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Archive for the 'Culture' Category
Time-Warp: Back to the 60s
This is definitely a great presentation of the sixties - one you should not miss.
While some of the good things from that time seem to be still going strong (forgive us, just back from driving with a Ford Mustang up to Big Sur from L.A. and over to Zabriskie Point) again others things we hoped that won’t come back are back with a vengeance or are already being seen lurking just around the corner (think war, assassinations, Manchurian candidates, surveillance etc.)
BTW, today Polariod stopped supplying their color film prints (mentioned in the image below).
Anyway have a look - to find out how your daddy ticks…
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Video: Hokusai An Animated Sketchbook
Most westerners will only know one of Katsushika Hokusai’s print work - the wave or “In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa” (that’s the full title of this woodblock print)
This “short film” animates some of his work and introduces you to the life of this great Japanese artist. Animation designer Tony White created this video 30 years ago - it won him the British Academy Award for Best Short Factual Film - and it’s still an outstanding piece of animation…
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Design: Web site and visual design by girls and women
These web sites have no girlie design - these web sites are made by girls and women and their design rocks
The “list” was put together by Pedro Reis a visual and web designer himself. …
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Happy Chinese New Year
A prosperous and happy new year of the rat to our readers in China and to all that celebrate the lunar new year.
Congratulations and be prosperous !
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Music: Led Zeppelin Reunion
How to tell if an event was a great and global success. Well the Led Zeppelin concert in London this Monday definitely put the bar up quite a bit for others.
If 2,000,000 want to come and you have to distribute the tickets through a lottery to the lucky 20,000 that’s definitely an indication. If news stations around the world are reporting on the event at prime time even a better one. Not to mention the hundreds of web blogs, news paper and magazine sites.
And if on web sites from YouTube to MySpace hundreds of video clips of the event appear within 24 hours - we stopped counting on YouTube at 250 - you have definitely won the crowds over…
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Video: Xavier Naidoo - Abgrund (abyss)
Once upon a time Xavier was doing songs that not only sounded great but also the lyrics were hot.
And his song “Abgrund” (abyss) is from that time.
“Xavier Naidoo” a “German singer and songwriter of South African Indian descent” is well known for his R&B and soul like sounds. You might enjoy the animation in this video alone but we do believe its important that you understand the lyrics of this song so we were trying to find an English translation on the net…
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Design: Metro signs
Almost all major cities around the world have one thing in common - they have an underground transport system may it be called Metro, U-Bahn, Subway, Underground or something else. And most of them tell you quite a bit about the city you’re in or provide unusual views. If you for example in Prague don’t miss out on a visit of their metro - its a bit like back to the 60s or a Victor Vasarely show at a museum. And the Blue Line in Stockholm is famous for their art exhibitions aka the longest gallery of the world. Like in Stockholm many other stations are showcases for contemporary or modern design themselves.
Most of the organizations who run these underground transport systems have created a distinctive CI for their communications and as it happens to be that the majority of these systems are indeed called Metro you get the letter “M” in many variations dotted over our cities to mark station entrances…
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Animation: Sigg Jones
It has been around for some time but this 7 minute animation is so great that we need to point you to it.
Created by three students from the “Supinfocom” School in Arles, France with 3DSmax, the movie Sigg Jones also won a honorary mention at Ars Electronica this year…
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Images: Cow Parade Rio de Janeiro
Most of us might have first wondered when coming to a city that has just been “invaded” by cow statues. And then many of them are so well done and make you smile. But those just gone on display in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are just hilarious.
Cows playing football, as Marilyn with hairdryer, on the beach with a Daiquiri, in Bikinis and flip-flops or on the phone - great.
Even if it’s always tempting and you just needed a last reason to visit Rio you can also have a look at…
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Art: Dan Witz Kilroy Variations
If you you live in Brooklyn, N.Y. you might have seen some of Dan Witz’s street art around your home.
Have a look at Dan’s “Do Not Enter” series at…
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