Bogota, NJ (PRWEB) April 29, 2014

Things are looking up at Outwater [Outwater Plastics Industries, Inc. + Architectural Products by Outwater, LLC] with the introduction of many new Decorative Ceiling Panels comprising a host of different materials, designs and colors to accommodate a wide range of residential and commercial applications.

Outwater has chosen to highlight those Decorative Ceiling Panels that acquired the most significant attention and positive feedback at the recent 2014 International Builder's and Kitchen & Bath Shows.

1) Acrylic Ceiling Panels

The Summer Solstice and the phenomenon of the ensuing Midnight Sun, where the sun is visible for as long as 24 hours per day, only takes place for a finite period of time in the most northern and southern latitudes.

For those desiring random images of soft white clouds against a light blue sky with a bright, open airy ambiance in perpetuity, but who are otherwise either unable or unwilling to relocate to anywhere near the Arctic or Antarctic Circles, Outwater is pleased to introduce its new series of Acrylic Ceiling Panels.

Imagine not only having the year round opportunity to turn on the serenity and beauty of a magnificent Summer Sky at your fingertips, but also being able to fully enjoy it in the temperate, climate controlled interior surroundings of your home or office.

Offered as 2-ft. x 2-ft. panels, with six randomly mixed sky patterns, or 2-ft. x 4-ft. panels, with four randomly mixed sky patterns, Outwaters Acrylic Ceiling Panels are designed for easy drop in use with standard 15/16-in. suspended ceiling channel grid systems.

An impervious, low maintenance and easy to clean surface renders Outwaters Acrylic Ceiling Panels waterproof, mildew-resistant as well as germ and bacteria-free.

2) Stamped Steel Ceiling Panels

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Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 29, 2014

Architects Dan Cheetham and Michelle Tarsney teamed up once again to create their newest art installation titled String Theory for GSD&M, a global advertising agency. This installation makes a statement about how art in the workplace draws on individual perspectives to stimulate creativity and social gathering among coworkers.

GSD&M is a company full of visionaries who rely heavily on creativity to produce work that is engaging and powerful, said Cheetham. Michelle and I felt that the GSD&M team would not only appreciate the beauty of String Theory, but would greatly benefit from the social interactions and exchanging of ideas that are bound to take place.

Studies show that displaying artwork in the modern day workplace not only inspires creativity and improves individual and collective wellbeing, but can also significantly improve productivity. According to a recent report produced by the International Art Consultants (IAC) and the British Council for Offices, 86% of the 800 survey respondents think that art is more relevant than ever in todays office environment and 93% agreed that having art in the workplace creates a more welcoming and enjoyable atmosphere for employees and visitors alike.

The team unveiled the dynamic, floating art piece to the public during GSD&Ms 2014 South by Southwest industry party, which brings together thousands of people from all over the world. String Theory is suspended from the second floor ceiling of the main foyer of GSD&Ms office building in downtown Austin, with its base dangling just above the heads of onlookers at nine feet above the floor. String Theory may be viewed from the second or first floor and from a variety of angles that alter the appearance and experience of the art piece.

The installation features over 5 miles of string wound back and forth between two geometric shapes, a wide circular ring at the top and a smaller triangular base that hangs at the bottom. The base segregates the string between the three primary colors used: red, yellow and blue in their most dense and pure form. As the viewers eye moves up the sculpture, the string disperses as it stretches upward, causing the colors to become more complex and the hues to mix in an ethereal, cloud-like ring. The effect causes the primary colors to visually converge and intermix. Depending on the perspective of the viewer, the installation generates variations of secondary and tertiary colors and is flexible in its form.

The name String Theory does not only reference the material of the piece, but also the potential of art in the workplace. Cheetham and Tarsney work from the philosophy that incorporating architecture, design and art to spaces revitalizes them and makes them more useful. Their hope is that String Theory will be a catalyst in the workplace to inspire creative ideas and engage colleagues. Cheetham and Tarsneys installations are site specific, interactive, spatial and can be experienced on many different scales.

To learn more about String Theory or Fyoogs upcoming projects, visit http://www.fyoog.com or email Dana Callender at dana(at)stellarimpeller(dot)com.

About Fyoog

Fyoog is an architecture, planning, and design practice led by Dan Cheetham and Michelle Tarsney. Fyoog draws its name from fugue, a contrapuntal musical structure in which independent voices are overlapped to create a rich, complex, and multilayered harmony. Fyoog seeks to apply this concept to the built environment through a design process that layers programmatic synergies, contextual and historical factors, and cultural influences into a cohesive composition.

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Today the NY Times answers a question that no one was really asking: How is that giant whale not constantly crashing to the floor of the American Museum of Natural History? Some sort of attachment, perhaps? To the facts!:

Installing whale model, Hall of Ocean Life, 1968 (Rota, Alex J./AMNH Digital Special Collections)

And that's where the "steel bars connect to trusses in the room... That allows the load, the weight of the whale, to be transferred to all that other steel." These photos (newly released from the Museum's vault) show the installation in progress, and how it all looks today. And that's how you ruin the magic of the floating whale.

Installing whale model, Hall of Ocean Life, 1968 (Rota, Alex J./AMNH Digital Special Collections)

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On April 25, in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Spring Gallery Crawl, Electrified will features new works by artists Edwin van der Heide and Alexandre Burton.

Each pays homage to the pioneering work of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and his experiments in electricity, X-rays and wireless communication.

The first piece visitors will come to is van der Heide's Evolving Spark Network, which is a multi-sensory installation on the gallery's second floor comprising a network of sparks, which produce sound and light.

A Dutch artist and researcher from Rotterdam, Netherlands, van der Heide has been focusing on the interaction of sound and space for several years. With this new piece, he extends composition and musical language in spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions.

More of an environment than an installation-type artwork, it is as much about performance as it is about spatial relationships, in that van der Heide has created an environment in which the audience is challenged to actively explore, interact with and relate to the work. In this case, as it relates to the electrical impulses by which our nerves communicate information.

Utilizing 80 identical spark bridges distributed over a standard grid suspended from the ceiling, van der Heide says it's not so much an installation in space, but you could say the space is completely transformed by the installation.

As visitors enter the space, their movements are noted by motion-detection sensors and used to activate the network. And that's where the fun begins, as dozens of sparks begin to pop and whir like dozens of little fireflies. As if in a real field filled with fireflies, complexity arises through the interrelations between the individual spark bridges.

The work results in a cosmos of sparks.

A cosmos with its own rules and behavior, van der Heide says.

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Toledo, Ohio (PRWEB) April 22, 2014

Owens Corning, the parent company of the Basement Finishing System, is pleased to announce that the McDade family was chosen to have their basement finished with the Basement Finishing System. This initiative is in response to a multi-disciplined academic study by researchers from Temple, St. Josephs, the TALK Institute and other educational facilities as well as Basement Finishing System installers and construction professionals. The study showed that a reduction in noise from the Basement Finishing System improved autistic childrens attending and engagement behavior. The McDade family hopes that the installation of the Basement Finishing System will provide an outstanding learning environment for their young autistic son.

"When we were chosen to have our basement completed by Owens Corning, I was thrilled for my son, Daniel. Daniel has autism and struggles with sensory processing difficulties. He is very sensitive to auditory and visual stimuli, and cannot process the amount of information that comes at him all at once I am hoping that with the installation of the Owens Corning system in our basement, Daniel will have a comfortable place to relax and be at ease, and as a family, can join him in a place we can all enjoy together. We are truly thankful for the people at Owens Corning who are giving Daniel and our family this very special opportunity, said Daniels mother.

The study referenced is titled Effect of Classroom Modification on Attention and Engagement of Students with Autism or Dyspraxia. It was published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy in 2012. The study examined the effects of the installation of sound-absorbing walls and a ceiling with halogen lighting on four autistic children with sensory sensitivities. Research and observation took place over three phases: two weeks before the wall installation, two weeks before the installation of the ceiling, and two weeks after ceiling installation. As the decibel meter readings diminished with each phase, so did the students sensory sensitivities and obstacles to learning. The students as well as their parents and teachers all reported positive changes after Phase 3.

One in every 110 children suffers from autism, and a great majority of them are hindered by sensory modulation disorders primarily visual and auditory. Because the classroom is filled with noise as well as auditory instruction from the teacher, many autistic children are unable to perform to the best of their abilities. The study showed that the Basement Finishing System may impact the amount of sound as it has a .95 NRC. A learning environment with optimal noise reduction can help an autistic child focus, socialize, and ultimately stay engaged with the material. For more information on how the Owens Corning Basement Finishing System helps control noise, please visit http://www.1800basement.com.

About Owens Corning:

Owens Corning is a leading global producer of residential and commercial building materials, glass-fiber reinforcements and engineered materials for composite systems. A Fortune 500 company for 59 consecutive years, Owens Corning is committed to driving sustainability by delivering solutions, transforming markets and enhancing lives. In business for more than 75 years, Owens Corning is a market-leading innovator of glass-fiber technology with sales of $5.3 billion in 2013 and about 15,000 employees in 27 countries. Additional information is available at http://www.owenscorning.com and http://www.1800basement.com.

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BEIRUT: If you enter Gemmayzehs Art on 56th gallery this month, youll come face-to-face with children playing with kites and surrounded by birds.

These jolly, candid scenes are not the only things Syrian artist Reem Yassouf wanted to communicate through her artworks. Childs Message, which features around 25 mixed-media works, consists of Yassoufs representations of children both living and dead. Her work avoids becoming morbid, however, functioning instead as an artistic vision of what she does not want to put into words.

Viewers will notice an installation of paper kites hanging from the ceiling. On the threads, visitors of the gallery have pinned messages detailing what they wish for: Some of them wish for peace, while others hope the violence in Syria will abate.

The installation conveys an impression of innocence, appealing to the childlike side of viewers.

The artworks enable onlookers to immerse themselves in Yassoufs gentle visions of childhood, in which the living hang out with the dead. The soft, subtly shaded works emanate a peaceful atmosphere, negating any potentially pessimistic reading.

Yassouf avoids drawing features on her subjects smooth faces, leaving viewers to interpret their gender through clues such as the length of their hair.

Most of the artists works evince a complex process of layering. Added one layer at a time, the backgrounds of each canvas form a labyrinth. By perusing them carefully, viewers can decipher the sequence by which Yassouf deployed her paintbrush.

At first glance, many of the works seem two-dimensional. However, the game of light and shadow, the light and dark hues of paint, come together to give the canvasses a third dimension.

A hidden message appears to smuggle inside each artwork for those who look: one of freedom. Yassouf has painted children with their eyes hidden by blindfolds, reaching their hands out toward birds, or tightly holding the strings of kites, as though wishing to fly away.

There is no specific context to the works that specifies the place, time or nature of these thwarted longings for freedom, but some viewers may assume that Yassouf is depicting the lives of Middle Eastern children.

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A 1903 Carnegie Library that formerly house a community center in the St. Clair Superior neighborhood will be the setting for an innovative, three-week art installation by a rising Los Angeles artist opening with a reception Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The exhibition will focus on two bodies of work by Andrea Longacre-White.

One will be an encore presentation of an installation previously shown at a gallery in New Yorks Chelsea District, in which the artist scanned images of individual sheets of the crumpled silver ceiling paper used in commercial interiors in Los Angeles, and then assembled the photos on a wall to create a disorienting, 18-foot-high vertical mural of a horizontal ceiling in all its crumpled and shiny glory.

In the second body of work, Longacre-White will install a debut selection of new images of computer scans taken from the screen of a computer pad. The artist augmented the resulting visual feedback patterns in the scanned images by running the printed sheets through a digital printer numerous times to create even more complex, abstract patterns.

Its sort of like these wild unruly confused images, she said in a telephone interview.

The Longacre-White exhibition will take place at the former Goodrich Gannett Neighborhood Center, 1368 East 55th St., in Cleveland.

The show is a project of Bellwether, an outreach arm of the Cleveland Museum of Arts Contemporary Art Society, an auxiliary group of museum supporters. Lisa Kurzner, a curatorial researcher at the museum, organized the exhibition in collaboration with Various Small Fires, a Los Angeles gallery.

Longacre-White, 33, a native of Radnor, Pa., will speak during the opening reception for her show on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

Im so excited, she said. I think the project theyre doing through Bellwether is really smart, really great. Its really new work for me and to be able to show that is really exciting.

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Bellwether plans Thursday opening for show by Los Angeles artist Andrea Longacre-White in St. Clair Superior