What is this, pls? A site devoted to - Sleep Naked

Awesomely creepy, but mostly awesome!

Motionportrait make interesting 2D to 3D faces that follow your mouse through Flash.



(thx Vicente!)

The Death Star encounters viral marketing - in Swabian
Virales Marketing! Virales Marketing! Virales Marketing!



thx to Anne!

psychotherapeutic session with our colleague, the wind
nice spot for Epuron, posted at ecology and art

are men that easy to get?
De Beer thinks so - diamonds will path the way to Superbowl
(thanks to Agenda Inc.)

New Mecha out here next week: Vexille
CG look good... in the trailer

got a shoe fetish - trying to stuff bodies into them. from Bela Borsodi. awesomely weird.
from a shooting for our beloved V Magazine

Instant Translation: The AHKY wrist worn translation device















(from Gizmag)
This is weird. Like in a Sfi-Fi
Speaking via an interpreter is difficult enough at the best of times, so you can imagine the difficulties soldiers in foreign lands have communicating with the population when there is a significant language barrier, no interpreter and lots of big guns in the near vicinity. The AHKY (Arabic for ‘speak’ ) is a new wrist worn translation device developed by Iraqi-born University of Derby student, Amin Ismail, will soon tackle the problem when it is deployed by British troops serving in Iraq. The AHKY currently has ten phrases which have been programmed in English, Arabic and Kurdish. Phrases such as ‘nothing will happen to you’; ‘turn around slowly’; and ‘come here’. Other languages and phrases specific for a user’s specific mission are uploaded prior to each use. Read full story...

Building Art -

finally to make something out of these multiple Berlin courtyards. When photographed against the sky from below, buildings form an alphabet.
(thx infosthetics!)

Wild Dance Practices - this made my day:
The Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines makes its inmates practice dance choreographies - namely MJ's Thriller and a theme from Sister Act. A couple of crossdressers in nun attire involved.



(via Gawker)

Dance with me in this cozy Tokyo breeze, little trees:

How to not get hurt-
yourself in the closing train doors...

Here are some nice ones from both JR and Metro lines:

All about perfectionist Japanese housewives

Ok, feed me weird things! So I went to the Quilt Convention held at Tokyo Dome in Chiyoda. Amongst several thousands of eager women, sometimes accompanied by their husbands, I promenaded around - amazed by the utter perfectionism Japanese housewives show in every detail.
See for yourself:

Manhole Cover in Tokyo
Look at these lovely Sakura - cherry blossoms flowering the Tokyo grounds. These ones are from Shinagawa district.

Public Life / Public Ashtrays in Tokyo















What do we have here?
Well, as there is no such thing as a public ashtray Japanese people catake the matter in their own hands as they care for the smoking community: Put up some little cans, next to the non smoking sign, of course. Someone must empty them regularly - but I haven't seen that someone so far.

How-to learn English:
Adult speak for Japanese to enhance the cross-cultural delights

excerpt from an 80ies Japanese book titled
"Let's make the bed right away"

brought to you by the lovely Tokyo Damage Report guy

Wow: Speakers to public security cameras

"...People are shocked when they hear the cameras talk, but when they see everyone else looking at them, they feel a twinge of conscience and comply,' said Mike Clark, a spokesman for Middlesbrough Council who recounted the incident. The city has placed speakers in its cameras, allowing operators to chastise miscreants who drop coffee cups, ride bicycles too fast or fight outside bars..."

Bloomberg reports,
via Slashdot

the mounten-baiku situation
so this is how it goes here: no parking anywhere allowed



- else the police takes your bike and you pay 3000 yen to get it back.
and now this: got a ticket two times! For the baiku!

Learning Japanese the easy way - just ad an U and you'll be fine:

English - Japanese

Microphone - maiku
Desert - dezato
Receipt - risitto
Message - meseji
Bike- baiku
Nightingale - naichingeru
Gum - gamu
Cassette - mc kasettu-tepu
Celebrity - serebu
Festival - fesutibaru
television - terebi
Carnival - kanibaru

well, I forgot the romantic part:

kiss - kisu
couple - kappuru
love-letter - rabu-reta

Shoppee in Tokyo! So before you get your Nooka watch –



indulge in a short history of the calvulator watch from Watchismo.

oh, some flying bomb must have hit my car!
wait, it was D*Face`s work for his new gallery opening. Pretty neatly I have to admit.

(via lovely Vinylpulse)

There are things on this earth that are not easy to grasp. But at least they`re funny.

Watch this: Doing handcrafts with Tampon Art

Flashy music: Whitney Music Box




Jim Bumgardner and Coverpop visualized this musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book 'digital harmony':

"in this variation the dots trigger sine waves which are multiples of the fundamental frequency 48hz. when multiple dots hit at the same time, they combine to form buzzier sounds. the pitches are reversed so that the inner dots get the low frequencies. music generated using syd synthesis software."

(thanx to Eyebeam)

Christ, the end is nigh –





with this Holy Flash works, Jesus will have a lot of saving to do.

(via Jeff Staple`s blog)

World Cup reminder: do the bull thing





Pias Recordings announces:
"Mogwai haben sich jüngst erneut in ihr hauseigenes Studio “Castle of doom” in Glasgow begeben.
Das Resultat ist ein full length Soundtrack zum beim Cannes-Festival von Kritikern gefeierten Film „Zidane: A 21st century Portrait“ über den französischen Ausnahmefussballer. Der Film erscheint hier übrigens bei Warner auf DVD!
Die szenebegleitenden Klangfragmente wurden im Nachhinein zu kompletten Songs überarbeitet, die Mogwai-typsich, wenn auch weniger laut und rockig sind.
Das Album „Zidane: A 21st century Portrait - An original Soundtrack by Mogwai“ erscheint kurzfristig schon am 3.11."

eco has reached the club movement

Now your dancing ass is ecologically minded, too, at The Sustainable Club, featuring energy-generating dance floors, toilets flushed with rainwater, walls that change color in response to temperature fluctuations, and a rooftop garden where clubbers can enjoy an organic beer with friends.









Springwise says:
"Kicking off in Rotterdam's Off_Corso on October 14th is the Sustainable Dance Club. The kick-off party will feature biological beer on tap and fair-trade clothing brand Kuyichi helping clubbers customize their clothes. The end concept will go much further. Enviu, an environmental NGO for young people, is working together with architectural firm Döll to create a truly sustainable nightclub. The club they envision will feature energy-generating dance floors (excellent way to extract kilowatts from energetic clubbers), toilets that flush with rain water, walls that change colour as a reaction to temperature changes, a rooftop garden and other elements that combine to create a sustainable clubbing environment.

Working with the Technical University of Delft and the Development Board of Rotterdam, Enviu and Döll aim to build a club that will be fun and profitable, yet will have a low impact on the environment, while raising awareness for social and environmental issues. Some 80 Enviu volunteers (young professionals and students) have developed the concept over the last 8 months."

Nice presentation video at Treehugger.

acessories for Barbie. Right after the wedding carriage:













something that goes great with something made of plastic: the bling bling mouse covered entirely with Swarovski strass stones.

(Thanks Fosfor Gadgets)

the realm of Toast Art


Make Magazine serves as a wonderful insight in the world of craftmanship and of handmade goods with a high nerd factor. We learn how to "Make a digital toy infrared camera" - or even better, indulge in the art of portrait on a toast.
Yes, dear Marc Bolan, you might have turned in your grave. But I love to put some marmelade on you.

the future is a grim beta

"By 2020, the people left behind (many by their own choice) by accelerating information and communications technologies will form a new cultural group of technology refuseniks who self-segregate from "modern" society. Some will live mostly "off the grid" simply to seek peace and a cure for information overload while others will commit acts of terror or violence in protest against technology."

All right - this is one of the scenarios 700 technology experts from ICANN, the Web Consortium, from Google and IBM ("of whom more than half were online before 1993") imagined in a survey of the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
More interesting at arstechnica.

(via Pixelsurgeon)

the never ending spiral story

nice Flickr collection of all sorts of spiral windings at the spiral gallery

Gnarls Barkley`s beautiful designed Rohrschach clip "Crazy" with emerging faces. Animation and Post from clever bl:nd, that got some MTV awards for it.

become a part of the James Bond design elite: sit on the Villain Chair. So classy. Must feel like sitting in a cubicle version of the techie interior in the old "Captain Future" series.

(via Neatorama)

finally! The answer to all that unwanted stuff called web 2.0

got on my knees - thanks holy Web 2.0 logo creator

my beloved spam poetry of today:

"Well, the example is good and I willfollow it, asking for light. Well, soon Ithink I shall walk over that edge and there will be an end.
But it was not so, forpresently once more I found myself in my prison where they left mealone..."

best post ever about all that Apple stuff coming in Mob Happy

"blah blah iPhone blah blah blah

..."

the esthetics of threat


























Vogue Italia came up with a "State of Emergency" foto shooting by Steven Meisel in their September issue: Depicting the esthetics of threat as highly stylized porn

(thanks Boing Boing)

"The laws between art and engeneering exist only in our minds"

Says Dutch artist Theo Jansen and makes these brilliant wind powered sculptures that move in an incredible way. The millipede-likes skeleton "Strandbeests" are made from plastic tubes, walk independently on their own and roam the beach in herds in this great spot for South African BMW on YouTube: Watch them crawl, it gives me the shivers.

Old news, but too good:

Banksy has collaged up the booklets of Paris Hilton`s CDs and switched them in the stores. As the BBC reports:

Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank

Paris Hilton's album entered the UK chart at number 29 last week
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy.

Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For?

He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head... more

wow, get your MA in Rendering:

UCAA Announces Digital Games Design MA
The UK-based University College for the Creative Arts has announced an MA in Digital Games Design now on offer at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone, and Rochester and the opportunity to apply for an assisted place with the Business and Digital Media Training Initiative (BDMTI) starting in September 2006....

The MA in Digital Games Design focus is on game design, and students are given the opportunity to develop their own game project from initial proposal to a fully realised game design document, culminating in the production of an advanced playable prototype.

(via Gamasutra)

Krrish is the Bollywood answer to Superman – but he can sing and dance and that`s obviously far more efficient to fight evil. DVD from Rapideyemovies

The Kitler Connection

Cats that look like hitler. Don`t believe it. Actually the one with the Eisernes Kreuz around the neck and the little Offiziers hat is quite cute.

My Pokemon love. If I could only marry him - he`s a bit feisty but keeps me warm in winter. If there is one in Asia except for the Monsun. These long sensual ears, a tongue always protruding and his rosy cheeks convince me: He must be a wild kisser.

What would Jesus download?
As an atheist I don`t care, but no doubt he would embrace the smiling but not always peaceful openness of the Open Source community. More than ever as they released their own Christian version of the Linux desktop Ubuntu.

Hail to the Pope!

(and thanks to you dear Fredericiana)

I want you in my dreams back, says the friendly beaver.




Quicktime-Ad

(thanks, adweek)

Vestaldesign reports:
The largest dump in the world isn’t outside New York or London or Shanghai but in a desolate stretch of the Pacific Ocean nearly a thousand miles from the nearest island. Held together by a slowly rotating system of currents northeast of Hawaii, the Eastern Garbage Patch is more than just a few floating plastic bottles washed out to sea; the Patch is a giant mass of trash-laden water nearly double the size of Texas... more

Word!

"(Research has shown that) if women could choose who they'd like to be impregnated by, they'd choose a rock star. There's something about the rock star's genes that is signaling creativity, flexibility of thinking, flexibility of mind and body, an ability to express and process emotions -- not to mention that (musical talent) signals that if you can waste your time on something that has no immediate impact on food-gathering and shelter, you’ve got your food-gathering and shelter taken care of."

Daniel Levitin in Wired Magazine

Come on, impregnate me, Izzy Stradlin.