After missing footage was found in Argentina, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” has been restored and its narrative better understood (above). Oxo Good Grips Designers Take on Tablet Magazines. How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? Apple to xplatform developers: We’re no longer suicidal. Create Your Own Virtual Instruments With Maize Sampler v2.0. New Alarm Bells About [...]
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We’d love to buy the My water bottle in light blue, but the shipping costs as much as the bottle! The Big Bang Was an Explosion OF Space, Not IN Space. New Reverse Vending Machine Pays You to Recycle, Interview with David Toop, one of our favorite music writers. The iPad, the Kindle, and the [...]
Recycled, Modern, Outdoor Furniture (above) by Loll Designs. Apple and the politics of phoney outrage. Modern House Numbers giveaway. Curated hypocrisy: How Google camouflages its attacks on Apple. Biomimicry Challenge: IDEO Taps Octopi and Flamingos to Reorganize the USGBC. How Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Your Community. Polar Beer pint glasses, for fans of Lost. 88% of [...]
Setgo Transport Urban Bag from Yanko Design (above). Thermopower waves: MIT scientists discover new way to produce electricity. Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency. A loot valued at $20 million lies off the coast of Staten Island, and Ken Hayes is on the hunt for the sunken silver bullion. Demolishing density in [...]
A Tree in Jars, an art installation by Naoko Ito (above). Synth Britannia and Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany are two great BBC Four documentaries, but you’ll need to find torrents to watch them, as they’re not streamable online (even to rent) due to music licensing restrictions. On gospel, Abba and the death of the [...]
Kind of Bloop (above): An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?. Art of the arcade. How to develop groove in your playing. 12 Greenest colleges and universities in the U.S. Osmos has a [...]
The State: The Complete Series (above) is finally available on DVD (affiliate link). Consumers get paid to reduce their emissions. The fifth edition of The Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt is now available. Michael Bay as Generative Art: Explosion Action Painting with oF. An essay against Situationism. Open Atrium is a customizable, [...]
Get yer grub on with these Aluminum Snack Boxes (above) from SIGG. Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson. No Lifeguard On Duty is the name of this beautiful photographic series of abandoned swimming pools by J Bennett Fitts. The Feast Conference gathers the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire [...]