Jared Diamond on why societies collapse | Video on TED.com

“The fact is that our present course is a non-sustainable course … and the outcome is going to get resolved within a few decades … “



carbon, devastation, drill, ecology, ecosystem, flow, future, global, myth, species

Onyx:

Onyx: a open source flash VJ performance tool



beatbox in abox



open source, performance, tool

“micro-facial leakage”

Surveillance technology is getting smarter | If looks could kill | The Economist

“micro-facial leakage”


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Rilke’s face is here again
not just left in the hands
but porous and networked



augmented, face, surveillance

Steve Bishop | Artist


Broken Jaw (2006)
Concrete, enamel paint,vinyl lettering. Sculpture: 70 x 60 x 50cm. Text dimensions variable.



animals, bioart, language, video

Wholphin: A DVD Magazine of Unseen Films » Front



animation, anomalies, collection, film

Langan Films



abstract, branding, detoxify, esoterica, film

Paula Scher

hillmancurtis :: film and video :: Artist Series: Paula Scher :: 347 756 5049

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syncopated typophatic recyclage pioneer
public identity tensile volume maestro
tap rap scratch gesture branding nyc style
emergent focal presstype ruffigan
helvetica bubbler non-rubber pencil stubber
instinct sketcher weekend painter
mapping mind in mobile curves



bold, instinct, intuition, typography

TYPOGRAPHY: one path

1970′s graphical experimentation:

Neville Brody,
—The Face (1980)
—Fuse (1990: conference and studio, 4 years after laser printer, 5 years after macintosh)

David Carson,
—-Raygun
—the end of print as we currently know it
—end of mindset, end of a way of looking at print as pages of paper.

LettError
–1989 2 Dutch designer-typographers who began with meta design
–designed Beowolf which is a typeset designed to look different every time
…designers who hacked in to make fonts designed procedurally following a formula as postscript files



branding, fonts, typography

Barcinski & Jeanjean



3D, flash, portfolio

Next Nature

The nature caused by human culture.

“There may even come a moment that our connection with an industrially manufactured coke bottle may be richer and more mythical than our relation with a genetically analyzed and manipulated rabbit in the woods. “



blog, cycle, esoterica, memes, posthuman

The Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill


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banksy budget
activates chunky chicken micro-controllers
for an animist stir-fry of our conceptual parameters

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activist, animals, animist, chicken, panpsychism

Virginia Schaefer | Ohio


Virginia Schaefer | Ohio



collage

Late Bloomers

Malcolm Gladwell: “If you are the type of creative mind that starts without a plan, and has to experiment and learn by doing, you need someone to see you through the long and difficult time it takes for your art to reach its true level.”



creativity, time