Subscribing to t-post is a lot like having a subscription to a magazine but instead of receiving magazines in your mailbox – you receive t-shirts.

The oktober issue is about the global warming: “scientists have been telling us that the planet is getting warmer for over fifty years, and in classic human style, we’ve been denying the possibility since day one. However, your blissful days of denial have come to an end because for the first time in recorded history, an open waterway exists all the way up to The North Pole. The glaciers are melting, warm water life is migrating towards both poles and the delicate balance of our planet is about to reach a tipping point. The occurrence of this warming is a direct result of the ridiculous amounts of CO2 and the greenhouse gases we produce but the knowledge and technology to drastically reduce these levels of pollution exists. The movement towards alternative energies and cleaner, more sustainable living has begun, but it will develop much faster if we, as consumers, create more demand. Personal change leads to planetary change.
Start modifying your life and help save the last bit of ice that’s left.”

I’ve had a beautiful weekend in Antwerp! Thanks to Walter, Dries and Gore.
Later more on this.

The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.
Pen strokes made in the air are recohttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifrded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.

Once a year, at the close of each summer, a vast temporary city of tents and campers rise out of the bleak Nevada desert.
Pictures by NK Guy

A hard to find documentary about Tetris and its creator Alexey Pajitnov. Also covers the rivalaries between Nintendo and Atari and the absurdities of buying copyrights for software from a country that doesn’t believe in property, much less intellectual property. Ultimately, a great documentary about a very important game.
By BBC

A journey into MySpace is not for the aesthetically fainthearted. Thanks to a somewhat clunky layout system, a very limited selection of typefaces and the combined design sensibilities of millions of overexcited teenagers, this is not a quiet place to be. The general principle appears to be why use one image when 50 will do. If it can be made to bounce up and down, it shall be made to do so.

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LVHRD MGZN 01 takes a closer look at some of LVHRD’s most active members over the club’s two years in New York. Through candid conversations and exposé pieces, we provide an unobstructed view of the ballerinas, architects, editors, musicians and competitive eaters that have made a mark on the organization’s history.

Someone shouts to me from across the street that I look too young to be driving. At the airport, a woman thinks I am waving goodbye to my sister, not my daughter. People will unabashedly state that I must be twelve, or sixteen, or at a stretch, perhaps twenty-two, even when their assumption defies logic. They will also go to great lengths to share their observation. I am particularly drawn to these moments where assumption, perception, and presentation collide to create fantasy. continue reading >

Beautiful photographs by Holly Lynton

I am thinking to arrange an art show with the theme ‘cars’. With, for example, the Fat Car by Erwin Wurm, the Exploded view beetle by Damien Ortega, the crashed caravan by Elmgreen & Dragset etc. etc.
It is interesting to see more and more artist get inspired by cars. And I’m not the only one who noticed it: an interesting post by Art Fag City on Cars

This Lamborghini case is designed to perfectly fit the trunk of the Lamborghini Murciélago. The outside of the case is made of calf’s leather whilst the structure is made of carbon fiber, like the car itself. The carbon fiber is visible from the interior only. The case measures 60 cm by 45 cm by 13 cm and weighs six kilograms. It is availible now from Lamborghini dealerships.

Acknowledgements to Sybarites

Heidegger described human existence as a process of perpetual falling, and it is the responsibility of each individual to “catch ourselves” from our own uncertainty. Kerry Skarbakka’s work is in response to this delicate state. It questions what it means to resist the struggle, to simply let go, and the consequences of holding on. The images stand as reminders that we are all vulnerable to losing our footing and grasp, symbolizing the precarious balancing act between the struggle against our desire to survive and our fantasy to transcend our humanness.

The beautiful Dolphin Brain Atlas has a completely navigatable atlas of the dolphin brain including cross sections, top views, side views and bottom views.I don’t know about this too much but we can consider it as art!

A collection of colourful scenes from Earth. Made by hand with photshop and maps.google.com
flickr set

More images >

Acknowledgements to Trendbeheer

Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them.
Holding a finished book with your name on the cover is a truly amazing feeling; it’s one of those experiences everyone should have. As software people, designers, and publishing professionals at the top of our game, we realized something both incredible and obvious: there’s no good reason why it should take tons of time, technical skills, big bucks, or friends in high places to publish a book. Or a zillion books, for that matter.
So we put our minds together, and developed a creative publishing service simple and smart enough to make anyone an author – every blogger, cook, photographer, parent, traveler, poet, pet owner, marketer, everyone.

A nice online magazine by pre|set

Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth. But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older, more artisanal images. For one thing, there are a great many more images around, claiming our attention. The inventory started in 1839 and since then just about everything has been photographed, or so it seems. This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world. In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads — as an anthology of images.

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A dutch post: Albert Verlinde over het tv-spelletje Lingo en de boze politici.
…Feit is wel dat een lullig TROS-spelletje, om maar even een klassieker van Cox en Halsema te citeren, ineens op bescherming van hoge politici kon rekenen terwijl ik dezelfde politici nooit gehoord heb toen het goed scorende cultuurprogramma De Plantage van Hanneke Groenteman door de VPRO van de buis gedonderd werd. Of toen de AVRO Oud Geld-schrij fster Maria Goos als het ware op nonactief zette door voor haar niet de juiste omstandigheden te creëren om een mooie serie te schrijven…
…Kortom, ik heb politici nog nooit een vuist zien maken als het gaat om een programma dat echt behoort tot de kerntaken van de Publieke Omroep. Maar als er een spelletje bedreigd wordt dat al zeventien jaar bestaat, reeds vier keer van presentator en twee keer van omroep gewisseld is en dat van zender naar zender schuift als een hete aardappel die niemand te lang in zijn hand wil houden, dan is ineens het huis te klein en worden er vragen gesteld en wordt de minister van onderwijs ter verantwoording geroepen…

Acknowledgements to NRC

If it makes you nervous, it’s probably a good idea. If you’re sure you’re right, you probably aren’t.

10 ideas to get you started down the path of scientific marketing tactics. by Seth Godin

Taking a photo means making a memory. Choosing a moment in time and framing a situation. Archiving it or making it public. Either way, we create a visual item that we have an emotional attachment to through our memory. Photos help us to remember moments in our past. Often they even become a memory in their own right. For many, making their moments public through services like Flickr is already part the process of photography itself, creating archives which contain a vast collection of visual fragments of individual lives.

Buttons takes on this notion of the camera as a networked object. It is a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn’t have any optical parts. It allows you to capture your moment but in doing so, it effectively seperates it from the subject. Instead, as you will memorize the moment, the camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment.

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