The Paper Cinema

Exploring the East End through a paper-puppet inspired play with live music. Ends Tuesday 10th of March.

I love Science

How brilliant is this?

It's really super to see that technology is catching up with our imagination. Thirty years after loosing his eyesight, he sees flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye.

Aspirations?

"My one ambition at the moment is to be able to go out on a nice, clear evening and be able to pick up the moon "

Spring is just around the corner. Clear night skies await thee.

Bad, Bad Dinosaur

Tisk, tisk. Here's a lil gem from the horse's mouth:

Seeking a sexual tyrannosaur for a romp in the park - w4m

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Date: 2008-10-12, 3:14PM PDT

You will growl mechanically into my ear and stare threateningly. I will feign panic and search for the flash light in the back seat of the visitor jeep. You will sniff at the window slowly and then release a robotic roar into the night air. I scream for Alan Grant, but your over sized robot jaws come crashing down through the overhead window, pinning me to the floor.

I cannot stress this enough however, you must play as a ROBOTIC dinosaur. This is very specific, my interest lie entirely in animatronic dinosaurs, not real ones.

Correct me if I am wrong

The 99 is a huge hit back home. Backed by the creative forces of Fabian Nicieza (X-Men) and Stuart Moore (Wolverine) and Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa.

The concept of the comic is based on the 99 attributes of Allah, Many of these names refer to characteristics that can be possessed by human individuals. For example – generosity, strength, faithfulness, wisdom are all virtues encouraged by a number of faiths.

I personally find the concept refreshing and daring, I would have easily perked up my ears if Islamic studies incorporated some form of creativity at school. I'm just wondering.. if all the superheros came together and all their good attributes were infused wouldn't they in theory make God? or all their negative attributes made Super Satan? Surely that would have popped up at some point.

Thoughtss..??

Flight patterns are Pretty

This is for the boys in the Aero Department at Imperial. Data from the U.S. Federal aviation administration processed to create animations of flight traffic patterns and density done by Aaron Koblin.

Geeking out to 100's Minutes

I got invited to attend Secret Wars, a graffiti competition between Monorex and Intercity at Havana Club somewhere around Shoreditch. They had 100 minutes to paint and ink their ideas on a huge wall. My bet was on Intercity to win (they ended up throwing red paintballs that not only sprayed the walls but also the crowd closest to the boards, awesome) but alas 90's graffiti made it's way back to claim the winning vote. Meh.

Crowd Sourcing

M.I.T students came together to form this online project called : IdeasScale

The concept behind this a collective insight on an Idea rather than an individualistic one. How does it work? Well you submit your idea, people from across the globe add to it, criticize it and potentially make it grow into super idea. From there businesses can identify where to improve and ideas that can help them make that change..

Basically you have this living specimen that modifies your idea on a daily basis. This is a blessing for marketers everywhere!!

Khatt : Arabic Typography

Above is the artwork of a budding graphic designer and calligrapher, Farah Behbehani who won a Khatt competition and got her design printed as wall vinyls!

Many have butchered Arabic type {myself included}, Arabic typography is one of the most beautiful and complicated type faces to work with. For some stellar examples click here.

Wottsit called?

Leave it to Urban Decay to call their eye shadow, Asphyxia.

Albino Dolphin!

For any frequenters of Harmony, this was only seen on .. 'toys'. A Pink mother flipping dolphin!
Hopefully when people start spear hunting the poor thing it will swim towards a whirlpool and resurface as pink sushi. YAY!

Rub my Hand

When I was younger I used to believe that God and Satan were like Mr. Willy-Wonka and Mr. Slugworth. That they were really working together to see who was honest and I thought that if I told anyone, and exposed God's plan, that I would be blamed for blasphemy.

When I was younger, I stole my classmate's swissrolls and ate them as I sat on them. True Story.

Nakba: The Return of the Soul

This is Jane Frere's Installation, Nakba.

The project was devised as a means of exploring the historic events of 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were driven into exile to become the longest suffering refugee population, whose numbers have grown to 4.5 million. The installation, Return of the Soul, was conceived as a means to extend the artist’s work to involve Palestinians themselves in the process of creating the components of a sculpture and multi-media artwork that addresses displacement, and offers an expression of their collective sense of injustice and loss, as well as asserting their right to a national heritage.

Suspended wax figures
Over seven thousand wire, paper, wax figures are suspended in the air on a raked angle across the space. Spectators are able to walk around the installation and at a certain point to pass underneath.

Hanging testimonies
Three-meter long scrolls of paper bearing the imprint of personal testimonies relating to the moment of exile are suspended vertically between handing Perspex strips, creating a “forest” of words. The testimonies are installed in a separate space complementing the figures and bear witness to the identities representing those forced to flee from their homeland in 1948.

Sound Installation
Fragmented layered voices, edited from a series of filmed interviews conducted by the artist, are played in the space surrounding the hanging testimonies.

http://www.artdubai.ae

Design by Humans

How amazing it would be if one of your designs were sported by a Band, selling out across the globe. Here is the opportunity! Deadline: 22 March '09.

Tree Forest are you with meh?! Collaboration time!

Rebranding Abu Ghuraib

This is a designer's nightmarish challenge for a brief. Anyone up for it?

YEP! ITS REAL

I still don't think I'm completely sold. Despite the fact that its on National Geographic and there's a video to go with it. It just looks like a super photo shopped and CGI made fish.

For the Ladies!

Lookey here. If you are a designer/illustrator and a woman and want to be published, log on & send your stuff in. ENDS ON FRIDAY SO HURRY!

Btw, what is up with gmail?

One more

Last post about Threadless. I was reading about the prizes you get when you have your t-shirt printed and came across this fine piece of print:

If your design has been chosen for print; Choose a $3,000 scholarship as a form of payment towards your college fees. Open to everyone regardless of what your studying.

This is what we really need, and what a super way to encourage all the people who are struggling with loans. Brilliant.

Don't forget to vote for my tee - last few days :D - Click on the link below!

When designers come together they...

Make Monsters! Met up with BlackPepper member, Rachel to brainstorm on our bid for the Surrey 2012 Logo. As Shao was brainstorming on her stuff we got carried away started to play.

Suprisingly Yemeni

The most alien looking tropical desert (who knew those things existed) on the planet is in Yemen. P A U S E . Socotra Island is located just off the coast of Yemen and is considered of the most endangered ecological sites in the world.

This looks like something straight out of Miyazaki's animated features.

Classic