Amazing aerial virtual tour of New York City…
The Solitary Life of Cranes
I watched this superb documentary about the life of crane operators in London who spend their lives sat high up in the sky, who talk about their daily observations of people below. It's beautifully shot and feels so calm. You can catch it on 4oD at the moment.
Peter Callesen, paper cuts
Just discovered the work of Peter Callesen: an artist who has recently dedicated himself to producing these incredible paper sculptures from single A4 pieces of paper.
(via @jamesrkent)
My interview on MinimalSites.com
I feel very honoured to be featured as the member of the month on the newly redesigned and very sexy, MinimalSites: a website dedicated to profiling the very best minimal web design right now. In it, i talk about why I started siteInspire, and some details of my new venture, Kulör.
It does feel odd though that a web design gallery profiling another web design gallery, like one big Droste effect...!
Many thanks to Jung of MinimalSites!
Do you eat crap?
I really love the little details in this ad for The Pump, in NYC... Look out for subliminal bacon.
American Pixels
I really like these images from a series called American Pixels by Jörg M Colberg that use JPEG compression algorithms to create unusual artworks.
The Uniqlo digital creative archive
I am a huge, huge fan of Uniqlo's digital work, so I was excited to see that they have created a handy archive featuring all their past projects. Make sure you check out all the Uniqlock pieces featured there, which I think started the whole thing off.
Currently listening to… Mumford & Sons
I'm currently really enjoying Mumford & Sons' new album, Sigh No More. The London-based band were formed in December 2007, and have an unusual mix of folk, rock and country, that has been compared to Kings of Leon and Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young (at least on their website). I get the same feeling from these guys as when I listened to the Fleet Foxes for the first time.
The Real Good Chair Experiment
I read about Blue Dot's abandoned chair stunt ages ago, and now they have made a film about the experiment. To quote Shareable...
Blue Dot Studio put 25 of their chairs on the streets of Manhanttan, and then followed the chairs through a combination of GPS and video surveillance as people picked them up and took them home--which, by the way, the public could follow in real time on Twitter. Then the filmmakers interviewed the chair-collectors.
I thikn it's a really neat, playful promotion for Blue Dot, and the resulting video is beautifully put together...
The Gregory Brothers, auto-tuning madness…
I have just spent the last 30 minutes watching The Gregory Brothers' brilliant and hugely funny videos, where otherwise banal news items, famous YouTube clips, and political debates are turned into farce with a little help from some liberal Kanye West-style auto-tuning. Go straight to their YouTube Channel to view all the other videos...
Kate Tempest, slam poetry
I'm struggling to find anything at all about Kate Tempest - an amazing British female slam poet I just discovered, who was featured on a Teen's Speech video for Barnados...
There are a few more videos of her over at Dead Dean's blog, filmed during the BBC show 'Why Poetry Matters' with Griff Rhys Jones, and on a post at the Teen's Speech site itself.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to everyone. I took this picture in Sälen, Sweden where I spent New Year's eve. It was absolutely beautiful and terrifically cold (hovering around minus 17 degrees Celsius most of the time). More photos on my Facebook page.
The new Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Rick Mather Architects
I visited the newly refurbished Ashmolean Museum in Oxford the other day, which has recently been refurbished turning it from a stodgy, stuffy space into a light, coherent, and contemporary museum. I then discovered this Dezeen post with more photos and plans.
(I think the Dezeen community must like the project since the it yields just one, positive comment, instead of the usual hundreds of YouTube-esque comments that often plague Dezeen posts!)
Iain Tait’s digital predictions for 2010
I enjoyed checking out Iain Tait's trend predictions in digital for 2010. I think it's mainly tongue-in-cheek but I agree with a lot of them. I partciularly look forward to the social media expert actually doing something constructive rather than talking about it...
