Archive for the 'Experience' Category
sebastian errazuriz: opera fireplace
Posted on Julho 1, 2011 - Filed Under Creativity, Design, Experience | 19 Comments
Opera fireplace is a new project created by Sebastian Errazuriz.
It is a hand-carved from 600 pounds of italian marble,this sculpture reproduces an opera stage complete with curtains, stage, floorboards and stairs, yet is also fully functional, designed to be installed in any house.
The fireplace comes equipped with several wooden figures and a scaffolding structure, constructed [...]
James Bridle РRobot Fl̢neur
Posted on Junho 16, 2011 - Filed Under Digital Culture, Experience, Social | 13 Comments
Robot Flâneur is a project made by London-based writer and programmer James Bridle, which claims to be an explorer for Google Street View. It allows you to virtually stroll the streets of nine different world cities. The website tends to re-examine Charles Baudelaire’s concept of the flâneur — a person who walks the [...]
Russian Facebook Roulette
Posted on Maio 9, 2011 - Filed Under Creativity, Digital Culture, Experience, Interactive | Leave a Comment
Before I die – Candy Chang
Posted on Março 17, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Experience, Street Art | Leave a Comment
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The Ice Book
Posted on Fevereiro 23, 2011 - Filed Under Editorial, Experience, Performance, Technology | Leave a Comment
The Ice Book is the story of a princess who lures a boy into the forest in order to warm her heart of ice.
The performance blends animation, puppetry, and film to bring a pop-up book vividly to life in front of the audience’s eyes.
Ruigwerk
Posted on Fevereiro 17, 2011 - Filed Under Design, Experience, Food | Leave a Comment
Ruigwerk (Roughwork) is a food design studio aiming for creating unforgettable moments trough food experience.
Check out their projects here.
Tree of Codes – a book within a book
Posted on Fevereiro 16, 2011 - Filed Under Experience | Leave a Comment
Tree of Codes, a new book by Jonathan Safran Foer (designed by Sara de Bondt and published by Visual Edition), is as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. With the story literally carved out of another book, Tree of Codes has a different die-cut on [...]
IOCOSE
Posted on Janeiro 31, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Experience, Interactive, Social | Leave a Comment
The IOCOSE collective has been working in Italy and Europe since 2006. It organizes actions in order to subvert ideologies, practices and processes of identification and production of meanings. It uses pranks and hoaxes as tactical means, as joyful and sound tools.
Empathy Box is one of their projects, they explain in their website:
“As often [...]
Japan’s Ice Aquarium
Posted on Janeiro 25, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Research and Documentation, Trends | Leave a Comment
The Kori no Suizokukan (Ice Aquarium) in Kesennuma, northeastern Japan, packs about 450 specimens of marine life frozen in large columns of ice bathed in blue light. Some 80 species, including saury, octopuses, crabs, and skipjack, are preserved in lifelike poses. They seem to be swimming in ice.
Opened in 2002 in the Uminoichi seafood market, [...]
WHAIWHAI – Travel Differently
Posted on Janeiro 21, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Interactive, Tourism | Leave a Comment
WHAIWHAI is a different kind of travel guide, it creates an interactive and playful way to discover a city.
Players begin by sending a text message to WHAIWHAI, which can specify the number of hours they would like to play the game, the difficultly level, or the starting location. A series of enigmas [...]