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v3 Guide to the Interneat #13

duncan — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:15:39 +0000

Pei-San Ng makes incredbile art from matchsticks.

(via Chairman Ting)
A wonderful, short presentation from Kurt Vonnegut, describing the shapes of stories.

(via kottke)
There is something pretty interesting going on just around the corner from my new home here in Vancouver. This Space is working collaboratively with the community to create a new business in an empty building in Chinatown/Strathcona.

They are going to run a voting and feedback process over the next few months on everything from what the business will do, to the employees who will work there. It is a great concept, and I am looking forward to seeing the results of such a long term and ambitious collaboration project.
GoPro make some really cool, inexpensive little HD video cameras that are great for action sports. If you get a whole bunch of them together you can do some pretty incredible stuff:

(via Spoke)
More GoPro cameras put to good use. This beautifully edited short film about base jumping features incredible scenery from the incredible jump spots they use around Europe. I have a huge admiration for base jumpers, and it is something that I hope that I get the chance to do (and have the courage to go with doing it) one day.

(via Infinity List)
Anyone who has been keeping up with the changes at Facebook will no doubt have heard about the influence and input of Nicholas Felton (aka Feltron). Apparently while he wasn’t busy helping out with completely re-imagining the Facebook profile he has been helping one of his relatives, an Australian winemaker, with some unique, beautiful, and fascinating labels. The labels are data driven, displaying data about the process behind making that particular vintage. Things like heat of fermentation, the time the skin is left of the grapes, and the ripeness of the grapes. These are all things that contribute to the final complex flavour of the wine.

You can read more of the story behind them, and check out the labels in more detail on the Between Five Bells site.
Photographer Sam Gellman went on a four day trip to North Korea and took some incredible photos of their annual ‘Mass Games’. Apparently the image in the background is made up of 20,000 ‘pixels’ – each a Korean child holding a coloured card which they frequently change.

(via MyModernMet)
Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro have been collaborating on some pretty cool real time face tracking and substitution. This seems to have culminated (at least for now) in the implementation below, which if you are a Phillip K. Dick fan will probably get you pretty excited.

(via Creative Applications)
Archie Out of Context (the brainchild of Ashleigh Rajela) does exactly what it says on the tin, and is very funny. Who doesn’t like a good double entendre?
My good friend Matt has an incredible talent for making hilarious little video mash ups. David Schwimmer smashes the club with his latest tear out dubstep anthem:

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v3 guide to the Interneat #12

duncan — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:33:45 +0000

Polar bear created from 20,000 zip ties. Yes.
Created by Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin (D.O.T.S). (via designboom)
In an effort to encourage the citizens Lucerne to make use of rubbish bins Clockworx came up with this fantastic idea turning it into a series of different games around the city.

(via swissmiss)
Japanese photographer AppuruPai has an incredible set of long exposure images from the new high speed train connecting Odaiba to Tokyo.

(via today and tomorrow)
Scottish dude Danny Macaskill does stuff on bikes that will blow your mind. You have probably seen some of his other films, and this fresh one is just as good. ‘Industrial Revolutions’ sees him take apart an old train yard, including an incredible display of tight rope riding.

(via Pinkbike)
Those clever folk at Deep Local have built a concept bike that lets you shift gears with your mind for Toyota Prius. While undeniably futuristic, it was built using readily accessible technology and components. Apparently with 10 minutes of training you can be smoothly shifting the gears of this beautiful Parlee Cycles one off design with nothing by the power of thought. Detailed coverage of the entire project is over on Prolly is not Probably.

(via fastcodedesign)
Berlin based generative design studio onformative has an impressive body of work. The solution they came up with for their most recent project for Actelion, a biopharmacuetical company, is elegant and impressive. They developed a custom Processing application that generates still and animated brand imagery for Actelion. What a fantastic approach to producing a cohesive brand identity.

Actelion Imagery Wizard from onformative on Vimeo.

(via CreativeApplications.Net)

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v3 Guide to the Interneat #11

duncan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:10:08 +0000

Back from my hiatus and there is no shortage of awesome stuff to share.

This beautiful short documentary was shot during the making of the Ritual Project, an incredible large-scale, hand-painted, stop frame animation that was commissioned by Stella Artois. Up There tells the story of the fading art of hand painting billboards, and the people that are keeping it from disappearing entirely.

UP THERE from Jon on Vimeo.

via FormFiftyFive
Guido Tamino wants you to print stuff in his room, via the Internet.
Finally, someone is curating a collection of white people rapping poorly, like our man B-SHOC here.
Ishac Bertran has created a whole series of beautiful images like this one using Processing, in what he calls ‘generative photography‘. The technique he is using is fascinating, and produces some pretty unique results that look more like drawings or paintings than photographs.

via Creative Applications
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz offers sage advice about getting your sitcom cancelled.
Portuguese artist Pantonio is not only incredibly talented, he also has a fantastic sense of humour. He transformed this wall, the victim of a car accident, in downtown Lisbon into a scene from a comic book.

via Designboom
Watch as Bienve Aguado attempts and lands the first ever double front flip on a mountain bike. This dude is determined.
Thom Thom is a French artist doing some amazing work deconstructing this one billboard spot in Paris. Click through to see the different variations.

via TodayTomorrow
Another great little documentary, this one covering an old art form enjoying a sort of resurgence right now. Sean Walling, the owner of Soulcraft Bikes takes us through the process of crafting one of his beautiful hand made steel bikes.

FROM STEEL: The Making of a Soulcraft from michael evans on Vimeo.
I am loving the trend toward more and more high profile generative identities, and the new one for the MIT Media Lab by The Green Eyl (in collaboration with E Roon Kang) is fantastic.

MIT Media Lab Identity from thegreeneyl on Vimeo.

via Creative Applications

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v3 Guide to the Interneat #5

duncan — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:49:04 +0000

Beautiful & unique installation in the center of Paris highlighting the dangers of unsafe drinking water.
Bad boy DJ/producer Diplo has written a pretty entertaining account of his recent trip to Cuba. It has rekindled my interest in visiting.
Tyler Thompson got sick of looking at ugly, confusing boarding passes, so he had a go at redesigning them. He also put the call out for others to do the same. The results are excellent, hopefully the airlines are listening (although our own Air New Zealand actually does a reasonable job in comparison to the Delta one that Tyler started with)

It is also well worth checking out Dustin Curtis’s well thought out redesign of the American Airlines homepage that was part inspiration for Tyler’s efforts.
Nike has been doing some awesome stuff lately, including this spot for the Nike Free running shoes. Japanese DJ duo Hifana create some wicked beats using the super flexible sneakers. Super cool concept really well excecuted.

You can also check out the making of for a look at how they did it.
(Via designboom)
Logorama is an award winning short from French collective H5. It is so great that it opened Sundance this year & picked up the Academy Award in the animated short category.

(via Amber)
It has been around for a while now, but Slinkachu’s Little People Project is rad. It must be incredible coming across one of his installations “in the wild”.

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v3 Guide to the Interneat #3

duncan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:49:03 +0000

This viral sticker campaign for iconic Chiquita Bananas kicks some serious ass.
Godzilla Haiku: Loving Godzilla 17 syllables at a time.
If you are like me and love animated GIFs then you are going to love gifparty & lovegifs – two of the greatest tumblrs around.
How sexy are these wine labels based on the latitudes of the wine regions of Italy? Wow. (via more.peterdibartolo.com)
René Le Prou is of my good friends who happens to also be an excellent DJ. Check out this banging little house mix that he put together last month. Carny house is hot! René Le Prou – Housesque Volume 1 Feb 2010 by René Le Prou
Creative agency SarkissianMason has one of the coolest websites I have seen in a while. Creativity quantified via a handy dashboard.
Unicorn Wolf Lazers Fuck You – sometimes the Internet is just too amazing for words.
Imma be loving this graph. No more BEPs!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylan_mason/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Check this beautiful Unquote remix of the amazing Bop – Enjoy the Moment. Forthcoming on the Remix Your Mind EP, which is shaping up to be one incredible collection of music.
Fine arts student Kailie Parrish catalogued her dreams for two and a half months, then turned them in to a pretty sweet looking infographic illustration.
An incredible collection of photos from abandoned places around the globe.
The best ad for insurance that I have ever seen:

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v3 Guide to the Interneat #2

duncan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:06:08 +0000

Studio 360 set the husband and wife design team from Under Consideration the task of redesigning Valentines Day. Whether you like the result or not this great post on Brand New with an explanation of the process, methodology, and rationale is fascinating.
I recently discovered Fuck Yeah Math, and it is awesome. If you are half as geeky as I am I am sure you think so too.
Sticking on the maths nerd tip, Found Functions is a cool project where mathematician/photographer Niki Graziano finds mathematical functions in nature, and photographs them. I would love to know whether she looks for the functions to photograph, or looks at her photographs to see which ones she can apply functions to. (Via FlowingData)
Check out this great ‘big graphic blueprint‘. Just add data for trendy infographic goodness.
Florence & the Machine colab with Dizzee Rascal – You Got the Dirtee Love. Live at the Brit awards (thanks to Nivin for the tip).
My friend Peter is publishing a blog novel (a blovel?) entitled a fucking awful weekend. Recommended reading.
Want to know how Dan Meyer spent his time in 2009? Neither did I, until I saw how he presented it:

Dan Meyer’s 2009 Annual Report from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.

(via information aesthetics)

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v3 Guide to the Interneat #1

duncan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:33:01 +0000

This is the inaugural v3 guide to neat stuff on the Internet, the Interneat. It is intended as a semi-digest of the cool stuff that I link to over on twitter that a lot of people miss (plus anything else I come across that is awesome). I have to also thank Amber, her awesome CFS Loves series was part inspiration for my guide to the Interneat.

Without further ado, here is issue #1.

A comprehensive template for writing a typical incendiary blog post. Make sure you check the comments for bonus hilarity (via Simon)
Infographic goodness: Hair distribution as an indicator of previous nights sleep style
New brand campaign for Shimano from REAKT, a communications agency in Chicago. Some of the nicest print work I have seen in a while (via Lisa Frame)
Absolutely beautiful remix of Bop’s haunting ‘Song About My Dog’ from fellow Russian Subwave: Bop – Song About My Dog (Subwave Remix Cut) by SUBWAVE
What do musicians from different genres sing about? Find out with this handy fleshmap showing the relative frequency of body part mentions in a sample of more than 10,000 songs from different genres. (Warning: contains graphic photos of body parts commonly mentioned in hip hop songs)
The Feltron 2009 Annual Report is out now. I highly recommend ordering the print version. I have the 2008 one (kindly gifted to me by Gareth), and it is a stunning piece of work. OCD made awesome.
In the mood for some lovely liquid drum & bass? Check liquiddnb.com podcast #5 from liquid lover and v3 favourite Redeyes
You know what you need more of in your life? Sexy executives.
In December the awesome Four Tet made his final appearance at Plastic People in London. As a parting gift he made this lovely mix:
Much Love To The Plastic People (DJ mix December 2009) by Four Tet
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