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Bike Art is in the Air exhibition at Eleftherios Venizelos Athens International Airport

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Athens International Airport museum hosts a permanent exhibition dedicated to Eleftherios Venizelos while frequently hosts many other cultural events such as this painting exhibition from Bike Art.

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Bike Art is in the Air is the latest exhibition at the Museum of Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" Hall “Art & Environment” & Departures Level. Bike Art is in the Air project will take place from 1st September to 31 December 2012 at AIA and will include three art-actions: An art exhibition presented at Hall “Art & Environment” & Departures Level of 12 original artworks made by 6 Greek and 6 foreign renowned artists. Artworks can be seen below: 4 Greek artists KEZ, POSTER, PUPET & SAME84 will paint a mural live in front of the public in Hall “Art & Environment” In the departure level, there will be presented 22 special bikes and 10 kid bikes by artists APSET, A. VASMOULAKIS, KEZ, KROKO, LIVE2, NADE, NASTWO, NERS, POSTER, PUPET, SAME84 & TAXIS. Project creators comment about their Bike Art is in the Air exhibitions: "The aim is to try to give a unique visual experience for passengers and airport visitors and above all an opportunity to envision and realize each through its personal space, a healthy, happy and sustainable life. The bike offers this feature as a work of art and as a tool of transportation."

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So long my Hong Kong by Gregory Kane

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Vimeo staff picks is great place to find interesting artistic videos from all over the world.

HiddenRoom's pick is So long my Hong Kong by Gregory Kane. Gregory lived in Hong Kong for the past six years and moved from there recently so he made a farewell video for the city he called home. So long my Hong Kong was shot on the Sony RX100(link) while editing was done using Final Cut Pro X(link).

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Animatronics VFX Showreels by Gustav Hoegen

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Animatronics are a series of techniques and special effects mostly used in movie making but also in amusement parks and entertainment industry in general for creating cartoon like characters as physical objects than can move naturally in front of the camera.

Gustav Hoegen is a talented digital artist that develops animatronic effects, prosthetic makeup effects for TV and Film. In this video, you can see an amazing animatronics showreel of his recent work such as Doctor Who, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Clash of The Titans, Prometheus and more. Enjoy!

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Naoshima Art Island in Japan

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Naoshima Art Island located in the Seto Inland Sea is the home an impressive contemporary art collection that every art lover should visit once in his/her lifetime.

This small island used to be a calm fishing community until 1985 where Benesse Art Site and Chikatsugu Miyake(then mayor of Naoshima) came to a mutual agreement to develop Naoshima into a huge art space. Naoshima Art Island is divided into 4+1 art spaces: Chichu Art Museum Chichu Art Museum was developed in 2004 as a way to reveal a different approach in the relationship between nature and people. The building was designed by architect Tadao Ando and hosts artworks by Claude Monet, James Turrell, and Walter De Maria which are presented permanently. [information]The majority of the building is located…

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Haruhiko Kawaguchi interview about Flesh Love

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We previously covered Flesh Love Project by Haruhiko Kawaguchi and we thought his artwork was interesting enough to request him an interview, so we did just that.

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Haruhiko aka Photographer Hal was kind enough to accept our request so without further ado below you can find the whole interview and Haruhiko's replies. Q: How long are you working for this project? A: Two years over. Q: The main idea of your project seems very romantic, you say: "This is is an attempt to capture this moment of love and passion between couples forever and keep it sterilized from any future acts that will separate the couple." Do you believe you capture "love" when you shoot? A: Yes, Flesh Love series is the moment of having loved each

other most strongly. The inside of a bag is only two person's world pure 100% even without any air except a couple. Q: How did you come up with this project? - Why did you choose plastic bags for your project? A: I think that the fun of couple photography is in a couple's degree of loyalty. If a picture of a couple is taken outside, they will be shy, but if they love each other passionately, they will be embraced strongly. The degree of loyalty expresses the depth of their love. It was interesting when putting in the couple…

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Bodoni Girl Silkscreen Print by Andreas Xenoulis + tind

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Bodoni girl poster was born out of Bodoni font series that were first designed by Giambattista Bodoni.

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Interesting part of this project is that apart from its historical meaning it has been printed using an old technique called Silkscreen Print. Silkscreen print was first practised in China(during 960 and 1279 AD) and later other Asian countries such as Japan took this form of screen printing and advanced it in paints and block printing. In the 1700s screen printing crossed the Asian continent borders and was adopted from Western Europe countries while in our days is mostly used as a way of expressing art. Andreas Xenoulis designed the print and it was screen printed by tind, Andreas quotes…