Those are some very serious clothespins! A 2011 piece from Munster, Germany, by Generik Vapeur. Photo by Ingeborg.
6/1/15: Happy Pride Month! I love June, and not just because it’s typically the first really summery weather we have in New York. Today, in honor of LGBT Pride, I’d like to explore some rainbow-hued art.
Quick story: Beloved’s father was a generous and wonderful man. He was always very kind to me and made me feel welcome from the first time I met him. Anyway, he was crazy for rainbows. Though definitely not the Pflag type, he nonetheless had rainbow bumper stickers on his car, rainbow wind-chimes outside his porch, the works. When we tried tactfully to explain why he kept getting honked at, he shrugged and said, “Who doesn’t like rainbows?” So there you go. Wisdom from George, Sr.
Let’s start with the rainbow-colored origami street art of Mademoiselle Maurice:
This beauty is the Xiying Pedestrian Rainbow Bridge in Magong, Penghu County in Taiwan
Seth Globepainter’s street art features characters staring into multi-colored universes
Kimsooja installation at the Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Madrid. The windows of this 1800s greenhouse were covered with a special translucent film to create rainbows visible from inside and outside the structure
Clemens Habicht’s 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle containing exactly 1,000 different colors arranged in the form of a CMYK gamut is available for pre-order from This Colossal’s shop.
John Breed leg rainbow installation for German shoe salon Breuninger last year. The work included 145 shoes and legs. More views here (totally worth a look)
And finally, this is a very colorful nutty-but-hypnotic music video for “Katachi” recorded by Shugo Tokumaru, with design and stop-motion animation by Kijek/Adamski:
I wholeheartedly agree with George Sr: who doesn’t love rainbows? I very much enjoyed the stop-motion video and I am coveting that rainbow glass. I want to google and see if it would be possible to install in a domestic setting.
I imagine it could be done. There’s probably a blue or green interference paint you could put over windows. Might be easier to just hang sheets of iridescent glass in front of your windows instead.
My OBT 
June 26, 2021 at 6:27 am
Took me two seconds to fall in love with the Green House. I wonder if those are real cars. Have a great day == Hal
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July 1, 2021 at 7:47 am
I read about how the cars thing was made. They’re real cars minus the innards. Still quite heavy, though!
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June 26, 2021 at 7:50 am
The stop action video…..someone cut out a lot of paper.
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July 1, 2021 at 7:47 am
I am always amazed by people’s patience.
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June 26, 2021 at 9:52 am
I wholeheartedly agree with George Sr: who doesn’t love rainbows? I very much enjoyed the stop-motion video and I am coveting that rainbow glass. I want to google and see if it would be possible to install in a domestic setting.
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July 1, 2021 at 7:48 am
I imagine it could be done. There’s probably a blue or green interference paint you could put over windows. Might be easier to just hang sheets of iridescent glass in front of your windows instead.
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June 26, 2021 at 12:16 pm
Happy Pride–they can’t celebrate as we normally do in Canada, but thankfully people are inventive and determined.
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July 1, 2021 at 7:49 am
Here, too!
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