Archive for the 'Culture' Category
Movies: Berlin Calling
Hannes Stoehr’s latest movie “Berlin Calling” tells the story of electronic music composer Martin aka DJ Icarus, who tours the clubs together with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde. Just before the release of his biggest album, one of Martin’s gigs ends in a mental hospital, and from there on his whole life is upside-down.
Martin is played by famous German DJ Paul Kalkbrenner and Berlin’s techno-scene provides the set for the movie…
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Music: Victor Wooten
Just music - the most amazing bassist on this planet.
Victor Wooten, absolutely fabulous.
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Advertising: Wario Land destroys YouTube
Some people in the advertising business seemingly have not lost their sense of humor and created a great ad for Nintendo’s Wario Land on YouTube.
Tip: You can drag the items around on screen at the end.
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Street-Art: Seeder
A very interesting approach to street art seen in Lithuania. The artist Morfai is using a farmer statue - an image popular in many former communist countries - more precisely the shadow silhouette of the statue and adds to the wall on which the shadow is projected.
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Music: Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant
An outstanding music video playing with a visual technique called the “Droste Effect” which is well known from M.C. Escher’s graphical work…
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Music: Midnight Madness on Google Earth
Potentially the first music video for a well known band that is based on Google-Earth. This video is the result of the Midnight Madness Competition by the Chemical Brothers.
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Art: Levi van Veluw - Landscape
Installations in the tradition of Dutch landscape painting but also of “living” and one minute sculptures, Levi van Veluw has created a landscape photo series and a new video…
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Image: Satanic
The horror version of the foundering Titanic. So it wasn’t an iceberg after all…
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Video: Playful Spaces
A video about hijacking a bus stop and installing a swing to make it more playful.
Bruno Taylor who has created this project at London bus stops “…to study different ways of bringing play back into public space…“…
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Sci-Fi: Starship dimensions
If you like Science Fiction movies have a look at Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions pages. It provides pixel exact drawings of 218 starships and if you’re using IE you can compare the drawings directly on screen by dragging them around.
The in-scale drawings include starships from Sci-Fi movies such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, ID4, Macross/Robotech, Lexx, Freespace, and Battlestar Galactica. Zoom ranges include…
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