Archive for the ‘Featured’ Category
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"
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"
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"
Acid Jazz
Acid Jazz with Gilles Peterson. feat. Brand New Heavies - Mark "Snowboy" Cotgrove - Steve Williamson and Bukky Leo at Dingwalls. [vsw id="27940835" 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
I admit, I am completely into the design of the seventies... Visiona 2 | Biographie | Verner Panton | imm cologne | Kölner Möbelmesse [vsw id="yYLtc6h8qHY" source="youtube" width="521" height="221" autoplay="no"] Visiona 2 | Verner Panton | Panton Design | Showroom | Ausstellung | Cologne furniture fair [vsw id="XrsSTYtsxQI" source="youtube" width="521" height="221" autoplay="no"] [gallery link="file" order="DESC"
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
time lap videos
These incredible time lapse videos were shot by Dustin Farrell. I let them speak for
ARC & Monome
Here’s a video of the Arc and Monome in action: a micro-looper. eight samplers, corresponding to columns of the grid. record by holding second-from-bottom key. focus arc to column by pushing bottom key. left knob is loop selection. turn to move selection, push-turn to resize selection. right knob is volume. turning changes velocity, not position, so a tremelo effect is easily achieved. pushing down stops the spin, like a turntable. third key up is mute/unmute. top rows transpose up/down by octaves. top rows meter sound ...
peaking lights – Sound Builders
I found vbs TV accidentally - great shows!!! and I love this description... ... We travel to Madison, Wisconsin to visit Peaking Lights, a married musical duo famed for their pulsating looped-rhythm tracks composed on re-purposed scraps, stereos, and lo-fi gear. We watch as husband and wife prepare for tour by paring their studio down to the bare essentials needed to produce Peaking Lights’ distinctive sound. While we were hanging out, we got a peek into Aaron’s completely untechnical, yet highly rigorous process of ...
