Douglas Levere: New York time travel

While already out since quite some time, its still great to have a look again. In his book New York changing Douglas Levere presents images taken by himself and pairs them with those of Berenice Abbott’s from the 1930s.

Levere used the same camera Abbott had used and returned to the same locations at the [...]

Street life: Cardboard house paintings from Japan

Japanese web site Cardboard-House-Painting has a set of galleries online with photographs of cardboard shelter paintings from people who lived on the street in Japan’s homeless city that was created around the Shinjuku Underground station’s in the mid-1990s.

…Hundreds of cardboard houses grew up in the underground passageways of the west exit. On each of [...]

Tate Modern: 30mph drainpipe slide opened

Who says that museums can’t be fun should visit Tate Modern in London during the next 6 months.
It’s not that often that one expects screaming sounds to be heard in museum halls. With its latest installation called Test Site from German artist Carsten Hoeller, this might be seen as acceptable reactions by visitors. The five [...]

Turn E-Mail Spam into Flowers

excerpt of test01 entry

Philips Research: Cloths show emotions and T-shirts are glowing

In the last weeks Philips has shown impressive new technology and applications from their Research and Design centers.
Lumalive
integrates LEDs into normal wearable fabrics without compromising the softness or flexibility of the cloth.
Cloth that light up the emotions of the wearerThis application has been demonstrated with a series of cloths that express the emotions and [...]