Whether you like comedy, psychological drama or adventure thrillers this movies are coming out to sooth your tastes. 2011 is coming out as a year of good cinema don't you think?
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Banksy Strikes Again
The notorious graffiti artist (or 'hoodlum, who does he think he is?' depending on your viewpoint) has been up to his old tricks in central London, daubing a wall with the provocative slogan ‘If graffiti changed anything – it would be illegal’. The mantra (itself a subtle reworking of the old anarchist credo ‘If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal’) is displayed on a cracked white wall in the elegant environs of Fitzrovia, not far from the BT Tower, and features Banksy’s long-time calling card, a stencilled rat. Some Banksy aficionados have suggested the work is related to a number of high profile graffiti artists such as Invader and Revok being arrested in Los Angeles. Of course, how long the artwork is on view remains to be seen. Banksy’s last seditionary act in Fitzrovia – One Nation Under CCTV – was removed by Westminster Council, which also controls this part of London, after it stated the work shouldn’t have been erected without planning permission. Banksy’s rat can be found on the corner of Cleveland Street and Clipstone Street – have a peek while you can.
via[Shortlist]
iPhone+Turntable For The Vintage Techie
The Turntable iPhone Dock combines two objects emblematic of their times to create harmony between past and present. Technology is often blamed for our disconnect with society but technologies were not created to isolate. The problem is products generally aren’t designed to create continuity. This turntable not only plays your old LP’s but also encodes them into MP3′s sent straight to your charging iPhone. Modern tech has also made possible for a small amp and sound bar down front for room filling sound. Very nice execution.
Designer: Olivier Meynard
via[Yanko Design]
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Free Beer Is Art
There is an exhibition currently running in Berlin that consists of 72.000 bottles of beer which are to be consumed and smashed in order to complete the art installation which runs until May 22. Isn't that a good excuse to be a part of art?
The installation is by Cyprien Gaillard and it runs at KW. Head over to the links for the details.
CAM (Common Awkward Moment) Warnings!
As Cracked points it out these are awkward times that more or less many of us have been into! It would be very good if we had warnings on them wouldn't it?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Website As Art Collections?
This is what Rafaël Rozendaal has been doing and doing it very well for the past few years. He has been working as a web designer who also sells his work as art installations. As he puts it:
"Makes websites as art pieces, pieces are sold with domain name,
work remains public, name of collector in title bar.
Collectors in France, UK, Spain, NL and Austria.
Lived in Amsterdam, Rio, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Portland and Berlin.
Lives and works in hotels.
Born 1980 in Amsterdam.
Father Arie Rozendaal from the Netherlands.
Mother Heloisa Castello Branco from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Great grandfather Humberto Castello Branco, former president of Brazil."
And also as Roger Ebert puts it: “Stop consuming time with aimless surfing.
His websites will waste all the time you could possibly require.”
Head over to his portfolio to admire and why not hire!
Monday, April 25, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Outsider Movies: April Selections
A documentary, a comedy and a drama are up for this month and they have already produced mixed reviews. Well above all their trailers are going to intrigue you and this post is only here to propose a different route than blockbusters and Hollywood cinema. It's up to you to decide if you want to watch these movies or not. If you have anything to say about them you are more than welcome.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Beastie Boys 20 Minute Video Up (For) Now!
The previous post with the 5 minute video was taken down and this will probably be too so check it while it's hot!
New Beastie Boys Video Making Big Noise!
A few days ago we showed you the preview of this! Well now it's full blown and ready! Awesome isn't it?
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Surfing In Super Slow Motion
Surfing videos are always great and this one takes it a step further, using super slow motion techniques so you can enjoy the ride and bend the time at the same time. In the end of the video there are some suggestions that we suggest you watch too!
New Gorillaz Album Made With iPad!
Photography credits: Jamie Hewlett, Seb Monk, Mike Smith, Oswald Lee Henderson
This is the first well known band to make an album exclusively on an iPad. " The 15 track sonic journey - recorded between Montreal and Vancouver over 32 days last autumn in North America."
As their official site says the applications they used where the following: Speak It! Text to Speech / SoundyThingie / Mugician / Sylo Synthesiser, Sylo Synthesiser Pro / Synth / FunkBox Drum Machine / gliss / AmpliTube for iPad / XENON Groove Synthesizer / KORG iELECTRIBE / bs-16i / Mellotronics M3000 for iPad / Cleartune – Chromatic Tuner / iORGEL HD / olsynth / StudioMini XL Recording Studio / Bassline / Harmonizer / Dub Siren Pro / Moog Filtatron
Head over to the site for a free streaming of the whole album! It's quite a piece!
via[Gorillaz]
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Time Visualized On A Watch
ZIIIRO has come up with yet another way to represent time in a circle, as in the tried-and-true analog clock design, with their second pair of watches, the "Aurora" and the "Orbit":
What we are experimenting on Aurora is to reduce both swirls into a single element without taking away any functionality from the watch. Hour indicator which is on the bottom layer uses a 100% to 0% blue gradient and the Minute indicator uses a 100% to 0% yellow gradient. Overlapping both layers create a color mixing result thus producing an ever changing clock face color! It allows the user to learn a new way of interpreting time by understanding mixture of different colors.
The Orbit is inspired by space and solar system. We want to build ZIIIRO as the 'Solar system of time' and therefore the hour and minute orbits around the parent star ZIIIRO. Colored orb represents the Hour and white orb shows the minute on Orbit. And most importantly, all these models are interchangeable with each other! All the watches in the rubber bracelet series: Gravity, Aurora and Orbit.
In particular, the "Aurora" (above), which represents chronos as chroma—i.e. time as a color gradient—is an interesting way to express the cyclic nature of temporality.
Buy them online directly through ZIIIRO.
via [core77]
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