Alex Eylar hat ein T-Shirt-Design von Eduardo San Gil, das in einschlägigen Blogs vor kurzem die Runde machte, in Lego nachgebaut.
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"A typology of rap videos and an attempt to construct the most generic Rap video out of many. Musical genres are always heavily codified and rap seems to be one of the most extreme ones, each video has similar if not identical subjects, the same light, the same cars, the same girls, the same dance moves etc. Through their likeness they seem to be almost ‘classic’, just as classic theater or opera."(via today and tomorrow)
"The Lego NXT wall-e transformable robot is fully self controlled It uses Lego Mindstorms programming environment. It is for all I know the first Lego build look-alike wall-e which is capable to transform automated. This transformation is quite similar to the way the original wall-e does it." Nxt-WALL-E-Transformable(via Make)
"It’s difficult to imagine this once-fantastical device without thinking of iPads, iPhones, Kindles, and Wikipedia. And it’s unfortunate that Douglas Adams, a Mac-user and tech nerd, never got to see his vision realized of a handheld device with instant access to endless sources of information. In the book, the device is described has having “about a hundred” tiny buttons, though were it written today, the Guide would surely have a touchscreen. Still, I couldn’t resist making it look like a calculator (and very much like a Kindle) if only to decorate the buttons with an alien alphabet ... This will be my last illustration for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In creating the series I realized that I didn’t want to illustrate the characters. It’s a book about ideas — science, reason, philosophy, religion — and the characters exist only as vessels for these ideas" It’s a sort of electronic book. It tells you everything you need to know about anything. That’s its job (mit Link zu iPad-Wallpaper, für das man sich alberner Weise bei Flickr eingeloggen muss)Weitere Illustrationen von John Martz:
"I'm stopping at 3000," Zieja says. "I'm not collecting metal lunch boxes anymore because there are only about eight ever made that I don't have." Zieja, 54, claims he's got the largest collection on public display in the United States. Maybe even the world. Still, it's hard to fathom a number like 3,000 when talking about lunch boxes ... Hot Collectible Lunch Boxes Preserve the Past
"[This work] consists of a wallinstallation of 14 switches transformed in a disgusting way. Every time a switch is pressed, a virtual light-bulb on a screen is lighting up as a feedback for the test-person. Through its simplicity and its everyday occurrence, the interaction with a switch has been marginalised into subconscious behaviour ... I want to show that people are indeed both repelled and fascinated by the disgusting transformation of the switches. Katrin Baumgarten: Disgusting Switch Installation (inkl. Fotos)(via Make)
"Andrei Tarkowski war der Sohn des Lyrikers Arseni Tarkowski. Schon früh machte sich seine künstlerische Begabung bemerkbar, wobei diese durch seine Mutter gefördert wurde. Er studierte in den 1950er Jahren zunächst Musik, Malerei, Bildhauerei, Orientalistik und Geologie, bevor er 1954 an der Filmhochschule in Moskau zu studieren begann ... Seine Filme Andrej Rubljow, Solaris, Der Spiegel und Stalker konnten nur gegen starken Widerstand der Behörden veröffentlicht werden. Die meisten erhielten, auch gegen den Protest der offiziellen sowjetischen Vertreter bei den Filmfestivals, internationale Preise. Die Filmmusik vieler seiner Filme wurde von Eduard Artemjew komponiert und mit dem ersten sowjetischen Synthesizer vertont ... Tarkowski war zwar im Ausland berühmt, doch in seiner Heimat blieb ihm die offizielle Anerkennung versagt ... Er verließ 1983 die Sowjetunion, um in Italien Nostalghia zu drehen und um der erzwungenen Untätigkeit in der Sowjetunion zu entgehen ..."(via Rivva)
In the 1930s, a new style of poster emerged that reflected the growing significance of the masses in Japanese society. These artistic posters borrowed elements from Western design and often incorporated bold slogans with political, economic and educational themes ..."