If you love looking at old equipment then this place is like Six Flags. It is the ever growing collection of George Ulm, a 1930’s radio producer from Chicago and it’s stacked into a house in his backyard. I have no idea what these machines do, but with all the funky meters and knobs I would love to put a few in my house. (via ISO50)
He is a hilarious, creative and musically gifted performer combining stand up comedy with live music created only using his voice, samplers and effects. The same energy doesn’t quite come across through recorded music and video, but I hope you can still enjoy his latest.
Do The Test creates tests and videos raising awareness of cyclists in the UK traffic. You might remember their moonwalking bear clip. This is their latest, I like the simple concept aswell as the way it looks.
Wearing my NewShirt with pride here at SXSW interactive, the largest interactive conference in the world. Every year Pepsico creates an amazing mash-up that tries to keep up with the 14.000 (!) attendants. Oh and I’m doing some guerilla stickering of course.
It’s here: yesterday the ledgendary Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman officially launched his Caligraffiti book in Berlin. Also the start of a worldwide Book Tour, with stops in Amsterdam (Post Panic Studio and MiNiBAR). I did an interview with Niels for the next BNO Vormberichten. And did you see the first video in a series of Nalden Episodes? Must See.
The iPad has been announced for a while now and everybody in publishing is wondering what to do. Will it be like “de Telegraaf“, “Spyker” or more like “the NY Times“?
But what’s new?
A brilliant dumb toy for your dog. Can’t wait to try it out. Dog picking up the ball with a plain canine look on its face, not knowing why everyone is having such a good time. What a good idea of our species. Via the Columbo of finding great internet randomness @roelkok.
Very cool example of an interactive film where the audience interacts with the character in the movie.
The winter still reigns supreme. Just to get you in that summer mode let me highlight this years Robeco Summer concerts in Het Concertgebouw. Especially the Jazz editions with artist like Eric Vloeimans, Wouter Hamel and Benjamin Herman. The latter in a great collabo with Pete Philly and Remco Campert. Get your tickets pronto.
We’ve all seen the new Bol.com commercial. Now you can finally buy the real mummiesuit! Great gift for any occasion.
This designer-duo decided their One Bit Wonder website wasn’t enough, they needed an experience site. Move the coo up through the forest, find it patatoes to eat and enjoy the paper crafted scenery. More about it here.
Something good looking from Microsoft! For the renewed MSN Canada platform Australian 3D animation heroes Umeric made these lovely ads. The MSN butterfly smoothy shifts shapes, illustrating the topics at hand. Watch versions one…
French record label Record Makers celebrates its 10th aniversary with this video for Sebastian Tellier song ‘Look’. It was made by Mrzyk & Moriceau who also designed the accompanying iPhone app, which lets you create random art and has sound effects by Mr Oizo.
Still looking very new new, thus a bit empty, the website New Type York is dedicated to uncovering the typographic artifacts of New York City. Old signs, building inscriptions, hand lettering, etc, as captured on camera by NYC designer James Gibson. Hopefully this will grow a lot bigger.
We see them more and more, mashups between the digital and the psychical world. Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you do that, very inspiring and looks like a lot of fun.
Some of you know this for some time already. Some of you don’t. This post is for the latter. In most countries around Europe you can’t see all the Champions League games live on tv. In Holland you can’t see any of the CL games tonight. Thanks to good old internet you can see them easily at ATDHE.net for niks (warning: no HD).
MTV re-branded their six specialist music channels’. This, of course, means great new leaders by some of the best motion- and audio studios. For MTV Rocks (formerly MTV2) Dutch studio Post Panic worked five months on creating five surreal idents that rock indeed. Directed by Mischa Rozema, audio by Massive Music, Amsterdam.
Spec spot designed and directed by Aladino Debert. The project was funded by Radium/ReelFX and is 100% CG.
This is for all design professionals. X-Rite, global leader in color standards (they own Pantone), has a little color challenge for you. Can you get the perfect score?
For a contest, Directtovideo made a recode of the V&A Decode ident, in C++ and using shaders, the decode logo is formed from 250,000 cubes which separate, swarm and flock realtime on a (high end) consumer PC.
A trailer for the upcoming docu by Clinch on Jay-Z. On March 22 you can see it for free on Facebook due to a vodka brand giving ‘em cash for creating it. “Rap mags try and use my black ass / so advertisers can give ‘em more cash for ads, fuckers / I don’t know what you take me as / Or understand the intelligence that Jay-Z has”
The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface aims to improve the detection and decoding of brain signals acquired by electroencephalogram (EEG). They are currently presenting a live demonstration of their braincontrolled pinball machine at the CeBit exhibit in hannover, germany.
Walt Disney Animation Studios launched an open technology site where users will, for the first time, be able to access innovative technologies and papers developed in house.
Another intruiging new product from Art. Lebedev, the design studio with offices in Russia, Latvia and Ukraine. The Segmentus is a concept for a digital clock with hands. I like it that they show the process of making the product on their website as well.
Maybe too many designers are making it look old lately, combining old graphic styles and photos with paper textures, stains and color burn. But some of them, like Alex Varanese, make it look so nice I can only enjoy it.
Limbo is a side scrolling game currently in development by Danish game designers Playdead. There’s not much to see yet, apart form this tiny size official site. It’s coming to Xbox Live Arcade and from the looks of it the game will feature a cool and intriguing dark fairytale atmosphere.
This might give you the wrong idea, but it’s just a little interactive gimmick for Swedish cottage cheese. I’ll leave the jokes to you in the comments.
‘This is a sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue.’ It’s a nice little blog by 4 friends (of type) posting (and selling) their type experiments. You could also consider it a warm-up for Adobe User Group’s Type in Motion session, today.
Yet another quality music video: You probably remember OK Go from the threadmill video, which gave them instant fame. For their latest effort they teamed up with director James Frost and Syyn Labs to create the impossible.