Thomas Weinberger

Photographs combine day and night exposures

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Pop Levi "Blue Honey" Dir. Christian Swegal

Pray for a Glorious Land

Théo gennitsakis is a Paris and Athens based designer

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Ultimate Warrior is Insane

Stefan Banz

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Via VVork

Dzark

"Design studio launched in fall of 2000 by Virgilio Santos"

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Via Pixelsurgeon

Jonas Bendiksen

"Jonas Bendiksen, 26, is a Norwegian photojournalist."

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Adrien Missika

Paris based photographer.

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Circless Mirror: Daniel Rozin

"Circles Mirror is a mechanical sculpture made of 900 overlapping circles with patterns printed on them and connected to motors, computer and video camera. Any person standing in front of the piece is reflected on the piece by the circles rotating to expose more dark/ bright patterns as needed. The piece utilizes 12 different patterns of radial gradation from black to white which are randomly placed on the board."

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Sheena Easton in Japan

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Sharon Marston

"Sharon Marston specialises in the design and creation of unique, bespoke, and sculptural light installations, focusing on introducing light creatively through the use of fibre optic technology."

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Royal Imposters

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Ladytron: Destroy Everything You Touch

Non-Format

"Non-Format is a creative team comprising Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British). They work on a range of projects including art direction, design and illustration for music industry, arts & culture, fashion and advertising clients. They also art directed the monthly music magazine The Wire between 2001 and 2005."

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Bevk Perović

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Marina City, Chicago: Bertrand Goldberg

"Today I am to talk about our new $36 million living center in the heart of Chicago at the Chicago River and State Street - Marina City. I'm going to tell you about the blood and guts of its design and do a crystal ball on the way men may expect to find cities in the next 40 years of this century.

My Mother-in-law asked me to describe the Central City planning which Marina City envisions. I went through a rather lengthy and philosophical explanation, and she said very simply and brightly, "Oh, that's what we used to call living above the store."

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United Visual Artists

"UVA's approach combines three disciplines: art direction, production design and software engineering. Our philosophy is to tightly integrate these elements to deliver real-time, immersive and responsive experiences."

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Activating the Feeling of Being Followed

"Ever had the feeling you're being followed? Neuroscientists have accidentally induced this creepy feeling in a woman with epilepsy while electrically stimulating the left side of her brain."

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Vintage LED Watches

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Jeroen Diepenmaat

Dutch artist.

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openDemocracy: Free Thinking for the Free World

"openDemocracy is the leading independent website on global current affairs - free to read, free to participate, free to the world..."

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For 1st Woman With Bionic Arm, a New Life Is Within Reach

"Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person - and first woman - to receive a "bionic" arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone."

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Papercraft Guns From Japan

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Tsar Bomba

"Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, literally "Emperor-bomb") is the Western name for the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the ~50 megaton bomb was codenamed Ivan (Russian: Иван) by its developers...The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the earth...This is equivalent to approximately 1% of the energy output of the Sun during the same fraction of a second. The detonation of Tsar Bomba therefore qualifies, even to this day, as being the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity."

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Airside

"Airside is a London-based design company set up in 1999. We work in moving image, graphic design + illustration, and digital + interactive media. The Airside folk have diverse backgrounds, from fine art to programming, knitting to English literature. To find out more see our biographies below."

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Tangerine Dream: Sorcerer Soundtrack (1977)

"This album is as fascinating as the underrated William Friedkin film. First, Tangerine Dream never saw a frame when they wrote it. Armed only with a copy of the script, they worked away until Friedkin received 90 minutes of music one day while he was still filming in the jungle."

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Mean North

Naja Conrad-Hansen is a Copenhagen-based illustrator and graphic designer.

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Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder

"Suspended polystyrene balls held in place on nylon wire fill the room in a rough grid, running though the spectrum from reds to blues up the room with a few rogue orange balls escaping their hue, bubbling up into the cooler tones."

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Mogollon New York

"Mogollon is an Art Direction, Motion Graphics, Productions Design and Graphic Design studio based in New York."

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Designgraphik HD Thailand Travelogue

Designgraphik's Thailand travelogue short.

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Pierre Huyghe

"Pierre Huyghe. Artist. Born in Paris, 1962. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1982-85. Award: DAAD, Artist in residency, Berlin, 1999-2000."

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Quipu

"This marvelous method of communication which they used was nothing more than a series of knotted multicolored strings. Although this instrument was not a mode of writing or a system of calculating numbers, it served as the mnemonic device by which the Incas sent messages, recorded their laws, and decided the fate of conquered territories."

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Quechua

"Quechua (Runa Simi; Kichwa in Ecuador) is a Native American language of South America. It was the language of the Inca Empire, and is today spoken in various dialects by some 10 million people throughout South America, including Peru and Bolivia, southern Colombia and Ecuador, north-western Argentina and northern Chile. It is the most widely spoken of all American Indian languages."

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Peru Vacation Photos

Just returned from a fantastic vacation to the Peruvian highlands.

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Marc Moulin: Placebo Years 1971 - 1974

"Belgian keyboardist Marc Moulin has been a jazz craftsman for more than three decades. A leader in the field of acid jazz, he began his career by playing the piano in the '60s throughout Europe. During the following decade, he established a band known as Placebo."

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Broadcast: Future Crayon

"Broadcast return with a collection of previously released singles and compilation tracks, with lots of instrumentals and some alternate versions tacked on as well. The band's more experimental side is showcased here, with many of the songs being outtakes from Haha Sound. Over 70-minutes long, Future Crayon is tailored for the true Broadcast lover which, very similar to obsessive Stereolab fans, seems to be many, myself included. There aren't a lot of surprises for anyone who's familiar with the band; however, there is plenty to be enjoyed. For those of you who haven't sampled Broadcast's retro-future take on Joseph Byrd productions and '60s-inspired psychedelic soundtracks, by way of the buzz and purr of analog synths and, of course, singer Trish Keenan's dreamy melodies, start with one of their proper full-lengths, be it The Noise Made by People, Haha Sound, or Tender Buttons. Sure enough, you'll be hooked and soon visiting Future Crayon for more."

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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain

"Six of these eight debut short stories feature Americans abroad, on modified grand tours stopping in Colombia, Haiti, Myanmar and Sierra Leone. As aid workers, soldiers and hangers-on, they grapple with some of the darkest circumstances in the contemporary world, their struggles made absurd by the ease with which they can and do return home. A few are honorably conflicted, including the NGO worker who betrays her diamond-smuggling lover. Others, including an indolent golfer who sells his soul along with his game, and a writer nursing an obsession with Che Guevara, draw less sympathy. Fountain seems to see both travel and introspection as amoral indulgences, which means there's serious writerly self-hatred here, since those indulgences feed his tales. The stories that avoid moral writhings for postmodern fable are his most memorable. When a Haitian fisherman discovers a drug runners' drop-off and tries to alert the police, only to find them driving shiny new SUVs, he turns next to the village's voodoo revelers who have better ideas about what to do with the dope. Lively work, with much to detest and much to enjoy."

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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama

"If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves -- Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom -- escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history."

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Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow

"College-aged Guène was raised by Algerian immigrant parents in a Parisian housing project; in her debut novel, a French bestseller, 15-year-old Doria and her illiterate mother, having been abandoned by Doria's alcoholic father, are stuck in a Paris housing project called the Paradise. Dependent on welfare and subjected to the obligatory succession of social workers, the two are determined to face forward, despite Doria's sense of doomed mektoub (destiny), where gradual improvement (French: kiffe kiffe) gets flattened by the same old quotidian (Arabic: kif-kif)."

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Cassiano

Direction & Motion Design from London.

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Sharpest Manmade Thing

"A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms. The lighter colored elongated features are traces captured as atoms moved during the imaging process (approximately 1 second)."

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Recent Work: Walmart Canada

Animation. Produced at Stardust New York.

Little Fish Dir. Rowan Woods

"Tracey Heart's past won't let her go. Aged 32, she's spent the past four years recovering from her heroin habit and redeeming herself in the eyes of her mother. Beset by the complex relationships within her family, her world is thrown into further turmoil by the unexpected return of her ex-boyfriend, Jonny.The criminal aspirations of her brother, Ray, and coping with the attempts of ex-footy star and junkie, Lionel Dawson to withdraw from his habit, almost prove too much. The complexity of deceit within Tracy's own life is mirrored by that within Sydney's drug underworld as Tracey becomes tangled with criminal boss Bradley 'The Jockey' Thompson. Tracey has to confront her own fears before she learns to love again."

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Pet Shop Boys - Minimal Dir. Don Cameron

Cell Phone Disco

"Cell Phone Disco is a playful experimental installation made out of flashing cells. By multiplication of a mobile phone gadget, only slightly altered consumer product, we created a space to experience the invisible body of the mobile phone."

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Calculating the speed of sight

"Each of your eyes transfers information to your brain at about the same speed as a fast Ethernet connection, US researchers have calculated.

That might sound impressive, but the scientists say that our neurons could move data a lot faster than that. The fact that they do not suggests that our nervous system is trading off speed against energy-efficiency."

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Mark Squires

New York raised photographer.

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Justin Fines

Design, Art Direction and Broadcast Design from Brooklyn.

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Glassworks for Alexander McQueen

"Glassworks Special Projects recently completed post-production on a unique 3-minute sequence for Alexander McQueen's fashion show in Paris."

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Seven Attempts To Make A Ritual: Joel Tauber

A 7 channel video installation.

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