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Thank You MJ, RIP the turn ... a new way to view video Moon Baker Tweets Bruno Munari: Laboratorio di Sperimentazione dei Materiali Lee Brimelow Flash AR Tutorial The Lightbox Clones Matrix Ferran Adria vs Charlie Rose Geigy Design and Advertising 1940 - 1970 Kubrick Interview Archive Chunky Move - Mortal Engine The Seed Bespoke Laser Cutting at your finger tips via Ponoko Samurai Sword Umbrella 4D Watch iPhone OS 3 sdk madness Limmy\'s Show auditorium AR Ads More new videos this week.. CineFile T-Shirts TOKYO ! The Movie is at the Sunshine YMO Vinyl ... Michel Gondry vs. self-censorship quio . so dazed Tweaked Vestax Fretless Fader Prototype Controller Sony vs. The Optron Licht Brigade Antony and the Johnsons vs. NPR & Pitchfork - Live! Daft Punk vs. Tron 2.0 Max Matthews vs.  Bicycle Built for Two Siftable Music Sequencer Siftables, an old idea in a new package. Support our Bleeps... Bleep Turns 5 Dropular Tilt-Shift Monster Mash Current TV gets a new skin How to order Pizza in Japan Paperheart Gears tDR vs. a possible but not particularly guaranteed Phoenix and now for something slightly different... Michael C. Place vs MyStyle Correction Tape rollers Ghostbusters... the Video Game Che ... in Red Cut Master Pablo Ferro Heino in Rio The winner of Objectified... and loving it. Sir Guy Grand as Peter Sellers ... Happy New Year. Gymnopédie vs Take Five peter saville vs dc shoes = wicked camo photo of the day 2008.DEC.7 Giorgio Moroder Promo Video LittleBigPlanet Happy Guy Fawkes Night Obama 08 poster by Lance Wyman still available YES WE DID ! Vote baby Vote 1983 UK Robotic Dancing Competition Obama Street Art #1 Alexander Robotnick at Love Saturday Banksy Pet Shop Pantone Matryoshka Vanilla Beans ... the second coming of P5? Blue Note record covers Nintendo DSi Monome 64 ... finally. Marc Moulin (1942 - 2008) The Danish Energy crisis... they have to much free energy. Holy Giblets... A 5 CD Hunter S Thompson Box Set Roy Budd plays Get Carter Speaking of Vocoders... Mr Herbie Hancock vs. VSM-201 KORG DS-10 From Us With Love - BIO Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir Wario Land: Shake It, the illest ad of the year. Raquel Welch: Space-Girl Dance Amit Zakai: A Micrometer From Here fly blackbird fly Did Dali create the first Alien in 1945? photo of the day 2008.AUG.31 80s Style Proper Ubiquity My new best friend, a 1979 Pilot Murex Tactical Landscaping and Terrain Deformation oh my! photo of the night 2008.AUG.10 DAIM in AR rambo / rimbaud Kalrheinz Stockhausen R.I.P. Nintendo to start DS Lite movie downloads Teppei Maki creates St. Regis Hotel Interactive Sommelier in a landscape YouTube Music... Copet Polygon Zoo Interactive Architectural Action In Tokyo Tesla Fields via Richard Box ZAKKA Dumbo PXLPARK is BACK! Bodyrox featuring Luciana - Yeah Yeah Vintage Mini-Recorders

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Thank You MJ, RIP

 Category: anarchy
Posted: 2009-06-25 21:44

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/Mike_flipped__II.jpg
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the turn ... a new way to view video

 Category: design
Posted: 2009-06-23 00:56

this just in from ak,

Theturn.tv is an interactive site framing the music and visual work of Fredo Viola. It's just too bad mr Stockhausen isn't around to see this, me thinks he would indulge.


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Moon

 Category: film + tv
Posted: 2009-04-15 23:16



What do you get when you cross "Solyaris" w. "2001" you get "Moon" it would seem, Directed by Duncan Jones, starring Sam Rockwell. looks very promising indeed.

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

In theaters June 12th, 2009. Probably in NYC earlier.

Rumor has it Mr. Duncan will next attempt to create a little Sci-Fi noir flick based in future Berlin – Blade Runner will be his muse on this one. Can't wait to see taht one for sure.

Click through the vid to the YouTube where there are several more clips of Moon as well.
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Baker Tweets

 Category: misc technology
Posted: 2009-04-10 19:40

This just in from @skoch via twitter,

What I think will possibly the best invention of 2009 so far, Baker Tweet is "a way for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. It's as simple as turning the dial and hitting the button. All of the baker's followers get a Twitter alert to tell them that it's bun-time. Or bread time. Or whatever. "

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Bruno Munari: Laboratorio di Sperimentazione dei Materiali

 Category: anarchy
Posted: 2009-04-10 19:17

This is a video of the Experimental Materials Lab in Milano, hosted by Bruno Munari, one of my childhood heroes, who has championed such insanity his entire brilliant career. The patrons of the lab bend, break, burn and confabulate creative contraptions of all kinds.

Part 1


Part 2
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Lee Brimelow Flash AR Tutorial

 Category: misc technology
Posted: 2009-04-07 19:52

This just in via twitter from @skoch...

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/lb_ar.jpg

Lee Brimelow just posted a Flash AR Tutorial showing you how to create a simple AR scene over at the the flash blog similar to the GE version in my post from a few weeks ago.

Lee also mentions the AR FlarToolkit demo by Mikko Haapoja here.

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The Lightbox Clones Matrix

 Category: web 2.0
Posted: 2009-04-07 17:02

Yes this sounds like a new Lucas / Wachowski Bros film, but if you have ever found yourself wanting to stick your head in the ovenbox, after dealing with lightbox and ajax lib compatibility issues, then this is the site for you.

url=http://planetozh.com/projects/lightbox-clones/]The Lightbox Clones Matrix[/url] lists a number of ajax libs designed to embed various objects in HTML pages, such as images, flash animations, movies and iframes. Comparisons can be filtered by Library and Features keys, to hone in on just the lib you need to make you ajax-ing less complicated.

The Lightbox Clones Matrix
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Ferran Adria vs Charlie Rose

 Category: dali's closet
Posted: 2009-04-01 04:53

I love reading/watching stories about Ferran Adria, el bulli and his insatiable desire... nay, absolute need! to be curiously playful with food in order to find out the why of things, like Feynman with physics, or Charlie Parker with his sax, a theme that I have been both fascinated with and imprisoned by since birth, and one that seems to be applicable to every single action in the universe.

In any case foodies enjoy, and the rest of you take note...



ps: interview starts about 30 min into the show, will try to find "just the interview" in time. in the mean time, enjoy the talk about the 5'4" (!) Picasso.

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UPDATE: This should start at the beginning of the interview now (via initialTime func) about 30 min in.
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Geigy Design and Advertising 1940 - 1970

 Category: design
Posted: 2009-03-29 23:33



With the recent release of the book Corporate Diversity : Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy 1940 - 1970, I finally get to see- in big color prints - some of what I think are some of the best graphic and packaging design to come out of Switzerland ever, which are generally unknown to the public at large, even the design public. The book was released in tandem with the exhibition 'Good Design, Good Business' at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (open from Feb 4 / May 24 . 2009).

While Mueller-Brockmann in Zurich had the geometric mathematics, precision and the Japanese sense of space, Max Schmid and the Geigy team in Basel, with the almost unknown Armin Hoffman, the well known color man Gerstner, Markus Löw's clean lines, Rudin, Honegger and others had the organic Style, playfulness and boldness, and the work as a group is well overdue for this recognition.

more pics and a more in depth book review over at things to look at

the book at amazon

Also I just had a a look through a copy of one of the original books about Geigy design, a 1969 version of "Chemie Werbung und Grafik", and highly recommend you have a look at this one as well if you have a chance. The first six or so images above are available in this book.
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Kubrick Interview Archive

 Category: dali's closet
Posted: 2009-03-28 00:05

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Whilst looking for the 1962 interview of Mr. Kubrick by the author Terry Southern , (they were partners in crime more then once infact), i stumbled upon this archive of all the interviews Kubrick did over the years (and was up till 4 reading them). It's quite an insane collection.

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Chunky Move - Mortal Engine

 Category: anarchy
Posted: 2009-03-27 03:25



Chunky Move from Australia are one of the most amazing dance troops I have seen in modern dance since the first day I discovered sankai juku and pilobolus in the 80s. It is so beautiful/haunting/intoxicating, that I can't wait for them to come to NYC.


from the site:
Mortal Engine is a new dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again. Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming. Veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence, we are driven forward by the reality of permanent change.

via fabrik

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The Seed

 Category: promos + video
Posted: 2009-03-27 02:51

Just posted last week, A two-minute animated voyage through nature's life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed.

The Seed crated by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners / Johnny Kelly, was sponsored by Adobe to show off the bells and whistles of CS4, and it's nice bit of (incredibly tedious) work (though who needs convincing, and, well, it's not as if there is some other options!).



and the making of, which i actually like more...


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Bespoke Laser Cutting at your finger tips via Ponoko

 Category: design
Posted: 2009-03-27 02:34

Got a few things you want to have cut by a laser? Projects, patterns and all kinds of other oddball ideas, well this is the place for you.. And until I get that 3D printer I have been jonesing, this will be the next best thing. Give'em a call, or try one of the other options below.

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/ponoko_490.png
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Samurai Sword Umbrella

 Category: anarchy
Posted: 2009-03-27 02:16

This just in from Milan Design Week via Core 77...

This will easily win most unusual and likely to get you stopped by the NYPD award, the Samurai Sword Katana Umbrella. Also available in Viking and Swashbuckling variety if your so inclined.

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/katana_490.png
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4D Watch

 Category: wearables
Posted: 2009-03-22 15:32

under the Must Have category, a watch, this prototype mock up by the russian group- playoff, (pa ruski) is really one of the nicest LED watch designs I have ever seen. Let's hope it gets made some day.

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/play3.jpg

found by dmitry / designyoutrust.com .
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iPhone OS 3 sdk madness

 Category: mobile
Posted: 2009-03-21 13:40

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Ok so I was watching the iphone OS 3 keynote the other day and man is it insane.

I will hazard a guess this cause people to eventually have an iPhone and a couple of iTouchs around the house to control all kinds of things. Rumor has it they are coming out with a midsize pad thing like the nokia, and I would logically guess it will use this OS, with a much bigger/better screen.

lThe 3.0 SDK has nearly a 1000 api's... and here are a few key points.

- Peer to Peer / via Bluetooth (w.out pairing)
- using Bonjour for Automatic Discovery
- apps to control 3rd part hardware accessories (w bluetooth or direct connect)
- public maps api for custom app info (using GPS / Cell Towers)
- apple push notification service
- a proximity sensor (?) api
- ipod lib access (for reading local lib media files), from any app.
- new media player can adjust bandwidth to your connection.


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Limmy's Show

 Category: film + tv
Posted: 2009-03-18 14:29



pt.1 of one of my favorite sketch shows in the UK this year (the other being "The Wrong Door", though Horne & Corden has it's moments as well).
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auditorium

 Category: music
Posted: 2009-03-16 13:11, Edited: 2009-03-27 20:32

If you haven't played this incredibly addictive game yet, you are in for a treat. It is one of my favorite games of 2008, and not there are more levels and better controls. If nothing else it's just so beautiful to watch. Would be great if you could play against others online, and also see others playing in real time, via a screensaver.

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/auditorium_01.gif

auditorium

The full version is the culmination of over 7 months work resulting in an incredible 70 plus levels spread across 15 acts.

Now with new Controls that can change both the speed and direction of any particle they encounter.

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AR Ads

 Category: misc technology
Posted: 2009-03-09 19:07

I have noticed a few things popping up in popular culture lately in the Augmented Reality department, and while I happily applaud them, I can only wonder why it took people 3 or more years to do them. Lord knows I have pitched these ideas to no end, and with little result, in the past few years.

Now I am not going to go off on my monthly AR rant like I have done since the 80's about this, so let's get to the visuals...

First AR gets a little airtime with GE Smart Grid a few weeks ago.. (this may be faux AR with some Flash/PV3D), but it's the same result)



Then we have the German Mini paper !!! advertisement, which in my opinion is the best thing by far as it's the real deal.



All in all, it's good times ahead for AR, and this is all just a pindrop in what is possible.

There is also a recent jump in AR Mobile gaming these days which are starting to look like fun that I'll delve into soon, like these Kweekies things (featuring a DX-100 laden Eple remix...)



I can see in the not to distant future, a time where we will have channels and channels of AR data to view, games to play, and throw-ups to look at while we are sitting at our desk and driving down the street. Everything form you r friends tagging the air, to the local Starbucks beaming 50 feet in the air, and that too is just the beginning of possibilities.
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More new videos this week..

 Category: music
Posted: 2009-03-09 01:10

A few more tings I forgot to post last week,

First up this bouncy tune from Royksopp, "Happy Up Here" from "Junior"

Director: Reuben Sutherland
Production Company: Joyrider



Then comes this catchy-but-very-fucking-twisted-and-dark video from our old friends DM, "Wrong" from the album "Sounds Of The Universe". (Released April 20th, 2009 - UK , April 21st, 2009 -USA). I don't know where Dave and Martin have been hanging latetly, but man...

Director: Patrick Daughters

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CineFile T-Shirts

 Category: wearables
Posted: 2009-03-08 16:03



I have been meaning to post these since like forever... CineFile, the most excellent blog/shop for esoteric video (think Kim's on the left coast) have created these incredible Tees that play with everyone's favorite classic rock/thrash bands, and everyone's favorite classic directors.

My personal favorite is the Ozu / Ozzy design which is quite surrealistically mind bending to think of these two people in the same room. Though Iron Bergman is pretty funny too.

If i am not mistaken, I think you can pick up some of these at IFC in Manhattan.
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TOKYO ! The Movie is at the Sunshine

 Category: film + tv
Posted: 2009-03-08 04:25

Just noticed that Tokyo was at the Sunshine Theater today, via the Flixtser iPhone app. I haven't seen it yet, but I am hoping it will be a treat, as the trailer looks amazing.

For those who have not been paying attention, TOKYO ! is a surreal triptych about Tokyo, directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax & Bong Joon-ho...


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YMO Vinyl ...

 Category: dali's closet
Posted: 2009-03-08 03:36

This just in from Brian and Three, YMO do Vinyl.

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/ymo.jpg

Get your set for only $250 smackers. Never the less, this will be the must have desk accessory for every early 80's japanese synthpop dork (yes please! i'll have one.)

There are also a few other sets out there I saw last year, and that miniture stage set as well...

Here is another Medcom set, where they look like badass bozozoku:

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/ymo2.jpg

and one more Bearbrick set !!!

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/ymo3.jpg
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Michel Gondry vs. self-censorship

 Category: dali's closet
Posted: 2009-03-08 03:17

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/ff_gondry1_f.jpg

Check out this interview with Michel Gondry at the Guardian, where he talks about judging music video competitions, working with Bjork and resisting the temptations of the internet.
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quio . so dazed

 Category: promos + video
Posted: 2009-03-08 02:57



director: christine lang
production design: maria schoepe
camera: rasmus sievers
production: hff, khm
music: quio, audiotaxi, agf


this reminds me quit a bit of a few Zbigniew Rybczynski vids... (which I just finally digitized a few months ago from a VHS dupe I made from the Enoch Pratt Archive in the mid 80's... I really have to post these sometime soon.)
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Tweaked Vestax Fretless Fader Prototype Controller

 Category: music tech
Posted: 2009-03-06 02:02

Another one in from mke, this is hands down, best musical invention of 2008. Siftables, you are cute, but this thing is just madness... and then that dude whips out the damned talk box.



more on the story here at create digital music.
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Sony vs. The Optron Licht Brigade

 Category: anarchy
Posted: 2009-03-06 01:56

This just in from mke, to be filed in the wtf folder.... The best "metal" band of 2008.


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Antony and the Johnsons vs. NPR & Pitchfork - Live!

 Category: music
Posted: 2009-03-06 01:42

http://www.pxlpark.com/upload/imgad.jpg

check it here.
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Daft Punk vs. Tron 2.0

 Category: anarchy
Posted: 2009-03-06 01:38

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This just in from Mr. Chicken.... Billboard confirms that Daft Punk will indeed compose the score for the film, which they report is called TR2N. Billboard goes on to say the electronic duo is planning to record the music at their studio in L.A. Yet, a publicist at Daft Punk's label would not confirm the project, referring to it as a "rumor" even after the Billboard story.

Well true or not, it's a pretty damned interesting idea. I'm pretty agit against remakes in general, Get Carter and The Thomas Crown Affair where unmitigated epic disasters,... now comes Barbarella and Tron. What next, 2001, Blade Runner, or perhaps THX-1138 with Vin Diesel , maybe Brazil staring Ashton Kutcher and Paris Hilton?

But at least, DP will add an interesting and I am sure quite respectful view to Tron, being that they are pretty serious movie buffs, and well, they dress like they are extras already...

Read full story here at Pitchfork
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Max Matthews vs. Bicycle Built for Two

 Category: anarchy
Posted: 2009-03-05 12:48

mke, you are going to love this one...






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