Not much has changed in the look of German cuckoo clocks over the years, and perhaps that helps maintain its status as an icon, but for Guido Zimmermann, a Frankfurt-based artist, it was time to make a change to reflect the modern architecture of today. While the classic cuckoo clock …
Did Germany Create One of the Most Entertaining Train Rides?
On today’s trains, passengers are most likely looking down at their phones while the beautiful landscapes rush by outside their windows, so when an artist in Germany thought of what it could take to peel their eyes away from their devices, “Bewegtes Land” was born and it might just go down in …
Sources: Bewegtes Land, DW
Photo: Datenstrudel
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The desert heat is known to produce some wacky hallucinations, but if you see two men dressed to impress while dragging along a gigantic pen from behind, it’s no mind game. Munich artists Wolfgang Aichner (51) and Thomas Huber (52), set off on a 400 mile journey across the desert landscapes of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado on …
Sources: Linear2017, UB Media, Salt Lake Tribune
Photo: Linear2017
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An art exhibit in the German town of Kassel is making quite an impact as a towering recreation of the Greek Parthenon sits to tell the story of free speech and the banning of books as it also finds itself planted in a spot that knows the effects of its statement all …
Photo: Mathias Völzke
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel isn’t the most photogenic politician. Most photos captured by the press feature the her classic blank expression or look of boredom, but is there another side of Germany’s leader that shows she’s no less of a human than us regular folk? That is what one Instagram …
Sources: merkellooks
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Historical Rosa Parks Home Deported to Germany
After refusing to give up her seat to a white person in December 1955, Rosa Parks went straight to the history books as a central figure in the civil rights movement. While her name will continue to live on, her historic home in Detroit has been left to degrade. Efforts to …
Sources: The Guardian
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This Artist Found A Creative Way to Deal With Swastika Graffiti in Berlin
It’s a shame that there are still people living in Germany that want to continue the Nazi legacy by defacing property with the now horrific swastika symbol, and while it can carry a feeling of fear, one graffiti artist in Berlin has taken it upon himself to combat the issue …
Sources: The Verge
Photo: #Paintblack
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Have you ever wondered what Star Wars would look like as an expressionist painting? No? Well a group of German researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg did and the result is stunning. Manuel Ruder, Alexey Dosovitskiy and Thomas Brox came up with the idea after …
Sources: The Stack
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Its not unusual to take on odd jobs when making it through college, but what one student in the German town of Duisburg has decided to do could be considered crazy by some. Mehdi Ghiassi is tasked with recreating artistic masterpieces out of Lego bricks under the pressure of a very …
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