References to my favorite design, art and technology links.
After his endless strain of back alleys Daniel Crooks found an even better frame for his video stitches. In his new video Phantom Ride the tracks lead you through a host of railway landscapes, this time with a clever twist.
As much as in the Embroidery of Voids video, the audio is a huge addition to the experience.
Life’s a beeach and then you go bankrupt. Whatever happened to the plans of the Sinai Hotels in Freedome Beeach, something changed halfway realisation of the project, leaving a handful of concrete skeletons deserted in the sand. Sabine Haubitz and…
British sculptor and photographer Andy Goldsworthy lives and works in Scotland, the canvas for his elegant landscape interventions with rocks, twigs and leaves. I can’t wait to recreate his autumn sycamore tree, the next time I find myself in an…
In a growing collection in their Etsy Shop Marianne and Steve from Wintercroft are steadily working on a great set of DIY paper masks. All you have to do is download, print, and assemble. You can chose to work with colored…
In Bach in Lights Alan Warburton takes you on a visual trip through Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well Tempered Clavier. Warburton: “In 1722, Johann Sebastian Bach began one of his most ambitious works: a 24-part comprehensive guide to the keyboard,…
La Grotte Stellaire IV in Hezliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Julien Salauds stellar cave inspired by ethno-astronomer Chantal Jègues Wolkiewiez, is at its best when it’s realigning the room with polygon wireframes. While the illustration constellations are like a dreamy,…
This colorful gas station redecoration ticks all my boxes. Bold graphic styles, urban settings, automotive context, strong colors, it has it all. And it reminded me of something I had seen before in Berlin, at the Olympus Photography playground. It…
A couple of years ago an animation of a concrete block on a beach caught my attention. It was created using the Hitchcock Zoom. I was intriqued by the combination of advanced technique and unobtrusive subject. It took me a…
Passersby captured by Julien Douvier in an animated photography series called Routine. A city, a fixed camera and a simple idea. I love it.
Last week I stumbled upon this song. The album version is fourteen minutes of african happiness. Trying to find more music and getting to know more about the artist I slipped down this well of barely reliable information dating back…
Sunset Skateboards offers this wonderful transparent retro mini cruiser with white flare wheels. Looking for a backpack cruiser, the minute I saw it I knew I had to get me one. And I did! And now they’re sold out, so…
Don’t Jacob Munkhammar‘s flying Citroens look like they were meant to be like this all along? These cars are just about the most un-photoshopped photoshops I have seen. They make me want to stand up and shout “Where’s our flying…
Street typography craftsmanship in fast forward.
Yumi Yoshida designed his Origami Sofa to transform into a mat, so you can keep your minimalist interior and still invite all your friends over.
Doesn’t Tham & Videgård‘s gorgeous treehouse make you wanna book a room and pack immediately? Good news, you can!
In what looks like a parallax animated photographic still, Adam Magyar captures the waiting passengers in Shinjuku station, Tokyo. The high speed camera used for Stainless – Shinjuku manages to capture high quality images while the train is still running…
With a simple trick Dennis Hlynsky transforms a simple video of birds in flight to a mesmerizing work of art. By focusing on moving objects in a shot and leaving a number of ghost images in place with a set…
Cinthia Marcelle‘s 475 Volver pitches a JCB in an infinite shove. “One JCB machine goes through the form of an infinite symbol transporting dirt from one side to the other and then repeats the movement from that side back to…
In Pretty Big Dig, an unusual marriage between ballet and heavy machinery, Newfoundland artist Anne Troake creates a wonderful display of power and grace.
Hong Kong born designer Lambie Chan used wood from his new home country Australia for his Ribbon Bench. The edgy but elegant 55.0 x 199.0 x 97.5 cm piece is made of twisted Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans).
Watch how Yoichi Ochiai, Takayuki Hoshi and Jun Rekimoto – of the Nagoya Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo – use soundwaves to levitate objects and manipulate their position in mid air. Extra bonus points for the soundtrack!
San Diego midday traffic is a mess. Cy Kuckenbaker decided to clean things up. “The source footage for this video is a 4-minute shot from the Washington Street bridge above State Route 163 in San Diego (..) There are no…
Industrial designer Rudolf Stefanich designed this wonderful noise cancelling device for city dwellers. This won’t help you on a hot day when you need your windows to be open, but when they’re closed the selective filtering will let you keep…
Video is always a problem in an exhibition. It’s not often that you really sit down and take time to watch the entire video. But when you do, sometimes these are the works of art that stay with you the…
Daniel Crooks stitched together this endless back alley. I even seem to recognize some of the parts from my trip to