Disturb me - The popcorn makers

Disturb me - Brussels from Thepopcornmakers on Vimeo.

“Disturb Me” is an interactive installation between human and his environment. It is to make perceptible the reciprocal links and often forgotten contact, that we maintain with our environment.

The projection depends on the sound emitted by the spectators and creates consequently, a transitory and colored environment. The projected forms are revealed when in contact with surfaces of the room.

The senses are awakened, the room becomes alive.

Naef Cubicus Toy

An update to the Rubik's cube, Naef's Cubicus wooden puzzle encourages that same creative and progressive learning as the iconic original we were all raised with, but the Swiss toymaker takes it a step further by allowing expansion and stacking.

The flexible cube, designed by Peer Clahsen in 1968, is both a toy and example of fine design. Easy to play with and challenging to master, kids and adults alike will love how 10-piece puzzle can be configured as an architecture masterpiece or just moved around for fun effects.

Cubicus is now available at the Someday Store. Contact them for availability or purchase online at Nova68 for $140.

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McBess Wood (NSFW)

WOOD from mc bess on Vimeo.

Superstar Illustrator McBess teamed up with Simon, their mates and the Mill to churn out this gorgeous music video for their own band, The Dead Pirates.

The characters featured are drawn in his signature style and animated flawlessly. They might remind you a bit of the Gorillaz Feel Good Inc. video, which I must say is about the best company to be in. The whole piece is visually beautiful in its reduced colour palette and soft shadows, and at the same time it tells a cool story that ties in with the music perfectly.

Editor’s note: Bits at the end of this video might be deemed not safe for work.

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NOKIA PATENTS "LIGHT MESSAGING PHONE" TO EXPRESS YOUR MOOD

Nokia has filed a patent for a cellphone capable of “light messaging.”

The patented phone has software that lets the user select a color to accompany the text being sent, which would then illuminate an LED array on the recipient’s light-messaging phone to let him know the mood in which the sender sent the message.

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STAND UP TO WAKE UP ALARM CLOCK

Designer: Sofie Collin & Gustav Lanberg

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The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations

It's funny because it's true.

Miju "A Tragedy" Necklace

Canadian jewelery outfit Miju's latest creation is a delicately poetic necklace of a bird, inspired by an image from a timeless children's bedtime story. The new design recreates the character in 2" x 3" acrylic pendant with two ruby-red beads hanging from chains standing in for drops of blood.

Its larger scale, juxtaposition of materials and macabre subject matter make for an irreverently elegant accessory. Available with either black or red beads, you also have the option of a black or gold chain.

To purchase for $48 or browse more jewelry go to Miju.

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The Great Contemporary Art Bubble

Ben Lewis BBC reporter for ‘The Great Contemporary Art Bubble’ via The Age

A video player of the BBC documentary: ‘The Great Contemporary Art Bubble’ which, though scathing, gained extraordinary access to collectors such as Adam Lindemann, Aby Rosen and the Mugrabi’s. Of note is that the documentary filmmaker Ben Lewis actually admits to being the source that leaked White Cube’s unsold inventory prior to the famous Damien Hirst Sotheby’s Auction of 2008 [BBC]

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AiAiAi 2009 Fall Headphones.

AiAiAi 2009 Fall Headphones.

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DESIGNER HOLGA CAMERAS

Customized Holga and other plastic toy camera with various materials such as wood, Lego block, fur, and anti-slip mat.

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LEGO USB HUB

Only available in Korea for around $12 each from DCX.

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Remo Caminada

Andreas Caminada is a Swiss Chef (Chef of the year in 2008 by Gault Millau, 18 points of a possible of 20 !), he cook in the Schauenstein's castel at Fürstenau. Remo Caminada is a graphic designer and he won the Gold ED-Awards 2009 - Packaging Food & Beverages for his beautyful work for Andreas' (delicious) jarred products.

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Takashi Murakami “The Emergence of God at the Reversal of Fate”

Takashi Murakami is preparing to stage a phenomena when he opens his next exhibition at Palazzo Grassi Punta della Dogana in Italy. This piece which has been in the making for 5 years is evidence this will be another project to hugely admire from the renowned Japanese artist. If you are in the area or not this is worth trying to catch when it opens on Opens June 6.

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Damien Hirst turns to film with the art satire Boogie Woogie

Ben Hoyle, Arts Correspondent, and Toby Rose in Cannes

Unchallenged as the supreme artist entrepreneur of his generation, Damien Hirst has also dabbled with varying degrees of success in charity work, pop music and the restaurant business.

Now he has turned his attention to films as the “art curator” for Boogie Woogie, a long-rumoured satire inspired by the triumphs and excesses of Hirst and his fellow Young British Artists. Although the film is fictional and the characters are invented, one key scene revolves around an exhibition of work by Hirst, which includes one original spin painting and reproductions of many other works, including several of his “biopsy paintings”.

The artist, best known for his series of dead animals pickled in formaldehyde and his spot paintings, also selected art works by Tracey Emin, Banksy and the Chapman brothers, among others, to inject added authenticity into the art gallery scenes.

The film is adapted by Danny Moynihan from his dark comic novel of the same name, which depicts the art world as an incestuous jungle inhabited by heartless agents, controversy-courting artists and corrupt dealers.

Moynihan is a genuine insider, having worked as an artist, curator and gallery manager in London and New York. So, too, is the director, Duncan Ward, who is married to the aristocratic curator Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst. Both men have been friends with Hirst for a long time. They describe Boogie Woogie as “a tongue-in-cheek look at the international art scene, in which lust, ambition and power prevail and where success and failure rest on a knife edge”.

The film stars Heather Graham, Jaime Winstone, Alfie Allen, Gillian Anderson, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Lumley, Christopher Lee, Alan Cumming and Danny Huston.

Extracts have been screened privately in Cannes but the full film will not be shown until its premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival next month, where it will compete for the Michael Powell Award for the Best New British Feature.

Hannah McGill, the director of the Edinburgh film festival, compared it to the ensemble films of Robert Altman: “What The Player did for Hollywood this is doing for the London art world.”

McGill likes Boogie Woogie “because it is extreme and edgy but not lurid or cynical”. She added: “It would be very easy to approach this subject as a cheap shot against the world of modern art. This does not discredit the art world. It portrays the glamour and excitement but pulls no punches portraying the bad guys.”

Several of the characters bear a passing resemblance to leading figures in the London art world: the ruthless art dealer at the centre of the plot wears distinctive glasses just like Jay Jopling, the owner of the White Cube galleries, while the female artist played by Winstone turns her own sex life into an artwork, just as Emin did with her tent Everyone I Have Ever Slept with 1963-1995. However, all the characters in Boogie Woogie are fictional.

For Hirst, film is just one more new frontier to conquer. He has raised millions of pounds for charity. He formed the band Fat Les with the actor Keith Allen and Alex James, of Blur, in 1998 and reached No 2 in the singles chart with their football chant Vindaloo. His restaurant ventures include an ill-fated partnership with the chef Marco Pierre White at Quo Vadis in Soho.

LOUIS VUITTON: A PASSION FOR CREATION - TAKASHI MURAKAMI EXHIBITION AREA

A Passion for Creation exhibit features the works of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami whose been collaborating with Louis Vuitton since 2004. In this area, all of the canvases that Murakami has created for Vuitton are all lined up starting from the White Multicolore to last year's Monogramouflage.

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FEIST SINGS 1,2,3,4 ON SESAME STREET

AITOR THROUP FOR VMAN MAGAZINE

For the upcoming issue of VMAN Magazine, acclaimed fashion design Aitor Throup offers his expertise on a new spread.

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STEREOVISION TABLE

By John Nouanesing. Stereovision table is created by the young designer John Nouanesing. It is made for those with a sense of irony in technology. The red and blue is a reference to the 3D glasses technology that’s lasted for years and years.

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PUSH BUTTON HOUSE 1

By Adam Kalkin.
The Push Button House was originally displayed at Art Basel Miami in 2005, and uses a standard shipping container as the structure of a home. Kalkin’s concept uses hydraulic power to lift and lower the sides of the shipping container.

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NAM: TAKAYUKI NAKAZAWA & HIROSHI MANAKA

Nam is a Japanese graphic art collective established by Takayuki Nakazawa (Graphic Designer) and Hiroshi Manaka (Photographer).

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Vitra - Wooden Dolls

The Vitra Wooden Dolls are based on the designs of the late Alexander Girard. To me, they look way ahead of their time. We'll be reviewing one of these in the coming weeks, thanks to the fine folks from CSN, where they have these and other toys.

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STEFAN STRUMBLER CUCKOO CLOCKS

In his hands, the traditional timepieces are given a makeover: oversized clocks are daubed in colors and often decorated with hand grenades and bones, alongside traditional German images such as deer antlers.Stefan uses spray cans and silk screen printing, which gives his work a cutting edge meets pop art feel.

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