As promised, more funtastic feline frivolity. That little pink kitty has once again proven herself the stalwartly champion of social grace. This time around, the Hello Kitty Breath Tester kicks the old puff-and-sniff in the palm approach to halitosis detection rightly to the curb. A happy kitty icon means you’ll get big hugs from daddy while a little wincing kitty means pack your bags princess, it’s off the salt mines for you!
With the Chamelon-Object you can save colors. The object can identify which color the ground has on which it is standing and shines in this color.
Gestalten mit digitalen Medien
The site has a movie that shows how it works and a link to an article about how it works.
Coolhunting's first-hand notes on Jeppe Hein's piece called Distance, a large scale exhibit remind me vaguely of Mark Perez's Mousetrap from Burning Man 2005.design.05 Miami endeavors to encourage the current discourse over the ever-blurring boundaries between art, architecture, and design through a highly selective multi-disciplinary design event. design.05 Miami will present fifteen of the world's most significant galleries dealing in post-war to contemporary museum quality furniture and decorative arts.Zaha Hadid, mentioned in a previous post, created a four story installation for the event. It's serious stuff.
Woke up this morning to an especially interesting To The Best of Our Knowledge show on Creativity. There are segments on David Lynch's reliance on Transcendental Meditation for inspiration and Gunther Schuller talking about working with the jazz and classical giants. But the really interesting piece to me is the one about Brion Gysin, who directly or indireectly influenced anyone who dared consider themselves avante garde in the second half of the 20th Century. A painter, poet, conceptual artist, he had so many big ideas and he shared them with anyone within earshot, which included William Burroughs, Alice B Toklas, David Bowie and others, but he never quite got it together to create his own magnum opus.
I noticed that Hadid, an architect, was honored by the design community, but I didn't recognize her name. I did a lookup and--thanks to Google Image Search I was blown away her work, which veers from sculpural to Geiger-esque to the utterly romantic.
In the kill-me-with-cute category, the Penguin Jumpers Project collects wee sweaters for little penguins endangered by oil spills and other environmental pressures. The project is distributing these little knit sweaters all around Tasmania to be used in the event of something nasty going down a la Exxon Valdez. The oil gets in the birds feathers and destroys their insulatory properties.
There are four unique types of ice exhibits: Compacted snow, Harvested ice, Caste ice, and Experimental processes. You can see by the images that each really is a distinct medium. Yoko Ono is one of the featured artists in the harvested ice category.
I always find it refreshing to see designers with the ability to create lush visuals who also embrace the low-fi funkiness of the Web. Anisa does this in her index of portfolio items, which is her primary navigation on the left. With nary a gif in sight she creates a meaningful but no-nonsense way of browsing her work. The colors are types of work, and the little pluses are new items.
