today and tomorrow

Here are 2 untitled works by Anselm Reyle.

Upgrade is project by Tomas Kral. He took industrial glass packaging and upgraded those bottles and jars by cutting, engraving or gilding them.

found at dezeen

Steve Jobs called the unibody of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro a Tour de Force. This part is milled from a solid piece of aluminium. I don’t know, it’s not like they have reinvented the wheel or so. But the new notebooks do look very lush. Me want.

Here are some bonus hardware pron pictures of the manufacturing process. You can watch the video for yourself here.

Ryuji Nakamura is the Japanese architect who designed this chair called Nami. I’m not sure if you really can sit on it because it’s made of paper. But I guess it should be possible to extrude this chair with some plastic material.

Catenarhythm is an other project by him. I’m not sure what it is about, but I like this image.

found at FFFFOUND!

‘Chromointerference Mécanique’, a light installation by Carlos Cruz-Díez.
Photos by Hanneorla.

found at FFFFOUND!

‘Extended Graphics Array‘ is a computer generated animation by Jesper Carlsen. White pixels are drawn on a black screen (1024×768 pixels) at 24 per second. It takes 9 hours and 6 minutes for the screen to turn completely white.

found at

I really like the style of Xavier Barrade his animated gifs. One of his new projects is called Playing Fields With Wind.

This is quite morbid art by Marcus Wittmers. He carved hyper-realistic images of guns in gravestones and called the wholes series Waffenruhe (Ceasefire). Dark, very dark.

found at datenform

I am quite a fan of rapid prototyping projects, but I’m not sure if this one qualifies. Venus is the latest project by Tokujin Yoshioka, a Japanese designer. It is a ‘Natural Crystal Chair’, the production process is so different than any other chair out there. A substrate made of polyester elastomer forms the skeleton and is submerged in a tank, here grow the crystals on that substrate.
Amazing stuff!

Perroquet is a recent SHOWstudio project. Sølve Sundsbø, a fashion photographer, was always fascinated with science photography and nature documentaries. The result is 8 slow motion film shorts and a selection of photographs.