There’s an unusual video of The Cloud, a recent interactive installation by the MIT Mobile Experience Lab, up on the project’s official site. It’s unusual in that it appears to try very hard to approximate a b-film or after-school-special in its editing, music, and mawkish acting. I half expected fiber-optic ommatophores to come alive and [...]
A couple of weeks ago the NY Times featured a story on a house on 5th Ave that is embedded with enough secret doors and encrypted messages to set a Da Vinci Code enthusiast’s heart racing. Five days after the story appeared, Paramount bought the rights to the story and J.J. Abrams signed on to [...]
Was just checking out BLDGBLOG, which pointed me to a fascinating story about the world’s largest mall located in Dongguan, China. Abu Dhabi-based The National recently featured a story on the South China Mall, a 7 million square foot shopping complex that, since opening in 2005, has become a beacon of the entropic forces of [...]
Received an email a bit ago about this 30 minute documentary called Digital Handcraft by Alexandra Weltz and Sarah Bormann. The film follows the life cycle of computer hardware, and gives some insight into how a machine manufactured in China reaches Germany is shipped to Africa for scrap which may wind up back in China. [...]
Two of the artists who participated in By Hand are being featured in an exhibition and in a new book from Black Dog Publishing. Shane Waltener is in a group show called The Fabric of Myth at Compton Verney in Warwickshire and Tucker Schwarz has work in a new book about fabric and art titled [...]
The whole “smoking is bad for you” thing hasn’t really hit China, so there’s an almost whimsical, celebratory attitude towards nicotine. Cigarettes are given as gifts, purchased by the boxload at duty free shops and are generally considered an inexpensive luxury. Lyn Jeffery over at Virtual China posts about the beauty of Chinese cigarette packaging [...]
Sorry, there hadn’t been a good (or bad?) pun in the title in awhile. I was one of 11,000 advertising/marketing/media/etc people to go to Cannes last week and I’m glad I was able to experience the craziness at least once.
The beach looked nice, but there was no time to sit around!
This funny sticker was [...]
Reluctantly went to the Ballhaus, a place where ordinary people can indulge their love of partner-dancing, often to a shockingly diverse selection of music. Cynthia, seemingly unenthused in the foreground. I believe this is when they started playing Credence.
About an hour West of the Polish border. Windmills and wheat fields.