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LOOKS COOL BUT SOUNDS BORING

The Ramones are dead long live the Ramones.

Vacationing documentationing

If you don’t know what to say, make a picture of it, one might argue. But there lies beauty in conformity, too. That’s what we like to take from this collection of vacation proof. In fact, it’s the smartphone way to document leisure time in the sun, either on the beach or at the pool, [...]

HELP WANTED ON MARS

Mars One is looking for astronauts. Before you apply, I recommend you read The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody.

THE INFINITE JUKEBOX

With The Infinite Jukebox, you can create a never-ending and ever changing version of any song. The app which was created by Paul Lamere works by sending your uploaded track over to The Echo Nest, where it is decomposed into individual beats. Each beat is then analyzed and matched to other similar sounding beats [...]

Unself Portrait

BLOWN AWAY

Karl Lagerfeld who is known for his sense of innovation, literally must have blown away the audience who came to see the spring/summer 2013 show of Chanel’s ready-to-wear-collection. The setting was the Grand Palais in Paris, the vast hall appeared to have been made of solar panels, surrounded by an alley of towering wind turbines. [...]

LITTLE SUN

This week, an unexpected, beautiful gift was waiting on my office desk for me, sent by a former colleague – the Little Sun, an artwork of Olafur Eliasson – loving it!!!
Olafur Eliasson about it:
“Little Sun is a work of art that works in life. It transforms the light that is for all of us into [...]

MEANWHILE, ON MARS

Chances are that by the time you’re reading this, about, oh, some 150 million miles from you, the Curiosity Rover, Nasa’s latest mission to Mars, will have successfully completed its landing and is happily scurrying about freezing desert planes to collect data to investigate the feasibility of a manned flight at some point in the [...]

THE BOOK OF NOW

‘Someone had to do it’, as our friends at It’s Nice That put it so well, because yes, someone had to, and messieurs designers Felix Heyes and Ben West did it first: A weighty tome on and courtesy of Google, compiling the first picture to come up in Google Image Search for every word in [...]

Uneven Matching

Clement Valla: Postcards from Google Earth. Wonder if Clement and Jenny know each other.