thanks to the election, there are a lot of info graphics coming from every major media outlet. this one i thought was stupid, but liked anyway.

The concept of the making of Chanel Mobile Art Container

The Making of Chanel Mobile Art in Hong Kong

opening party

free admission till Friday in Central park
reserve ticket online to avoid the line!!

Tribute to tomorrow. Aww, how cute..

Japander:
1. a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use. ~er (see synecure, prostitute)
2. to make an ass of oneself in Japanese media.

Oh Arnold..

Go to Japander.com for more

Find yourself too lazy to start that job hunt? If you are like me, you constantly pray that a new job lead will just happen to fall into your lap. Well I am not the one to just give you job, but I will give you some resources as to where you could find your next potential employer. There are a lot of places out there that offer freelance, part-time, and full-time graphic design positions. Some places I am sure you have heard about, but I am hoping to introduce you to at least one new one to help you start your career. If you come across an amazing resource, or know of one that I have missed please leave a comment and share it I would love to post it in my list. Now for the real show! Get your resumes and portfolios ready!

http://www.acrossthefieldmovie.com/
by DRESS CODE

An example of how silence remains secondary to sound and music in the theory of music can be found in Thomas Clifton’s essay ‘The Poetics of Musical Silence’. ‘To focus on the phenomenon of musical silence is analogous to deliberately studying the spaces between trees in a forest: somewhat perverse at first, until one realizes that these spaces contribute to the perceived character of the forest itself, and enable us to speak coherently of ‘dense’ growth or ’sparse’ vegetation. In other words, silence is not nothing.

Fellow classmate, Joshua Lim was born in Malaysia and raised in Singapore. After junior college, he spent over two years in the Singaporean army and then left for the University of Southern California to study filmmaking. The Olive Depression is his first feature-length film after graduation.

Pick a colour and it will find a combination of images on flickr with the colour you choose.

http://labs.ideeinc.com/

I don’t know if anyone is interested, but at the Village Halloween Parade this year (today), some people are doing a huge reenactment of Bueller’s “Twist & Shout” scene. If I was in NY I wouldn’t miss it… Seems like a fun, well done flash crowd thing.More info at http://projectbueller.tumblr.com/

http://swaggerizeme.com/

Generate articles about yourself to get out of your loser life. Courtesy of Old Spice, done by Wieden+Kennedy Portland.

Here are the articles that got generated with my name:

Sound Dosage
Bookworm Farm Booksellers
Moneymaker News
International Sports Digest
The Super Fan Club

Amon Miyamoto, a Japanese theatrical director, built this beachfront concrete home on Okinawa island in 1999 to be united with nature. The architectural space is inspiring and poetic, and reaks of traditional Chinese/Japanese philosophy: oneness with nature and the convergence of interior and exterior spaces. 

In lieu of large windows, he designed a broad screen that can be raised to open up the house’s interior. The way the stage is set “can dramatically change what you see,” he said. “It could change the focus and the way the audience looks at things.”

article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/greathomesanddestinations/29gh-japan.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin

images:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/10/27/greathomesanddestinations/1029_iht_slideshow_index.html

http://www.burlesqueforobama.com

http://www.peopleinthemiddleforobama.org/

A future where the continuity of history has broken off, a world of enormous ruins that continues endlessly. Oceans and continents have vanished, existing only within the archives brought up from the remains. Ura works in the Archive Excavation Department, which restores and analyzes the data left behind. One day, he finds a disturbing visual record…

Watch Pale Cocoon in Animation

Note: This is not your regular anime. It has a deep message embedded that ties with the state of humanity and the environment. I’m impressed with how the medium was used to convey such a serious message. Love your Earth, folks.

“Pollution is closer than you think.”

Advertising Agency: JWT, Hong Kong
Creative Directors: Steven Lee, Kwong Chi Kit, Barbara Fu
Art Directors: Fei Leung, Arthur Tse
Copywriters: Babara Fu, Jesse Wong
Other additional credits: Nick Leung, Serena Tsang

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This is a nice site that lets you make that little icon used in bookmarks/favorites. You should give it a shot and make one for _dreams. Also posted if anyone else is interested.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — How long does it take to remake an icon? Try five months.

That’s the amount of time Pepsi took to revamp its famous logo, after top executives Indra Nooyi and Massimo d’Amore called for a “quantum leap” forward in transforming the soft-drink category and defining Pepsi as a cultural leader, said Frank Cooper, Pepsi’s VP-portfolio brands.

“We felt like, as we move out of this traditional mass marketing and mass distribution era into today’s culture, there’s an opportunity to bring humanity back, both in terms of the design but also in the way we engage consumers,” he said. “By making the logo more dynamic and more alive … [it is] absolutely a huge step in the right direction.”

And a costly one. Pepsi would not discuss what it’s paying for the revamp, but experts estimate the cost for a top firm to work five months at north of $1 million. But that’s just the beginning. The real cost, said an expert, is in removing the old logo everywhere it appears and putting new material up. For Coke or Pepsi, when you add up all the trucks, vending machines, stadium signage, point-of-sale materials and more around the world, it could easily tally several hundred million dollars, the expert said.

The new logo is a white band in the middle of Pepsi’s circle that loosely forms a series of smiles: A smile will characterize brand Pepsi, while a grin is used for Diet Pepsi and a laugh is used for Pepsi Max. The new logo is Pepsi’s 11th in its 110-year history. Five logos have been introduced in the past 21 years, with the last update in 2002.

http://adage.com/article?article_id=132016

this was from Steve originally, but i’m helping him post this coz i think its cool.

http://www.theburiedlife.com/