February 27th, Munich. Farewell occasion with the IDEO office for Regi, Wolf, Elli and me. It was a fun night for sure.
As part of a project during my internship, the team and I travelled to Italy for the initial phase. I had the chance to fly back to Munich for the weekend, but a friend of mine – Stefano had moved there, to finish his thesis at Politecnico and saw I got the chance to hang out with him. My choice obviously, was then to spend the weekend in Milan. For the great benefit, I had color film with me and this was a great time to start using medium format 400 iso film. Learned later from a lot of mistakes; it´s far too easy to underexpose this during a rainy / cloudy day. You really need to get down to 1/60th or otherwise photoshop will be your next best friend, but not any form of guarantee for cranking it back to its level.s Even this image could have been exposed a stop higher, but I think the result is quite balanced. I´m getting more excited about doing street with the hasselblad; I have some 400 VC film waiting to be used during my now last two weeks in Munich. Just hope to kill this cold that has hit me the last days.
Fabio Lendrum : “Trouble (CFCF remix)
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This London chap looks just like the guy living a floor below. I sense a quality of sound to have more a lookout for.
“Trouble” rivets through an incerdibly pleasant piano upbuild, coming through after a softbeat climatization and its big city lyrics of detached states.
Paul Kalkbrenner : Aaron (Ted & Francis Vocal Version)
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I did not know Paul Kalkbrenner released hi first tracks under the name of Paul dB+.
Appearently Kalkbrenner does not only produce music and dj, but he also is involved with acting. In 2008 he composed the sountrack for the German movie Berlin Calling in which he also is the leading actor. The theme song Sky And Sand, featuring his brother Fritz Kalkbrenner ended up in various European charts.
Paul plays in Munich April 16th, two weeks after I´m out.
Hot Chip : Take it In
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Having a glance into their soundmaking, and getting a feel for who these guys are, I enjoy their sound much better knowing that they are someobdy I´d like to have a conversation with. They´ve got character, and deliver interesting music.
Phoenix : Lisztomania
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These guy´s seem to be on every music blog out there. Can´t have restrained that force from being the main sountrack for New York I Love you. They need no introduction, but Lisztomania is brilliant material!
Miami Horrors Make You Mine (Fred Falke Remix)
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Curious Displays from Julia Tsao on Vimeo.
“Curious Displays functions simultaneously as a form of design research and as a proposal for a new product, a future display technology.
The project explores our relationship with devices and technology by examining the multi-dimensionality of communication and the complexity of social behavior and interaction. In its essence, the project functions as a piece of design fiction, considering the fluctuating nature of our present engagement with media technology and providing futurist imaginings of other ways of being.
Curious Displays is a product proposal for a new platform for display technology. Instead of a fixed form factor screen, the display surface is instead broken up into hundreds of ½ inch display blocks. Each block operates independently as a self-contained unit, and has full mobility, allowing movement across any physical surface. The blocks operate independently of one another, but are aware of the position and role relative to the rest of the system. With this awareness, the blocks are able to coordinate with the other blocks to reconfigure their positioning to form larger display surfaces and forms depending on purpose and function. In this way, the blocks become a physical embodiment of digital media, and act as a vehicle for the physical manifestation of what typically exists only in the virtual space of the screen.
Traditionally, displays are fixed-size/ratio surfaces that provide an entry point to a defined experience with digital media content. This content is varied–informational, filmic, auditory, at times even spatial. However, the relationship between the user and the digital entities within the defined surface of the screen creates a sense of fragmentation between two distinct spaces. The virtual space of the screen provides a surface for media content to come alive, but is a distinct and marked separation from the physical space that the user occupies.
Projection begins to create a kind of a hybrid space for the physical and virtual to blend. Projection can appear anywhere. It can appear on any surface at any given time, and can disappear again just as quickly, providing many space-saving benefits and new opportunities for mixed reality interaction and augmentation. However, the nature of such a transitory medium defies basic rules that are core to our understanding of the physical world. This begs the question of how virtual objects and entities can manifest themselves in the physical world without the “here one minute, gone the next” nature of the projection medium.
Curious Display “blocks” are tangible and tactile. They occupy and move through physical space, and are thus subject to the same spatial rules and limitations faced by any other physical objects. These constraints lend themselves to potentially interesting outcomes in terms of interactivity and negotiation. An abundance of questions quickly begin to surface–how do they move? How do they behave? Does this movement and behavior begin to allude to the development of a type of personality? How does one communicate with them? Where do they go when you’re not using them? What role do they take on in our daily lives?”
Well I wanted to try to put a description to this but as you embed the video you are encouraged to post this comprehensive description, so maybe that will do. From my part, I find this kind of work really interesting. She is not dealing with implementation of a system. She is questioning and pushing the people who would make the technology envisage and explore any sort of metaphors carried within here. Truly great work. I love her portfolio overall!
Newcastle based creative Paul Hollingworth created this visual playground for the release of adobe´s new suite. The tagline, shortcut to brilliant is quite clever. I would have to comment on that though, that flash would really have a very thin rope tied to the others. Or to put it more diplomatically, the road for them to bond is still larger than the other software. But anyways html 5 is coming and will they keep it up to that?
anyways, looking at this, a nice view of process and realization.
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There is a number of imagery I am interested in sharing in the lapse of time; basically because there is a history of travelling and there was a time when I neither blogged nor flickred and so there is much on disk, which i perhaps never shared.
Cambodia is one of those place that made a lasting impression. It´s probably the most intruguing place I´ve set foot upon. What shines less, as you learn of the past though is that the history of Camobodia is shadowed by a very dark story of which there is much learning to be made from. Above those layers of horror and disruption, the country has a mystic face with tempels and nature as you have seen nowhere else.
Little Mowgli met me during a one day visit to Siem Reap. I have no words for how incredible it was to visit this place. Incredible wonders; yet reminders for the opposite.
I promise to post more from various travels. I don´t even know who I´m promising to cause I do not know my readers. But that´s another story.
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One of the most powerful films you will ever see in your life. From the salvage streets of Brazil. One little small soul with attent eyes and a camera can make a difference. I think you really have a counterpart in Slumdog Millionaire too. Incredibly strong films with nested messages of ethics.
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