Sixten just sent me his K-Swiss K-Spray Tour Kicks.

Sorry it’s been a while since either of us have posted anything. Both of us have been really busy working on our collaborative undergrad thesis. Anyhow, if you’d like to reach me, you can do so at the newest social networking nightmare Virb. It’s also sometimes refered to as ‘the death of myspace,’ because it does everything myspace does, but way way better. It’s completely done in Ajax, completely compatible with all new browsers, and completely Web 2.0 standard. I really hate myspace because I get page errors at every 3rd page, and every 6th page my browser crashes. Plus, Virb adds the functions of Flickr, Last.fm, and Youtube, allowing you to easily upload, manage and edit your photos, videos and songs. It also has a function where it will display what songs you’re listening to on iTunes. Ontop of totally killing all these other networking sites, it does have some interesting ‘cutting edge’ developments like the ability to add your own custome ‘modules’ which are essentially little snippets of html. The modules serve different purposes, but the entire profile page is broken down into modules that are made by Virb, and modules that you can add. You can slide the modules around, making the page completely customizable and modular. Did I already mention this is going to kill myspace?

Currently it’s only in beta stages, but there’s tons of people on it already. If you can get an invite, it’s highly suggested to jump on it quick. Also, since it’s so early in the game, you can pretty much take whatever name you want! I was able to get a three letter domain!

You can reach me on virb here: www.virb.com/seb

Amazing stop motion project by the following:
minilogue.com
ljudbilden.com
Ljudbilden’s Myspace
nosordo.com

I can’t tell if this is a real ad or not, but it’s pretty hillarious.

I got to try the Wii today. The whole thing is so silly, that this is all I’m going to write about it: Ha, ha, haaa-whoa.

This is a little of how my brain works when I’m researching. It’s mid-term and I’m really just trying to get everything done, so maybe I just don’t have the energy to make organized posts. But honestly, it’s rare that I see something on the internet that really, truly makes me think in a new way. Instead, like this screenshot, I see all these little pieces that, for me, add up to something more.

Regine of We-Make-Money-Not-Art, has posted a new flickr set of her favourite graduate projects from the Eindhoven Design Academy. This, for me atleast, holds multiple levels of interest. I do love the design projects, but it also gives some insight into the famous Regine’s secret life!

A lot of great projects, and Regine’s added explanations of each to the flickr captions.

A few years ago, I totally fell smitten for Front Design. An all womens design firm, dedicated to producing new design paradigms by using various natural data sources to create them. Some of their work has been very inspirational to me, and I look at them as one of the highest design crews around. Previously, they’ve used the flight pattern of a fly to create a lamp, the footprint of a wolf’s paw in the snow to create a vase, and other such visualizations of natural and unpredictable data within utilitarian design objects.

I hadn’t seen their webpage in a few years, though, and it seems they’ve been upto some new things. (See video above) They’re using a motion capture rig to transform their gestural movements into 3d objects recorded into the computer. Then, they transmit that data to a rapid prototyping machine, which grows their furniture into tangible objects. Again, they do stop amazing me. Go checkout their webpage, because there’s lots of eyecandy and a portfolio worth taking a look at.

A robot offers an unusual service in the museum. Pen in hand, he draws a human portrait. A drawing board sits in front of him, and a chair stands ready for his model.

Once a visitor is seated, the robot begins to work. The machine-artist fastens his camera eye on the model’s face, and with striking hand movements, he draws the person’s portrait.

The resulting image is individual and unpredictable. With both technical ability and the capability to recognize the characteristics of a human face, the robot hand forms his own style.

After the drawing process the robot wipes out the drawing by his own hand. Callously the machine leaves no remembrance of the person who sat vis-a-vis and who now must attend the erasure of the image.

In ‘autoportait’ machine and visitor are placed in the relationship of portrait-maker and model, of artist and subject. Though the act of creation originates with the machine, the function of image-reproduction is itself an image of human creativity.

With ist first drawings ‘autoportrait’ has portrait the well-known artist and media theoretician Peter Weibel in the ZKM - Center of Art and Media Karlsruhe.

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Han Bing, an artist that deals with cultural identity, is showing his work with Orimoto Tatsumi (of Bread-Man fame) at the Jing art gallery in Shanghai, China. It runs until the 19th.

On streets all across China, from his home village to Tiananmen Square, from the Yunnanese minority village of Dali in China’s Southwest, to the Westernized Bund in Shanghai, Han Bing walks his cabbage—the quintessential Chinese comfort food of common folk—on a leash, challenging dominant conceptions of normal, everyday practice, sparking contentious debates in the arts world, in society, and across the Internet, about the meaning of a young man walking a cabbage on a leash, and what this act says about the state of contemporary society.