Its about time someone turned a flip box crazy snake into a mobile phone, a music sampler, a mp3 player, a camera and even a speaker box. Marianne Bailey's design for the all in one Yamaha "Box to Play" is worth checking out. See the video here.
I quite like this quirky approach to self portraits based on imitating the supposed expression of a car. link.
German duo Vivien Weyrauch and Fabian Röttger create some incredible videos and take some inventive photographs. I particularly like the simplicity of their idea for Flying Things.
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A set of interesting paper rings by Tithi Kutchamuch and Nutre Arayavanish. They come flat in laser cut sheets and you origami them into shape. Of course they aren't the most durable thing in the world, but that just makes them even cooler. Looking through each of their sites they both have plenty of other interesting pieces including Nutres excellent postable jewellery, keep it in mind when you need a fifth wedding anniversary present.
This extraordinary short depicting the sad story of a black dog by wholly animated flipbooks. The incredible artistry is an Animate Projects commission for Channel 4 in association with Arts Council England.
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Australian film makers Jason van Genderen (director), Shane Emmett (producer), and John Roy (music composer) have made this brilliant short film shot entirely on mobile phones in Sydney and New York City. Thankfully their genius was rewarded by winning Best Film at Tropfest NY 2008. check it.
Another great photographer worth checking out. Markus has a method of using the light and shutter speeds that ad the surreal to everyday scenarios. I love the way he uses saturation in his shots. Be sure to check out his personal project on Land Speed Racing. here.
Furniture designer Brodie Neill showed his new pieces in London recently at the Apartment Gallery. Now his "Pop" table is alright but his "Remix" chaise lounge is absolutely beautiful. I can't imagine that it is too comfortable to lie on for long, but i'd spend my time lying on the floor viewing it from different angles. Made from laminated plastic, plywood, chipboard and fibreboard which is then CNC cut from one huge block, I can see why this is a very limited edition piece. Simple idea, amazing result.
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Designer Rolf Sachs does make some damn fine lights, though the idea of a light bulb in water does freak me out a little. Infact he designs a lot of things, but his lights are my favourite. They create instant intrigue, looking like a series made with some home science experiment kit. Might be quite hard to read a book with though.
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Check out this photostream form Finalfrontier Design. I particularly like the melting signs. link.
Rainbow Glasses by (RGB) Portuegese designer Luís Porém. The frame is clear and hollow so that you can pour in ink of any colour. Looks pretty cool but must be an absolute bearch to clean in between colours. link.
Brent Comber takes the idea of making furniture out of wood pretty damn literally. Yes you could confuse the above photo with a stack of firewood, but that just proves a stack of fire wood does look beautiful. Brent creates wood sculptures and furniture from his studio in Vancouver Canada and i'm loving the natural simplicity of his work. His series of "shattered" logs is one of my favourites.
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Thomas Grunfeld has created a series of images titled "Misfits" and that seems to be an understatement. Seemlessly combining various animals and birds together he ends up making some quite unsettling mutants, but does make you think... if we weren't so used to looking at ourselves everyday... we would look pretty damn weird as well.
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Combining two of my favourite things...snowboarding and film making. Check out the trailer for Thats it Thats all. Truly epic.
The Play Coalition is a creative design collaboration between three friends and I love the stuff they are coming up with so far. From the ink stamp seen above, leaving room for you to doodle away... to the Matytr lamp (below) showing playing with electrical sockets can be fun.
"Ark" a short film by Grzegorz Jonkajtys is a must view. This is animation film making at its best.
This is a beautiful, very minimal cabin designed by Belgian architects Robbrecht en Daem. It's pure simplicity and size makes it very doll house like while the black and white photgraphy does make it seem like something out of the blair witch project. Aside from that, I could quite happily sit on that deck waiting for a fish to bite and need nothing more in life.
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NYC's answer to the Dogtown doco on other pioneers in the sport art lifestyle of skateboarding. Looks interesting. link.
Australian artist Jeremy Geddes paints these highly realistic portrayals of various scenes, some quite ordinary with perhaps a kosmonaut dropped in or others more frightening. I do like the kosmonauts. link.
The sky in motion is a video of hundreds of photographs edited to create a timelapse effect of scenic shots. Worth a look for the calming effect...it is like watching fire or water. link.
Much of Sarah Wilmers images almost have the preternatural feeling of peering into a slightly more magical world. The lack of light in many of her images creates a real mystery and leads the viewer to tell their own story. link.
An inspired spot for the Enviromental Defense Fund:Polar Bears. Joshua Allen Harris has created these inflatable street sculptures which an agency has used for these EDF spots about global warming and the effect on Polar Bears. Forget global warming just wait until Sarah Palin sees them.
I've always been a fan of photojournalism (even dabbled in the video version of it for a time myself.). The ability to take well crafted shots most often in a moments notice is a real talent. Most of the striking images we see are during dramatic scenes or the aftermath of a disaster which will always influence the potency however there are a special few who can really portray this with effect and Benjamin Krain is one of them. link.
A stunning set of flowing imagery using underwater photography by Parisian Alix Malka. I believe they were for Japanese magazine, Numero Tokyo. Pure magic. link.
This is old but new to me. Dominic Wilcox is an an artist/ ideas man and looking through his site, he has some great ideas. Above is the sole of a pair of shoes he came up with, when you walk through the rain it leaves a finger print behind you.......Others are the glove that looks like a hand, The Orgasmatron 3000 and "Scratch" and "Rust" stickers to help stop your brand new bike getting stolen.
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