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the ironic evolution of copyright

"Everything is a Remix" ist eine vierteilige dokumentation über die evolution des sogenannten copyright. Kirby Ferguson - eine geniale arbeit über das aktuelle thema "copyright"! web maker: kirby ferguson web prject: everything is a remix Everything is a Remix Part 4 [vsw id="36881035" source="vimeo" width="521" height="221" autoplay="no"] Everything is a Remix Part 3 [vsw id="25380454" source="vimeo" width="521" height="221" autoplay="no"] Everything is a Remix Part 2 [vsw ...

Minimal Record Player

ultra-minimalist gramophone is made of just paper, wood, and metal and it’s operated by hand. What a great "invention" ... this young Ladys webpage is definitely worth a look - livia-ritthaler gramophone [vsw id="iQikPNOPSUc" source="youtube" width="521" height="221"

Color Changes Everything

In the latest ad for Target, color is embodied by a group of highly athletic men and women in striking monochrome ensembles. They emerge from a mysterious orange hot air balloon as soon as it touches down in the middle of a bustling city. [vsw id="rMi5fFtye6o" source="youtube" width="521" height="221"

Hyper-Chic Vases Made From Bathroom Countertops

Form Us With Love designs a set of lovely vases using Silestone, a material typically reserved for kitchen and bathroom surfaces. the Swedish design studio Form Us With Love wanted to “break away from the familiar Silestone slab form and explore the material’s tactile dimension” so they worked with the Spanish manufacturer Cosentino to shape the material into something that’d look every bit as good on top of your kitchen counter. [vsw id="L-A7gwCaUjQ" source="youtube" width="521" height="221"

Bartholomäus Traubeck – YEARS

A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music, 2011. Modified turntable, computer, vvvv, camera, acrylic glass, veneer, approx. 90x50x50 cm. What a beautiful idea! www.traubeck.com A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The ...

this is made by hand

I was so amazed after watching this Videos... The Knife Maker reminds me of myself. Before you can think about making Art you have to know what you do. The Videos from Keith “keef” Ehrlich are a piece of Art by themselves. Just wonderful. A project from the Bureau of Common Goods, Made by Hand was created out of the belief that the things we collect, consume, use, and share are part of who we are as individuals. For example, the food that we eat says something about each of us, as do the tools we use and the chairs we rest on. Objects ...

Field Notes: Red Blooded

"The story features the product, but it’s in such an organic way." This is how you sell products now. This film probably cost a tiny fraction of what a standard TV commercial costs, but it’s about 10,000 times more effective. The line between "content" and "advertising" is so smudged at this point that analyzing the taxonomy is almost a useless exercise. Do you even care, when tweeting or Facebooking a piece of media that you like, whether it was paid for by a corporation or was made by some guy in his basement? All I care about is ...

Amplify Urban Ideas

The Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability lab has spent the last two years listening to people about how to make their neighborhoods better. Now they have a blueprint to take to the rest of the world. good ideas should get attention - amplifying creative communities Creative Communities are groups of citizens whose actions bring positive change to their neighborhoods and the environment. They solve questions of everyday urban life by promoting simple, but often ingenious, solutions. These communities are often low ...

How To Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps)

to be interesting isn’t a job of life, it’s an option. Images & text by Jessica Hagy / Forbes. 1.Go exploring. Explore ideas, places, and opinions. The inside of the echo chamber is where are all the boring people hang out. 2. Share what you discover. And be generous when you do. Not everybody went exploring with you. Let them live vicariously through your adventures. 3. Do something. ...

Learn and explore – one of the ways to understand the world & cultures

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films….. [vsw id="T_Tu7GE0pYc" source="youtube" width="521" height="221"

the sky is the limit

I found this beautiful website acidently the other day... a congeries of ideas, creation, inspiration and other subjects. TSITL’s collaborative community provides you with the latest and classic creative inspirations in different forms of audio/visual experiences (videos/pictures/text). Examples of content may come from television, movies, books, print, ambient/interactive advertising, music videos, photography, design and other forms of media. Text based content are showcased in the forms of quotes, articles and blog posts ...

For a Deaf Artist, The Process of Sound Art, Transformed:

The Selby Profiles Deaf Performance Artist Sun Kim's Sonic Experiments Cult photographer and filmmaker Todd Selby's latest short is a revealing portrait of performance artist Christine Sun Kim. Deaf from birth, Kim turned to using sound as a medium during an artist residency in Berlin in 2008, and has since developed a practice of lo-fi experimentation that aims to re-appropriate sound by translating it into movement and vision. "It's a lot more interesting to explore a medium that I don't have direct access to and yet has the most direct ...

the convenience of the people

I've always wanted to know how Aldi, Lidl and CO can make their prices. maybe thats the explanation - enjoy your meal! [vsw id="7255821487204495355" source="google" width="521" height="221"

How Bad Do You Want Success?

I’m not posting this video because of NFl and I’m not posting this video for the athlete. There is a very important message directly to success and finding it. You’ve heard it before: If you want to be on the same level as the people that you look up to, you’ll need to work really, really hard. Take a look into what it takes to be successful and be inspired. [vsw id="27933991" source="vimeo" width="521" height="221"

Ritornell for Musicbox

Beautifully designed functional business cards designed by Katharina Hölzl for jazz duo Ritornell. With the aid of laser assisted milling, nine micro compositions consisting of circles, triangles and Ritornell's contact information were applied onto a long musicbox paper stripe. [vsw id="31134236" source="vimeo" width="521" height="221"

PressPausePlay

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era. [vsw id="-rvlaTg3vPg" ...

John Jay Talks about Creativity

John Jay of Wieden + Kennedy was recently named one of the most creative business people in 2011 by Fast Company. His position as W+K’s executive creative director takes him between all of the W+K offices in an effort to breed those cultures into the main headquarters in Portland. In this video John Jay talks about his creative process. He takes a step back and approaches his interpretation of process from a wise view. What I’ve drawn mostly from this is that it’s about conversation. Most importantly it’s about listening to what ...

Verner Panton Visiona & Interiors of Mid-Century Modern

Flying Lotus

This is such a nice electronic music... and ENTERTAINMENT!!! The Destroy Game The Attack Game Flying Lotus on BLEEP [vsw id="15568767" source="vimeo" width="521" height="221"

Otomata Music Toy

Otomata is a generative sequencer. It employs a cellular automaton type logic I’ve devised to produce sound events. This set of rules produces chaotic results in some settings, therefore you can end up with never repeating, gradually evolving sequences. Go add some cells, change their orientation by clicking on them, and press play, experiment, have

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