Russian Landmarks Imagined as Small Parts of Much Larger Buildings in Architecture Museum Ad Campaign
From LaughingSquid.com: Russian landmarks appear to extend deep underground as if they are the architectural equivalent of icebergs in this clever ad campaign for the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow. The campaign is by ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi Russia. [Full article]
“Moon Gate” at the 2012 Burning Man Festival
Moon gates symbolizing the full moon, birth and renewal are common in classical Chinese buildings and gardens. For the 2012 Burning Man festival—the theme of which was “Fertility 2.0”—I worked with nine other artists from the Liminal Labs theme camp to design and build this 12-foot-high steel moon gate. Our architects, in various places around […]
Nine Things The Squirrels Are Up To These Days
From BuzzFeed.com: Photographer Nancy Rose builds tiny sets in her back yard for squirrels to interact with. Then she lies in wait and takes hundreds of frames as they run around the sets. Anyway, this is what Nancy’s squirrels are up to these days. (Click on images for larger size.) [Full article] 1. Amateur leaf-painting […]
“Anthropocene”: Google Maps Imagery Rearranged into Compositions That Look Like Persian Rugs
From LaughingSquid.com: For his series, Irish artist David Thomas Smith created intricate abstract patterns out of Google Maps imagery of cities, industrial installations, and other man-made landscapes. The uncanny resemblance of the compositions to handwoven rugs is no accident—Smith was inspired in part by Persian and Afghan rug design. “Anthropocene” is on display at the […]
Mobile phones: 40 years of handsets in pictures
From the Guardian UK: As we reach the 40th anniversary of the first public mobile phone call, we look back at four decades of innovation, from the “brick” handsets of the 1970s and 1980s to today’s smartphones. Expert Mike Short says: “Since its first use 40 years ago, the mobile phone has completely changed our […]
Draw on an egg (or anything spherical) with this computer controlled art robot
From EggBot.com: The Egg-Bot is an open-source art robot that can draw on spherical or egg-shaped objects from the size of a ping pong ball size to that of a small grapefruit — roughly 1.25 to 4.25 inches in diameter (4-10 cm). Super adjustable; designed to draw on all kinds of things that are normally “impossible” […]
Dazzling Ultra HD Aerial Video of the San Francisco Bay Area
From LaughingSquid.com: San Francisco, Alcatraz, and the rocky Northern California coastline are revealed in this dazzling montage of 4K Ultra HD aerial footage by production company Teton Gravity Research. Be sure to watch the stunning night photography in the latter half of the video. Teton Gravity Research created the video as a test of its […]
Play-Doh 3D Printer
Sadly, this is an April Fool’s joke, but if only! The Play-Doh 3D Printer and accompanying iPlay-Doh 3D App allow users to design 3D objects on an iPad and print them using up to three different colors of Play-Doh. The printer is primarily crank powered, and is available for purchase at ThinkGeek. Your kid’s first […]
What convicts can teach us about branding
By Mike Kammerling of London-based Tinder + Sparks. In September 2009, Neil Stansfield of Northamptonshire was jailed for over two years for buying own-brand, non-organic supermarket food, repackaging it as well-sourced organic produce and selling it on at a huge markup to highly reputable food retailers. On the one hand what he did was a […]
Test Your Trademark
From David Airey’s excellent blog: How good is it legally? Patent lawyer Frederick Breitenfeld offered some help back in the 50s. According to this, Frederick Breitenfeld was a member of the bar of the state of New York; associate member of the United States Trademark Association (now the International Trademark Association); and member of the […]
Amazon’s Cloud Drive Takes on Dropbox with File Syncing
From Mashable.com by Samantha Murphy Is Amazon gunning to replace Dropbox and Google Drive? Its latest file-syncing feature for its Cloud Drive service may indicate so. The online retailer announced on Monday users of its Cloud Drive Desktop app will now be able to access files such as music, movies and documents across multiple computers […]
Renaissance portraits recreated as photographs
From LaughingSquid.com: Florence-based photographer Mark Abouzeid faithfully recreated Renaissance portraits as photographs in his 2012 photo series “The New New World.” [Full article]