Even though it’s still over a month away, I’m getting more and more excited about the 2009 Sasquatch! Music Festival. It’s going to be a fantastic time.
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Motifo Magnetic Pop Culture Art
I’ve never been a big fan of magnets on fridges, but a few years ago someone gave me a collection of fridge magnet words that have been entertaining friends and roommates ever since. It’s not one of those sets with dirty words, but pretty consistently people are trying to imply as many double meanings as possible. I’m not so enamoured with them as I once was, but I came across some fridge art from a site called Motifo that I think would be pretty cool.
Motifo provides packs of 1296 little square “pixels” to decorate your fridge using free mosaic design templates from their site. I don’t imagine it would be hard to create your own patterns either.
Motifo magnetic artworks are a brand new concept. Choose from our wide range of funky designs and easily create an impressive mosaic masterpiece on any magnet-friendly surface.
The motifo product had been cunningly crafted — with a single motifo pack you can create ANY of the designs here at motifo.com
If I did get a set, I wonder what kind of “custom images” I’d have showing up on my fridge.
Also, what I’d really like to see is a variation on this idea where each pixel contained different shades of LEDs that could be changed on the fly thereby turning the fridge into a low resolution display.
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Earth Hour
Last Saturday, March 28, the world turned off the lights in recognition of the environment and global climate change. Somehow I couldn’t convince my roommate that it mattered and so he spent earth hour in the glow of his room amidst a dark house on a dark street. I wondered if he would regret missing the opportunity later, as I did last year. I like to think the Earth Hour is as much about missed opportunities as taking part. Think about it.
I have to admit turning off the lights for an hour won’t do much to save the environment. It does, however, stimulate a spirit of unity and puts the problem into the forefront of our minds.
The Boston Globe’s Big Picture has posted an inspiring collection of before and after shots from Earth Hour with the lights on and off at famous locations around the world. Don’t forget to click to see the images with the lights off.
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Where the Wild Things Are
A flickr set of the first photos from the Jonze/Eggers project Where The Wild Things Are.
Enjoy the trailer.
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Walking Art
Theo Jansen invents incredible mechanical creatures, or new kinds of life, as he likes to say. He presented them at TED.
This CGI reconstruction demonstrates the principle behind these walking creatures:
Some intrepid designers at the University of Louisiana have taken the idea and created a kind of walking Segway, they’ve named it the Cajun Crawler:
The scooter was inspired by Theo Jansen’s leg mechanism. Throughout our research, we found no application where Jansen’s leg mechanism was used as a weight-bearing application or vehicle. The legs are made of standard 5052 Aluminum. The joints all contain deep-groove ball bearings.
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Forrest Gump in One Minute
Forrest Gump recapped in one minute in one continuous shot:
[Forrest Gump in One Minute – YouTube]
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The following logos are the Universal Recycling Symbol and Taiwan’s recycling symbol.
The familiar Universal Recycling Symbol contains three chasing arrows that form a Mobius strip or one sided loop, which is kind of cool, but notice the brilliant use of negative space in Taiwan’s recycling symbol that generates a great “aha” moment when you realize it’s there.
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Previously: negative space in Fed Ex logo.
Here is a screen shot of the Lethbridge NDP website that I recently designed.
I incorporated design elements from both the Federal and Provincial NDP in order to convey the message that the Lethbridge office exists for both sides of the party. Although I originally used the lime green of the Federal party, ultimately the shade of green that the Provincial side uses is much easier on the eyes.
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Photo of Jesus
Laurie Hill’s short video/animation, “Photo of Jesus” brings a creative spin to the story of the kind of requests that the Getty Images archives deal with on a regular basis.
“Photo of Jesus”- Firstly it is an exquisite piece of animation (it’s hard to see how this film could be improved). Secondly, the engaging story line utterly nails the depth and breadth of the Getty Images archive and, with my ad man hat on for a moment, it’s hard to see how Getty Images could make a better, more representative film than this.
Watch Photo of Jesus online at the Annex Blog.
The Lethbridge Ultimate club is planning another spring tournament this April 4th and 5th. Last year it was quite cold on the first week of April, but despite the threat (or actual appearance) of snow, it’s still a very good time.
Here’s a poster I made for the event:
If you live in Southern Alberta and are looking for some excellent outdoor fun with some great people, come play in the Prairie Plastic 2009 Ultimate (Frisbee) tournament.