Non-Sign II
Non-Sign II by Seattle-based art collective Lead Pencil Studio might be my favorite public art installation of the year. Located just outside of Vancouver, the sculpture — made from stainless steel rods that create More...
Facebook Book
Sometimes I go through old posts and pictures on my Facebook and forget about hilarious posts from friends. Imagine being able to export your entire Facebook profile and turning it in to a hard back book! Well that More...
No-Flash Fashion by Google
At the WWD CEO Summit early this month in New York, Google VP Marissa Mayer took the stage to give senior fashion and retail professionals some advice about their web presence. After explaining how Google Trends More...
Drink This!
Vending machines have come a long way. Japanese customers can now rely on vending machines using facial recognition technology to suggest drinks if they can’t decide on what to buy. The new technology can make More...
Second Life’s Virtual Meth House
Whereas most virtual worlds offer millions of online visitors the chance to ride a dragon or build fake real estate empire, which I think is fantastic and much better and more beneficial entertainment than TV stuff More...
Sex, Politics & Campaigning
You don’t need to be a marketing wizard to know that sex is a potent ingredient for a successful viral. I mean upload a naked picture of yourself to Facebook and it will spread like wildfire. At least amongst More...
Viewers and Ratings 3.0
Last week one of the Dutch commercial cable channels happily reported it’s new studio show “Beat De Mol” opened with an average of 550,000 viewers. The dirty secret however of cable TV is audience More...
New Balance 3D mapping
This is a pretty cool way to get an unofficial project noticed! When you’ve seen just about every type of projection mapping event or installation over the last two years, it’s something just a little different More...
‘Shoal’ by Troika
Troika’s public artwork Shoal combines sculpture with architecture and technology. Spanning across a 50 meter long corridor, 467 fish-like objects wrapped in iridescent colors and suspended from the ceiling rotate More...
The PlayMobil Fear Card
Toys of all sorts are not only great fun to collect, but they’re marvelous signs of the times too. Besides, they bring fantasy to real life, or real life to fantasy with often a profound psychology underlaying More...
Hear No Evil
Who thinks that subliminal stimuli manipulation envisioned in movies like Oliver Stone’s “Wild Palms”, David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome” or John Carpenters’ ‘They Live’ More...
My Little Piece of Privacy
What can you do if your only workshop is at an old storefront with a big window facing the street? In an entertaining display of technological creativity in the name of privacy, Niklas Roy created a “smart curtain” More...