Monthly Archive for June, 2009
Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Casting our minds back to this post by Sam, it seems tilt-shift just won’t go away, and some people are taking it to a whole new level. We repeat the question; “Why are there so many people trying to make real life situations look so… miniature?”
“How the world became a corporation and how to take it back.” Particularly relevant right now, with the ‘double C word’ and all that. I can’t say too much as I have just started but I imagine it to be a suitably depressing holiday book. I’m taking The Broons too.
If you’re anywhere near Newcastle at the end of July, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
presents three days of printmaking, illustration and live music with Canadian art duo, Seripop from Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August 2009.
If you’re in London before 4th October Super Contemporary at the Design Museum is well worth a look, more so for the (albeit selective but nevertheless informative) design timeline, than for the slightly disjointed ‘new design proposals’.
Project Pressure is a thought-provoking and visually stunning photography project by Klaus Thymann, documenting glacial retreat.
An oversight to not have posted it already, but Wired Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of ideas, technology, design and culture. In the current edition one article which caught my eye was the emergence of online 3d print and fabrication on-demand facilities. One example (pictured) is an example of what you can do at Ponoko, and here is an alternative company doing similar things, Shapeways.
Perhaps Bruce Sterling’s predictions that every home will have an object fabricator, (to which designs for all necessary objects can be downloaded, then customised and fabricated on-site), is not as far away as we might have thought.
Makes our print-on-demand book look a bit ‘last year’…
Opening tonight in Edinburgh: Grey Matter Exhibition, the result of a six month curatorial relationship between nine postgraduate students from the Centre for Visual and Cultural Studies at Edinburgh College of Art, and featuring Littlewhitehead (Viscom people, see column on the right).
At Design Assembly, Jamie Long asks; ‘is a photo worth a thousand words?’, and in the process looks at some of the interesting cross currents affecting photography now.
This podcast of a talk by Marcus Fairs (former editor of icon magazine) deals with the thorny and difficult to negotiate territory of ‘green’ design. I recall seeing him speak a few years ago, advocating (in a slightly tongue-in-cheek way) what he termed ‘neroism‘ – that we’re in such a bad way we may as well ‘fiddle whilst rome burns’…
Using the latest advanced next-gen photo technology I have created this ‘in-world’ immersive 3D picture of degree show night. To experience this ‘immersive environment’ simply tip the monitor on its side and scroll up and down. (optional extra: turn up the bass on your speakers to distortion point and play a ska track, getting your friends and flatmates to shout in your ear, whilst simultaneously trying to text your other friends who are ‘somewhere on the street’).
This interesting report looks at the future of magazines in these economically/ecologically/fill-in-the-blank difficult times.
Just when you thought blog comments couldn’t get any more inane, we get this — regardless of what you think of D&AD, the awards, New Blood etc.
Reminds me of this.
Short notice but exhibition tonight at 58 West Princes Street, 9.30 onwards. Installations, prints and video from Dominic Samsworth, Mary Wintour, Lizzie Malcolm, Sebastian Gorton and Marta Perovic.
This post on Doors of Perception looks at how hackers can help government to open up. HackdeOverheid will focus on building prototypes or web platforms that demonstrate in practise how government services can be improved when they are based on open-ness. The idea is to harness the passion of eager developers, who already know what’s possible on the web, to the cause of open government.
As it’s friday;
It’s good to see ad agency BMB using the latest augmented reality technology to good effect in this obviously lighthearted but strangely attractive piece, furthering the cause of humanity by placing northern songster John Shuttleworth on your packet of Yorkshire Tea.
(Though as a long-time follower of Mr Shuttleworth, I thought he was from Lancashire, the binary opposite and dyed-in-the-wool natural enemy of Yorkshire).
So says Jessica Helfland in this ‘open letter’ to graduating students – slightly sacharrine, but worth a read.
This combination of documentary photography and audio commentary provides a thought provoking reflection on the events on 3-4 June 1989, 20 years ago in Tianamen Square .
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