Extremadur[R.A.] is a project by the collective PKMN (pac-man), developed with the 105 inhabitants of the small village of Benquerencia (Spain). The goals were to promote information technology in rural areas and to foster identity and civil engagement.
Benquerencia has become the first augmented-reality town of the net. Visit the website and meet virtually its nice people!
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An art exhibit in Aarhus, Denmark where the Glue Society has constructed a fully operational housing unit which the strange feature that it’s continuously raining inside. For the entire month of June, visitors can enter the house and observe the ensuing decomposition of the building from the constant rainfall.
Julien Moise has designed a watch called Eole that displays time when you want to see it. This watch uses wind to produce just enough energy to display the time, and then the screen goes dark, but the watch keeps keeping time for you...Just blow at your watch and it will display the accurate time.
The watch has a fan around it ...
Being Henry is an interactive film produced for Range Rover, where you control Henry's destiny. In the process of making choices, you're also customizing a new, sweet Range Rover to your liking. Watch the trailer, or go play with the film. | via
Be Your Own Souvenir by Barcelona-based blablabLAB: attraverso un particolare software, che usa openFrameworks e openKinect, si viene filmati da tre sensori kinect che daranno una scansione a 360° e una sorta di stampante 3D ci ricostruirà come un piccolo soldatino di plastica, il tutto in pochi istanti…
New Zealand's Mini and DraftFCB decided to put 330 harmonicas on the exterior of a Mini Clubman to create an angelical sound when the car passes by. Fans can also use that sound, in a specific website, to remix as they will.
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If you watch movies backwards is a blog that tells us how famous movies would become if they where told backwords.
For example: "If you watch Back to the Future backwards, it’s about a boy who leaves his cool family to travel back in time to break up his mom and dad only to return back to the present and enjoy an ...
PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew is a game where two people use two microphones to control one jet-pack equipped, shape shooting space-man. | via
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Midget & Giant by Ryuji Nakamura: webcam like a giant in a world of midgets!
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Chung-Tang Ho created a cabinet that changes shape during use, a solid volume that opens up when objects are stored within it. The cabinet is in fact a sculpture in the round you and your objects can participate in. | via
A few months ago, Saatchi & Saatchi issued a challenge: to solve an impossible briefing. Nothing more than to find a solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
After much controversy and creative proposals, this was the winning idea... | via
E se UP! fosse stato girato nel lontano 1965.. come sarebbe stato? Con la tecnica del found footage, il finto trailer ci ripropone Up come se fosse stato girato in live action dalla Walt Disney Pictures negli anni '60. "Un'epoca in cui i film erano dominati da automobili e tate volanti", che sembra adattarsi alla perfezione alle atmosfere di Up.
Il trailer ci propone Spencer Tracy e Kirk Douglas come protagonisti, dando vita a un prodotto molto fedele al cartoon originale, e soprattutto verosimile.
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Currently on view at New York’s MoMA PS1 (the branch of The Museum of Modern Art devoted to exhibiting contemporary work) is Beijing-based artist Feng Mengbo‘s video game installation Long March: Restart.
Taking cues from 8-bit side-scrolling games of the past like Double Dragon and Contra, “Long March: Restart” is a fully developed beat-‘em-up video game based on communist China. In the game, MoMA PS1 visitors use a wireless controller to play as a Red Army soldier who uses cans of Coca-Cola to destroy evil scorpions, squads of Commie troops, and a cast of characters from popular Nintendo games like Street Fighter and Super Mario.
The exhibit is displayed on the museum walls by eight huge projectors until April 4 2011.
College professor and artist Michael Jones McKean made a machine that generates two-story rainbows with the flip of a switch. His rainbow machine is comprised of commercial jet pumps and custom-designed nozzles that spray a dense wall of water into the sky.
Paradores is a Spanish tourism partnership and they might be able to turn your frozen dreams a reality with a very fine guerrilla marketing idea. Go to the Ice Xmas site and guess correctly when the ice cube will be melted and you could win the key that is currently frozen in "space." ...
20 Mini bus shelters in San Francisco are getting a high tech makeover for two months as part of a the Yahoo Bus Stop Derby – a giant neighborhood vs. neighborhood challenge that ends with a huge OK Go free concert put on by Yahoo. More info here. | via
Lino Banksy : Arte di Streda....
Can an internet website hypnotize us? I think this is the answer.... Don't know much more about Aita, a Latvaian label that make hand made hats, mittens, underwear and other stuff, but look at their new website! | via
Brand new campaign from Hermes, featuring products from the latest collection and a session of "Finger Skate" skate with your fingers. More at lesailes.hermes.com, an interactive microsite featuring their products related to different themes including video, cool animation, downloadable screensavers and more.
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In celebration of 10 years of digital innovation, RalphLauren.com presents the ultimate fusion of art, fashion & technology in a visual feast for the 5 senses. Watch as the London flagship at 1 New Bond Street disappears before your eyes and is then transformed into a series of objects and images rendered in 3-dimensional ...
Ben Wilson uses unusual supports for his amazing art: stray bits of chewing gum that he found in the streets of London. He’s been doing it for six years, and so far he has completed around 8,000 "paintings".
Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, entitled “Tree of Codes,” it's a collection of die-cut pages from his favorite book, Bruno Schulz’s “The Street of Crocodiles.” Made as an exploration of “the pages’ physical relationship to one another” and the die-cut technique, Foer attempts to create a meaningful narrative with an existing text.
Thanks to Die Keure, a Belgian printer who relished the challenge of making a book with a different die-cut on every page, and over a year of writing, cutting and proto-typing later, comes Tree of Codes, a haunting new story by Jonathan Safran Foer cut from Bruno Schulz’s words. The book is as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling: here is an “enormous last day of life” that looks like it feels.
The book will be published 15 November 2010
Advert by the Irish national Lottery, who created an artificial rainbow in Dublin city by spraying water from the river into the air at the new Samuel Beckett bridge in the IFSC. | via
As part of its new advertising campaign touting the speed of its triple play offer, Virgin Media uses a character in perfect agreement with its message: Speedy Gonzales, "the fastest mouse in all Mexico." The brand has used the "food artist" Prudence Staite to make a billboard entirely of cheese. A work of 110kg operator 10 kinds of cheese (the list is available here). This view is currently visible at Covent Garden, and it is entirely edible.
Lipstick Enigma is a computer-driven sentence-generator made by Janet Zweig. The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 stepper motors, controlled by 60 circuit boards. The software invents and writes a new line of text, using rules and a lexicon written by the artist, and displays it on the sign when triggered ...
The latest artwork in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is 'Sunflower Seeds' by Ai Weiwei, 100 million hand made porcelain sunflower seeds have been spread over the floor. Visitors are able to walk over and touch the seeds.
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Pasta functions as a whistle, capable of generating two different tones from one piece – a tone from each respective end. Designed by leor-lederman. | via