22.11.09

Armadilllo Scooterwear

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Crazy stunts on London streets by this guy on his scooter - Viral campaign for Armadillo Scooterwear from a creative team lead by Amsterdam based Italian/Spanish duo Ham & Kaas. Famous London based production company Stink Ltd, worked together with the British Directing Team Darkfibre to produce the film.

Stink do however appear to have an obsession with clowns. The appear again in this as well as the excellent film they produced for the Philips 21:9 aspect ratio TV called Carousel
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5.11.09

Inflatable Bag Monsters Attack New York

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Joshua Allen Harris makes monstrous sculptures that inflate when the air expelled by subway cars pass under the footpath grates in New York City. The rush of air throws the creations into an animated frenzy and then they collapse to sleep once again as the coach moves on.
Via New York Mag
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4.11.09

Live Flies With Ultra Light Banner Advert

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200 flies had incredibly light banners attached to them to promote the publisher Eichborn at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The video above shows some great reactions from the event goers as the adverts land on them and then proceed to fly off when approached.
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24.10.09

Robot Installations

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Leonard White + Ryan Rogers = Robots>>>

Robots>>> is a collaboration that consists of two English lads that got together to make installations based on robot characters of all sizes from wood and general scrap.

These are the droids you're looking for...
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Mark Weaver Illustrations

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Lovely Work.
Go Look!
Then Love. He keeps it in the 60's and 70's.
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17.10.09

Mutate Britain - One Foot In The Grove

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Hidden beneath a London motorway flyover and behind railway lines, in a space reputed as where the first real, professionally produced piece of London graffiti was thrown up, One Foot In The Grove is a temporary open air arts exhibition of all sorts. Street art, installations and giant sculptures curated by The Mutoid Waste Company and The Cordy House Family, dominate the 15,000 square foot space and is running now until 25th October.
More info here
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12.10.09

Daft Punk 1000% Kubricks - Only 100 made

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Figures for both Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo are available.
And they cost 1,800.
And they stand 70cm tall.
And you can buy them here.
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8.10.09

Evan Roth - Graffiti Tags Captured and Redrawn in 3D

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This application captures the tag as its drawn and then spits it out in to a 3D rendered visualisation all topped of with some SFX for extra awesomeness
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More of his work can be found here
Source: FLYLYF
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30.9.09

Astonishing Wooden Sculptures By Gehard Demetz

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Well this guy certainly knows how to use a chisel. Fantastic work sir! Amazing even! You should have won lots of prizes by now for this work. Like a small car or at least a hamper of fine meats.
Gehard Demetz work manages to use a natural material and bring a modern and perhaps even digital feel to each sculpture. His style carries a signature of small missing or lost parts and open joins or seams that are mirrored in many of today's digital visual media, whether it be TV, video games or streamed video.
(Via beautifuldecay.com)
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Sculptor Chen Wenling As Featured By The BBC

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Chen's work takes on a variety of forms but always of a large scale, fashioned in high gloss 3D, often with cheeky characters helping his works earn a place in your memory if not your heart.

BBC News Online
featured Chen's piece What You See Might Not Be Real in their THE BIG PICTURE slot in the Entertainment section. A critique of the global financial crisis.
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High End Computing By Million Dollar PC

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This is a PC... not a blender from the future... or the part needed to fix your broken boiler...

Its a PC... Not a military super computer that can beat Russians at chess. A regular desktop for you and me... and Russians... and ex military.

This is the Edelweiss by Million Dollar PC.

Lets just hope its not running Vista hey.
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28.9.09

Hobnox Audiotool - In Browser Audio Production

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This really is a fantastically impressive piece of in-browser tech. A fully fledged studio all in Flash which is easily good enough for any budding music producer to smash out a few tunes on.
The set up has a full suite of effects units, drum/pattern machines, bass units and even a recording facility. However, this is currently limited to just 5 minutes which, when considering its orientated towards the electronic/dance music scene and the average length of a tune these days hits the 7 minute mark, this seems a little ill considered.
The .aweSomeness logo was added to the tone matrix for extra awesome musicalness... Boom!
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22.9.09

Moneygami - Origami with Dollar by Won Park

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Some great origami skills...
Also known as Money Folder, most of his work has been produced using dollar bills although he has recently moved on to the euro. Won recently forced Apple to remove an iPhone app from the App Store due to copyright infringement. Won's Origami
Star Wars Tie Fighter had been lifted right from his Deviant Art account by the producers of the app and used to advertise it. More information on this can be found in his journal.
No cutting, gluing or tape were used in the harming of these paper animals.
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21.9.09

Adopt a Robot!

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Brian Marshall has created the worlds first robot orphanage; Adoptabot in Wilmington, Delaware, US of A.
Crafted from various discarded ephemera, Brian's pieces have a special charm to them. Each of them with their own character.

The individual pieces can be purchased from the home of all cool handmade things, Etsy. Ranging from $75 to $325, these are easily cheaper than adopting a real child and they probably have fewer behaviour issues.

More of Brian's past creations can be found on his flickr spot.
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15.9.09

Two New Mini Coupe Concepts

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Acompanied by bloody crazy video...

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14.9.09

Yu Jordy Fu - Intricate Paper Craft Lampshades

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These would be a great addition to any room setting. Paper craft has been on the up for the last couple of years now and these really show off what can be achieved.
Her blog displays a far more ambitious construction of the works. Multiple shades pieced together to create one reaching 9 meters in length
Here are some more examples of the shades in situ in various homes.
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Anthony Rouselle - Gorgeous Wooden Jewellery Designs



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Anthony Rouselle's pieces could easily be mistaken for sculptures rather than the rings and bangles they actually are. Lovely.
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13.9.09

Mark Jenkins - Street Installation Extraordinaire

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Mark's work consistently amuses and sometimes can even cause concern. A great mix of sometimes cute and sometimes sinister public installations.

Mark's site even offers a tutorial on how to make the tape castings for your self.

9.9.09

Amusement Magazine - Revolutionary French Gaming Magazine

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This quarterly has reached issue five now and really deserves more publicity for its brave and unique perspective on what is now the worlds largest entertainment industry, second only to pronography.



In their own words '
Transversal, curious, thoughtful : AMUSEMENT redefines the video game magazine with style and precision.'

ID Magazine meets Edge? Get Amusement>


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22.8.09

Avatar - Hollywood Shocked By Director James Cameron

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Shocked because he actually came up with new intelectual property rather than trying to make a film of a video game or comic or toy franchise or a remake or a rehash of old ideas...



Watch trailer>
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The Wolfman

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This is looking promising. Benicio Del Toro is cast as the classic monster movie beast and supporting him is the excellent Anthony Hopkins



Aroooooooo!
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15.8.09

DORYU 2-16 Pistol Camera


Found this on
WorldFamousDesignJunkies site.
Its a Japanese police issue pistol camera - uber rare and cool as a goose.




I wonder if you'd have trouble with airport customs carrying one of these?
You could take a shot of the person shooting at you as you run for your life hoping that they worry of being shot at themselves...

20.4.09

Stephan Zirwes Aerial Photography

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Arresting aerial photography captures daily and not so daily environments from the sky with amazing results.


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Super Slow Motion HD Footage at 1000fps

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David Choiffier captures some interesting bits of grand footage in incredible slowmotion at 1000 frames/second using SprintCam v3



Includes slo mo cheerleaders! :)
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Carousel - Short Film Promoting Large Phillips TVs

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This clever short takes the idea of bullet time to the extreme and creates a short clever thiS
You'll get the inlink joke once you've watched it



Stink Digital deserve plenty of recognition for this! Well done guys.
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2.4.09

LIFE Online Explodes Online

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The London protests captured here in all their glorious horror.



Undoubtedly one of the best visual documentation of current affairs on the tinterweb.
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Break Dancers Captured by Carol Cruz' Photography

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Perhaps displays the art form a little too cleanly and
the result appears to lose it's soul somewhat and appears stale because of this but the results are great in terms of photography.


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Swedish Tattoo Mag Publishes Edition On Guys Leg

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Only one edition then i guess. Hot off the needle...


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Ulysse Nardin Chairman Cellphone

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Astonishingly considered
highend mobile phone crafted by the watchmaker Ulysse Nardin.
I love my iPhone but, unlike this, i know it'll be worth a pittance in years to come.



Just make sure you don't drop it in the toilet while you're taking a piss in the middle of texting your Bentley dealer...
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One Kettle - Winner of World Kitchen Tea-Off

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One lump or two?
Especially loving the space invader one!



Brew anyone?
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12.3.09

Zeitguised - Imaginations of Disorientated Systems

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Pretty abstract video showcasing some great use of what ever the hell it was that they used to create this shit.



In their own words - Zeitguised made a piece in six acts for the opening exhibition at the Zirkel Gallery. It entails six imaginations of disoriented systems that take a catastrophic turn, including the evolution of educational plant-body-machine models and liquid building materials.”

Make of it what you will...
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Audiowood - Highend Decks. Main ingredient... trees

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Beautiful, beautiful pieces of pieces of drool inducing kit for the discerning audiophile.


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Amazing record decks. The one pictured above has a separated motor drive to even further reduce the amount of vibration that could potentialy effect the sound output.
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26.2.09

Keith Schofield Music Video

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By the same guy that produced the amazing cartoon overlayed porno video for Diesel.
This shows a very clever (and funny) use of the black boxes used to cover nudity.



I laughed my ass off anyway :)
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Patagonia Site With Nice User Interface

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Stumbled over this nice site with original UI



Have a play...
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ATAT Boombox Mod


This really is a stroke of genius.

An original ATAT Star Wars toy with a retro cassette player installed.

More images of this great piece here
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10.2.09

Street Fighter IV Excitement Builds

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Me and a few of the guys have been getting excited about Street Fighter 4 like we were 15 again or something.

These videos however are absolutely stunning. Good in full screen also

Lovely stuff