Lydia Encyclopidia

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Julie Mecoli’s “Dark Matter” is a series of artworks inspired by the University of Queensland Pitch Drop Experiment (if you want to seriously geek out about this, our story on the experiment is right here). 

Mecoli’s pieces are made of bitumen.  They start out looking like solids and slooooowly reveal their true liquid nature.  Check out some of her other work here.

PITCH DROP ART.

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Jacques Tati, Playtime.1967

Filming began in April 1965 primarily on a set dubbed “Tativille”, where 100 construction workers built two buildings using 11,700 square feet of glass, 38,700 square feet of plastic, 31,500 square feet of timber, and 486,000 square feet of concrete. The elaborate set of Tativille had its own roads, electrical systems and - in one of the office buildings - a fully working elevator.

To cut production cost cardboard cut-outs were used as extras in the background. To give them life some human extras would interact with the cut-outs.

The film’s failure at the box office kept Jacques Tati in debt for 10 years. 

-IMDb

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