Ingenious or rather pointless… although we should think that being a Norway product it’s all about design and high-tech materials. In the case of “Swims“, it’s all about keeping your shoes safe & shiny…
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8Bits
This year’s Sundance Film Festival animation short section may be a bit too heterogeneous, too diverse for our fine taste, but it’s always good to have a wide range right? Even if the 8-bit trend has reached ridiculously repetitive levels in this 2010…
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Body Dysmorphic Disorders, body echoes, inivisibility…. interactive generative animation with your body movements, from the comfort of your bed/couch and laptop/web-cam….
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Psychedelic pop groups? Two a penny these days. And all of them (despite being pretty good) have to wait for the right moment (or until they sign with a good label) to launch any EPs….
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I was so looking forward to buy this model of Nike Dunk, and then realized is made out of piled skateboards…anyhow Nike should reconsider actually manufacturing such a stripped model….
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Ahhh London, always renewing your attractive but not beautiful face every year but without loosing your Victorian flamboyant spirit. And for those of you coming to the capital for the first time or even if you’ve lived here all your —- life, you may want to use this app….
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The day the Android platform (or any other) comes to have the number of imaginative apps the iOS platform has, then Steve Jobs may be fired (or they’ll have moved to the next best thing), in the meanwhile as it happened a few days ago with Spirits we shall only pray something like the SWC appears someday on Google’s platform….
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Can a model be intelligent? Maybe a non-blonde, maybe a German one? Maybe Britta Thie is? We have no doubts about her intellectual capabilities and now, we have no doubts about her artistic ones too….
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Moderns & f.victims are gonna love this one, we do too … as a one-time-only accessory. The Playbutton (45x7mm) is just like any other wearable pin, only slightly heavier (11grams) and with an mp3 inside!
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There are soooo many on-line trend websites, magazines, “inspirational rooms” or however you want to call them… we won’t deny we visit them from time to time when we lack our own resources and / or to see what’s being commented on the “coolsphere” right now…
share news itemOliver peoples 2010 summer collection
Summer glasses for bored children who don’t know what to do during those hot & sunny summer Sundays, take your fancy sunglasses out and pose, pose, pose!
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share news itemWhim: Tilt iPad case
There’s an internal battle here @ aqnb between Apple fanboys & anti-Apple (how dare they!) geeks. Although today we all agree that hard graft‘s products, despite being clearly Apple-consumer orientated, they’re just softly beautiful…
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share news itemCampaign: Amnesty International
Another great campaign for Amnesty International (we keep good track of their campaigns here @ aqnb) this one developed TBWA with effects by French studio Digital District and directed by Pleix collective (same one behind Duracell Fusion).
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Sheena Matheiken had a crazy idea … wear one dress for 1 year using only recycled accessories … and hoped to get donations in order to send kids to school in India… then she met Eliza in the tube and everything started becoming true.
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Flavors.me allows anyone to create an “elegant website” using personal content from around the internet. Ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, commercial promotion, brand marketing – and everything in between…
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At some point i could sleep like that, i would…
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share news itemVideo: The 140 Project
A few hours to go but Frank Kelly just passed the 2,5k goal yesterday night! For what? Very simple, for funding The 140 project (we’re a backer btw): a film with 140 filmakers from all over the world shooting 140 sec pieces.
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“…some talk about revolution, others talk about a natural evolution. These changes affect everything, from creation to distribution, from artist to consumer.”
Press Pause Play sums up this cosmic explosion of the creative mind. With an increasing supply of a multi-disciplinary workforce, corporations are carving up departments with opening job descriptions for that T individuals.
T abbreviates transdiciplinary.
This wave of mergers and acquisitions of talents and personalities inevitably evolve the pedagogy of established academic institutions and their reputations likewise. Business schools operating right in the heart of the city’s circus have recently appeal to aspiring artists and artisans; for an anthropologist and a film maker, it is more radical to switch sides.
We see fine arts colleges curating design departments, after free falling Foucault, we seek structure from Fuller. Art critics are churning out design manifestos to urge bespectacled starchitects to be more immersive in their ideas. Boutique publishing houses are gleefully taking on the craft of spine binding them beautiful prose.
In retrospect, once a musician told me that the best bands are formed in fine art studios, those who go to music schools prefer to perfect scores from the dead, that seems like a lifetime ago. Now music schools are re tuning sound waves with leading technological institutes. Classical geniuses perform scores reflecting his discovery of Garageband and Ableton.
That is of course the notion of ‘the best’ falls under the zero-genre.
At a dinner table, project work takes precedence over designation, we ask ‘what are you up to right now‘, ask not what we do.
Let us welcome this non-beginning.
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