Ephemeral works

January 10, 2011 4:39 PM

"The Szpilman Award is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The purpose of the award is to promote such works whose forms consist of ephemeral situations." This years winner is Treebute to Yogya. The organisers also maintain a blog and an encyclopædia of ephemeral works.
posted by unliteral (8 comments total)

The Sidhedevil Award for ephemeral works for 2010 goes to this awesomesauciness. Not to dis the Szpilman Award folks, but that lady crocheted a giant sweater for the Wall Street bull!
posted by Sidhedevil at 4:44 PM on January 10, 2011 [2 favorites]

Have you ever come across a scene you wish you could freeze in time — maybe your child’s first steps or the look on your partner’s face when you proposed? Perhaps you’ve even lived moments like this rather than just watching from the sidelines. It doesn’t always have to be good memories — sometimes we also would benefit by remembering the bad. Here is a photostream that captures Moments When Time Freezes.
posted by netbros at 4:44 PM on January 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

Got a tree head/ better than the rest/ green to red/ got a tree head.
posted by 2bucksplus at 5:18 PM on January 10, 2011

That's maybe the fifth weirdest thing I've seen on a motorbike in Yogya, and I was only there for a week.
posted by theodolite at 5:49 PM on January 10, 2011

How can you objectively review such works if you weren't there to view them? And if you can get a sufficient impression of those works without being there, do they really qualify for that award?
posted by LSK at 6:27 PM on January 10, 2011

"The Szpilman Award is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time"

Finally! A chance to win an award for my love-life.
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 7:17 PM on January 10, 2011

"The Szpilman Award is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time"

Finally! A chance to win an award for deleted FPPs.
posted by Kabanos at 8:52 AM on January 11, 2011

Winner should always be a picture of a plate of nachos.

Hmmm nachos.....
posted by IndigoJones at 2:58 PM on January 11, 2011