Archive for the 'Life' Category
Advertising: IT sponsored theater plays
Two great and fresh advertising ideas for theater plays. These ads for the ‘Virtual Theater Festival For High Schools’ are on the winners list of the 8th Adprint festival and are a excellent demonstration for the creative ink between a computer maker (HP) and the poetry or theater (performance art)…
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Design: PSST! 2 films released
PSST! 2 – a collaboration of different teams of designers, directors, and animators to produce short films has put all their new films online now. The nine films have been created by 27 different teams with more than 70 people over a 4 month period. Each film is comprised of three sections produced by three different teams. This process is the whole idea behind PSST! – a technique derived from the Dadaist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game Telephone and applied to the arts of motion graphics, animation and film-making. PSST! 2 collaborators included…
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Animation: This is so light
A great and very relaxing animation with the music from Loco Star. It’s the work of Bodek Kurek a designer, cartoonist, clip-maker and musician…
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Art: Gummi Bear sculptures by YaYa Chou
We love Gummi Bears – in all colors. So we got really interested when we saw some images of YaYa Chou’s work. YaYa Chou is an artist from Taiwan who lives in L.A. and her work ranges from sculptures to animations. And she has created a set of sculptures she calls the “Gummi Bear Series” – objects made from the famous food item…
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Sports: Underwater Ice Hockey World Championship
The first ever World Cup in the new extreme sport of underwater ice hockey has been staged at Weissensee in Southern Austria. Eight teams from Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia were competing for the world cup. The game is played with teams of two men in a rink 6 meters wide and 8 meters long, under 30 centimeters of ice. Playing without oxygen tanks, the players are chasing a Styrofoam puck with a hockey stick into goals fastened to the ice cover upside down. They have to surface for air approximately every 30 seconds through holes…
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Image: Honi soit qui mal y pense
An image from a NASA site is getting very popular around the Internet today. One could think of a few comments for that picture and some have started to photoshop it, but below you find the explanation for this phenomenon…
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