Pecha Kucha is tonight…
See you there.
Update:
Here are some random images from last night’s presentations
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Archive for April, 2008
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Goldfrapp @ Beacon Theather
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Last night was Goldfrapp’s concert in The Beacon Theater. It was the first time I got to see her but it was very good.
It is always quite a treat seeing an absolutely incredible singer and Alison Goldfrapp is definitely one of them. She was getting over a cold (and complained a few times about how bad she sounded). The way she effortlessly goes to those glass shattering highs is quite astounding.
She also happened to look incredibly sexy wearing her skimpy little gown.
Go after the jump to see some lousy clips.
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More Nude
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Here are the original storyboards for our Radiohead video entry in Aniboom -Nude- and some goofy initial tests for the video.
Click here to go vote for it
From the beginning, we had a pretty clear idea of the look, mood and speed the video should have.
The video is meant to be a play between the beautiful and the grotesque, by taking an all to familiar yet bizarre part of the body as the mouth and pushing its ‘normality’ a bit the idea was to displace that sense of familiarity.
The ‘narrative’ is pretty independent from the lyrics but they connec in very specific points: you’ll find something missing / you’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.
This was a pretty fun charrette project to work on and we’re definitely super happy with the (semi) final result.
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Murukami @ The Brooklyn Museum
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The show at The Brooklyn Museum is absolutely amazing. The exhibit, which is separated in two floors, is very extensive and the quality of the paintings/sculptures/videos etc is just incredible.
As usual, I’ll rant about the museum’s ‘tight-assness’ about taking pictures inside -does Murukami care?…- these guys were truly gestapo style, yelling and running towards people with cameras to get them to stop. That’s what they’re being paid for I guess, but it’s an idiotic policy nonetheless. Makes me wonder if Gagosian has anything to do with it.
Don’t miss the transformer girl in the first level (hard to miss, it takes the main central space) , the short clips in the lower level (anyone knows the name of the little fella?) and the large canvas-tiny DOB blue painting.
View some lousy pics after the jump
Also, don’t miss this circus video of the opening from the NYT…
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‘Nude’ Animatic
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Finally, the animatic for our Radiohead video is done!
Go register and vote for our entry in the Aniboom here
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‘Nude’ storyboard
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Here is the storyboard for our entry for the Radiohead video. The song is Nude. The animatic will follow up in a few.
I’ll post the link so you can go and vote 5 BOMBS for our video in aniBoom.
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Radiohead’s Nude
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Gabe and I have been working on an animatic to enter the contest being held by Radiohead, for user created videos for one of their songs.
We’ll be posting the clip into the site for people to go check it out and vote. Here is one of the stills.
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Fighting Fire with Fire
Thursday, April 24th, 2008It is really hard to understand what is going on lately, but you have to admire the stupidity -or insanity might be a more precise term – of some people.
Eric Thompson, the owner of a company that sold firearm merchandise to both the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois shooter is, as a good will gesture, selling his products at cost for two weeks so “law abiding citizens” can buy them to prevent other tragedies. As he makes it clear, he “want(s) to help people save lives”.
“Initially, I wanted this to be an offer for college students,” he said. “But there’s no real way to determine whether someone is a college student … so we opened it up to any legal American.” Because it is so much easier to recognize a law abiding legal American than a card carrying student…
It only makes perfect sense to have everyone in school is carrying a gun right? That way you’ll never ever see another mass shooting be carried all the way through; instead, you’ll just see a bunch of little shootings every day over moronic things. Professors should be allowed to carry semi-automatic weapons (you have to keep maintain the hierarchy somehow).
Read the CNN article here.
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Want to Die for Art?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008German artist Gregor Schneider is seeking a volunteer to die while on display in a gallery. “Unfortunately today, death and the road to death are about suffering. Coming to terms with death — as I plan it — can take away the pain of dying for us,” he said in an article published by Die Welt.
Read the CBC article here.
I’m working on some initial thoughts after the jump, I’ll finalize that posting later on.
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Say what Mrs. Clinton?
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Clinton this morning continued her tough military talk, saying she would “obliterate” Iran if the Shia Muslim theocracy launches a nuclear attack on Israel while she is president.
“I want the Iranians to know that if I am president we will attack Iran, and I want them to understand that,” she told ABC News, when asked how she would respond.
“Whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons programme in the next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.
“That’s a terrible thing to say, but those people who run Iran need to understand that, because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic.”
Read the full article from The Guardian here.
No, it’s not a terrible thing to say, it’s an insane thing to say.
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Darwin’s Works
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Charles Darwin’s complete works, as well as thousands of illustrations, letters and documents never published before, have been made available online. The collection is by far the greatest ever compiled on Darwin’s works and will be of course an invaluable resource, and not only for scholars.
Check out the Illustrations page for some incredibly beautiful drawings and diagrams.
Visit Darwin Online here.
Via [Wired]
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Terminal 5 and Terminal 3
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Paul Goldberger has written an interesting article / review in The New Yorker on Foster’s Terminal 5 at Heathrow, and how the idea of the airport was rethought for this specific project. Then, on Rogers’ Terminal 3 in Madrid and how, with smart strategies, the experience of the infinite corridor can be a pleasing one.
Read the article here.
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McGyver’s list of tricks
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008During a lunchtime conversation on problems solved by McGyver, I failed to convince my fellow friends of the existence of an episode where McGyver successfully fixes the bullet-ridden radiator of a truck using just eggs (to cover the holes) and water.
The process:
Fll the radiator with water and add eggs to it.
Turn the truck on.
As the water heats up, the eggs cook and fill the holes…
After a brief search, I found this *extensive* list of all the problems solved by McGyver.
I was of course vindicated: Bushmaster is the episode…He used only the whites though, so I got that detail wrong. Ha!
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Temporarily permanent
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Nothing says “temporary stay” like the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the U.S.’s largest diplomatic compound anywhere in the world, which is now ready.
“It’s been a difficult few weeks, rockets are bouncing off your buildings, and maintaining focus can be an occasional challenge,” (ambassador) Crocker said…
Read the CNN article here.
Read my previous entry here.
via [archinect]
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It’s Officially a Recession
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
It really isn’t officially a recession until your local restaurant tells you it is. Then you know you’re screwed.
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Portishead’s Third
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Here is the recently released video for Portishead’s “Machine Gun”, from their latest album Third. The album has to be, in my view, one of the best albums of this year. It is absolutely fantastic. Go buy it *once its out*
Thanks Gabe for the pointer on the video
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Foreclosures Heat Maps
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Hotpads has some impressive heat maps of the foreclosure crisis throughout main cities and regions in the U.S. So far Manhattan is in the clear, but check out how the red is starting to creep up. Scary.
View the interactive map for NYC here.
via [techcrunch]
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The Vulcan Project
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Funded by NASA and Department of Energy, The Vulcan Project is an effort to quantify the emissions of CO2 within North America at a scale never seen before, up to individual power plants…
Check out their YouTube video here to see some other fantastic visualizations.
via [wired ]
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It’s not a war zone, it’s the UES
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
This was what the sidewalk looked like half a block from our place at 11 am today.
What happened? No idea.
More pics after the jump below.
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Reusing PC heat
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Heat produced by computers has long been one of those byproducts that are, more often than not, vented to the exterior and therefore wasted. A computer center in Switzerland is reusing the heat produced by its equipment to warm up a town pool. The town payed for part of the system to reroute the heat but it’ll continue to use it or free. A cool symbiotic relationship that will probably become a model.
Read the Wired article here.
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