Tapis Magiques (2014) by French artist Miguel Chevalier is an interactive light display projected on the floor of the former Sacré Coeur church in Casablanca, Morocco, set to the underwater music of Michel Redolfi.
As viewers move around the ever changing pixelated display, the projection patterns (based on biological forms, Islamic art and Moroccan carpet designs) curve around them.
‘BBC Breakfast’ presenter Charlie Stayt drops a clanger royally this morning.
“Kate went to meet more than 40 children and their families at a hospice while William went to an aircraft factory where he revealed his passion for flying despite having left the IRA…eh the RAF.”
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has issued a short statement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR7StSaaDKM&feature=youtu.be
A parody of the ridiculous demands placed on baristas by coffee shop snobs by Nacho Punch.
Of course Steve Martin did this back in 1991, long before it got hip.
The Bradley Timepiece designed by Hyungsoo Kim is a simple, effective tactile watch featuring two metal balls rotating in circular grooves on the face (indicating minutes) and at the side (hours).
Initially pitched on Kickstarter, the pledge goal of $40,000 has been superceded by huge demand and now stands at nearly $600,000.
Unsurprisingly, the watch will go on sale this summer in the US with a European launch expected shortly thereafter.
Written by novelist and screenwriter Dave Eggers for the US radio show This American Life, directed by Richard Hickey and brought to life by a team of 40 animators at Not To Scale, Francis is the story of a teenager on a family camping trip who rows out to the middle of a lake by night to write in her journal.
Bad idea.
Great storytelling. Sumptuous animation.
A rather deliciously rendered 3D experimental short by Simon Russell:
…about synesthetic drones, neon dubstep and the surveillance state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itvvFfeLh84
A highlight of last month’s Social Media Marketing World conference in San Diego, CA.
Let’s get social!
*white noise*
Wheely’s – a ‘bicycle café’ by the Volvo boffins at The Nordic Society For Invention And Discovery’, currently funding on indiegogo.
Maria De La Croix writes:
Today we are extremely proud of launching the world’s smallest AND most ECO-friendly café AND the world’s first open source brand. All in one! The concept is a café is totally enclosed in a bicycle. A fully equipped Wheely’s Café bike, including cups and branded materials, costs $ 3000. Less than 1% of what it costs to open a Starbucks.
We would sell jelly snakes and Lucozade from ours.
A montage of monstrous mookery compiled by Youtuber.2869rjh. Image by retronaut.
