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There are two extronidarily beautiful things happening in this iPhone video by Patrick Colpron . The first is a spectacular six-sail kite designed and flown by Steve Polansky , and second is a heart-achingly wonderful song called Lighthouse by Patrick Watson . What a perfect moment in time, sort of an impromptu video poem. While I truly appreciate the need for any kid to get dirty in a sandbox or let their imagination run wild in a field of mud puddles (something I was doing myself only an hour ago), I love to see how technology like a Kinect 3D camera can create new interactive environments and games. Case in point this new augmented reality sandbox designed by Oliver Kreylos out of U.C. Davis that projects a real-time colored topographic map complete with contour lines onto the surface of the sand while you manipulate it .
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Thoughtful, sensitive (and very good looking work form Oeuffice .) " For its first collection, Oeuffice proposes "totems for living", monolithic objects that dominate the habitat, yet remain entirely functional. These objects are inspired by the geometries that govern architecture, and conceived as domestic altarpieces, infused with a sense of utility, grace and wit. In other words, these "totems" become dominant and narrative objects around which one is invited to stop, to contemplate and to display personal artifacts of importance.
Graph of the educational curriculum at the Bauhaus, 1923 by Walter Gropius; image courtesy of Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin Following our last week’s Friday Food For Thought post about the excellent ‘Bauhaus: Art as Life’ exhibition which recently opened at London’s Barbican , this week we revisit the famous art and design school once more but for a different reason. Thus, coincidentally, today marks the 129th anniversary of the birth of its founder, Walter Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969). To celebrate the birthday of one of the most influential and pioneering masters of modern architecture, here are some extracts of the then-revolutionary and hugely influential ‘Bauhaus Dessau – Principles of Bauhaus Production’, coined by Gropius in 1926: ‘The Bauhaus wants to serve in the development of present-day housing, from the simplest household appliances to the finished dwelling.
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Stefan Scholten et Carole Baijings, designers hollandais nous présentent leur dernière collection de Bahut nommée Shift jouant sur le minimalisme et la fonction. Éditée par Pastoe, l’originalité réside dans l’acrylate translucide colorée des portes coulissantes, un jeu de dégradé, de pleins et de vides. Rose, Jaune, Rouge, les couleurs flashy attirant votre regard tout en égayant [...]
Made by the German multidisciplinary design studio KOREFE, « The Real Cookbook » is the first and only Cookbook you can actually read, cook and then eat. Réalisé par le studio multidisciplinaire allemand KOREFE, « The Real Cookbook » (« le véritable livre de cuisine ») est le premier et unique livre qui puisse être lu, cuisiné et mangé…
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Freshly harvested Siberian sturgeon caviar is meticulously cleaned, salted, measured and preserved as photographer Mark Mahaney examines the processing of one of the most luxurious edibles on the planet. A product of the sturgeon program at the non-profit Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, the local caviar has been sourced to fine restaurants including Napa Valley’s three-Michelin-starred Meadow Wood and the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. “We are dealing with some of the top palates on the planet and we have to provide these chefs with a consistently high quality product,” says Seth Cripe, founder and co-owner of Anna Maria Fish Company, a leading distributor of Mote’s caviar. “We are there tasting every fish to make sure each one is perfect. Besides, eating caviar never really gets old.”
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The house is primarily a response to site and local government planning limitations. With the requirement to house a family of 5 while achieving a large outdoor living space and pool we approached the project as more of a vertical than horizontal composition of spaces. Council requirements stipulated that no more than 20% of the land area could be classified as ‘overheight’. They also required on site parking for two cars off the adjacent laneway. This forced/allowed us to force part of the home underground which achieved improved thermal performance and intimacy while achieving the street appearance of a single level home – though it is the upper level that is read from the street. Covered outdoor space was also a requirement so the upper level was used as a shelter for the sunken outdoor living space.
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Whatever das vierte. Nun also Schwarz. Schwarz - die Farbe, die keine ist. Zur Illustration gern verwendet in den Topoi „Einsamkeit im Alter“, „Einsamkeit in einer Höhle“, „Tod im Alter“ und „Einsamkeit im Alter mit Tod in einer ...Core77
This is version 1.0 of a technology that's a bit clunky now, but has the potential to be awesome at the 2.0 or 3.0 level. The Ubi-Camera is a working concept devised at Japan's Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences which allows you to take photos the way a pretentious art-house movie director frames shots: By framing them with your fingers. We say it's clunky because the current prototype requires you stick your fingers into that little box, but it's not difficult to imagine where this could go: As a shutter-triggering alternative to step 3, it would be cool if you just made the "Ch-KSHH" noise with your mouth, and an audio sensor in the camera then snapped the photo.
The vase deconstructed by student Decha Archjananun. Archjananun split the vase into two basic functions, a vessel to hold water and a form to support the stems. Amazing to see how people are taking Google’s image capturing technology and adapting it for their own art. Top, Aaron Hobson’s photo-stitched images taken from remote Google street views are both beautiful and haunting.
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Over the past seven years, at our creative agency, Access , we have worked with a number of residential and commercial property developers from Abu Dhabi to Sydney, helping them with development and strategy. Yet we see so often the sad sight of yet another mediocre building going up. We see city councils approving mediocre design and we see cities looking uglier because of it. We see property developers rushing to get their building up, wanting to make a quick sale and profit, and not really caring or thinking about the aesthetics of the building.I have a particular fondness for bookcases, because I love to read. Like Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” If I get to construct my dream bibliotheca, I know all too intimately the bookshelves I would fill it with.