Great design —great approach to making kids safe on the water. Life jackets with fins! Link. Via Neatorama.
Half and Hour Later
Friday, July 9, 2010
Party music for hipsters! This is hypnotic and fun. Images make sound. Simple. Great for kids. Link. Thanks to Neatorama.
Hilarious Boing Boing Post
Friday, July 9, 2010
What I love, is the “Ahem” as the link. Hilarious. I love Boing Boing.
She’s Only With Him for His Biscuits
Friday, July 2, 2010
“She’s only with him for his biscuits.”
Advertising Agency: CLM BBDO, Boulogne Billancourt, France
Creative Directors: Gilles Fichteberg, Jean-François Sacco
Art Director: Lucie Vallotton
Copywriter: Julien Perrard
Photographer: Clive Stewart
Art buyer : Sylvie Etchemaite
Post-Production : Clive Stewart/Picto
Published: March 2010
From “I Believe in Advertising.” Link.
Effective Advertising
Friday, July 2, 2010
80 cars that crashed in accidents
15 tons worth of metal
20 meters tall giant bottle shaped urban construction
1 of the country’s busiest highway and intersection
3 months long campaign
1,000,000 people exposed to the message every day
1 message: “Don’t drink and drive”Advertising Agency: Shalmor Avnon Amichay/ Y&R Interactive, Tel Aviv, Israel
From “I Believe in Advertising.” Link.
If You Like Photography
Friday, July 2, 2010
Murmur, Burma, 1999 by Monica Devon.
In my twenties, I caught a break. My passion and youth combined to persuade some governing municipalities to trust their arts centre in development to me. I first designed, found the funding for and built a small theatre for the complex, then I took over the gallery attached to it and worked with the board and the community to change its mandate to photography. The Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver is still thriving and now I am in my sixties. The theatre is also a going concern but is now, I believe, a separate society from the gallery.
Photography remains a passion of mine. I like it for aesthetic reasons in a way that seems consistent with my love of screen prints, woodcuts and prints in general. I like the graphic impact of photography and the emphasis on form over texture amongst other reasons. And black and white remains what I see in my mind when I see the word “photograph.”
I love the medium because as we grow up we see so many images and I believe, therefore, that photography is the most accessible visual art medium for the general population and inasmuch as I am a populist, a mandate of photography fit my politics. So I love this blog of Elizabeth Avedon and this site and the work of Monica Devon. (She appears to love the same regions of the world as I do and seems to have the same reverence of the people there.)
Top 10 Most Expensive Photos In The World Ever Sold
Friday, July 2, 2010
You’ll be surprised. I know I was. This is No. 10, by Robert Mapplethorpe. Link.
Disco Chair
Friday, July 2, 2010
Commissioned by Wallpaper* Magazine, the Disco Chair is a bespoke illuminated furniture concept. Constructed from 200 linear metres of Electroluminescent wire, the chair transforms into a neon rainbow when powered. A pulse setting enables the chair to flash on and off creating an instant disco installation.
Link. Thanks to Neatorama.
CD Sea
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Ever wonder where unwanted CDs go to die? Rather than throwing away unused CDs, UK artist Bruce Munro decided to turn them into an art installation titled CD Sea. His goal is to get 1 million CDs and display them in the Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire, England. So far, he’s collected about 600,000 CDs:
In this setting ‘CD Sea’ is on public view for the next two months. Munro conceives it as an inland sea reflecting light from the sun and moon.
Via Neatorama.