the power of dreams

i kept brands and any kind of advertising away from this blog. although honda is one of my favs and also just take a look.great work.great copy
"There is no guardian angel in Japanese culture. There's no need.""Helmet Ken, Japanese for Sword"
"Centuries-old technology"























"The best defence is a good defence.""Helmet Kiba, Japanese for feline tooth""Centuries-old technology"























"It's harder to save your honour than your life.""Helmet Kame, Japanese for Tortoise""Centuries-old technology"























via coolzor

romanian architecture biennal

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spirou as elasticman

the napoleons reloaded

iquadstv's interview with russell davies.they still couldn't help themselves of asking the same odd question about conventional and nonconventional media.

for the believer in you

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are you a designer and you don't know whether your design will be a success?
submit here and let the public decide.















via advertisingforpeanuts

less sun

if 21 of june is happiest day of the year, the final week-end of october is the saddest.
less sun.

Yasumasa Morimura goes political

one of the contemporary artist that i like goes political, which means changing gender.
"Art is basically entertainment" says Yasumasa Morimura, "Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun."




















For more than two decades, Yasumasa Morimura, one of Japan's most internationally celebrated artists, has inserted his own face into iconic paintings by van Gogh, Manet and Rembrandt, as well as portraits of stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Vivian Leigh. With his elaborate, hilarious and often gender-bending self-portraits, Morimura has both commented on Japan's complex love-hate relationship with Western culture and investigated the ambiguity between male and female identities.
But his latest series, "Season of Passion/A Requiem: Chapter I," which will be revealed in a solo exhibition at Tokyo's Shugoarts gallery in November, is something different. In "Season," he impersonates the men in photographs of some of the most memorable, politically charged postwar incidents: author Yukio Mishima in his failed 1970 call for a coup d'etat at the Self-Defense Force (SDF) headquarters; Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby in 1963; and 17-year-old rightwinger Otoya Yamaguchi stabbing Japanese socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma in 1960. In a video piece included in the new series, Morimura delivers an impassioned speech based on the one Mishima gave just before he killed himself -- but instead of confronting Japan, Morimura attacks the art world. He protests that art today is "dancing to the tune of the mass media . . . drunk on global strategies and commercialism and selling itself out."

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this comes from the architects commissioned by lexus to create a mysterious installation to be revealed over the course of 5 days.
it's called party wall

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2 news in new scientist.future is indeed here.
"Imagine mouthing a phrase in English, only for the words to come out in Spanish. That is the promise of a device that will make anyone appear bilingual, by translating unvoiced words into synthetic speech in another language."
and
"An invisibility cloak that works in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum has been unveiled by researchers in the US. The cloak works by steering light around an object, making it appear as if it is not there. It is based on a new breed of "metamaterials", which can be tailored to have exotic electrical and magnetic properties not seen in nature. These materials are made up of complex arrays of metal washer-like shapes and wires that are smaller than the wavelength of microwave light and so interact with it. "

design matters

Title: Heated Issue
Design an awareness campaign to educate the public on the issue of global warming.
The impact of climate change is a heated issue, sparking controversy in political and scientific arenas. Most agree, however, that humans are largely responsible for generating the conditions that are driving the problem.

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camera with slimming effect.

Photos that flatter
With the slimming feature, anyone can appear more slender-instantly.
The effect is subtle-subjects still look like themselves
Can be adjusted for a more dramatic effect
See a before and after version, then decide which to keep
via fabrica

bucharest BD

been to BD.
meet gowap and geraldine.
really love the books she's reading."le suicide reussi par ceux qui l'ont vecu"."etre femme a 6 ans".
bogdana also wrote something about the festival
more pics soon.

some nice music

from bix

the human brain is beyond our understanding

Stephen Wiltshire is a human camera. He's an autistic man who accurately draws entire cities from memory after a single 45-minute helicopter ride-right down to the correct number of windows in each building.
wikipedia explains autistic
now i really want to see the science of sleep
via mail from brazda

drop drop

DropSpots is a community project that interconnects people through an exchange of 'gifts' hidden in public space.

fear

what is fear? a collection.
and fear fighter by textual healing.
in the meantime bbc announces that "Volunteers at the Fairground: Thrill Laboratory from 17 October will help researchers analyse what makes such rides fun."
i just think that we need fear.fight it and then make new fears.

francisc is a super star

francisc aka stencil.ro was converted into a star by a chinese company.that sells francisc tintu cd's.
at first i thought francisc made the cd's and somehow this company sells them.
but...nooooo..francisc has no idea where they have his logo.

pics from silent strike last friday

orange concept store.small place though.

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alain de botton, one of favourite contemporary writers, author of "eseuri de indragostit" english title "Essays in Love: A Novel", published " The Architecture of Happiness "
"The Architecture of Happiness is about the architecture and design of your home, it ''examines the ways architecture speaks to us, evoking associations that, if we are alive to them, can put us in touch with our true selves and influence how we conduct our lives.. he suggests some of the virtues a building should have (illustrated by pictures on almost every spread): order combined with complexity; balance between contrasting elements; elegance that appears effortless; a coherent relationship among the parts; and self-knowledge, which entails an understanding of human psychology, something that architects all too often overlook''. More than just an exercise in philosophy, the book includes examples of the happy and not-so-happy,''of buildings that either incorporate or ignore these qualities, discussing them in ways that make obvious their virtues or failings."
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this is one of the devices that one needs through out the winter.
"French designer Matali Crasset invites those suffering from seasonal affecting disorder to get their daily dose of light by spending a few minutes inside the "Energizer" suit. After a few minutes spent in the inflatable cocoon artificial sunlight should have restored their mind and spirit."



















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took a walk and found banksy

here

latest discovery update

managed to upload tool schism and tool the patient.

latest discovery

maybe for some it's not that new.tool.
searched for them on resourceful youtube, tried to find videoclip for reflection, found something much better.
and that's why youtube is great.because one doesn't find only original clips but also mixes, remixes of the original.
it just takes a lot of patience to select the good ones.
and i'm really looking forward to re- read bourriaud postproduction.

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physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality

friday.

recently opened orange concept store invited us

slides against depression and stress

carsten holler's piece in tate modern

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one doesn't realize how much our experience is based on visual input. but just picture dots on every known surface, on any known indicator. it makes you realize how much we need to see.
blind programmer Masafumi ''Max'' Nakane talks about usability.

been in a beautiful place outside the country

portorose.silent strike.matze.dj.vasile.mika.
and video by matze here