version3.0

• 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)

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

This is a bumper edition of the guide to the Interneat to celebrate version 3.0 being resuscitated. Enjoy!

• I am loving some of the gems that Letters of Note uncovers. The presidents address that would have been delivered by Richard Nixon in the event of the Apollo 11 mission being a disaster is fascinating (as is some of the discussion about the note itself).
• Wicked little spot for Smart from those clever clogs at Buck. Love the style of this one.
  
• The work of illustrator Ryan Snook is fantastic. I am particularly digging this ‘whale driver’.
  
• Scottish trials mega freak Danny MacAskill has a new short flick, Way Back Home, shot beautifully in his home country. Danny does stuff that almost no one else in the world can on a bike. Red Bull sure know how to do sponsorship and branded content right.
  
• Forget Avatar. The best use of 3D so far: 3DD - a book of three dimensional boobs. Probably not safe for work if your boss doesn’t like boobs. It’s art, ok.
• An exhibition of incredible wallpaper that is made up of three different patterns in red, yellow & blue from Carnovsky. You can view the patterns individually by viewing through a filter.
  
  
  (via designboom)
• Mattias Adolfsson has some of the most fantastic sketchbooks that I have ever seen. There is an incredible amount of detail & imagination in his sketches.
  
  (via bumbumbum)

• All round smart/creative/talented dude Evan Roth has created the Public Domain Donor system. Donate your ideas to the public domain on your death so that they may live on. Just print one out and stick it on your license.
  
• My favourite infographic designer Nicholas Feltron whipped up this awesome caffeine monitor dashboard for the Build Conference.
• The Underbelly project is an exhibition of street art from 103 artists that was 18 months in the making. Even more interestingly it was held in an abandoned part of the New York underground transport network. Would love to check it out for myself.
  
  (via designboom)
• Brush & Spoke is a sweet blog dedicated to cycle related art. It can be a bit hipster tattoo & fixie fixated, but some really beautiful stuff in there.
• I have a soft spot for stupid puns. The Narc-whal (from Iain Burke) hits that soft spot with a giant bat.
  
  (via Laughing Squid)
• Floating DJ desk made from Lego. I want one.
  
• Aussie sampling wiz kid Pogo has whipped up a couple of new tunes with accompanying videos. Crimson, which samples Dexter, is my favourite.
  
  (via the fox is black)
• I have a new favourite stupid thing on the Internet: CAPTCHArt. Terribly drawn comments incorporating the all pervasive CAPTCHA phrases that everyone knows & loves.
  
  (via Rhizome)