LAB is a Portable Document Format publication
which collects the work of artists, designers and writers.
With the contribution of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT,
Daniel Eatock, Experimental Jetset, Fons Hickmann, Mevis & Van Deursen, O-R-G …

LAB generates and is generated.

Matt Willey recently recorded his decision-making on a feature design for the Royal Academy magazine. Anyone who’s designed a magazine will recognise the process — a very useful insight into how page designs get arrived at.

via Ali Madad.

new blog for Base launches.

http://interactivos.eyebeam.org/dokuwiki/doku.php

http://interactivos.eyebeam.org/ 

http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html

Out of the blue, Google has announced a new 3D virtual world called ‘Google Lively’. The world is similar to Second Life, or the upcoming ‘Home’ for PS3.

Users can create their own 3D “rooms,” and deck them out with furniture and other accoutrements, in addition to being able to add themed music to complete your personalized virtual space in Google Lively. Users will be able to visit others’ rooms, leave items for other Google Lively netizens as well as being able to stream photos and video.

“Based on feedback from ASU [Arizona State University] students and with help from the Google Desktop team, we added support for playing YouTube videos in virtual TVs and showing photos in virtual picture frames inside our rooms. Better yet, the gadgets you have in your Lively rooms can also run on your desktop.”
- Niniane Wang, engineering manager.

A few other differences from Second Life: Lively doesn’t have money. It’s designed to be easier to use, with a drag-and-drop interface. And it’s not programmable, at least yet, so you can only select furniture, clothes, hairstyles, and such from the prefabricated catalog Google supplies.

As of now, Google Lively only runs on PC’s running Windows XP or Windows Vista, with a special browser plugin that uses Emergent’s Gamebryo engine.

‘Issue 1′ is a magazine that rejects normal methods of publication, distribution and content. Grouped by no specific genre and with no advertisements, articles are submitted by anybody who wants to send something in. They are then printed and distributed in piles to random locations around the country. With nobody to answer to, and no traceable authors (all contributors names are left out), people are free to say anything they like, and readers are free to interpret the content without the layers of context that might otherwise surround it.

http://www.createreject.com/projects/issue_1/ 

This site-specific installation was created especially for the YCN at RCA show.

The LED display is updated in real time from a secret location; it provides comments, compliments and advice on people’s appearance who are standing near the display.

Why bother seeing the world for real?

http://googlesightseeing.com/

more.

this is the best fucking ad ever for a facial cleansing foam.

http://smadani.com/mom/man-or-mouse.htm#

http://smadani.com/portfolio.htm

http://www.lookwhatyouvegot.com/

A response designed to promote the M25 motorway. On one side the poster gives exact directions that would have to be taken in order to travel from one side of London to the other illustrating the complexity and confusion involved in taking alternative routes through the center of the city. The reverse side reads: “wipe away the confusion take the M25″.

Plugless sink is exactly that, a sink without a plughole. To get rid of the grey water we have to tip the water out. By doing so we become more conscious of how much water we are using and mainly throwing away. This sink shows the value of water through its volume and promotes water re-usage.

http://www.majagan.com/

W+K東京LAB presents Tokyo.Ten : Live from shane lester on Vimeo.

Since W+K Tokyo Lab was launched in 2003, we’ve continued to produce CD+DVD releases for our artists Hifana, Takagi Masakatsu, Afra, and DJ Uppercut. Embracing the concept of hybrid, all our releases have been experiments in audio-visual expression and beyond, while striving to create a new experience that could only be born in Tokyo. Now that we’ve come 5 years along in this journey, this month we present our tenth release, a DVD+Book+Blog, called Tokyo.点, and to celebrate it, we’ll hold our biggest and best party at Liquidroom, featuring live performances by five of our artists. Come and share this experience with us as we kick off a new phase in the journey of W+K Tokyo Lab.

this is really funny.

http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/bottled-water-is-bullshit/

The Morning News recently featured the excellent work of Barbara Probst. In her series “Split Second”, Probst utilizes multiple cameras to capture the same exact second from different viewpoints. She is interested in the authority given to a lone photograph versus the idea that there isn’t just one reliable representation of a particular moment. “What happened” is open for interpretation.

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