Wouldn’t it be fun if you had to drink each piece you won with this “Wine Glass Chess Set” by Anders Nordby?

found at bevel and boss

Matt Richardson created a camera which doesn’t deliver a photo but a description of the photo it made. Eh what? After the shutter button is pressed, the Descriptive Camera sends the photo to Amazons Mechanical Turk for processing. Somewhere someone receives this photo and writes a short description about what’s on the photo, that person receives a small payment for this task. As soon as that text comes back, a thermal printer outputs the result in the style of a polaroid print.
How cool is that!

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day: Advertising Carousel by Florian Rivière.

found at rebel:art

Last Thursday, I had the chance to go to the preview and opening of “TRANSMISSION LA: AV CLUB” at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles. It’s the second edition of the TRANSMISSION festival organized by the Avant/Garde Diaries, a Mercedes-Benz project. Mike D of the Beastie Boys is the curator of this edition, he invited 17 artists to create an exceptional 17 days event consisting of concerts, DJ nights, performances and installations. I must say that Mike D and the team did an excellent job, it’s a true AV Club experience. The line-up of artists is just up my alley: Tom Sachs, Cory Arcangel, Mike Mills, Takeshi Murata, …
Not only is there art to see, but you can also get a Korean BBQ Taco by Roy Choi. On Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays there is music in the evening. So if you’re in L.A. you can go and visit TRANSMISSION LA: AV CLUB till May 6th. You really should!

Here’s a video of Mike D giving you a tour through the exhibition.

And here’re some of my favorite artworks.

This video installation by Ben Jones is just amazing, I want this in my living room. BTW, that’s me there.

photo by Marcus Werner

This installation by Ara Peterson & Jim Drain was made of many many pinwheels. Very mesmerizing.

A very nice neon installation by Peter Coffin.

The headliner of the opening night was Santigold. Fun!

photo by Marcus Werner

As I mentioned before, the whole event is basically a Mercedes-Benz sponsored event and they were also the people who invited me. So they took the opportunity to show their new Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupé. Well, you can definitely tell it’s Mercedes-Benz and that it’s a show car. For me the most interesting part about the car, was its turn lights, which have some sort of kinect mexican-wave effect. I must give Mercedes-Benz some credit for being not all too in the foreground. The car itself has it’s own space in the exhibition and in the outside area there’s a huge Mercedes star hanging from some golden chains. A nice touch by Mike D, referring to his previous love for a different German car brand.

I’m currently in my way to L.A. to attend the opening of “Transmission LA – AV Club“. It’s the second edition of the AVANT/GARDE DIARIES TRANSMISSION festival, this time it’s currated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys and it will take place in Los Angeles. Mike D invited 17 outstanding artists from multiple disciplines to create an exceptional 17 days event consisting of concerts, DJ nights, performances and installations. Here’s a video and some pictures of them building the event. More soon.
BTW, this is the first today and tomorrow post from somewhere above the Atlantic.

It’s again that time of the year when all the product designers show their latest and greatest work at the Milan furniture fair. A few hours ago I was still thinking how bored I am with product design lately …
But Front came to the rescue with this fantastic project: “Surface Tension Lamp”.

A bubble is brief, and bursts at your touch. But while it lasts, it catches the light and reflects the room like a multi-coloured temporary structure. We wanted to create a constantly changing lamp that combines the most ephemeral of lampshades with an LED light source that will last for 50000 hours. In the time it takes the LED to burn out, the lamp will have had 3 million different globe shades.

Just watch the video!

Here’s the same lamp, but they added smoke to the soap bubble …

Emilio Gomariz made some new OS X GUI animations and I think they are stunning.

“Alternated Gradients” is combination of 5 videos of the screensaver “Spectrum”. BTW, he also has this screensaver as his desktop wallpaper.

“ctrl tab torus” is an animation created by using the ctrl + tab keys in Photoshop to cycle through the open windows.

“Twist Choreography” – the effect is just created by opening text files from the dock.

“Open_Close.txt – Default – this one is similar to the last one, just that each file opens as a colored square.

I really like this beaded curtain “Untitled (Modernist House)” by Kori Newkirk.

found at vvork

‘INTIMACY 2.0′ by Studio Roosegaarde is high-tech fashion made out of smart e-foil. In response to the heartbeat of each person, ‘INTIMACY 2.0′ becomes more or less transparent.

found at kottke

What do you think will happen when you combine a sanding machine and a pipe of paper. John Wood & Paul Harrison found out and made this awesome video.

found via @royrobotiks