SNASK from Mike Crozier on Vimeo.

Chevy- Kevin Cyr

Ron van der Ende constructs woodsculptures in semi-3D. The works are all between 15 and 25 cm deep, the perspective comes to life through the constructed mosaic of small woodpieces. In an interview with Diskursdisko Ron explains how he doesn’t paint the pieces of wood he collects, like old doors and stuff. The image is carefully reconstructed using the original found woodpiece colors. Kevin Cyr’s work focuses on vehicles he has encountered on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, or places he has traveled. However having always been ‘too chicken to be a graffiti artist’, Kevin finds ‘beauty in derelict cars and unkempt landscapes’ (from an interview in My Love For You Is A Stampede Of Horses).

Budget and availability being in the way of actually acquiring one of these pieces, I’ve started to collect images from Kevin Cyr’s grafitti van series and van der Ende’s reliëfs. Today I edited them to the right resolution to put them on the desktop of our media server. So now we’ve got our own swivel-arm art slideshow. I don’t think I’ve ever been so satisfied with a plan B.

Schipsectie - Ron van der Ende

Fire engine - Ron van der Ende

Bushwick - Kevin Cyr

Catalina - Ron van der Ende

These are the files I edited to desktop size (1768×992). In most cases I had to blow up the image. And if you’re interested, here’s an overview of the tools used on this desktop.

Ron van der Ende - Kevin Cyr

De Pont | Tilburg

Here’s a set of desktops with the following tools I used in my Vista setup:

• Rainmeter
  Clocks, system monitors, RSS feeds, weather updates, image slideshows, Rainmeter has got it all. And if you use the HUD white display skin it’s got killer looks too. Getting some tweaks of my own into the ini files I tweaked the threehanded clock display so it fit better in my grid.
• RocketDock
  The Apple launcher for Windows Vista. RocketDock comes with a large array of settings for behaviour and appearance. I really like the Ecqlipse 2 white icon set. Most of the application icons I wanted in my dock were available from the default set, but I had to make some of them myself.
• CD Art Display
  Now playing in iTunes, Windows Media, WinAmp or seven other musicplayers. CD Art Display shows title, author, album, time and rating for the current song and functions as a remote control for my iTunes. It even allows rating my songs in iTunes. Configurable shortcut keys make it easy to pop the application to the foreground if I want to rate songs or change volume. Works fine with my Logitech DiNovo Edge multimedia keyboard as well. Not surprisingly I couldn’t resist tweaking graphics and interaction to make it fit better into my Rainmeter desktop layout. Download the featured CD Art Display skin here.
• DesktopCHANGER
  This systray backgroundtool randomly or scheduledly changes your desktop background image to any set of off- or online pictures you want. The backgrounds featured in these screenshots are photographs I took in several museums around Europe (I like musea, but mostly for the museum itself, not always for the art).
• Images
  And of course the desktops themselves. Here’s a set for downloading, containing photographs I took in various musea and galleries: download.zip (4MB)

Groninger Museum | Groningen

De Pont | Tilburg

Montevideo | Amsterdam

Stedelijk CS | Amsterdam

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This singlehanded clock by Denis Guidone tells you just about what time it is. Tilt it to the other half of its base and it’ll show daylight savings time. The “Ora ilLegale”. Simple. Brilliant. I love it.

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From: Yanko Design

There has been a lot of controversy about first person shooters. This video shows that it may not all be black and white.

The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden.

The game is still in development and no release plans have been announced. You can track the game’s development on the blog.

The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

Animation by André Chocron Music by Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Photos|montage by Eric Testroete
Music by LCD Soundsystem All My Friends

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Do you still regret the fact that you missed that Lowlands festival mudfight? Or that one rather obscure but brilliant band on one of the smaller stages? Did you elbow your way to the moshpit, only to find that yesterday Amsterdam’s delights killed the band’s skills? Wouldn’t it be great to know what’s the place to be right now? Enter: the Lowlands Heatmap.

Check your mobile to see how hot stage Alpha, Bravo and Echo are right now. The Lowlands Heatmap shows the visitors’ vote on the performing artists. So when you’re spectacularly underwhelmed by the act you’re watching, vote NOT so that people know they don’t need to come your way. The Lowlands Heatmap is the LIVE guide to the music festival.

Here is Owen van Dijk’s capture of three festival days heatmap:

VPRO 3VOOR12 Lowlands 2008 Heatmap from Owen van Dijk on Vimeo.

VPRO’s Lowlands Heatmap wins the silver SpinAward for best mobile concept in 2008

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In Europa is the multimedia followup of Geert Mak’s modern history of Europe ‘In Europa’ [ISBN 9045011786]. VPRO’s Roel van Broekhoven televized the book in two television seasons, 37 episodes. The television series focuses on the stories of the individuals caught in the middle of European history. The website hosts all episodes, an interactive map of Europe and a weblog with stories from behind the scenes.

Here’s a promo (dutch).

http://www.ineuropa.nl

In Europa wins de Tegel award in the categorie internet/multimedia, 2007.

In Europa wins the Prix Europa in the category Emergin Media.
As a crossmedia project it provides different types of material and
most impressive for the jury: The project makes use of a wide variety
of contemporary web applications as for instance visualising the
context of historical material related to time and place by the use of
a map-based navigation method. It enables the users to combine
information about a certain event to different places all over Europe.