Interiors
Exhibition view of the Enamels series by Ettore Sottsass in the new Vitra Design Museum GalleryAugust is always a bit of tranquil month compared to the event-filled design happenings of April or September, so if you haven't already taken advantage of the calm before the ensuing fashion and design weeks, there is still time to catch a glimpse of a relatively unknown body of works in enamel by Ettore Sottsass, stationed in the new Vitra Design Museum Gallery space in Weil am Rhein.
Ettore Sottsass - Enamels, Vitra Design Museum | Interiors | Wallpaper* Magazine
Create your own Wallpaper* cover | Art | Wallpaper* Magazine
Create your own Wallpaper* cover
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Front Row Society – Design your own bag | www.frockazine.com
Finally I can reveal that Front Row Society is here, an international and interactive fashion company. As a blend of pioneering spirit and dedication to design, Front Row Society is about to change the way that fashion works.By giving the community power to vote on their favourite designs, Front Row Society will produce fashion accessories that are sealed with the fashion community’s approval.
Front Row Society is giving designers, regardless of their background, an opportunity to showcase their designs on an international platform, receive feedback from the global fashion community and the chance to have their design on our products.
Started by a group of industry professionals, Front Row Society keeps a finger on the pulse of existing fashion trends whilst integrating its unique philosophy into every aspect of its work: creativity, community and choice.
Front Row Society has launched. With handbags as the launch product, the winning pattern design will be rewarded with €1500 prize money, plus the designers name and pattern on Front Row Society bags.
Submit your design and vote on a pattern:
www.frontrowsociety.com
Video: How Steve Jobs's Early Vision For Apple Inspired A Decade Of Innovation | Fast Company
Video: How Steve Jobs's Early Vision For Apple Inspired A Decade Of Innovation
by Austin Carr
Steve Jobs's return to Apple in 1997 is often referred to as the greatest second act in business history. He had been ousted more than a decade earlier in 1985, and was forced to watch helplessly as the company he built tumbled toward bankruptcy, hampered by poor management, a weak product line, and a dearth of innovation.
That all changed when Jobs came back, and breathed new life into the struggling company. We know how the story goes from there: Apple unveiled revolutionary products--the iMac, Mac OS X, iTunes, the iPod, iPad, and iPad--which led to unprecedented growth. When Jobs returned in 1997, Apple shares were being traded for barely a couple dollars; today, Apple stock hovers around $380 a share, and recently shot passed $400, briefly making Apple the most valuable brand and company in the world.
But to get to that point, Jobs had to do more than introduce flashy products. He had to define Apple's future. And he did so over the years, fighting off skeptics, refocusing the company, and most importantly, giving Apple a long-term vision.
Le Wearable Technologies Si Reinventano a Firenze. Con La Forza Della Tradizione | Infoservi.it
Le Wearable Technologies Si Reinventano a Firenze. Con La Forza Della Tradizione
Riccardo Marchesi, managing director di Inntex e fondatore di Plug&Wear, sul suo profilo Twitter Si definisce un Textile hacker. Viene da un’azienda di famiglia che produceva macchine da maglieria. Ora crea “tessuti di metallo per la produzioni di scudi per campi elettromagnetici, per il design d’interni e la moda, e recentemente abbiamo iniziato a sviluppare tessuti interattivi, in grado di scambiare informazioni tra quello che succede nel mondo e un computer”. Ne racconta la storia Zoe Romano in Dalle macchine per maglieria alle tecnologie wearable a Firenze.
Incredibile quanto tempo ci voglia per arrivare al futuro – qui la mia tesina sui wearables, del 1996. Eppure ora forse ci avvicianiamo a un Futuro Artigiano, per citare il titolo di un recentissimo libro, di Stefano Micelli. Da prendere assolutamente, e argomento su cui tornare.
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How to Photograph People Indoors | Photography | instantShift
There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. If you can take pictures of people on black-and-white films by artificial light, you should be able to tackle color portraiture successfully too.
When it comes to creativity then there is no limitation on resources. Here we talking about indoor photography. If you know how to shoot a photo then you can also change something fairly simple to something creative or abstract or otherwise more artistic. You don’t need any special skills for taking such shots. It all depends on the environment and perfect timing.
Lighting
The first point to remember is that light sources of different color temperatures must not be mixed.
In all lighting experiments that you do for portraiture, the general set-up should conform to one of three patterns, according to the result desired.
For strong contrasts, use a single spot lamp as the main (and possibly the only) light.
For good modeling, supplement the main light by a secondary lamp to lighten the shadows.
Soft lighting calls for several diffused lamps placed in different positions. The number of lamps available limits the range of possible effects.
One Lamp
If you only have one light source, avoid too-harsh lighting.
The Odd Luminary - Brother Ferrous Warrior Monk
Do you know about CyberCraft Robots, who enjoy a semisynchronous orbit around our planet in their Orbiting Laboratory? They scrutinize every estate sale, trash heap, bar mitzvah and bingo parlor for Secret Robot parts for their Robots. (This is their mission.)
Meet Brother Ferrous, Warrior Monk, made of seemingly mundane items and reassembled into a marvelous Robot! For many years Ferrous lived and worked alone, pursuing evildoers on Jupiter’s frozen moon Callisto. It was an honorable profession, but as the lone warrior aged he yearned for a life with more meaning.
Eventually, Ferrous took monastic vows with the Brothers of Perpetual Motion. Through mostly peaceful means, these metallic monks seek to unlock the secret of zero-point energy.
Brother Ferrous is 15.5 inches tall and while in the presence of any human, must take the form of a Robot Sculpture. He is a one of a kind piece of fine art and must be treated as such. He is not a toy or an action figure, and there are no movable parts. However, when no human is about, this Robot will continue to assist in the greater mission. So if small, shiny things begin to disappear from your home, do not be alarmed. Simply take pleasure in knowing that you have been harboring Secret Robot Parts, and they have now been returned to their rightful purpose.
There are two ways to recognize a genuine CyberCraft Robot. First, each is identified with a metal nameplate exhibiting the CyberCraft Logo. Second, and most importantly, each CyberCraft Robot bears a Mysterious Symbol, passed down by Robotkind for millennia. In some cases the symbol is prominently displayed. Others will require a bit of searching, but the Symbol is always there.
Due to a quirk of orbital dynamics, CyberCraft Robots ship for free.
$550.00
RICHARD MEIER -Mutated Panels with Italcementi and Styl-Comp Group | INTERNI Magazine
Concept
La luce naturale è l’elemento fondamentale del lavoro di Richard Meier. La luce viene elaborata per dare forma allo spazio, indica il passare del tempo, rende presente il cielo – tutti elementi essenziali per arricchire l’esperienza di un’architettura. Mutated Panels consiste in una serie di pareti le cui geometrie gradualmente falsano la pluridimensionalità , tramutandola in una sola dimensione: il materiale con cui è costruita, il cemento, diventa espressione di plasticità . Mutated Panels è situata sul lato est del Cortile d’Onore e perpendicolare all’asse centrale dell’edificio. Non appena l’osservatore si muove l’opera suscita differenti percezioni temporali, volumetriche, planari e spaziali. L’opera, inizialmente, è colta come un inerte quadrato di cemento bianco, poi come un volume (formato dalla piazza e da una parete traslucida in cemento), successivamente come una sequenza distorta di bordi di pannelli, e infine come uno spazio lineare, animato dall’interazione dei pannelli che si intrecciano con la luce del sole da un lato e con la delicatezza della parete traslucida dall’altro.
Stronger than steel, novel metals are as moldable as plastic
via sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2011) — Imagine a material that's stronger than steel, but just as versatile as plastic, able to take on a seemingly endless variety of forms. For decades, materials scientists have been trying to come up with just such an ideal substance, one that could be molded into complex shapes with the same ease and low expense as plastic but without sacrificing the strength and durability of metal.
Piotr Kaczmarek - Leafless Trees
Check out this website I found at new-mag.com
Just to show you what I am currently working on, I attached a few samples of photographic collages. Though I am using a digital camera, I am not manipulating the photographs beyond what would be possible applying standard darkroom techniques. The physical structure of the collage also reflects the source material: one photo - one piece of paper. I chose the leafless trees as a subject because I was interested in a clear visual representation of a complex structure; starting from the high level of defined spaces between tree canopies, then the obvious organization of branches, and patterns of twigs. I like the drawing-like line qualities of the subject. What the collages are after is to reveal the fractal nature of these organic shapes. The overlaid sequence of images smoothly zooms in from one level to the next and to the next taking advantage of the consistency of the system repeating similar patterns at different levels. To achieve the effect of the viewer being drawn into a set of distinct spaces, I have to start with sizeable pieces allowing the deepest, smallest, layer of the buildup to be big enough to show recognizable detail.
Edward Steichen The Spiral Shell
The Spiral Shell, France, vers 1921 Courtesy The Richard and Jackie Hollander Collection, Los Angeles © Joanna T. Steichen
Nervous System – explorations in generative design and natural phenomena
Hyphae Lamps – an infinite series of lighting designs
The Hyphae Lamp is a new series of algorithmically generated lighting designs by Nervous System. Each lamp is individually grown through a process based on leaf vein formation. No two lamps are alike. Each casts a unique pattern of branching shadows on the wall and ceiling, creating an ethereal and organic atmosphere. The lamps are 3D-printed to order in nylon and illuminated with eco-friendly LED lights. The first 10 lamps in the series are now available for purchase.
GROWTH PROCESS VIDEO
video not showing up? watch it on Vimeo.com here: Hyphae Lamps. Special thanks to Graham Woolley / scion eidolon for creating the music.
Nervous System
Carlo Mollino Polaroids at Kunsthalle Vienna
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Carlo Mollino: Un messaggio dalla camera oscura
Kunsthalle Vienna Project Space
august 31st - september 25th, 2011
The Kunsthalle Vienna project space presents 'carlo Mollino: un messaggio dalla camera oscura', an exhibition of the italian architect, designer,
photo artist and writer who also made a name for himself as an active skier, race car driver and aerobatic pilot.
His furniture designs and interiors executed in the spirit of the 'gesamtkunstwerk', the organic language of forms seen across his work,
was influenced by that of the female body. This is particularly evidenced by the private photographic work he kept which included over
1,000 polaroids portraying beauties of turin's night life in the nude in mise-en-scène settings. These photographs were part of the preparation of his
'house for the warrior's rest', known today as casa Mollino, a villa in Turin, situated along the po river.
This exhibition presents for the first time, a juxtaposition of furnishings from mollino's villa with a selection of these photographic works.
The show explores the boundaries and bridges between his universal artistic erotic imagination of the male and his intellectual and artistic attitude.
The exhibition has been curated by gerald a. matt, the project is realized in cooperation with the museo casa mollino, Turin.
Also... for visitors of the Vienna Design Week 2011, don't miss to visit this excellent show!
Organic Jewels. Deconstruction: Cell Cycle by Nervous System | Design Milk
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This month’s Deconstruction comes from Nervous System, a product design company founded in 2007 by Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg. Using their backgrounds in architecture, design, math and biology, they create one-of-a-kind organic-looking yet algorithmically created accessories including rings, necklaces and earrings, which we’ve featured a number of times. Check out how they developed their Cell Cycle line and find out how you can create your own.
Cell Cycle is a line of 3D printed nylon and stainless steel jewelry. It is based on our interest in 3D forms, cellular patterns, and the idea of subdivision (cell splitting). The pieces were designed using custom software that we created. Instead of sculpting the pieces by hand or modeling them in a commercial software, we wrote our own program that encodes a system for creating 3d form. We call this process “computational design.” I am going to take you through some of the development of these pieces. Because most of the steps occurred in the computer instead of in the physical world, it probably looks a little different than your typical product development.
Moving Sculptures by Bernard Reyboz. An organic artist
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Reyboz from Dana Sardet on Vimeo.
Sculptures mouvantes de Bernard Reyboz, artiste à Antibes, France.
MATERIA PRIMA, RUSSKOE BEDNOE, L’ARTE POVERA IN RUSSIA – PAC | MILAN
MATERIA PRIMA
Russkoe Bednoe – “L’arte povera” in Russia
a cura di Marat Gelman
8 luglio – 11 settembre 2011
PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea
Via Palestro 14, Milano
Ingresso libero
Fino a domenica 11 settembre 2011 il PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano ospita Materia prima. Russkoe Bednoe – “l’arte povera” in Russia, a cura di Marat Gelman.
Promossa dal Comune di Milano – Cultura, con il patrocinio del Governatorato della Regione di Perm (Federazione Russa), del Ministero della Cultura, delle Politiche Giovanili e della Comunicazione della Regione di Perm e dal Consolato della Federazione Russa a Milano, la mostra, organizzata dall’Associazione Italia Russia e dal Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Perm, apre a Milano il calendario di iniziative previste per il 2011 in occasione dell’Anno della Cultura e della Lingua Italiana in Russia e della Cultura e della Lingua Russa in Italia e si inserisce nell’ambito dell’iniziativa cittadina La Bella Estate di Milano.
La mostra, ideata da Sergey Gordeev, membro del Consiglio Federale Russo per l’amministrazione di Perm da anni impegnato in ambiziosi progetti per lo sviluppo culturale e architettonico della Regione, rappresenta una delle più grandi esposizioni collettive di arte contemporanea russa dell’ultimo ventennio.
Materia prima. Russkoe Bednoe ha già destato particolare interesse e apprezzamento a livello internazionale; Milano sarà la terza città ad ospitare la mostra dopo Mosca (dove a settembre 2009 è stata premiata alla Terza Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea) e dopo Parigi che ha invece ospitato una selezione delle opere a giugno 2010. Dopo Milano è previsto il passaggio al PS1 del MoMA di New York.
Il curatore della mostra, Marat Gelman, personalità molto nota grazie al suo profondo impegno intellettuale e politico nella realizzazione di grandi progetti di respiro nazionale e internazionale in collaborazione con prestigiose istituzioni dedicate all’arte contemporanea come White Box (New York), Tretyakovskaya Gallery (Mosca), Biennale di Venezia, Centre Pompidou (Parigi), dal 2008 è direttore del Museo di Perm, che riveste un ruolo fondamentale nello sviluppo culturale e scientifico non solo della Regione ma di tutta la Federazione Russa.
Materia prima. Russkoe Bednoe “l’arte povera” in Russia presenta grandi installazioni, sculture, lavori di videoarte, fotografia e pittura di 23 artisti contemporanei tra le figure più importanti della scena artistica russa di questi anni con un omaggio al fotografo Aleksandr Sljusarev.
Elemento fondamentale comune alla ricerca artistica di ciascuno è l’utilizzo delle risorse naturali della Russia: legno, carbone, ferro e petrolio come nel caso di Vladimir Anzelm e Dmitry Gutov ma anche la passione per i materiali poveri come il cartone, l’argilla, la gommapiuma che accomuna Koshlyakov e Brodsky, o ancora per gli oggetti recuperati/riciclati e restituiti ad una nuova vita nelle opere di Olga & Aleksandr Florenskye.
Materia Prima Russkoe Bednoe è un progetto unico che ci offre l’occasione di riflettere su un’arte autentica e soprattutto ci offre una nuova chiave di lettura dell’arte contemporanea russa.
Gli artisti in mostra, come afferma il curatore Marat Gelman, pur non essendo accomunati dall’adesione ad un manifesto, riscoprono tutti l’uso di materiali naturali e semplici che diventano arte tornando natura, rompendo così il confine tra artificiale e naturale; questo approccio rivela alcuni aspetti dell’arte contemporanea russa ponendo interrogativi che creano un dialogo con la storia dell’arte, la responsabilità sociale e il desiderio di trovare la bellezza nella semplicità delle cose.
Gli artisti che espongono sono:
Vladimir Anzelm, Petr Belyi, Aleksandr Brodsky, Sinie Nosy, Olga & Aleksandr Florenskye, Dmitry Gutov, Anna Zhelud, Zhanna Kadyrova, Vladimir Kozin, Irina Korina, Aleksandr Kosolapov, Valery Koshlyakov, Gruppo Mylo, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Nikolay Polissky, Resycle, Yury Shabelnikov, Sergey Shekhovcov, Leonid Sokov, Michail Pavlyukevich & Olga Subbotina, Sergey Teterin, Sergey Volkov.
La mostra include un omaggio ad Aleksandr Sljusarev (1944-2010), fotografo attivo soprattutto negli anni settanta che ha influenzato molti fotografi russi contemporanei. Sljusarev ha teorizzato e messo in pratica la fotografia analitica o metafisica, nella quale oggetti usuali, prosaici, svelano sensi e significati profondi, mentre la semplicità apparente è il risultato della sua vastissima conoscenza della cultura visiva.
Il progetto è inserito nel quadro delle manifestazioni espositive Arte Territorio promosso in ambito culturale e finalizzato al richiamo di nuovi investimenti e al miglioramento della qualità della vita nella Regione di Perm.
La mostra sarà accompagnata da un libro-catalogo curato da Perm Museum of Contemporary Art
“PERMM”
Apple - Press Info - Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
August 24, 2011
Letter from Steve Jobs
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve
via apple.com
Maestro Steve
by Luca De Biase
via blog.debiase.com
Dalla prefazione al libro di Jay Elliot, Steve Jobs, Hoepli 2011.
Lo hanno definito un genio, un tiranno, un leader carismatico. Ma più spesso, molto più spesso, Steve Jobs è stato descritto come un mago: per gli ammiratori, un creatore di realtà che nessuno aveva visto prima; per i critici, un prestigiatore che tira sempre fuori dal cilindro la sua nuova sorpresa. Perché un visionario è sempre una persona che pensa diversamente e che, dunque, suscita reazioni contrastanti: c'è chi crede che il suo sia un potere soprannaturale e c'è chi non cessa di tentare si scoprire quale sia il trucco.
Kunstformer der Nature (Ernst Haeckel)
via youtube.com
Ernst Heinrich Phillipp August Haeckel (February 16,1834 - August 9,1919),also written von Haeckel,was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered,described and named thousands of new species,mapped a genealogical tree relating life forms,and coined many terms in biology,including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny and the kingdom Protista.Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism biological developement,or ontogeny parallels and summarizes its species' entire evolutionary developement,or phylogeny. The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed,multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur#
Steve Jobs’s Patents - Interactive Feature
Computer
Resembles the aluminum iMac first released in 2007.
Description: CLAIM The ornamental design for a computer, as shown and described.
Inventors: Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steve Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas B. Satzger, Calvin Q. Seid, Vincent Keane Seid legal representative, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer
Patented: August 3, 2010 Filed: August 01, 2007
U.S. Patent Reference Patent Citationvia nytimes.com
The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company’s products — from the company’s iconic computer cases to the glass staircases that are featured in many Apple stores. Related Article »
All’alba dell’hip-hop !Internazionale
Brick Lane in Art: The other side
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This is a portrait of a street and an area - as seen by artists, particularly street artists, and others who live and work or even just visit here. I wanted to shoot a social documentary which would frame the street, its life, and the complex web in which it operates. I wanted to hear the area's "official" stories. And of course the other side of those stories.A journalist's guide to the scientific method - and why it's important
Written by Robert Niles
Why should journalists care about the scientific method? I suggested in my post last week that journalism students should take a lab science class to learn about the scientific method. Here's why I think that's so important to journalists today.
The scientific method provides a standard procedure through which scientists gather, test and share information. Obviously, part of that should sound familiar because gathering and sharing information is what journalists do, too.
But there are substantial differences between the scientific method and journalism reporting. And while I believe that those differences did not affect journalism's viability when newspapers had an information monopoly in their communities, our lack of standards for testing information is hurting us in today's more competitive information market.
Helmut Newton: Polaroids
via 1stdibs.com
At the Staatliche Museum in Berlin Through November 20, 2011 Marlena Donohue A Berlin exhibition of Helmut Newton's Polaroids sheds light on the process behind his perfect, provocative images. Metodo dell'informazione - Luca De Biase
Robert Niles propone che i giornalisti imparino il metodo scientifico. E ne scrive sulla rivista di Online Journalism (Ojr). Ovviamente, l'epistemologia non è una disciplina priva di dibattito e di punti di vista diversi. Del resto, il metodo scientifico ha tanti aspetti: non è lo stesso applicarlo al laboratorio di chimica e all'archivio storico, per esempio. Ma l'argomento è fondamentale per i giornalisti e per chi si occupa di informazione. La qualità dell'informazione discende essenzialmente dal metodo con il quale viene raccolta e pubblicata.Probabile che l'informazione abbia più spesso a che fare con il metodo degli storici che con quello dei chimici, anche se non è per nulla escluso che serva anche quello talvolta. Il metodo degli statistici, poi, dovrebbe diventare davvero pane quotidiano.Di certo, occorre umiltà. A questo proposito, la prossima settimana uscirà una proposta pratica della Fondazione Ahref. Tutta da discutere. Una vera beta.
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Seth's Blog: Short-term capitalism
There are a few reasons why one might not care what happens in the long run:
- You don't intend to be around
- You're going to make so much money in the short run it doesn't matter
- You figure you won't get caught
Short-term marketing involves using deception to make a quick sale, or using aggressive promises to get a quick hit. Having a price war counts as well. Linkbait is on that list as well.
Short-term architecture means putting up a cheap building, a local eyesore, something that saves money now instead for building something for the long haul. The guys who put up the Pantheon in Rome weren't doing short-term anything. Hard to say that about a big box store.
Short-term manufacturing ignores the side effects of pollution, bad design and worker impact because it's faster money in the short run to merely make the product (and the sale) in the most direct way possible.
Short-term investment banking invests in transactions that are unsustainable and eventually blow up (after commissions are paid).
Short-term sales involve spamming as many people as you can, as fast as you can.
Short-term hiring requires you to hire cheap, train as little as possible and live with turnover.
Bernie Madoff was a short-term capitalist, of course.
Left to their own devices, (particularly during difficult economic times) too many people misunderstand the essence of capitalism, and rationalize a do what it takes mindset that is ultimately self-defeating. The reason we need the SEC, the EPA, transparent operations, a free press that cares about its mission and people willing and able to speak up is that they make it expensive to choose the short-term option.
The short-term capitalist is betting that someone else will clean it up.
One of the worst things you can call a business person, I think, is a short-term capitalist. He selfishly takes for now and fails to contribute in return.
The internet has opened two doors. First, it's easier than ever to do the short-term thing, anonymously if you choose, with a big splash, internet ads, eBay scams and more. On the other hand, since there's a revolution going on, it's also easier than ever to build something that matters, something that lasts.
The thing to remember about the short-term is that we'll almost certainly be around when the long-term shows up.
Posted by Seth Godin on August 22, 2011 | Permalink
The best movie of the world or BOMBOLONE - OFFICIAL TRAILER (The first Italian film shot entirely with an iPod touch)
Eight guys under 30, grappling with the uncertainties of life and precarious work, are the protagonists of the first Italian film shot entirely with an iPod touch: The best movie in the world, or Bombolone written and directed by Lorenzo Berti and produced by Industries LowCost. A very low-cost production that has chosen an iPod touch because "its camera works fine, but we never could afford a camera full HD," explains the producer Gino Becherelli. In addition, the native video format for iPod touch (H.264 720p) is ideal for Internet, the main means of distribution of this bitter Italian tragicomedy, once presented a preview to the main festival, the film will be made available for free on their website.
more info: repubblica.it/
koji kakiuchi: do it yourself
'do it yourself' by koji kakiuchi / yaomitsu designing department in kyoto, japan
Japanese architects koji kakiuchi / yaomitsu designing department has sent us images of 'do it yourself', a small renovation project to a 100 year old house in kyoto, japan.
Working together with the client, who has no experience in architecture or remodelling, the project is an exercise in transferring knowledge to the inhabitants, creating a collective design that the client can maintain as well as live in.
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