Category: anarchy

 Category: design

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.

 Category: film + tv



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.

 Category: misc technology

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. "

 Category: anarchy

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

 Category: misc technology

This just in via twitter from @skoch...



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.

 Category: web 2.0

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

 Category: dali's closet

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.

 Category: design



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.

 Category: dali's closet



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.

 Category: anarchy



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

 Category: promos + video

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...

 Category: design

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.

 Category: anarchy

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.

 Category: wearables

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.



found by dmitry / designyoutrust.com .

 Category: mobile



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.

 Category: film + tv



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).

 Category: music

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.



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.

 Category: misc technology

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.

 Category: music

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

 Category: wearables



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.

 Category: film + tv

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...

 Category: dali's closet

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



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:



and one more Bearbrick set !!!

 Category: dali's closet



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.

 Category: promos + video



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.)

 Category: music tech

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.

 Category: anarchy

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

 Category: music



check it here.

 Category: anarchy



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

 Category: anarchy

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