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From a Toyota advertising for the new Prius:
“…In the future the worst crime imaginable will be telemarketing.
Parking tickets will be written by only the finest comedians
…gas stations will become nothing more than low budget tourist stops…”
Nice idea – but where’s the car that fits this future? Bring it on…
(You can DO it – sorry that would be another company’s slogan…but so what!)
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In the best tradition of the dadaist nihilistic movement from the 1920s, these sites don’t exactly do anything or provide any useful information – in short they are a bit pointless.
Remember what the first web cam was used for – to monitor a coffee pot. Yes that’s the spirit.
Let’s create an art out of this.
We are working on our contribution to the movement – our (DaDa) page should be up in the next 48h (depending on the weather – hey its weekend).
Keep on clicking…and tell us if you’ve seen any other pages.
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This site provides the answer to the almost ultimate question – Is it Christmas already? (The answer is not 42). BTW it also provides the answer via a RSS feed so that almost ultimate computer can also be kept updated with the moving of time.
(Note: We normally don’t use IE but the RSS formatting of this browser out-of-the-box is sooo much better than FireFox – sorry Mozilla crew there is some work left to do.)
This web site you have to try for yourself to see…(we have cut out the answer from that site)
It started off as a residential project at the Medialab Madrid called “Unprepared Architecture”. Julian Oliver – the developer behind LevelHead – worked together with designer Simone Jones during June 2007 in Madrid on this “experiment in augmenting architecture“.
While not a game or avatar at that time, the work consisted of a three-dimensional animation that is inscribed on the projection of a 5cm x 5cm cube moved by the user. By now Julian Oliver has turned it into a prototype for an augmented reality game.
“…Using tilt motions, the player moves a character through rooms that appear inside one of several cubes on a table. Each room is logically connected by a series of doors, though some doors lead nowhere (they are traps).
The player has 2 minutes to find the exit of each cube, leading the character into the entrance of the next…“
“…There are five cubes (levels) in total and just as you imagine, the traps become increasingly difficult to avoid…“
The game uses Sony’s EyeToy motion-sensing camera to capture the user movements of the cube and a normal screen to present the computed results. To create the software a series of open source 3D graphics and AR toolkits are used and Julian Oliver is planning to provide the game as open source for Linux soon.
We are looking forward to try it out…
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More information:
Julian Oliver LevelHead project web site
Simone Jones web site
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. And these are as different as – for example – the Washington Metrorail with its carpeted floors is from New York City subways.
But all of those variations of the letter “M” are interesting examples for typography and logo design as used on a large scale in our urban spaces.
If you’re interested to find out more about these logos or underground systems around the world have a look at Metro Bits a web site dedicated to the different aspects of our subway systems.
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Who said Japanese people have no sense of humor?
The video series “The Japanese tradition” created by Namikibashi ((Junji Kojima, Kentaro Kobayashi) and the Japan Culture lab is just outstandingly hilarious. And its a mixture of very subtle and strait forward jokes and persiflages. With some of the videos we could not stop laughing – full of great ideas and no respect for anything – sorry Sensei…
Watch the “origami masters” do the Angkor Wat (difficulty level 191), learn how to bend properly (common mistake: 35 degree is a greeting) and the art of chop sticks and sushi mastery will open new windows into centuries of traditions. We loved the tea ceremony video but it is unfortunately not subtitled in English.
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The info from the Berlin Film Festival where one of the videos was also in the competition this year reads rather dry:
“…THE JAPANESE TRADITION: SHAZAI
A brief introduction to the finer points of bowing and the fine art of apologising – that is sadly completely misunderstood. This is graphic artist Junji Kojima’s and well-known comic Kentaro Kobayoshi’s version of how an imaginary American travel company might prepare US tourists for the unknown customs prevalent in the land of cherry blossom…“
In line with our Top 10 time waster games this online Flash game is just great (and of course a perfect time waster)
It took us quite some “practice” to get beyond 400 points. Try for yourself.
Tip: Ballistic curves and the lightest ammunition might not be the best approach…
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