Gulun
Personal project of Abraão Marcos Corazza, brazilian, graphic designer, inspirated in the australian aboriginal culture. It’s an interactive instalattion involving animation and music. The animation is controlled by real time sound recognition of the milenar instrument called didgeridoo, wich is played by the interactor. Continue reading »
Shopikon: Your Guide to the Best Local Stores
Shopikon was inspired by the belief that an essential part of a city’s character is defined by its unique, local stores. Shopikon is an independent guide. All shops have been hand-picked by our editors, and did not pay to be featured. With an eye for a well curated selection of items, quality products, and distinct philosophies, these restless explorers have hit the streets in all kinds of weather to find the cream of the shop crop. Also, iPhone app.
Hasso
Hasso is a Colombian based company thrilled about making accessories that deserve as much attention as garments. All products are handcrafted one at a time in Bogotá, Colombia using top quality materials such as waxed vegetable tanned leather and sturdy 455g water resistant cotton canvases.
XCVB: Autumn Winter Part II Collection
Clothing brand XCVB releases their new Autumn/Winter collection. Continue reading »
Robots at CES 2012: Hard Working, Funny and Dancing
TP-Link showed off a massive robot, which greeted people and demonstrated its dancing skills briefly before being packed off by its handlers. (IBTimes) Continue reading »
The World’s Most Expensive Parking Lot is in the Middle of the Ocean
The deck of the USS Ronald Reagan, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is covered with the vehicles of sailors, making it a strong contender for the title of the world’s most expensive parking lot. The ship, currently on its way to Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Wash., has cars worth a total of $4.5 billion! Continue reading »
South Florida Fair 2012: The 100th Anniversary Edition
The 100th anniversary edition of the South Florida Fair is being celebrated sort of like a wedding. It seems a stretch, but hear us out: There’s something old, as in some of the most popular, tried-and-true returning favorites that the festival, running from January 13-29 at the South Florida Fairgrounds, has to offer, plus special things to commemorate the fair’s big birthday.
Fairgoers enjoy the midway during Thursday’s soft opening of the 2012 South Florida Fair. (Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: With an Arrow in the Breast
With an arrow that went completely through its breast, a Canada goose takes off after resting on a sandbar in Percival Cove across from Capitol Lake in Olympia, Washington. (Steve Bloom/The Olympian)
Domino Effect
A spiral of dominoes is set up on Jan. 6 in Kefenrod, Germany. 15-year-old Patrick Sinner and friends try to break the world record by constructing the longest spiral-shaped wall of dominoes. Continue reading »
London Olympic Village
When it opens this summer a series of cuboid blocks of eight to 12 storeys, clad in prefabricated concrete panels, laid out on a rigid rectangular grid, will become home to 17,000 athletes, and after that transform into 1,400 affordable homes and another 1,400 for profit. Continue reading »
Sleeping in Capsule Bed
Eric Wong, managing director of a capsule bed manufacturer, poses in a modified capsule bed inside a showroom in Hong Kong, Jan. 7. The beds, which are modified for the Hong Kong market, have adjustable ceilings, a larger air conditioner and a TV. They are aimed at university students and budget mainland Chinese travellers visiting the territory and will cost $450 a month or $30 a night, according to the manufacturer.
Thousands Compete in the World’s Largest Open Water Race in Australia
The Lorne Pier to Pub is an annual, 1.2-km open water swimming race held in January at Lorne, a town located on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. It began in the 1970s, when members of the Lorne Surf Life Saving Club dared each other to dive from the pier, swim through Louttit Bay and finish by body-surfing the waves onto the Lorne foreshore, before attending the Lorne Pub. Continue reading »
The New Cruise Ship ‘Disney Fantasy’ Leaves the Dockyard
The new cruise ship Disney Fantasy leaves the dockyard at Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, Jan. 7. It is the largest ship to be built in Germany and can carry 4,000 passengers. Continue reading »
1793 “Chain Cent”
This undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows the front and back of one of the first pennies struck at the United States Mint in Philadelphia. This 1793 “Chain Cent” sold for a record $1,380,000 in a public auction conducted by Heritage Auctions at a coin collector’s convention in Orlando, Fla. on Jan. 4. The linking rings on the back of the coin were intended to represent the original 13 colonies, but critics claimed the chain was symbolic of slavery and the design was quickly changed with a wreath replacing the chain.
Mila Kunis is New Face of Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2012
American actress Mila Kunis has been named as the new face for the Spring/Summer 2012 campaign of luxury brand Christian Dior. Kunis, 28, is known for award-winning performances in films like the “Black Swan” and has also featured in a number of fashion campaigns in the past for brands like Gap.
Apart from this, Kunis has also featured on the cover of a number of fashion magazines like Cosmopolitan, Elle and GQ. Continue reading »
Kodak Prepares for Chapter 11 Filing
A saleswoman holds a box of Kodachrome film June 22, 2009 in an electronics shop in lower Manhattan in New York City. According to reports on January 4, 2012, if the Eastman Kodak Co. is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-protection if it is unable to sell a cache of digital patents. (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)
Nearly 3000 Take Part in New Year Calligraphy Challenge in Japan
Contestants show off banners illustrating their calligraphy skills during the 48th annual New Year calligraphy contest in Tokyo on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2012. Nearly 3,000 people participated in the calligraphy contest to celebrate the start of the New Year. (Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP – Getty Images) Continue reading »
Art Tables by {enclv}
The {enclv} is a brand that focuses on re-designing things. Art{enclv} is a store with stuff designed by artists. Behind this name hides a group of young enthusiasts – we want to create, inspire and appear in your surroundings!
The art{enclv} is a platform for artists: illustrators, graphic designers, drawers & all creative individuals who would like their projects to become real. We want to spread the idea of creative decorating of furniture (and other obejcts).
By decorating we understand everything connected with design and original projects for ordinary objects which can become something extraordinary. You’ll ask “is that upcycling?” – let’s say it is a sort of creative re-using things.
“Candy Dots”, graphics: PJ Blue
Sweet candy dots on the blue print. It’s maybe sweet, but it’s also plain & minimalist. Continue reading »
3D Body Painting
A 3D body painting on the back of three models is seen in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China’s Fujian Province. The body painting was part of a call for the protection of endangered animals. (Zheng Shuai/Xinhua) Continue reading »
Close-Up Cuisine
What exactly are we eating?
That’s the question that Caren Alpert sets out to answer in her “Terra Cibus” series of micrographs of food. (Terra cibus means, loosely, sustenance from the land.) Ms. Alpert, a San Francisco-based food photographer, got the idea a couple of years ago as more people were starting to ask about the origins of their meals. Now she’s captured the minute details of food, from almonds to Oreos, with the help of a scanning electron microscope.
Terra Cibus No. 1 Blueberry Continue reading »
Shooting Under the Antarctic Ice
For “Frozen Planet” director Chadden Hunter and cameraman Didier Noiret, the challenges of photographing emperor penguins rocketing through ice holes from the water below at high speeds were significant, but shooting them underwater was even more daunting. In order to show the penguins with the jet stream of bubbles behind them, they had to dive unthethered (a rope could get tangled with the camera) and film with a slow motion camera that they had never used underwater before.
The documentary “Frozen Planet” will premiere in the U.S. on Discovery Channel on March 18 at 8 p.m., and the companion book is available January 2012 from Firefly Books. All images courtesy Firefly Books/BBC Earth.
Didier Noiret in action under water, where the massive camera is weightless, allowing him to track the emperors. Those that have swum up from the depths are circling around the exit point, waiting for their heart rates to return to normal. They then jet-propel themselves upwards, leaving a rocket trail of bubbles in their wake as all the air is forced out of their feathers. With no limbs to pull themselves onto the ice, this is the only way to exit. But it means they can’t see what’s on the surface, and beak-breaking collisions with ice blocks can happen. Continue reading »
The Most Appealing and Performing Electric Cars of 2011
Electric Vehicles (EV) were the most popular theme in most of the auto shows held across the world in 2011. As the need for green technology is all the more important in the twenty-first century, major automakers are engaged in a healthy competition to bring about the most sustainable brands.
Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle Continue reading »
Inside the Exclusion Zone: No-Man’s Land Attests to Japan’s Fallout
The crippled Dai-ichi nuclear power plant stands on the coast leaking radiation as pieces of the protective sea wall lie on the shore after it was obliterated and scattered along the Fukushima coastline on July 9. (AP/Eric Talmadge) Continue reading »
Photographer Jeremy O’Sullivan
Jeremy O’Sullivan was born in New Zeland, currently living in Beijing, China. Continue reading »
