This video uses exclusively the video mapping technique to build several characters on a human face. The images were projected directly over an actor, as in a canvas. This video mapping technique, seen before in spectacular projections on buildings and cars, uses in this video the human face as its single object of work.
Magnum photographer Larry Towell planned to embed with the Taliban last year when the Afghan contact he was using was forced to flee the country ... While Towell still wanted to embed, it was too dangerous for several reasons. First, Western journalists are often seen as propagandists for the U.S. military. Also, the Taliban self-funds their war, and kidnapping for ransom has become more common, he said. Many of Towell’s friends and colleagues, along with local journalists, encouraged him to find a well-tied local to take his place. The journalist he used “talks to both sides,” providing rapport with the insurgents ... The images are “just portraits of insurgents, just to give a glimpse of the other side,” he said ... The images give the rebels a “voice and a place.” Taliban members usually have covered faces. This set of photos is unique because of the confidence shown by these men, Towell said. “They’re not ominous; they’re not all wrapped up looking sinister,” he said. “(Some) just look like kids.” This glimpse into their camp humanizes the insurgents when the “media dehumanizes (the) enemy during war.” As Towell spent time “driving through history” on his visits to Afghanistan, he wished for a glimpse into the past when locals might easily welcome him into their homes. “I wish I knew Afghanistan before the wars,” he said, “when you could go anywhere. … There was a time. I wish I was there.”(via Glaserei)
Peter Granser´s project “Sun City” is a series about a retirement colony in the American southwest, where you are only allowed to live, if you are over 55 years of age. In this strange city of spunky senior citizens, he encountered countless whimsical details. He took wrinkles, cacti, hair dryer hoods and plastic flamingos and compiled them into a basically true and only slightly exaggerated story about the future of aging. In “Sun City” being a senior doesn’t mean sitting in a rocking chair on the porch, looking back at the past, gradually taking one’s leave of life. Quite the opposite: Granser’s picture story is peopled by men and women who without any compromises or sentimentality have radically reinvented themselves in their latter years ...(via Ignant)
This project is about teenage girls and young women at a transitional time of their lives, alone in the privacy of their own personal space and surroundings: their bedroom, a womb within the outside world ... I initially started this work focusing on teenage girls in the United States and eventually expanded the project to include girls from the two worlds I am most familiar with, the two worlds I experienced myself as a teen and a young twenty year old: the United States and the Middle East. This is how this project became very personal to me. I became fascinated with the similar issues girls at that age face, regardless of culture, religion and background, as they learn to deal with all the pressures that arise as they become consciously aware of the surrounding world wherever this may be.(via KFMW)
I had the idea for this site back in 2009. Took me a few years to realize it. Hopefully it's not too late... It's a one-man-project: This site will definitely not win an award for design, but hopefully it will help some record shops to survive a bit longer. If you have some ideas, please feel free to contact me.Und weils schön passt:
Heavy metal is a phenomenon. Although this musical genre is still ridiculed by many, it is currently more popular and successful around the world than at its supposed peak in the 1980s. Today, so-called metalheads can be found worldwide. No matter who they are or where they come from, they are united by heavy metal across borders, generations, genders, religions, and social classes. The photographes have been taken in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, Switzerland and the USA.
F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab are pleased to present the Free Universal Construction Kit: a matrix of nearly 80 adapter bricks that enable complete interoperability between ten popular children’s construction toys. By allowing any piece to join to any other, the Kit encourages totally new forms of intercourse between otherwise closed systems—enabling radically hybrid constructive play, the creation of previously impossible designs, and ultimately, more creative opportunities for kids ... The Free Universal Construction Kit offers adapters between Lego, Duplo, Fischertechnik, Gears! Gears! Gears!, K’Nex, Krinkles (Bristle Blocks), Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, Zome, and Zoob. Our adapters can be downloaded from Thingiverse.com and other sharing sites as a set of 3D models in .STL format, suitable for reproduction by personal manufacturing devices like the Makerbot (an inexpensive, open-source 3D printer) ... The Free Universal Construction KitUnd das ist erst der Anfang. Warten wir mal ab, was passiert, wenn in den nächsten Jahren die Preise für 3D-Drucker sinken und die Verbreitung steigt.
Mit Computerspielen Probleme wie Hunger, Armut und Krieg bekämpfen? Geht das? Die amerikanische Spieledesignerin Jane McGonigal behauptet das. Der Zündfunk Generator untersucht ihre Thesen und die Gamification der Welt. "Reality is Broken - Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World" heißt eine Bibel der digitalen Bohème. Darin beschreibt die amerikanische Spieledesignerin Jane McGonigal ihre Zukunftsvision und fordert die Menschheit dazu auf, größere und bessere Spiele zu spielen, um Probleme wie Hunger, Armut und Krieg zu bekämpfen. Soweit zur Utopie, die Horrorvision der Gamification sieht ganz anders aus: Jede Müslipackung, jede Zahnbürste überhaupt die ganze Umwelt ist - ausgestattet mit Sensoren - zum 24-Stunden-Spiel mutiert. Der Mensch bekommt darin lediglich die Rolle einer ferngesteuerten Spielfigur. Die soll vor allem eines machen: Konsumieren. Der Zündfunk Generator sagt: "Mögen die Spiele beginnen!" und taucht ein in das Geschäft der Gamification, die Visionen von und die Ängste vor der schönen neuen Spielwelt.Download: Spiel des Lebens: Wie Gamification die Welt verändert 50 Min / 46.50 MB )
