phaidon & wallaper city guides now as iphone (which I do not own) application at the itunes store. check: the BERLIN edition is currently free.

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here is blank&empty’s awesome pop-up store!

Pop Up from abw on Vimeo.

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After his ‘camper bike’, artist Kevin Cyr is about to finish his next project. Camper Car is a pop-up camping module mounted on a  shopping cart, a statement on flexibility, autonomy, and self-reliance.

And below some images of his former project.

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The French directing collective H5 has built this movie entirely out of corporate logos. enjoy the trailer!

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OMA plans to rebuild a Filip-Dujardanesque Bijlmermeer (Amsterdam’s 80’s)  in Singapore.

Here is one of the key-statements by Ole Scheeren: “The design addresses concerns of shared space and social needs in a contemporary society and simultaneously responds to issues of shared living and individuality by offering a multiplicity of indoor/outdoor spaces specific to the tropical context.”

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Ikea Heights is a web soap directed by David Seger on Channel 101 that’s secretly filmed inside of a Burbank IKEA. It’s not as a cute as those scenes from 500 Days of Summer where Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon Levitt play house, but some of the dialogue is rather inspired and there’s a big plot twist at the end of the pilot. Plus: How impressive that they managed to shoot inside the store without getting caught/kicked out!

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after the ‘rowing pianist’, here is another nice piece by ‘ametsub’ ‘HyperBlack noise’ with music ny ‘ametsub’ on a linear cut through tokyo.

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‘this is japan’ – a quick trip to tokyo by  Eric Testroete – enjoy!

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urbanism almost following the wather chart with only four different street-patterned stamps and a sharpie. wow!

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this gadget at least shows that the space for motorized mobility can be sinificantly minimized and traffic jams will be less likely due to higher density of travelers per square foot compared to cars. so now we wnat to see the ‘gas’ stations that charge these litle monsters…

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too bad I only have a shower…

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

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tortoise’s new album is out – spectacular visuals again!

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what reminds me rather of graphic art (and this thing would be a cool wallpaper!) is a satellite view of farming in Texas, veggy farming in the circles and oil farming along the citcuit-board style paths.

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In 1913, Marcel Duchamp labeled everyday objects as art. Those “readymades” are now in museums. Now, artist Ji Lee has taken a classic Duchamp readymade and put it back into the everyday context of the street. Duchamp Reloaded

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great but oh-so-simple! looking forward to the update!

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Evelien Lohbeck has some nice short movies on the frontier of analog-digital applications.

Now I am looking forward to see the bird-pong and play it on a sunday in the park.

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“Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.” says Kacie Kinzer, author of the project.

So the object on its own is just a tool, a moving object that only becomes a robot by acessing the spectators inteligence to get directed towards its goal – nice merge and involvement of the spectators!

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Greg La Vardera uses Google sketchup as a base to these New England illustrations. I always find it amazing how the free acess to google sketchup opens the world of 3D modeling to all disciplens…

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this short film starts with a nice feature about the future application of design-architecture-modeling-construction before it gets into the cheesy dream of a french homesick time-traveler…
so now I am curious what ‘contemporary’ buildings can be constructed in a future like that.

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