This video comes from Frank Warren over at the one of the best sites on the web, PostSecret. It's bright, hopeful, lonely, dark and even a little disturbing. Everything that you've come to expect each Sunday from PostSecret.
Aside from being a font, Trebuchet is a rather fascinating cousin to the catapult. Unlike the aforementioned device which relies on wound up tension being sudden released, the Trebuchet employs a massive counterweight system to hurl it's payload skyward.
The footage is from the infamous Burning Man Festival. BTW, I am not the one who censored the topless woman on stilts at the beginning of the video. I wanted to see that as much as you did. Thanks to Noel for leading me to this one.
I picked up this video from Matt Petty's Culture Blog over at the San Francisco Chronicle's website. What I really liked about the art here is that the themes have turned from political to playful and the group, DOMA, has made something of a cottage industry out of what they do.
Here's what Petty wrote in the blog:
Last month I took a little trip down to South America. It was mainly a vacation, but as an art adventurer I felt that I had to bring back a report. I also knew that there's a pretty great street art scene down there, and it was my goal to meet some of the artists and see what they're up to.
I ended up meeting one of the members of the DOMA crew, a group of four guys who have been doing art in Buenos Aires for about a decade. They have a bunch of other friends that paint with them and they're doing some terrific murals around the city. They also get visitors from around the world who come to paint with them. London Police have done collaborations, German artist BLU and Shark from Zurich.
In the video I talk with Julian(Chu) of the DOMA crew and visit NASA in his shop in Buenos Aires.
