A few months ago we presented an interesting project called the Rainbow Bookshelf, a beautiful example of organizing books by color. Today here is another interesting way to play with colors created by Jim Lambie. Jim Lambie, a Scottish artist, is best known for his striped vinyl floor pieces, which have covered the floors and stairs of multiple gallery and museum spaces in the United States and Europe.The artist meticulously adheres vinyl tape to the floor in a geometric pattern that responds to the building’s architecture.The project presented in this post is called “ZOBOP!” and is a dizzying installation of meandering parallel strips of colored tape laid on the lobby floor and up some stairs of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Published by Michael October 8th, 2008 in Uncategorized
38 Comments
October 8th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Dizzy-making striping on a stairs, no thank you.. Like the idea, but it’s just a bit too much for me..
October 8th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
So this means that every colour is made from one tape? Lot’s of work. And I’m wondering how you have to prepare the stairs to make it last longer than five times to scratch it off…
Do you have any information on this?
October 8th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
That’s pretty cool.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
OMG I would so love this if it were tetris, now that would be awesome.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
That is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen bar none.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
This is so sick! All I need now is a little flute to play when I need to call the Oompa Loomas over!
October 8th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Wow!
That’s awesome and eye-catching.
I’m not sure about the durability aspect, but if water-based polyurethane would hold to it, you could use that to “cure” the installation. Then, you would just need to re-coat once a year to keep a fresh, scuff-free finish.
Definitely time consuming to create though.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
If you are drunk and you want to get down on the stairs, you should call on 911 first to be waited by an ambulance
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October 8th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
extraordinarily tacky
October 8th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
It’s like a Venus flytrap for old people. Why not just skip the vertigo and jump out the window?
October 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
“YIKES!” was my first and only thought on this. *shudders*
October 8th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I would burn my house down if it had these stairs in it. Ugliest, most dangerous, most poorly-executed design ever.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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October 8th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
HOLY FUCKING SHIT TITTIES!
October 8th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
What happens when you smoke too much pot…
October 8th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Stairs like those would be the death of me. Literally. They’d make me dizzy, I’d lose my footing, and that would be that.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I love it!! Retro all the way baby.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:36 am
Making the stairs a focal point, cool. Making your stairs look like the entrance of a gay bar, lame.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Hot DAMN! This is so so so GOOD! I love the colours! But having said that, clumsy person like myself will probably fall down these stairs ALL the time!!
October 9th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Amazing Work. Well Executed. Intriguing Palatte.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Very impressed, some people may not like it, but it takes real talent to come up with and carry out ideas like this. WELL DONE
October 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Sorry, but it’s a bit freakish
October 10th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Wow, that is about the most scary thing I’ve ever seen. Yikes.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I love it! I’ve always had a soft spot for stripes in bright, bold colors. This is just the epitome of cool as far as I’m concerned. I’m already trying to figure out how to copy it and put in my hallway or kitchen floor. It’s all about thinking out of the box…
October 13th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Yeah – they won’t get sick of that in a year.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
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October 16th, 2008 at 12:17 am
appallingly poor taste. i can’t fathom how ANYONE thought that was a good idea. firstly, why you would ever want to make your STAIRS the focal part of your home is beyond me. secondly, to attempt it THIS was is astounding.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:29 am
I saw a floor like this at the Hirshhorn Museum in DC but the colors were more fluorescent/neon. It was actually pretty amazing. Not saying I’d want to live with it, though.
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October 16th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Very eye-catching
October 25th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Yeah, Vertigo. I wouldn’t like it, I got the “Wow, I don’t want to walk down those too fast” thought. Though it’s a very acid-trippy 70s sort of design, possibly 60s? and some might like it.
As for the gay bar comment, if I were designing a gay bar, I’d go with something softer, those leather men are all big softies hehe!
November 29th, 2008 at 9:10 am
I love bright colors and I like the idea, but I can see where this might get annoying & obnoxious over time. Maybe using the idea but shoosing fewer, more subdued colors would be better.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Interesting…,but it would be too risky to walk on it.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:51 am
This taste would be good in the year of 1960 hippy time and LSD,
But now we livw in the space age,so put this colorful design in a frame
to put on the wall of the basement…
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 am
Wow being freaky myself that is unbelievable. I can’t show this to the wife or I might be busy for a long time.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:25 am
I agree, if you wife get involve into the decoration, you might wakeup in the circus one morning