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Joshua Allen Harris’ Inflatable Sculptures via Wooster
plastic_bag_animals.jpgThe response we got after posting the inflatable bear photos last week was amazing. We couldn’t be happier to follow it up with these two wonderful videos, shot and sent to us by the artist, Joshua Allen Harris.

After watching the videos, we love the project even more…

ICE PAK
    Sense noun, verb, sensed, sens.ing.
    1. any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.
    Your five senses play an important role in your daily life. Every moment in your life, you use at least one of your five senses. You touch, hear, see, taste, and smell in order to adapt to a new environment.

    ICE Factor is now appealing to those five senses by incorporating the ICE PAK! The ICE PAK brings all the different sights, smells, feelings, sounds, and tastes together in the form of a Backpack for your next corporate promotion!

    ICE PAK is designed specifically for Street Teams to grab the attention of consumers and provide the ultimate “Innovative Consumer Experience!” The sleek and unique ICE PAK appeals to the five senses of each consumer as Street Teams promote, brand, and direct market your company!
 
7″ WIDE SCREEN LCD FLASHING LED LIGHTS SCENT DISTRIBUTOR 2″ SPEAKER
FEATURES
Sight: Consumers will be able to view any promotional message from the video and picture monitor screen.
Sound: As consumers are near each Street Team member, any promotional message will be delivered in any audio format; from music to corporate tunes.
Smell: When consumers interact with each Street Team, they will begin to take in the aroma that is distributed from each ICE PAK; any aroma you desire can be implemented and changed anytime.
Taste: ICE PAK Street Teams will distribute any product for sampling to each consumer.
Touch: When providing the ultimate “Innovative Consumer Experience,” Street Team personnel will provide a personal touch by interacting directly with each consumer and providing them with information.
Added Benefits: Each ICE PAK is also broadcasting your promotional message via Bluetooth® Marketing. As consumers enter into close proximity of each ICE PAK Street Team, information is sent to each Bluetooth® enabled device in any form of media: video, mp3, mp4 or picture.

“YOU DREAM IT - WE ICE PAK IT!” - contact me for your next campaign

Nathan Hewitt

nhewitt@icefactor.com

H&M VIRTUAL DRESSING ROOM

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If you have a moment check the H&M virtual dressing room. It’s an easy way to see how a garment will look on you, since you can change the shape of the model. Extremely smart design behind this very useful application. Well done.

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T for Two

Cavern’s duo re-thinks L.A.’s oldest fashion staple. By Gabriel Bell
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Ironically named for a line so bold and bright, Los Angles’s Cavern is the creation of fashion-school friends Adam Tullie and Angeline Rivas. While Tullie’s excursions to Europe and Rivas’s continued pursuit of her BFA at The Otis College of Art and Design didn’t see the two graduate together, still, they took on the greater challenge of entering the fray of design hand in hand. “When we first conjured Cavern,” says Rivas, “our focus was to make solid, hand-drawn T-shirts.” While the market is glutted with such wears, particularly on the West Coast, the duo was determined to distinguish themselves. “Everybody is making the same shit,” Tullie says of his competitors, “taking clip art, mixing it up, and slapping it on a T-shirt. There was more to be done.”
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As planned, with references to utopianism and mystic symbols, Rivas and Tullie have set themselves apart with the use of metallic appliques, intelligent cuts, arresting abstract designs, and a complete rejection of camp. Angeline and I are on some cosmic mindtrip where we are in agreement about 99% of the time in regards to creative output,” says Tullie. Sure enough, one can see the imprint of two hands on each illustrated piece. “Cavern will always be a reflection of the current works we’ve created in the studio using paint and ink. We work heavily in ballpoint…at this point, we should be sponsored by Pentel RSVP brand pens.”
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The duo has followed up their initial successes with some collaborations and more ambitious plans. “We recently completed a collaboration with Devendra Banhart on the merchandise for his world tour,” says Tullie. “And some of the more recent work we are creating is looking more painterly and loose. We’re doing plenty of experimentation for our Fall 2008 collection. All in all,” he says, “we promise to keep it interesting.”

Cavern is available in Los Angeles at Scout, 7920 West 3rd Street; 323-658-8684 and Fred Segal Man; 420 Broadway, Santa Monica,310-395-9792 . For more information, go to www.caverncollection.net

If you’re a marketer and trying to find a reliable and effective Street Team in Chicago.

I’m the contact you need (Segway Street Teams, Scooter with Billboard Campaigns, Classic Street Teams).

Nathan Hewitt

nhewitt@icefactor.com

http://chicagostreetteams.blogspot.com/

nyc1.jpg US clothing label Rockers NYC and Swedish denim brand Bay Icon have collaborated to produce these limited edition jeans made from 16oz selvedge black denim which come complete with a pair of suspenders and a bandana. (Source: HighSnobiety.com) nyc1.jpg


Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man
via Art MoCo

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Over twenty years, in 1986, some friends set fire to an effigy on a beach in San Francisco, little knowing this would be the start to a annual event dedicated to self-expression. Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man by Jessica Bruder is a compilation of facts and photos that sum up an event that now attracts 40,000 participants. A vibrant city arises form the desert of Nevada for a week every year and this is a visual account that does not provide answers, but context.Hardcover, 368 pages. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2007. $19.11 at Amazon.
+ Burning Book at Amazon

SETH’S PHILOSOPHY (SHORT VERSION, VIA HIS BOOKS)

  1. For fifty years, advertising (and the pre-packaged, one-way stories that make good advertising] drove our economy. Then media exploded. We went from three channels to 500 hundred, from no web pages to a billion. At the same time, the number of choices mushroomed. There are more than 100 brands of nationally advertised water. There are dozens of car companies, selling thousands of combinations. Starbucks offers 19,000,000 different ways to order a beverage, and Oreo cookies come in more than nineteen flavors.

    In the face of all this choice and clutter, consumers realized that they have quite a bit of power. So advertising stopped working.

  2. One insight is that marketing with permission works better than spam. In other words, delivering anticipated, personal and relevant ads to the people who want to get them is always more effective than yelling loudly at strangers. PERMISSION MARKETING addresses this issue.
  3. Once an idea is in the hands of people who care about its success, it may be lucky enough to benefit from digitally augmented word of mouth. I call this an ideavirus. Modern ideas spread online and off, and this is faster and more effective than the old-fashioned centralized way of selling. UNLEASHING THE IDEAVIRUS is the most successful ebook of all time and you can buy the paperback for about $10. Feel free to look for the ebook online as well. It’s free.
  4. It’s remarkable products that get remarked on. That seems obvious, but it flies in the face of the way most goods and services and business items are created and marketed. Boring is invisible. PURPLE COW is all about this.
  5. The thing that makes something remarkable isn’t usually directly related to the original purpose of the product or service. It’s the FREE PRIZE INSIDE, the extra stuff, the stylish bonus, the design or the remarkable service or pricing that makes people talk about it and spread the word.
  6. The controversial ALL MARKETERS ARE LIARS isn’t about lying at all. It’s about telling stories that people want to believe. It’s about the fact that people want bottled water, not tap, iPod Nanos, not Rios, and politicians who talk straight, regardless of the consequences… But most of all, it’s about authenticity.
  7. Most of all, Godin believes that it’s possible to enjoy your job, to do the right thing, to be transparent, to give more than you get and to be successful, all at the same time. In fact, that’s sort of the definition of success, isn’t it?

TOP 7 ‘SETH’S BLOG’ POSTS OF ALL TIME

Small is the new big
How the net turns the advantage of the mighty upside down.
Don’t shave that yak!
How to get things done.
What makes an idea viral?
How ideas spread. The short version
Beware the CEO Blog
Well, beware the bad ones, anyway.
The new digital divide
It’s about attitude, not bandwidth
Two kinds of writing
For strangers and for friends, of course.
Death plus a fine
Just a photo

Shit We’re Diggin’: Edina Tokodi’s “Green Graffiti”

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You can learn more about Edina’s work on Inhabitat.

Interesting article in the times today on the current state of the fashion industry.

The New York Times

From left, Alexander McQueen; Yves Saint Laurent; Balenciaga; and Maison Martin Margiela.

October 18, 2007

The Coming of the X-Frocks

THE fashion shows have ended, editors are returning to life without room service and you’re wondering what you’re going to wear today. Hydrangea prints the size of, well, a hydrangea are very far from your thoughts. You have to start basting the Thanksgiving turkey — now. You have no time to consider a Richard Prince joke bag. Isn’t he at the Guggenheim? Who is Alber Elbaz? Who is Dries van Noten? You have exactly 68 shopping days until Christmas.

Faced with the task of selling billions of dollars’ worth of clothing and accessories, the fashion industry has to work very hard to get your attention. You might decide to buy a flat-screen television instead of a $7,000 Alexander McQueen sequined dress that shows a portrait by Steven Meisel beaded in gold or a pair of Marc Jacobs shoes that are supposed to look a size too small. A wired populace demands wild ideas.

In a sense, the front-rank designers, stars like Karl Lagerfeld and Nicolas Ghesquiere of Balenciaga, have to row for the rest of the industry. Mr. Lagerfeld may not be the first designer to think of turning an epaulet down on a jacket sleeve, but that he did it for Chanel, and in denim, is enough for the copy kings. Mr. Ghesquiere’s flower ensembles violate every rule about wearing prints: too loud, too big, too much like Aunt Peg’s Florida room.

But if no rule is broken, how would we know it’s fashion?

The spring collections in New York and Europe produced an amazing variety of trends: bold floral prints, intense color, jackets with peaked or rounded shoulders, transparency, and play clothes like jumpsuits and smock dresses with casual blazers.

What links all these ideas, though, is a taste for an extreme point of view. Even the jumpsuits are done in extreme shapes, particularly those by Stella McCartney and the English label Preen; Yves Saint Laurent makes a version in sweatshirt fleece.

Last spring, designers soaked their collections with bright color; now the palette looks violently bright, with livid pinks, siren yellows and deep, airline shades of blue. At Jil Sander, the designer Raf Simons treated color as a conceptual project, using two or three shades in combination to heighten the feeling of being drenched in color. Used on layers of tulle or gossamer silk, the effect also helped him mute qualms about transparency.

Mr. Ghesquiere’s jubilant prints of roses and peonies astonished even the fashion pros, perhaps because, in spite of their romantic associations, the prints seemed to spring from a hard nature. They have muscle, just as the curving lines of the Balenciaga outfits are clear and precise. By contrast, the sweet prints of Junya Watanabe seem normal to us , while the blown-up flowers of Mr. van Noten, Carolina Herrera and 6267, a relatively new label from Milan, look right.

As David Wolfe, the creative director of the Doneger Group, which advises the industry on trends, said, “If they’re not done in an extreme shape, they’re going to look like old prints.” Think of it another way: If you think your dress decisions no longer clearly indicate good taste or bad taste, you’re right. You and Aunt Peg finally have something in common, even if you don’t know what.

Much of fashion, like contemporary art and music, is addicted to extreme ideas, to an energy that doesn’t feel particularly intellectual. It just is, like the action of a pornographic movie. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons tried to suggest the confusion of culture, while Mr. Jacobs, it seemed to me, wanted to suggest the experience of contemporary fashion — specifically, the two-way-mirror effect of the runway, where you are the watcher and the watched, at once in the picture and outside it.

It becomes much harder, then, to see a logic and charm in the classical dresses at Bottega Veneta and Fendi, with their Grace Kelly lines, or in the cool austerity at Saint Laurent, where many of the shapes — the day skirts, the jewel-tone silk dresses and cotton blouses — subtly employed asymmetry. As Mr. Wolfe pointed out, with a laugh, such designs “are too directional for people to wear.” They’re not noisy enough.

So for now, fashion is in an insistent, suprapersonal mode. The most obvious expression of this is in the tailoring of jackets. For spring, shoulders extend away from the body, either up or out. The difference is significant enough that it seems as if the wearer is asserting herself beyond her physical space.

At Balenciaga, shoulders of tops rise into stiff peaks or explode into fuzzy pompoms of fabric. The Belgian modernist Martin Margiela takes his high, sharp blades of last season — a popular look on the Paris streets — and extends them even farther from the natural shoulder line. Chanel’s epaulets have the same effect.

Of course, one message is, “I’m important — coming through!” But tailoring has found an audience among young people, men and women alike, and many of the new spring shapes — the soft blazers at Stella McCartney, the vests at Proenza Schouler, the flouncy styles at John Galliano — are meant to convey a younger attitude. As Stephanie Solomon, the fashion director at Bloomingdale’s, said: “It’s a new signature that defines youth. It’s not the same old look from the old guard.”

Clothes in transparent fabrics, often in layers with undergarments exposed, received a lot of play during collections, beginning with Mr. Jacobs’s stripped-down evening gowns and Narciso Rodriguez’s more subtle veiling of black chiffon over simple lavender silk dresses. The most artful statement came from Mr. Simons, who opened the Jil Sander show with an outfit covered in a cocoon of silk tulle.

Yet apart from a few cries from retail executives (“too many nipples”), there was little objection to transparency. “Veiling might be a better word than transparency,” said Michael Fink, the fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, noting that the effect was, for the most part, just that — an illusion of bareness. “Very little was vulgar,” he said.

Nonetheless, the trend means you’ll see even more frank displays of lingerie next summer; this being fashion, one trend begets another. Mr. Wolfe suggests that television shows like “Mad Men” might be behind the erotic interest in bras and so forth. “Sex is certainly not a new game,” Mr. Wolfe said. “But it always seems to work.”

Finally, if you’re not completely riveted to someone’s bra straps or dodging her shoulder pads, you might give a glance to her footwear. Shoes have become extreme statements in their own, dominating handbags. Much of the radical design is concentrated on the heels, with Surrealist collapsing heels at Marc Jacobs, Art Nouveau-inspired flowers at Prada, and metal fretwork at Fendi.

www.jcreport.com/current/

Brands, Bags, Books, and Blogs

Paris Fashion Week provided inspiration for this entire Brands, Bags, Books, and Blogs issue. Though our review of the breakthrough shows rounds out our runway coverage of the season, we also discovered the fabulous collections of Celestina and Bea Valdes — two Manila-based accessories lines that define Filipino chic — at the Vendôme luxury tradeshow. Meanwhile, at the 6267 showroom, we ran into Alissa Emerson filing her order for Edit, a just-opened Carnegie Hill, New York store selling brands that are sure to excite the uptown neighborhood. Since books were on the minds of many editors and buyers that we spoke to — particularly at a chance meeting at Colette — Fall Bookings profiles the must-read selections of the season. Blogs, meanwhile, represented the other reading material of choice for show attendees this season. While we lent our services to Style.com’s Style File, we also spoke with Imran Ahmed about his own blog, The Business of Fashion, as well as the general blogosphere.

2007 Tokyo Motor Show by Tim Yu

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The 40th Tokyo Motor Show 2007 will be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City from 26 October-11 November. In preparation, the big Japanese automakers have begun rolling out some of their futuristic concept cars. If it’s any indication of what’s to come, we’re excited to see what else is in store. Here are our two favorites so far.

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More of a personal transportation device than automobile, Toyota’s new i-Real makes the Segway look like an old Saturn. A futuristic wheelchair of sorts, the i-Real builds on the previous i-Swing model producing a faster (tops out at 20mph), more agile and more energy efficient prototype. All of the three-wheeler’s controls are located close to the armrests and the wheels can extend, reclining the passenger for high speeds or contracting inwards for more maneuverability.

via Electro Plankton

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Toyota’s main Japanese competition, Honda, might have one-upped them on the concept front with the Puyo. Instead of traditional aluminum or sheet metal, Honda uses a strong but flexible gel-like material that is supposedly safer in collisions. I love the scissor wing doors that open up and out and the back-lit headlights. Even better, the Puyo can turn 360º in place and is completely transparent from the “belt line” offering better visibility. With no right angles or corners, it is a smooth, cute design and, powered by a fuel-cell, it’s environmentally friendly too. A minimalist pod-like interior and joystick steering cement its place in the future.

via Jalopnik.

mp5.jpg Meltin Pot have a new organic collection hitting the shops called Redux. Each pair of the limited edition jeans are dyed and washed with natural products such as wood, coal, jam, earth and yoghurt. The style of the jeans is inspired by the workwear of the 1930s and also apparently the Bauhaus artistic movement.

continued (with more photos) this way…

 

New Books by Seth Godin

The Houdini Solution

Surrounded by Geniuses

I liked them both.

Also, comic book fans, if you haven’t seen this yet, it’s something that will thrill you.

And I just read Scott Adams new book, which he certainly doesn’t need my link to promote, and it’s exactly what you’d expect if you read his blog. He can write.

I’ve been reading a lot of Max Barry lately. Sort of what happens if an accessible Kurt Vonnegut starts writing about marketing.

And lastly, Fred has a challenge going on at Donor’s Choose. A very cool idea.

The Mr. Jones “Accurate” Watch

Coolhunting, Sep 27, 2007 21:24:30

accuratewatch.jpgSpeaking of memento moris and clever watches, Mr Jones’ “Accurate” watch makes the inherent implication of a timepiece obvious. In fact, all of the limited edition models in his line are comments on the daily conundrums of life.

Last time I featured Mr. Jones Watches, he had an exhibition-only series of prototype electronic watches developed to explore new cultural expressions, technologies of timekeeping and how they relate to contemporary life. “Each one was the embodiment of a social critique or observation.”

With a perfect sense of black humor, cultural irony and dry wit, Crispin Jones, the man behind the Mister, described his concepts as “work which lives in the intersection between Fine Art and Design—broadly this area is known as Critical Design—using the language and tools of design to articulate a critical perspective.”

You may have already seen “The Decider,” with markings on the face alternately reading “yes” and “no,” but I was taken with the macabre nature of the Accurate. Evolved from his original Summissus watch, the Accurate similarly fosters humility in the wearer by featuring a mirrored dial to reflect the viewer along with a semi-subtle reminder of your inevitable mortal time-frame. The hour and minute discs spell out “Remember” and “You Will Die.”

His latest series has now taken this concept to consumption. Now featuring analog watches with rotating discs, each style of Mr. Jones Watches will be produced in a limited numbered series of 100. (£80 each or approximately $160) Don’t lose any more time, they’re close to selling out!

And just released this week, a series of videos by filmmaker Steve Ounanian brings the concepts to life. See them on my blog, as well as a couple other models from the series.

CSS

Seth Godin, Sep 28, 2007 15:49:22 GMT

Three simple letters.

Sit down with your web team, pretend you know what you’re talking about (it worked for me) and say them with authority.

It’s not the next big thing. It’s the current big thing. Your site can’t help but get better if you start now. Inspiration: Unmatchedstyle.com. If you’re puzzled, try this site. Click on some of the examples in the right side bar.

Yellow Pages in your Pocket

Rumors are swirling around that there will be a gPhone soon (the Google Phone).

Google is turning into an operating system company. Apple = = > Apple, while Microsoft = = > Google.

My non-inside prediction of what the third-generation phone they ship will be like:
(Relatively) free
(Relatively) open
Ad supported

So, any carrier can offer it (hence the free part), any developer can easily modify it/enhance it, and the thing is paid for by location-aware permission marketing. Anticipated, personal and relevant ads based on who you are, what you do and where you are. GPS-coded photographs from all over the world automatically appended to Google Maps. Free calls if you’re on a wifi network. And it won’t be nearly as design-wonderful as an iPhone. But it will be addictive and in many ways, better.

I’ve been wrong before, but my guess is that this is a huge sweet spot and an even bigger market than most people imagine.

Scientists Simulate Out-Of-Body Experience
“Scientists have long suspected that the clue to these extraordinary, and sometimes life-changing, experiences lies in disrupting our normal illusion of being a self behind our eyes, and replacing it with a new viewpoint from above or behind.” BBC 08/23/07

Aerogel

Aug 23, 2007 22:18:27 GMT

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You might have seen the Aerogel in some newspapers and online already but we felt the need to add our two cents because of its truly world-changing potential. The porous substance is composed of dehydrogenated silicon dioxide filled with gas. Described as “frozen smoke” or the “ultimate sponge,” it’s the most lightweight and least dense solid on earth. A miracle material of sorts, it can withstand explosions, insulate against extreme temperatures and filter pollutants. NASA introduced it several years ago, but only recently has it been applied to commercial products.

brickonaerogel.jpgHugo Boss created a line of winter jackets out of the material but was pulled because they received complaints that it was too hot. The same complaints surfaced for some mountaineering boots developed for a climb up Mount Everest. Even Dunlop, a racket sports company, is currently incorporating the material into their tennis and squash rackets to deliver more power and strength.

Green, strong, light, protective and relatively easy to make, scientists need only to figure out how to better regulate temperatures when used. Otherwise, expect to see it incorporated into winter jackets, space suits, military fatigues and the like soon.

via Times Online

Kameraflage

kamer.jpgTaking advantage of the fact that digital cameras see a broader spectrum of light (i.e they see more colors) than human eyes Kameraflage takes digital photography to a new level. Engineering text or designs in these invisible colors into objects creates displays that are invisible to the naked eye yet can be seen when imaged with a digital camera. Potential applications include everything from clothing to billboards, and even movies.

via conor.info who’s design is featured here.

Don’t miss 515 ALIVE this Saturday July 28th in Downtown Des Moines - Iowa.

Amazing DJ’s, Dancers, Bands, and more. Be sure to check out Oh Possum on the main stage…

515 Alive Lineup

OFFICIAL LINE-UPHERE WE GO!!!!

Scion Main Stage

5:00 DJ Oz & QC
6:00 Brad Goldman
7:00 DJ Segway
7:15 DJ Blocko
8:00 DJ Segway
8:15 Young Trip
8:55 Gaiden Gadema
w/ DJ Richie Daggers
9:30 DJ Segway
9:45 Cleo’s Apartment
10:30 DJ Flash
11:30 DJ Monk

4th St. Stage

5:00 DJ Commando
6:30 Level Matrix
7:30 The Lady Espina
8:30 Shawn Shady
9:30 DJ Sonar
11:30 DJ Uplift

The Vaudeville Mews

7:00 TBA
8:00 DJ Ludachris
9:00 Skitzo
10:00 DJ Jimmy Jim
11:00 DJ Raj
12:00 Nanners
1:00 Nanners

4th St. Patio D&B Stage

5:30 DJ Mindblur
6:30 DJ Darkside
7:30 C-Minus
8:30 THC aka Trigga Happy Cyko
9:30 Aaron B
10:30 Digitize
11:30 DJ S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

The Royal Mile

7:00 Skim Milky
8:00 Dave Leo
9:00 Alex Brown
10:00 Brad Goldman
11:00 DJ Illicit
12:00 DJ Tim Grimes

4th St. Theatre

5:00 Cool Hand Dan
6:00 DJ QC
7:00 DJ Oz
8:00 Meta4
9:00 Brett B
10:00 The Michael Marino aka Grimlock
11:00 DJ Jade Reed

The Lift

8:30 DJ Nytblast
9:00 TJ Hood
10:00 DJ Solargy
11:00 Chris Michaels
12:00 TomG
1:00 Geoffrey Law

Scion Car Show

8:00 Kelix
10:00 DJ Really Real
11:00 DJ Cloud

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515 Alive

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Art Noir & YPC Present: Sunset Boulevard + Hollywood Swagger

Sunset Boulevard is playing for Free @ the Des Moines Art Center next Friday (July 20th) @ 6pm…As the 5th event of Art Noir’s After Dark series.

Then @ 10:00pm Hollywood Swagger After Party featuring the music of DJ Diverse. $3.50 Hollywood Cocktails: Option A - Red Stiletto ( Red pomegranate Vodka + Splash of Cranberry) or Option B - Classic Dean Martin Dirty (Dirty Martini)

$75 Bottle Service = Goose, Absolute, Tanqueray, Bombay Sapphire, Silver Patron = email by Thursday the 18th - dsmculture@gmail.com

DRESS: Get your shine on or bring the Rat Pack & Marlyn, Hollywood inspired attaire - New $chool vs Old School you choose…

www.myspace.com/artnoirdsm
www.ypcdsm.com

www.myspace.com/hidjdiverse
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Check out 21 year old Minneapolis photographer Julian Murray

www.julianmurrayphoto.com

www.myspace.com/state612

Artist Statement :

My photography is more about the people than anything. Without the people, there are no photos. Over the past year I have been fortunate to meet and learn about some of the most real people possible. I’ve shot in multi-million dollar homes as well as the poorest project houses around. I learn from every experience. A thank you to those who I have met along the way, and for those I am yet to meet, I look forward to it.
Blessings

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Last week, at the Pitti Immagine Fashion Fair in Florence, Diesel wowed the style crowds with an impressive multimedia show. Using CGI technology, projected motion graphics of models and creatures from the deep created the illusion that they were moving together down the runway along with live models.

The show, entitled “Liquid Space,” played with concepts of metamorphosis as strange hybrid forms of man, machine and sea creature appeared to float through space. Weaving their way around the actual models, these creatures transformed into animated models wearing the collection and then the clothes dissolved into millions of glittering fishes. The format and style of the traditional fashion show has been played with by many designers, but with this show Diesel moved into a new creative realm, combining fashion and 3D animation technology in front of a live audience.

The grand master of Diesel’s famously attention-grabbing imagery is Creative Director Wilbert Das and special effects were created by the Spanish CGI animation studio Dvein along with Danish multi-media production agency Vizoo. You can download the video here to see the spectacle for yourselves.

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MoCo Submissions

Recent MoCo submissions.

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+ Tom de Vrieze has produced a new chair, “la mdf”, that has a rocking effect when tipped forward. Made of MDF, this chair is designed to be painted/personalized by the consumer.

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+ On “is an electronic dynamic luminous sculpture -picture created by Jean Octobon”, a sound level meter as wall art. On has its own sensor so every sound in the room is displayed. Watch the video here.

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+ Colombia’s Danilo Calvache’s Low Light Table combines grace and function in a table that provides mood lighting.

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+ Maria Nylén has a small line of simple, yet striking handmade silver jewelry with pearls like the Elsa pendant.

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+ Ecosystems is a furniture design company that takes sustainability seriously and reviews each step of the production process in light of this. No waste is produced and sustainable sourcing of materials and packaging carefully pursued.

Fog Screen

Ilya Vedrashko, Jun 17, 2007 04:32:00 GMT

Here’s a pretty cool piece of tech. It’s a screen made of dry fog, which means it’s a screen you can walk through. More officially, “Using nothing more than tap water and ultrasonic waves, FogScreen projection screen machines employ a patented technology to create a smooth foggy airflow that captures images just like a screen. You can walk right through a FogScreen projection screen without getting wet. The microscopic fog droplets actually feel dry to the touch, just like air.” Wonder if you can combine it with Reactrix.