Javier de Riba's Tile Floors

Barcelona artist Javier de Riba paints beautiful geometric tile designs on floors of abandoned and/or condemned buildings. The work of his series Floors takes meticulous planning and template design. His "interventions" bring both beauty and attention to public spaces that would otherwise be forgotten.

See more pictures of de Riba's painted tile floors in this gallery. Each entry has some history about the building, often a video of the process, and the design in a smaller size that can be purchased as a print.

(vimeo link)

-via Cliff Pickover


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Personally, I would have just altered the original document to make it seem the same, but unworkable...

Perhaps even add a little something to make it dangerous to anyone trying to make the recipe.
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Reminds me about a conspiracy theory I heard about the Anarchist's Handbook one time. The original book that came out in like the 70's had some recipes in it that would not work. There were some of the explosive recipes that would be extremely dangerous to try to do. Some made products that were so unstable that safe handling was almost impossible and you were pretty much guaranteed to blow yourself up if you tried it. The conspiracy theory I had heard was that the U.S. government was behind the book. The wrote it and made it known so anyone who wanted to do harm would take themselves out of the playing field. Of course, if you read about the history of the book you find that the odds of this conspiracy theory being true are pretty low.
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Not that hacking some website (and alerting the media at large) is going to stop terrorism, but let's pretend for the sake of, I dunno, comedy.
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