“Sumatrakontor” by Erick van Egeraat
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed a mixed-use block named SumatraKontor in Hafencity, a development area of the city of Hamburg, Germany. The ten-storey building is made of clad stone, giving a red color of brick to the building to match the neighboring houses. The styled facade that parts like a pair of curtains holds a ground-floor lobby extending up through the full height of the building.
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“Project Yosemite”, Video by Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty
Here is a beautiful video of a very special place. This collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty was their first project together. All time-lapses were shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a variety of Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Lenses.
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“Olly and Molly”, by Foundry at Mind Digital
Smell is the most under-used sense of the human body. Foundry, a small research team at Mint Digital, created a small device to stimulate the entire spectrum of our human powers during the day. Olly is a small robot that diffuses a fragrance of your choice when you receive emails, re-tweets, etc. As a modular system, Olly will have its own website from which one can customize the way the smelly robot responds to web stimuli.
And then, to complete the experience with taste, Foundry released Molly, a little brother of Olly, that graduates from scent to candy, dispensing one’s chosen sweets upon receipt of virtual notifications.
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“En Face”, by Kira Varvanina From Studio 1:1
The “En face” collection created by architect and designer Kira Varvanina from Studio 1:1 explores fiber optic technology as a sculpting medium. Thanks to this unique technique, artists use beams of light to shape the human body.
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2011 Gymnastics X Break Dance Video
Wake-up video to give you what you need today! Japanese superstar Kōhei Uchimura at the 2011 World gymnastics championships in Tokyo, where he won 2 gold medals, preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games. In 2008, he won two silver medals and he is a nine-time World medalist. His gymnastics skills were described by the International Gymnast Magazine as a “combination of tremendous difficulty, supreme consistency and extraordinary elegance of performance“. Music: DJ Pablo – Storm Coming.
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“Flight Assembled Architecture” by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea
Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea assemble a six metre-high tower from polystyrene bricks called “Flight Assembled Architecture”. It is the first installation to be built with flying machines.
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“Miss Maple”, by Elisa Strozyk
German designer Elisa Strozyk created a lam mad of wooden triangles, transforming into a flexible textile. The object, called Miss Maple, embodies a ‘half wood-half textile’ material of her creation named Wooden Textile.
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Guillaume Nery’s Deans Blue Hole Base Jumping Video
Freediver World champion Guillaume Nery has a soft spot for aerial performances of basejumping and wingsuitflying. To manifest his feelings, he made an artistic project, a video editing of a base-jump while free-diving at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world.
“Bâtiment”, by Leandro Erlich
“Bâtiment”, by Argentinean artist Leandro Erlich is a full scale building façade installation on display in Paris until the 4th of march 2012. It is part of the “In Perception” exhibition held by “Le Cent-quatre” art center.
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Rip Curl Freeski Video
A bit of fresh snow in the Alps and here is the Rip Curl team sending freshness in our minds.
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“Exploding Food Photography” by Alan Sailer
American artist Alan Sailer shots of food or other object at high speeds are stunning. A PVC or copper cannon launches pellets and marbles at his subjects creating the explosions. Working in his garage, he uses a homebuilt air-gap flash and guided spark flash instead of special cameras. All his work is based on 1974 article from Scientific American and information found online.
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“Apocalypse Later, Surf Now” Video
A very unusual surf video. Imagination can do just as well as performance for the eye of the audience. Send me more like this one :-)
The filming is done with a GoPro surf camera.The effects were done in Maya, motion tracking in Mocha, and compositing in After Effects.
“Still Life”, Virtual Gallery by Scott Garner
American developer Scott Garner created “Still Life“, a virtual gallery responding to real-world activity.
Vases, fruits and ordinary objects of a still life painting tumble around as users rotate the wooden frame. The project was funded by US-based design agency Süperfad.
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“Boardwalk Empire” Virtual Effects (VFX) Breakdowns of Season 2
It is amazing what Computer Graphics (CG) can do these days. Check out the construction from the Emmy award-winning team at Brainstorm Digital. Here is the video of the before and after shots from season 2 of HBO’s hit series “Boardwalk Empire” (courtesy of Home Box Office, Inc).
“Skate Decks Designs”, by Karim Rashid
Forward-thinking industrial designer Karim Rashid collaborated with The Blank Project for a limited edition skate deck.
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“The Octopus Chair”, by Maximo Riera
Spanish artist Maximo Riera created the Octopus Chair. Its 1.5 meters [nearly 5 feet] tentacles, the exquisite details and black leviathan leather will definitely impress your housemates and friends.
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“FuelBand”, by Nike
Nike aims to inspire people to be more active. The Nike FuelBand is a self-tracking device, simple and engaging. It measures your daily activity, lets you sync with different devices and express your mood on various applications.
Every day, at midnight, the FuelBand resets for new performances.
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“Solar Jar”, Bottle of Sun by Consol
Here is a special sustainable lighting project called Solar Jar and developed by South African company Consol. A solar panel is fitted inside the jar’s lid to power a LED light inside the jar after the sun has gone down.
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“New Basics”, by Alain Berteau
Belgian designer Alain Berteau presents a series of oak basics at Maison & Objet in Paris this week.
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Sculptures Made of Chains, by Seo Young-Deok
Korean artist Seo Young-Deok has made a series of nude sculptures entirely of chain, both the medium-gauge household variety and bicycle chains.
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Airplane Tail Grab with the Werth Brothers, by GoPro HD
Feel the excitement as brothers, David and Billy Werth, race down a runway in Indiana to perform their favorite stunt, the “inverted tail grab”.
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“Smart Window”, by Samsung
Samsung turns your household glass and windows into a touchscreen computer. or show floating apps and images to get on with emails, the weather, recipes and watch TV.
The panel is only visible from the inside and has got a virtual blind feature. It’s a very nice feature for casual information available at hand. The technology will be available from next month.
