removed or cropped by edgy Wikipedia editors, but it looks like David Horvitz is still in some of the articles.

• The Szpilman Award

The Democratic Set is a rapid series of short screen-based video portraits created by the Australian Back to Back Theatre.

The latest version of the project features inhabitants in the Belgium city of Leuven, who were invited to show up at an outdoor filmset and perform a small act.

After five days of filming, the footage was turned into a 17 minute long alternative video portrait of Leuven and its people.

The project was commissioned by the art center STUK.

• The Democratic Set Leuven

The petrol station Statoil has created a *bicycle nursery* to meet the needs of Copenhagen's ever growing bike culture.

Selected petrol stations now have small designated bicycle areas equipped with pumps, soapy water, sponges, paper towels and plastic gloves. Cyclists can also borrow a bicycle care kit with hex keys, oil and tire levers.

The service is free of charge and Statoil has used the occasion to add bike essentials such as patch kits and lights to its product assortment (not free of charge).

Other bike related posts: Bicycle Butlers + Cykelbanditten targets ugly bikes + FreeBikes + Bycicle Cover Ads

• Statoil Cykelpleje (in Danish)

One last post from this year's Ars Electronica Festival with photos from the event "Marketplace for Talents" (Marktplatz der Talente).

Around 50 youngsters lined up at a long table across the central bridge in Linz crossing the Donau. The youngsters were all experts in a specific topic and they offered to demonstrate their skills and share their knowledge with people passing by. Areas of expertise ranged from "The Solar System" and "Transformer Robots" to "Drawing Stars".

An expert in: Animation

An expert in: Creative arts

An expert in: Web Comics

An expert in: Cirkus

An expert in: Yugioh

An expert in: Drawing stars

An expert in: Dragons

Two experts in: The Solar System

An expert in: Transformer Robots

It was a hot, windy and busy afternoon

Marketplace for Talents was probably one of the least electronic events at the Ars Electronica Festival - but also one of the most charming and humorous ones. The event was a part of the new u19 sub-festival "CREATE YOUR WORLD: Future Festival of the Next Generation".

• Create Your World

Sound Tossing is a project that combines shoe-tossing (the act of throwing a pair of shoes onto overhead wires) and DIY audio electronics.

Small sound generators hooked up to loudspeakers are thrown onto overhead electric wires, buildings and trees, from which they emit acoustic signals.

The project's prototype "urban cricket" is a solar powered audio device that releases cricket sounds. Other components that can be used to generate sounds are motion detectors, timers and light-sensetive switches.

Sound Tossing (aka "soundfiti") is created by Reinhard Gupfinger from Austria who ran DIY workshops at this year's Ars Electronica Festival. Instructions on how to build a unit is available online. The website does no provide much info on the environmental consequences, so we'll assume that you are supposed to clean up after yourself.

Related: Led Throwies by Graffiti Research Lab.

• www.soundtossing.com

High-tech meets street art in this installation by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

The installation called Shadowgram can take pictures of people in full-size silhouette and seconds later print them as small stickers.

Shadowgram plays with social creativity and the installation is currently placed in the Ars Electronica Center in Linz where visitors are encouraged to place their freshly printed stickers on walls and other surfaces inside the building. Personal text messages can also be added by using complimentary stickers shaped as speech bubbles.

The installation consists of a digital mirror with a build-in camera, a normal looking printer and an illuminated background that people stand in front when having their picture taken.

Related: I wish this was + Data Decorated Walls + Appeel + Social Play With Clay

• Ars Electronica Futurelab

Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is running a series of creative workshops that allow children to design their own posters inspired by different themes.

Children - or adults for that matter - can decide to exhibit their posters in the museum or to bring them home in a specially designed poster tube that says "I designed my own poster at the Stedelijk Museum".

• Family activities at the Stedelijk Museum

Copenhagen is about to get itself a new place called the Red Square. As opposed to its famous pendant in Moscow, the one in Copenhagen is red, literally.

The square is painted in red tones and in rectangular shapes. When viewed from above, it looks like a three-dimensional skewed shape.

The square is a part of the urban park 'Superkilen', a long stretch which also contains a green and a black zone. Each zone facilitates different activities.

Ping-Pong tables from Spain

Benches from Kuwait

Signage from Russia

Playground from Japan

Bike racks from Norway

Superkilen is located in Nørrebro (north-west), a multicultural part of Copenhagen with 60 different nationalities represented. To reflect the community, the park will be furnished with elements like benches, bins, trees, playgrounds, ping-pong tables, lamp-posts and signage - all imported from 60 different countries.

Superkilen is created by Superflex, (BIG) Bjarke Ingels Group and TOPOTEK1.

Related color landmarks: Favela Painting + Beukelsblue + Blue Road + Delete project

• www.superkilen.dk (in Danish)

In collaboration with AVA Academia GUERRILLA INNOVATION is giving away a copy of the new book Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda.

To enter you simply have to retweet this post.

Deadline August 15. The winner gets personally notified.

About the book:
Design for Sustainable Change is a book about how design is evolving and being applied to social and environmental challenges.
The book introduces new design terms (Design Activism, Service Design, Design Thinking) and key theories and debates around design and sustainability are explained using interviews and case studies such as the community initiative Green Mapping, the open source project Foldschool and the green city of Freiburg.

Design for Sustainable Change is a part of AVA's Design Management series. The book is aimed at visual arts students and practitioners but anyone with a broad interest in design can use it to get an overview of some of the most important developments and challenges of design today.

• AVA Academia: Design for Sustainable Change

Bottle Boat is a DIY kit that can turn your empty shampoo bottles into small colorful sailboats.

The kit is created by Dutch designer Floris Hovers who came up with the idea after seeing his children playing with empty plastic bottles in the bath tub.

Bottle Boat ('FlessenBoot' in Dutch) is sold by Droog Design as a part of their accessory line 'Friends of Droog'.

• Bottle Boat on Droog Design

The Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T) has created a series of 100 QR stencil designs that can be used to provide directions, information, and warnings to digital nomads in urban space.

The project - called "Hobo Codes" - is inspired by the Hobo signs developed by 19th century vagabonds and migratory workers to cope with the difficulty of nomadic life.

QR codes usually direct users to a URL, but the digital Hobo Codes contains simple information, such as an advice or warning. Scanning the codes reveal messages like "vegans beware", "those aren't women" and "it's fake".

The stencils are made using the "QR Stencil Generator", a utility which converts QR codes into vector-based stencil patterns suitable for laser-cutting. The stencil generator is developed by Golan Levin and Asa Foster III.

• QR Stenciler and QR Hobo Codes

"404 Not Found" pages are usually not the most exciting places to end up at, but the 404 page on Steve Lambert's website is an exception and worth a visit in itself.

Related: Top Secret Steve Lambert Project! + Add Art