Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop

•February 4, 2010 • Leave a Comment

a vision of the furture straight from the mind of Keiichi Matsuda. it raises some interesting points though. will we become so accustomed to this that our brains filter all this information with complete ease? there’s some good debate on the cr blog.

bird song

•January 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

this is amazing! i just wonder if the birds like the music they’re making.

created by Celeste Boursier-Mougenot and coming soon to the barbican.

wizard smoke

•January 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

a great combination of music and visuals that gave me a warm fuzzy feeling (and coming from a person who knows zip about skating). i think my favourite bit is where they jump into the water at the end. the colours look amazing! although the thought of the feeling of all that powder on my skin does make me feel a bit funny*shudder*

nice typography

•January 11, 2010 • Leave a Comment

i love new world wine labels, some real effort and thought goes in to it. i’d love some more classic wines to step it up!

enchanting illustration

•January 11, 2010 • Leave a Comment

just bumped into some wonderfully beautiful and delicate illustrations by Audrey Kawasaki. i’m completely having talent envy!

hipstamatic

•January 11, 2010 • 1 Comment

i found hipstamatic iPhone app the other day and had a play with it in the snow.

yes its just some photoshop effects but i like the holga effect and its nice to shoot it like that rather than having to mess about with it myself.

a guide to augmented reality

•January 8, 2010 • Leave a Comment

light and sound

•January 7, 2010 • Leave a Comment

i saw this today, its a sort of table come ipod dock come dance podium created by Moritz Waldemeyer. it’d be sweet at house parties!

it reminded me of a new installation in leeds, created by Hans Peter Kuhl, that i saw when i was back for christmas (here’s the feature in the yorkshire post).

placed in an underpass beneath the train station its created from metal sheets with hundreds of holes where LED lights create a display, changing each night. with 8,000 different displays over the 20-year lifetime of the installation you’ll be able to experience something unique everytime you walk beneath it. while being beautiful it’s functional too, helping to muffle the noise of the traffic. (i must also add that the photos are courtesy of flickr)

it has utterly transformed what was a horrible place to be and made it into something exciting and engaging. it’d be lovely to see much more like this in the city.

snow day

•January 6, 2010 • Leave a Comment

i managed to make it in to work today but for those who will be ‘working from home’ there’s a funny article on the guardian today guiding those unused to being home during the day around the minefields of daytime tv. a nice example of being honest about the reality!

the truth is out

•January 6, 2010 • Leave a Comment

oh dear…

nicely done. i wonder if the world would be a better place if everyone just said what they really thought.