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January 31, 2005
Disco Women
A new demographic is stirring the interest of the British fashion establishment.
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Red Wine is good for your skin
New evidence points to the anti-oxidants in red wine being good for your skin.
Posted by miosite at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)
Listening Glass
An audio art exhibition at the First Draft Gallery, Sydney. Listening Glass uses the front window of the gallery as a type of sound diaphragm, in which the vibrations from outside sounds are picked up and fed into the instrument system. Sounds processed by the instrument are simulataneously fed back through the glass to the street outside.
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Hardware or Media?
Is the iPod the razor or the blade? Robert X Cringely looks at Apple's business model.
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50 writing tools
50 'tools' to help develop your writing skills
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January 28, 2005
Top 100 Soundtracks
MOJO's Top 100 Soundtracks of All Time List
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Food Blogs
Chocolate & Zucchini and 101 cookbooks
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Film vs Digital
An indepth look at the differences of shooting on film or shooting digitally
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TV Ark
A 'museum' of television content
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Spacebox
Prefabricated studio units stacked upto three floors high - spacebox and how they are 'constructed'
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Colour, Mood and Meaning
An interactive guide to colour
Posted by miosite at 11:31 AM | Comments (0)
Printing Human Skin
Scientists at Manchester University have developed a printer capable of producing human skin.
Posted by miosite at 10:32 AM | Comments (0)
Using technology for political control
An interesting paper written for the European Union, investigating the use of new technological advances for political control, what these technologies are and stopping them from falling into the wrong hands.
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January 27, 2005
Motionscript
Using expressions and scripts to create motion in After Effects (including random motion)
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Saatchi embraces painting
A new exhibition at the Saatchi gallery called "The Triumph of Painting" is seen as an attempt by Charles Saatchi to rescue his status within the art world by embracing painting as 'the new old thing'
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Cucumber sandwich
The tool to make the perfect cucumber sandwich
Posted by miosite at 09:54 AM | Comments (0)
Galliano
Ditching his usual theatrics Galliano has delivered a classical look for Dior in Paris
Posted by miosite at 09:50 AM | Comments (0)
3D Frame
For presenting three dimensional memorabilia in a new and innovative way
Posted by miosite at 09:48 AM | Comments (0)
Super Family
Conceptually rich furniture design from Stockholm
Posted by miosite at 09:43 AM | Comments (0)
January 25, 2005
The Thought Project
Over 3 months Simon Hogsberg stopped 150 strangers on the street and asked them what they were thinking the moment before he stopped them - these are the results
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Helmut Lang leaves Prada
More upheavel in the land of luxury brands NYT - (bugmenot)
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Squashed Philosophy
The ideas that have shaped western thought are condensed into a fast read, without all the waffle
Posted by miosite at 09:04 AM | Comments (0)
Aurora Sculpture
Using Plasma, glass and light
Posted by miosite at 09:02 AM | Comments (0)
MP3 Samples
Samples used in Jazz, Funk, Soul, Disco joints sampled in House, Hip-hop, and others
Posted by miosite at 09:01 AM | Comments (0)
Consumer Electronics
The CES 2005 has come to an end and Core77 have really good coverage of what was on offer
Posted by miosite at 08:59 AM | Comments (0)
Little Paper Planes
Clothing, Jewellery and Accessories
Posted by miosite at 08:56 AM | Comments (0)
January 24, 2005
Balloon Lamp
Using a balloon an LED and a lithium-coin battery
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Photography blogs
Conscientious - a weblog about photography and coincidences and Photoblogs (a directory of photoblogs)
Posted by miosite at 09:20 AM | Comments (0)
Sony admits mistakes
Sony video chief Ken Kutaragi, has admitted that Sony's strategy on being proprietary with their music and entertainment content has cost them in potential sales of MP3 players and other gadgets.
Posted by miosite at 09:11 AM | Comments (0)
25 defining moments of Hip Hop
Rhymin and Stealin - the rise of rap
Posted by miosite at 09:09 AM | Comments (0)
Burberry blames chavs for its disappointing sales.
When everybody’s somebody, then no one’s anybody.
Posted by miosite at 09:05 AM | Comments (0)
Lochers
T-shirt designs for those with attitude
Posted by miosite at 09:02 AM | Comments (0)
Karim Rashid
The Scotsman have a good article on designer Karim Rashid. The LA Times also have a feature on the New York designer - The future according to Karim Rashid
Posted by miosite at 08:59 AM | Comments (0)
Peanuts
Full of goodness - just don't eat them with salt
Posted by miosite at 08:43 AM | Comments (0)
January 23, 2005
Lee Miller
A good collection of some of her work.
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The Twixters
The intermediate phase, a strange transitional never-never land between adolescence and adulthood.
Posted by miosite at 05:16 PM | Comments (0)
Apple Movie Distribution
An article over at I, Cringely suggests Apple intends to distribute movies via it's new operating system, the Mac Mini and iTunes
Posted by miosite at 10:29 AM | Comments (0)
Digital Format Wars
Digital Rights Management has many similarities to the Beta v VHS wars in the 80's. Except this time there are numerous formats and a lot more infighting. Craphound has a good response to DRM and it's proposed purpose.
Posted by miosite at 10:22 AM | Comments (0)
January 21, 2005
McGuggenheim
Chairman and Chief Benefactor, Peter B Lewis has resigned from the Guggenheim citing "Differences in direction" between him and the museum's controversial director, Thomas Krens.
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Jasper Morrison
New site from Jasper Morrison
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Raiding the 20th century
DJ Food has released a cut up mix mp3 - mixed by Strictly Kev and in association with Ninja Tunes
Posted by miosite at 10:25 AM | Comments (0)
License to sit
An art work that looks at the culture of licensing
Posted by miosite at 10:02 AM | Comments (0)
Moving Mountains
Due to a large mountain blocking the sun, a town in Austria (Rattenburg) spends 2-3 months a year without sunshine. A new project to direct sunshine to this town costing 2 million Euros is being proposed - it will all be done with mirrors
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Bypass website registration
If you need access to a New York Times article (or any site that requires you register) then try using BugMeNot - there is even a Firefox extension which gives you a login with a 'right click'
Posted by miosite at 09:07 AM | Comments (0)
Milan Fashion week
The latest images from Milan Fashion Week
Posted by miosite at 09:06 AM | Comments (0)
Making plastic from oranges
Scientists in Britain have discovered a way to make plastic from Orange peels
Posted by miosite at 09:01 AM | Comments (0)
January 20, 2005
Wi Fi security
A introductory article on keeping your home wi fi network safe
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OSX on a pocket PC
This wired article has an interesting way to access your Mac via a wireless network on a PDA
Posted by miosite at 01:59 PM | Comments (0)
Rio Fashion Week
Some photos from the recent Rio Fashion week
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3d type
Some interesting experiments in 3d type
Posted by miosite at 08:57 AM | Comments (0)
EA plays hardball
The largest games developer has been getting a lot of coverage lately, mainly for the wrong reasons.
Posted by miosite at 08:55 AM | Comments (0)
The Big Red Button
For the person that has everything
Posted by miosite at 08:48 AM | Comments (0)
Architecture of density
Some amazing Hong Kong Architecture photos
Posted by miosite at 08:45 AM | Comments (0)
Contemporary Art sales double
2004 was a good year for contemporary art sales. Sales doubled and prices increased by 17%
Posted by miosite at 08:24 AM | Comments (0)
January 19, 2005
Kitchen Design Competition Winners
Some interesting Kitchen furniture concepts
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Hip Hop turns 30
Currently hip hop is the money, what is hip hop without the money?
Posted by miosite at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)
egocasting
Media tools like the remote control, digital video recorders and iPods have not only changed the content they provide us, but they give us the control that changes the way we live through it.
Posted by miosite at 01:39 PM | Comments (0)
Online advertising
Using eyetracking devices, sophisticated methods for delivering advertising are being developed.
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January 18, 2005
Killing Culture
Is copyright killing culture?
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Padding
Television networks have started shifting their schedules slightly, so as to 'encourage' viewers to stay watching their channel. This practice also increases their advertising revenue.
Posted by miosite at 11:15 AM | Comments (0)
Journalism and Blogging
A good look at the development and growth of blogging and it's relationship with mainstream Journalism.
Posted by miosite at 10:16 AM | Comments (0)
Long time lapse photography
Michael Wesely has developed a process for taking photographs with extremely long shutter speeds - some as long as a year.
Posted by miosite at 10:12 AM | Comments (0)
Organic Architect Awards
Promoting both design innovation and environmental responsibility.
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Music
3hive has some mp3's for your listening pleasure
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Magscape
Using a special metal based undercoat paint, magnetic shapes can be positioned around the 'wallscape'
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Choosing a sport
New research points to a relationship between different physical activities and the type of personalities best suited to them.
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EA games wants to get into other media
EA games is interested in producing Television and Films.
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January 17, 2005
Glass Facades
Sleek, seamless glass facades are the latest in apartment cool in New York City
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B of the Bang
The new Thomas Heatherwick sculpture for the city of Manchester, called 'B of the Bang' is as big as the Statue of Liberty - but is it any good?
Posted by miosite at 01:25 PM | Comments (0)
'The Sims' to be made for TV
One of the worlds biggest selling computer games is to be made into an interactive television program
Posted by miosite at 12:51 PM | Comments (0)
Designing for the older generations
As society ages, new products need to be designed
Posted by miosite at 11:08 AM | Comments (0)
News corp eyes gaming
News corp is investigating ways it can enter the games industry.
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Soviet Poster Database
A database of posters from Soviet Russia
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January 14, 2005
Offcut
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Open source = Communists
After Bill Gates' interview with CNET where he termed supporters of open source as 'communists' the 'blogosphere' reacted against his opinion in many ways - 1,2 - now Gizmodo talks to Bill Gates about his comments and where he sees the future of DRM
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Who is testing
A good list of London based fashion photographers
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Burn Everything
Have some nice graphic design and illustration work to peruse
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Pokia & Retropod
Retro phones of the future and Retropod
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Art or Rubbish?
Dustmen in Frankfurt are going to have to take a course on Art so they don't throw anymore art works away by mistake.
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The vision of the future, from the past
In the 1961 Weekend magazine readers were asked - Will life be worth living in 2000AD - here are some of their answers
Posted by miosite at 09:36 AM | Comments (0)
Bigger better Wi-Fi
A newer version of wireless technology with a bigger, faster capacity is on the horizon
Posted by miosite at 09:34 AM | Comments (0)
Music encoding guide
Ars Technica have a good guide on digital music formats and the best ways to encode your music - a guide to ripping and encoding music
Posted by miosite at 08:56 AM | Comments (0)
January 13, 2005
Workplace dish set
If you eat lunch at your desk then you need one of these
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Wall Installations
Organic ceramic forms mounted on the wall by Jennifer Prichard
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Interacting with your environment
Using different types of sensors these items of clothes change to reflect the environment the wearer is in - Urban Chameleon and Hear Wear
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January 12, 2005
Resignation letters
If you are looking to resign from your current place of employment, then you can get inspiration from some classic historical resignation letters.
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Eat honey, lose weight
The Scotsman has an article that suggests a couple of teaspoons of honey before going to sleep will burn off fat.
Posted by miosite at 08:47 AM | Comments (0)
Scoop
An interactive table concept
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New from Apple
The Mac mini, iPod Shuffle and iWork
Posted by miosite at 08:13 AM | Comments (0)
January 11, 2005
Pointless Film
What do you get when a film is re-made but without the key point that drove the first film? A pointless film
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Solar energy paint
A more efficient way of capturing solar energy has been invented at the University of Toronto - it is 5 times more efficient than current methods.
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Colours for 2005
Adam Polselli's 2005 colour forecast - what are the 'in' colours for this year
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Marc Newson designs for G-Star
Marc Newson recently launched his fashion designs for the label G-Star in Tokyo.
Posted by miosite at 09:18 AM | Comments (0)
Microchips in sport
By embedding microchips in the ball and shin pads of players, controversial calls will be a thing of the past.
Posted by miosite at 09:14 AM | Comments (0)
Speech to SMS
At CES 2005, Samsung have launched a new mobile phone with speech to sms capabilities
Posted by miosite at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)
Sun protection in a pill
Testing on taking an extract of a fern plant grown in Central America orally has shown promise in blocking the sun's harmful radiation.
Posted by miosite at 09:09 AM | Comments (0)
Salary Clock
Use the Salary clock to see your income tick in - compare it to others like Oprah or Steven Spielberg.
Posted by miosite at 09:04 AM | Comments (0)
January 10, 2005
2004 Taiwan International Design Competition
Some nice design work, sent in from around the world for the 2004 Taiwan International Design Competition
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Sneaker Freaker
For all your sneaker desires
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Euroscraper
Contemporary architecture that sits outside of the cube.
Posted by miosite at 01:12 PM | Comments (0)
The Book of Cool
Get skills with this 3 DVD set of tricks and techniques used by professional sportspeople and performers.
Posted by miosite at 01:09 PM | Comments (0)
Sleep
Everything you ever wanted to know about sleep.
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Contour Crafting
A larger version of the rapid prototyping machine. a robot that builds houses, squirting concrete out through a nozzel slowly building up walls - Contour Crafting
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January 07, 2005
Next 10 years at Surface
Surface Magazine have asked some of their design friends to suggest some ideas for the future.
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London Street Fashion
Some great photos of some pretty cool clothes being worn around the streets of London
Posted by miosite at 09:11 AM | Comments (0)
Old cigarette advertisements
Some interesting examples of the way cigarettes were sold on Television and movies.
Posted by miosite at 09:07 AM | Comments (0)
Exxon Secrets
A site using the same techniques as 'They Rule' finds all the links between Oil Companies and the 'Think Tanks' that say Global Warming is a myth - Exxon Secrets
Posted by miosite at 09:04 AM | Comments (0)
January 06, 2005
Nendo
Some interesting conceptual furniture design from Nendo, Japan.
Posted by miosite at 10:16 AM | Comments (0)
New money, new art
The new young and rich are fueling a boom in contemporary art sales
Posted by miosite at 10:07 AM | Comments (0)
Illuminated Manuscript
An experiment with projected text
Posted by miosite at 09:01 AM | Comments (0)
Top 100 artists
The latest update ranking the worlds top 100 artists
Posted by miosite at 08:56 AM | Comments (0)
January 05, 2005
Investment
If you are looking to invest in 2005 some good advice can be found here
Posted by miosite at 10:21 AM | Comments (0)
Home Hacking
An interesting looking book on how to hack together Home Automation, Home Entertainment Systems and Security - Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
Posted by miosite at 10:20 AM | Comments (0)
TV without ads
Rupert Murdoch's BskyB satelite television is planning to initiate a service which allows viewers of regular free to air television to blank out the advertisements. An interesting way to kill off your competition.
Posted by miosite at 10:13 AM | Comments (0)
Political Graphics
Some good poster designs with a political stance - check out the list of exhibitions
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Money wallet
Make a wallet out of money
Posted by miosite at 09:48 AM | Comments (0)
Motorola Ski Jacket
Motorola is to introduce a new snowboarding jacket that tightly integrates your music/phone etc into the jacket
Posted by miosite at 09:42 AM | Comments (0)
January 04, 2005
Gaping Void
'How to Be Creative'(book outline) - The 'Sex and Cash Theory'
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Champagne chair winners
The winners of the 2004 champagne chair contest have been announced - contestants had to make a chair from a champagne cork
Posted by miosite at 03:11 PM | Comments (0)
Learn French in a year
An interesting technique for learning the French language in a short period of time.
Posted by miosite at 10:14 AM | Comments (0)
Home automation
Wired looks at automating your home through new cheaper technologies.
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More on Pod casting
The BBC has a good summary on pod casting
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Game theory
A good resource for learning about Game Theory
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Biojewelry
Harvest bone from yourself or your partner, grow it in the lab then carve up some nice rings.
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