http://www.wkshanghai.com/guidebook/  by WK Shanghai 

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Salmaan Khan

Just moments ago, we stood with Mayor Bloomberg, Speaker Quinn, Borough President Stringer, Congressman Nadler, and other leaders and supporters and cut the ribbon on the High Line, officially opening the first section to the public. This historic day is the culmination of ten years of advocacy, planning and construction, and we’re so grateful to everyone who has helped make this opening possible.

We expect many visitors from the neighborhood, from across New York City, and from around the world to come get a first glimpse in our opening season. We hope you will visit us in the coming days and weeks, and see for yourself the beautiful, one-of-a-kind new park you have helped us build. When you come up for the first time, remember that the landscape is still young, and it will continue to evolve through its first season and beyond. We hope it becomes a place you’ll want to return to again and again.

PLEASE NOTE: If you plan on visiting us in the next few days, please plan on entering the High Line through the Gansevoort Street access point. You will be able to exit the park through any of its access points.

Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire

User-generated posts helped report Indonesian tsunami’s faster than traditional news reporting. Now new media by users help solve college arson case. Gotta love 3 things: technology, college-students and onion news ;)

An idea for a series of page adverts for ‘Nike Air’ illustrating different models of the air max series using only holes. The adverts play off the idea that they are only created out of air, directly reflecting the iconic design of the ‘air max’ itself. Being able to see through the advert from both sides of the page also reflects the revolutionary design of the visible see-through air bubble, introduced by Nike in the ‘air max 87’.

“This is all about breaking down barriers the only way Xbox 360 can,” Microsoft corporate vice president Shane Kim said before the conference. “For far too long, the controller has kept people from playing games. ‘Project Natal’ totally eliminates the need for a controller, and we believe it’s going to bring people together in a way we haven’t seen before.”

The “Project Natal” prototype device showcased at the E3 press conference combines a camera, depth sensor, microphone and processor running proprietary software. Kim said game developers would receive “Project Natal” development kits Monday, and that there was no date set for when the device and accompanying software would be available to the public.

via HuffingtonPost

This brief is a redesign project that asked us to find something that needs improvement. I thought about postage stamps and how people lick the back of the stamps. The act of licking stamps, is loved by some and disgusts others. Even though nowadays there are sticker stamps, those old-fashioned lickable stamps will never die. So if we have to lick it anyway why not make it tasty so we can all be happier. I designed a set of stamps called Chocolate Mail, which comes in 3 flavours - dark, milk and white chocolate. They are a set of 24 1st class stamps that are designed to look like a bar of chocolate, packaged as an envelope.

http://www.toby-ng.com/graphic-design/chocolate-mail/ 

Beneath is an outdoor interactive installation inspired by the underwater world. The visual interaction creates experiences of being in the underwater world. It allows audiences to explore undiscovered territories and experience the unique visual expression of natural elements. The invisible natural world becomes visible and accessible in an “unusual” real-space. Beneath consists of a series of 5 visual elements: ‘Water Ray’, ‘Turbulence’, ‘Dropping Star’, ‘Water Cloud’ and ‘Flying Jellyfish’. The visual elements express the energy, living conditions and living organisms of the underwater world. It embraces communication in a silent world through gestures of interaction and abstraction using computer technology and motion tracking.

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http://who-the-fuck-do-you-think-you-are-talking-to.com/

˙ǝpoɔ ǝɔɹnos ןɯʇɥ s,ǝƃɐd sıɥʇ ƃuıʍǝıʌ ʎq ɹoʇɐɹǝuǝƃ ʇxǝʇ uʍop ǝpısdn sıɥʇ puıɥǝq ƃuıddɐɯ ɹǝʇʇǝן ǝɥʇ uɹɐǝן uɐɔ noʎ ˙ʇxǝʇ pǝddıןɟ ǝɥʇ ʎɐןdsıp oʇ „sɯ ǝpoɔıun ןɐıɹɐ„ ʇuoɟ ǝɥʇ sǝsn ǝƃɐd sıɥʇ ˙ʎןuo sɹǝʇʇǝן ǝsɐɔɹǝʍoן sʇɹoddns ןooʇ sıɥʇ os ’sɹǝʇʇǝן ןɐʇıdɐɔ uʍop ǝpısdn ɥƃnouǝ ʇou puɐ sɹǝqɯnu uʍop ǝpısdn ou ǝɹɐ ǝɹǝɥʇ ʎןǝʇɐunʇɹoɟun ˙„ʇǝqɐɥdןɐ ɔıʇǝuoɥd ןɐuoıʇɐuɹǝʇuı„ puɐ „pǝpuǝʇxǝ uıʇɐן„ sʇǝs ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝɥʇ ɯoɹɟ ǝɯoɔ ɯǝɥʇ ɟo ʇsoɯ ˙ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ǝɥʇ uo ʇxǝʇ uʍop-ǝpısdn pǝʇɐǝɹɔ ǝʌ,noʎ ǝʞıן ʞooן ʇı ǝʞɐɯ oʇ ‘pǝʇɹǝʌuı ʞooן ʇɐɥʇ sןoqɯʎs puɐ sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝpoɔıun oʇ sɹǝʇʇǝן ɥsıןƃuǝ sʇɹǝʌuoɔ ɯɐɹƃoɹd ʇdıɹɔsɐʌɐɾ ǝɥʇ ¿pɹɐʍʞɔɐq puɐ uʍop ǝpıs dn ʇxǝʇ dıןɟ ןooʇ sıɥʇ sǝop ʍoɥ

http://www.sevenwires.com/play/UpsideDownLetters.html 

Since its conception in 2000 DDD has immatured into a jocuserious fanzine-journal-orphanage based on true stories deeply concerned with art-design-music-language-literature-architecture and uptight optipessimistic stoppy/revelatory ghostwriting by friendly spirits mapping b-sides and out-takes pushing for a resolution in bleak midwinter through late summer with local and general aesthetics wound on an ever tightening coil.

http://www.dot-dot-dot.us/index.html 

Reminiscent of Madad.

For more information check:
http://www.cinema.philips.com
http://www.stinkdigital.tv/

CAROUSEL, A short film

Created entirely by Stink Digital, this new interactive campaign promotes Philips latest entrant into the television market, the CINEMA 21:9. Since the televisions 21:9 frame lends itself so readily to film, our friends at Tribal DDB, Amsterdam commissioned us to create a piece of filmed content that could hold its own with Hollywoods best. Director Adam Berg responded with an idea for an epic frozen moment cops and robbers shootout sequence that included clowns, explosions, a decimated hospital, and plenty of broken glass and bullet casings.

This epic film is the centrepiece of the project. On its own, it clocks in at a (totally coincidental) two minutes and 19 seconds, but Berg conceived it to work as an endless loop. Visitors to the microsite therefore have the option to spin through the films single take shot repeatedly, to stop on a specific frame, or to watch it at the preordained speed. The film also contains embedded hotspots, which, when triggered, transport the viewer seamlessly from the heavily posted film to a behind-the-scenes version of the same shot. This constant moving between two layers of reality proved one of the projects biggest and most ambitious production challenges. Other details of the online execution play off the cinematic theme; the microsites loader doubles as a credit sequence, while rich media takeover banners drive traffic to the site by teasing viewers with an original Carousel trailer. All aspects of the production, from the film shoot to web design and development, were conducted by Stink Digital.

New York 2008 from Vicente Sahuc on Vimeo.

Vicente Sahuc filmed the above video recently in New York City while roller skating with his inexpensive casio camera. The camera was mounted on a steadicam that was shooting at 300 fps. After color correcting it himself he reduced the frame rate to 24 frames per second to create the slow motion effect. The result is pretty incredible considering the home-made setup. Expect to see more of this kind of thing in the future as video technology gets better and even more affordable.

I can’t wait until people start shooting quality full length movies. I say do it yourself. Hollywood has got to be sweating. I think very soon the internet will have them on the run.
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by WOW

music by Masato Hatanaka

Challenged by Nike to reinterpret and be inspired by an all-white Nike Dunk basketball shoe, 25 Japanese artists are featured in this exhibition of innovative new sculpture, drawing, and multi-media installation. The participating artists, a diverse group of Japan’s finest animators, illustrators, toy makers, graphic designers, model creators, comic writers, figure artists, craftspersons and sculptors, were selected for sensibilities that they share with Nike: a passion for design and technology; a desire to imagine the future; and an incessant drive for the cutting edge. The unique artworks of this exhibition incorporate an iconic object from the world of sport, the Nike Dunk basketball shoe, into a DJ-like sampling of Japanese animation, youth culture, fantasy, and visionary futuristic form. The resulting exhibition provides an examination at the intersection of the increasingly fluid relationship between cultural practitioner and creative capital.

Participating artists include Kenji Ando, Yukio Fujioka, Jun Goshima, Hideaki Hirata, Atsushi Kamijyo And Masanao Amano, Masakazu Katsura, Eisaku Kito, Eiji Nakayama, Yasushi Nirasawa, Yuji Oniki, Ren Sakurai, Keiichi Sato, Naoki Sato, Hajime Sorayama, Haruo Suekichi, Yukihiro Suzuki, Takayuki Takeya, Junichi Taniguchi, Katsuya Terada, Yasuhito Udagawa, Shinichi Yamashita,Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Kow Yokoyama,Hitoshi Yoneda, and Shuji Yonezawa

http://www.whitedunk.com/
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/f48/nike-white-dunk-expo-1285.html

“The music video for my song ‘Alice’, an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’.”

Pogo’s Youtube channel