A 60m long pink toy rabbit lies on the side of the 1,500m high Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Viennese art group Gelatin designed the giant soft toy and say it was knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool
. The bunny is not just for walking around, the artists are expecting hikers to climb its 20 foot sides and relax on its belly. The giant rabbit is expected to remain on the mountain side until 2025 — via lucie
The theme for Illustration Friday this week was roots. I figured this was the quickest thing I could do.
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If you love chickens and post-it notes AND weird humour, then savage chickens is the comic strip for you!
I have been very quiet about the whole Apple switching to Intel processor thing. Partly because I’ve been too busy at work, and TAFE assessments, and partly because I don’t understand the intricacies of system architecture and computer bits and what have you. Again I defect to Ol’ Grubey for what seems to be pretty in-depth light on the subject. But faster laptops = good surely.
I would like the world to know that MS Word screws up images, and that whacking some jpgs of lets say, web site designs that you expect people to code as pixel exactly as possible sites off is really fucking bad. There’s really nothing wrong with sending through images in .jpg, or .gif or .png format without the MS Word fuck-tionality.
The MARC commuter trains between Baltimore and DC are sporting these terrornoia posters styled after the heyday of Stalin’s totalitarian regime, when Soviet citizens were exhorted to spy on their neighbours and fink them out for suspicious behaviour. And they say irony is dead — via boingboing
The lovely Feòrag has pointed me in the direction of Eccentric Genius, a talented Canadian who crafts unusual contrivances for home and office. Wonderful things like mini trebuchets and guillotines and the delicious Victoriana of the Hypnodisk:
In the 1800’s, the European scientific community caught up with the rest of the world and noticed hypnosis. Entrepreneurial medical supply houses were quick to offer an optimistically comprehensive array of
Scientifically Designed Aids to the Induction of Mesmerism, of which theHypnotic Spiralis perhaps the most enduring.
Popular with evil criminal masterminds, the whirling hypnodisk was an always effective means of dealing with uncooperative adventurers, or perky junior reporters. Now you can have the same amazing powers in the privacy of your own home or office! The rotating spiral irresistably entrances the viewer, quickly reducing them to mindlessly obedient slaves under YOUR hypnotic control.
Make the mailroom guy quack like a duck! Turn your boss into a lap dancer! Brainwash wealthy relatives!
TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Or not.
You know you want one, so while you’re there, look deep into the Hypnodisk and get me one too
I found this while trying to find some reference photos of a doctor’s medical bag.
Marvel® image licensing available through Corbis. That’s kinda weird/cool and I’m not sure why or which one it is yet. But hey, one of the 2 companies saw an opportunity and are taking it.
More on this when I have far less work to do and feel as though I can construct coherent sentences later.
Ok you mac freaks, Tiger is coming!
Kong has added a very cool piece of artwork to his gallery.
Go, check out The KLam Xperiment
Moscow artist Aristarkh Chernyshev‘s TeleBlaster is pure retro 60’s futuristic design.
Aside from looking like a pretty lump of exploded red plastic, it also allows the user to tweak the signal processing. Users can load different effects algorithms from a flash-card or from the manufacturer web site.
TeleBlaster allows mixing users’ videofeed with a TV broadcast, and therefore gives unlimited possibilities for creativity: television becomes, literally, a Lego set from which users/watcher creates his/her own worlds.
Besides that, with TeleBlaster you can generate video effects synchronous to sound. This option turns it into a specialized multimedia entertainment centre.
You can pick one up from Electroboutique for US$1,499. I shudder to think what the packaging is like
This is me with a South Park twist. There really isn’t any difference between this and me in the real world.
Matthew Reed from TigerLilly Tattoo and DesignWorks, the Oregon tattoo artist who inked NBA star Rasheed Wallace’s arm, is suing for copyright infringement because Rasheed’s tattoo is featured prominently in a Nike TV and internet ad campaign. It only seems fair that he be compensated for Nike making money from his artwork — via boingboing
Now that Firefox has become more popular, we’re starting to see some fully themed skins, with non-native buttons, scrollbars etc. Since it’s hard to pick them from the crowd at Moz upate, here are my favourites (the links point to the Win32 versions, but you’re smart enough to find them for your OS du jour, ja?).
Using design as a medium for exploring everyday rituals from drinking tea to watching television, the British designer Onkar Singh Kular has developed a series of conceptual products since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2002.
He created a set of mugs in each of 128 Pantone shades of brown so that each family member or co-worker can choose the mug corresponding to their favourite colour of tea. Whenever a relative or colleague makes tea for them, they will be able to tell from the colour of the mug exactly how strong it should be and how much milk to add — via BoingBoing
I’m always a sucker for shiny things and Bent Fabrication‘s shiny metal art objects make me very happy.
If you must inflict drooling, shitting, hideous little yard apes on the world, at least you can distract people from the horrible creatures with a shiny, metal, cartoon plane-like pram — via BoingBoing
Just a quick link, I’m working half days as I am doing some life drawing classes in the mornings this week. I waltz into work at 2pm and there’s a tonne of work sitting in my email. Sigh!
I like Adam Polselli’s 2005 Color Forecast. I love the purple palette, we can only hope that designers choose purple this year.
Anybody who’s ever worn glasses and knows what a bridge piercing is, has probably contemplated combining the two at some point in time. The difference with James and Oliver is that they got their fingers out and did it. For a prototype, the end result is quite a nifty and practical item — via Warren Ellis
Merry New Year to you!
Semi-Permanent 05 is boasting Ashley Wood as one of it’s speakers.
iStories you can download to your pod to read on train or what have you. I have only taken a quick scroll, but there is certainly some weird stuff there. You use ’em with this app. I dare say Pod2Go looks slightly more informative.
Tetris on your iPod not sure whether I’m gonna attempt to install Linux on the pod. I have limited geek-literacy. But I love tetris. Now I’m torn!
I like Illustration Friday. It’s a simple and nifty little idea to help you get scribbling.
A Polish conceptual artist has come up with some clever but rather unsettling Lego concentration camp boxed sets. Our concerned American readers should note that these are handmade art objects and not official retail items (although plenty of people have expressed interest in buying a set, according to the site).
Blogging time has been non existent to scant of late, but here are some interesting links:
Web Design in 2005 is worth a look indeed. I’m not however looking forward to a wash of brown.
Donald Trump, Art Director: Not The Real Thing is a good read.
The 6 Myths Of Creativity. No one ever suspects the accountant!
And happy belated birthday to the Xplane Xblog.
Out of its natural habitat, the giant squid Architeuthis dux is something of a flop. They’re so heavy, they collapse under their own weight. You lose the lovely cylindrical mantle and arms,
says Steve O’Shea, squid expert at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. So the Kiwis plan to have the squid plastinated by German anatomist Günther von Hagens.
To research the project, von Hagens visited O’Shea in October to study some much smaller species such as arrow squid.
We dissected a number of ‘sacrificial’ squid,says O’Shea.
The plastination process could take up to a year, and the squid will need a rigid framework for support, but O’Shea is confident that von Hagens will be able to display the animals.
An old Noodle Soup Flash animated pitch of Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan to Sony has surfaced of late.
Seems a shame that the deal fell apart, it’s lovely.
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