Wonder Objects
Artist Gary Schott utilizes his skills as a Metalsmith to create playful and beautiful mechanized objects. This documentary was produced in association with Southwest School of Art. Learn more about their BFA program at swschool.org. Learn more about the artist at GarySchott.com. Learn more about the Filmmakers WalleyFilms.com. Music by Chris Zabriskie ChrisZabriskie.com.
Not Your Ordinary Book Light
Check out this inspiring do it yourself video to create your “illuminating book”….
Switch the lamp
Sometimes, the simplest concept is the most beautiful and fascinating. This is the case of Toggle Light, inspired by the on-off logics of mechanical toggles. Instead of indirectly moving a switch to light up the lamp, you directly toggle the lamp left or right…simple, beautiful and minimalistically chic (but incredibly meaningful!). Design by Yonggu Do....
Interactive CD packaging
Uceroz is a new music brand by Ivan Palacký, a musician playing an amplified knitting machine called Dopleta 160 (180). The packaging of the CD is somehow an interactive experience as after opening (tearing off the seal), the outer minimalistic graphic of the snow-white package is irretrievably disturbed by a stain, which turns to the...
Immaterials light painting
Making visible the invisible: this is the objective of the designers of “Immaterials”, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen. A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting. The result is a light wall showing WiFi presence and intensity of connection....
Arcade Fire do it better
Dug out from the past, but always working with its fresh and minimalistic taste. This a wonderful wonderful wonderful (did I already say ‘wonderful’?) interactive web experience created by director and actionscript programmer Vincent Morrisset for the second album (“Neon Bible”) of the indie music band Arcade Fire. Don’t want to spoil it more, so...
Want some happiness?
Are you in a very bad mood or in a blue period of your life and need to smile more, especially in public spaces? Lauren McCarthy, artist, designer and programmer, invented a funny way to achieve this. The Happiness Hat is a wearable device part of a series of “Tools for Improved Social Interacting” able...
Pencil vs. Camera
Playing with reality and building parallel sketched dimensions made of ripped paper and graphite: it’s a Ben Heine‘s idea, a photographer, illustrator, potraitist, caricaturist from Ivory Coast (check out his facebook page ). Simple and fascinating, the leit motiv is that of a hand grabbing a piece of paper showing a superimposing fantasy of worlds...
Melvin the Machine
Thumb up for this amazing Rube Goldberg machine version: Melvin the Magical Mixed Machine a project created by the dutch studio HeyHeyHey. “4 minutes of craziness” and chain reaction in which the only purpose is promoting the machin itself (that creates also its own merchandise, like printed posters and paint splashed tees and bags) by...
Natural strangeness
Oddity is the keyword. Norwegian photographer Rune Guneriussen creates wonderful pictures where artificial and natural meet in a magical encounter of poetry. Streams of books against the rocks, mysteriously lit lamps in the middle of a wood, old style telephones rigorously in line like little soldiers waiting for something in a snowy landscape. So strange...
Inspired by Iceland
“Hi…you’re not gonna believe where I am now…Iceland…yeah, it’s…it’s amazing, really..it’s…have a look at this, yeah?”. A visibly excited girl, woolen garment, childish pitch. She talks to the camera, then turns her back round, goes next to a copy-and-paste version of her and…well, don’t want to spoil further. Enjoy! Definitely one of the most amazing...
Let’s fix it with LEGO!
What if the walls of your city show some cracks due to time and atmospheric exposure, or your house needs some repair works? Well, use LEGO bricks to fix everything! Dispatchwork gathers photographical testimonies of such a funny and creative way of urban intervention: anyone can send picture of his repearing work. From Tel Aviv...
