Portuguese studio Like Architects created a this temporary installation using components from Ikea.

So, this is basically a huge Ikea hack.

At night, they lit up with varying and changing intensities, pulsing to different rhythms. The idea was to invite passersby to stroll along the path, through the grove.

I certainly would have!

I kind of love how the lamps are not perfectly straight. I think we have all had that experience with an inexpensive lamp that you have to lean in to a corner to keep it from looking like it is falling.

I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked to create something like this (light bulb on a stick) for a play or music event. For sure more than twice! I always end up going to the hardware store to buy components.

Now that I know the Ikea hack there is no stopping me

And hello Sarah’s personal theme?

Repetition + Organization = ART

All images from the LIKE Architects website

Via Yellow Trace and domus

Are all children fascinated by fire and burning things? Yes? Or are there some children who are scared of fire? Actually as I write this I can think of a couple of my friends’ kids who are scared of fire. I had no such preservative fear. On the contrary, I was (am) always trying to get closer to the fire. There was an unfortunate incident with a bonfire that melted the bottoms of my boots because I was too close…

This fascination helps explain why I love welding. At one point, my job title was actually just “welder.”

When you are melting steel together there are these tiny pieces of molten metal that get thrown from the weld. They usually land on the wooden surface you are working on, or on your leather gloves and apron, and they leave little burn marks in the surfaces they land on.

This work, For Small Fires, by Myriam Dion is inspired by the art and craft of ornamental blacksmithing.  She took a large photograph of a storefront facade (formerly La Forge Cadieux – a blacksmith’s workshop) and burned tiny holes in intricate patterns into the photo paper.

The burns define the silhouettes of decorative wrought iron. She sees this work as a homage to the to the traditional, painstaking, manual techniques that need to be passed from person to person in order for the knowledge to survive. When the places such work is done are destroyed or allowed to fall into ruin, the heritage of the craft is allowed to disappear as well.

I love how the delicate, lacy effect from far away turns into burn and ruin up close.

all photos from Myriam Dion’s website

via My Modern Met

Is there anything more satisfying than using your finger to write your name on a polished surface covered with thick dust, and then wiping wiping it clean? I think not.

Dust is everywhere, most of the time it is a nuisance, but sometimes it is beautiful.

This amazing dust art is the work of Oscar Santillan. He created a “window” by scrapping off the paint and some of the concrete from the wall and then arranging that dust in the same pattern on the floor, as if light was streaming through his window.

I love how the edges of the “light” are fading away as the dust moves.

via My Modern Met

Oscar Santillan’s blog