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Iconic Return

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Google recently launched a new feature its powerful realm of search. Now, we can look for pictures by dropping an image document on the oracle interface: apparently colors and patterns are matched (try pix from your local hard drive which are not labelled “aiweiwei.jpg“). Now, the “woman laughing alone with salad” potentially doesn’t seem all [...]

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After the Commodore 64, is NeXT next?

Friday, April 8, 2011

Now that the Commodore 64 has been revived, isn’t it time for the NeXT Computer to make a comeback?
NeXT was the computer system that Steve Jobs created during his years in exile from Apple in the late 1980s. Not only was the NeXT console stylistically beautiful, its processing system was also way ahead of its [...]

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Listening to iTunes

Monday, March 21, 2011

iTunes interpreted as audio data by Vuvuzela

Random Davis, digital native from Portland, began listening to windows programs (.exe). Finally something to do with it, mac followers might argue. However obscure, the compression patterns seem to create some rhythm. Check out the charts.
Remember when we would play commodore’s datassetten on the stereo? Now, the next [...]

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ROBO RAINBOW

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Every now and then you come across things that are just, well, sweet. Thanks Akay. Thanks, Don Koi.

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THE IMPOSSIBLE RETURN OF POLAROID

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

When in 2008, Polaroid announced that they would finally end production of their legendary instant film, they not only rendered 300,000,000 functioning cameras obsolete, it also felt like the final blow to analogue photography, in times when Agfa had gone bankrupt and most film and camera manufacturers settled on digital photography. But it’s sometimes hard [...]

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LAST MINUTE PRESSIES PT 2

Saturday, December 18, 2010

It’s very hard to find presents for very creative persons or those who have no interests at all. Here’s a suggestion that simply must excite absolutely everybody!
Product Name: Risograph. Developer: Riso Kagaku Corporation. Description: a cross between a photocopier and a silk-screen printer. Application area: Creating instant art or publishing your own multi coloured [...]

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THE KINGDOM OF LARS

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Mubi (your online cinema, anytime, anywhere as previously posted by emg) is now offering streaming of films via Playstation 3 – amazing for Germans: in the original language versions! My recommendation: The Kingdom by Lars von Trier. The best mini-series ever.

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UPCYCLING

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Instead of bemoaning the disappearance of things once loved and treasured – your cassette mix tapes, your old BMX bicycle, etc – Leipzig-based design collective diefabrik have come up with the idea of ‘upcycling’, meaning to update out-of-use items to function in our modern and digital world. Such as, for instance, their beautiful tomboxes: formerly [...]

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AN OCCURRENCE

Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Japanese import edition of Jeff Mills‘ The Occurrence comes on a hybrid cd/vinyl format. Amazing but sold out.
Photography: Wilson Hennessy, Roger Stillman
Published in Wired UK Edition 11/2010

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ART? PROTOTYPES?

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Have a guess: is this blog post (A) about installation art on Berlin’s Art Forum or (B) a new project by photographer Taryn Simon or (C) about iconic tech prototypes?

Photo 1: Super Soaker, invented in 1989 by NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson.
Photo 2: Atari Video Computer System, invented in 1976.
Photos: Dan Forbes for Wired

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