by helvetictoc

Computer scientist Alan Mislove at Northeastern University in Boston and colleagues have found that these “tweets” suggest that the west coast is happier than the east coast, and across the country happiness peaks each Sunday morning, with a trough on Thursday evenings. The team calls their work the “pulse of the nation”.
Over 300 million tweets were analysed, each of which was awarded a mood score based on the number of positive or negative words it contained. For example, “diamond”, “love” and “paradise” indicate happiness, whereas “funeral”, “rape” and “suicide” are negative. “Dentist” is fairly neutral.

The researchers calculated the average mood score of all the users living in a state hour by hour and so created a timed series of mood maps. They morphed the maps so that the size of each county reflected the number of Twitter users living there.

The mood of the nation at midday and 11 pm EST

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In 1979 Philip Glass wrote a series of short vocal and instrumental pieces for Sesame Street called “Geometry of Circles.”

great find by philbrewer

cow

gardening

leaves

SpY is an artist from Madrid whose first endeavors date back to the mid-eighties. Shortly after, already a national reference as a graffiti artist, he started to explore other forms of artistic communication in the street. His work involves the appropiation urban elements through transformation or replication, commentary on urban reality, and the interference in its communicative codes.

The bulk of his production stems from the observation of the city and an appreciation of its components, not as inert elements but as a palette of materials overflowing with possibilities. His ludic spirit, careful attention to the context of each piece, and a not invasive, constructive attitude, unmistakably characterize his interventions.

SpY’s pieces want to be a parenthesis in the automated inertia of the urban dweller. They are pinches of intention, hidden in a corner for whoever wants to let himself be surprised. Filled with equal parts of irony and positive humor, they appear to raise a smile, incite reflection, and to favor an enlightened conscience.

Also >Previous post about spY

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For security reasons

the new home for the design conscious bird. radius design lends the old established nesting box a modern face. »piep show home« brings colour to your garden and guarantees spring fever not just for you. the new nesting box is available in the colours black, white, silver, green and orange.

the sophisticated type of fastening with a lashing strap around the tree makes it easy and flexible to mount. the tree is also not damaged. the entrance hole in the natural wood front is suitable for almost all types of birds. the nesting box is protected from weathering influences by aluminium housing.

the sloping shape of the nesting box with a small opening in the wooden front guarantees that fluids can escape from the nest hole. »piep show home« is very easy to clean.

aluminium, larch wood & belt

buy it here

have mand

dog

beard

double head

what the fuck new

dog

horney guy

hummm

WRONG > a serie by Asger Carlsen

Toshiba ad campaign features extraordinary, world-record-breaking high-def footage
of a living room chair tied to a simple helium balloon and carried to the edge of space.
making of

Using the imagery captured by the 8 Toshiba cameras, Toshiba – UK produced a stunning 60-second HD commercial of a living room chair as it is carried into space by a simple helium balloon. The balloon flights were launched from a Nevada desert and ascended to an incredible, world-record 98,268 feet (18.6 miles!) altitude before breaking apart and falling back to earth. The IK-HR1S camerasʼ compact size (only 1.75” x 1.75” x 3”) and the HD-SDI video output capability with switchable 1080i/720p scanning options, made them ideal for the flight missions to the edge of space.

H the Mirror

Chiri

by Rub-Kandy / Mimmo Rubino >Rome, Italy,

Montréal > 70’s

New piece by AJ FOSIK

Hikakin > Japanese Beatboxer
Can’t read his blog >ameblo.jp/hikakin
if I trust google translate I now know that : Did you can do for now, no regrets now falls!

direction and animation by BLU
blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI

more of blu here, here and here

galliano

COMME-fall-2010

chanel

UNIQUE- fall 2010

It all adds up to fashematics!

Thanks Marisa for the link.

Par Patrick Boivin

buy it here

Skeletor wears: Hoody – Loopwheeler, Jeans – Cheap Monday, Shoes – YSL

He-Man wears: Jacket – Dior Homme, Jeans – April 77, Shoes – Pierre Hardy

Roboto wears: Shirt – Flat Head, Jeans – Iron Heart, Shoes – Common Projects

Man-At-Arms wears: Windbreaker – Nike, Jeans – Flat Head, Shoes – Common Projects

Zodak wears: Jacket – Wood Wood, Watch – Nixon, Jeans – A.P.C., Shoes – Surface 2 Air

Stratos wears: Glasses & T-Shirt – American Apparel, Jeans – Dior Homme, Shoes – F-Troupe

Mekaneck wears: Jacket – Dior Homme, T-Shirt – Trinitas, Jeans – Acne, Shoes – RAF Simons

Evil-Lyn wears: Cardigan & Boots – Zara, Shirt – Custom, Pants – American Apparel

LE 24 JUIN, C’EST DANS VILLERAY QUE ÇA SE PASSE

+ d’infos sur villeray.org

two piles

roads

from Zürich and Stockholm based photographer Rasmus Norlander

Les Galeries de la capitale

DA + BRANDING > SITE WEB
www.galeriesdelacapitale.com

Revenu Québec > Colloque contre l’évasion fiscale

DA + BRANDING> SITE WEB
www.colloqueevasionfiscale.com

Revenu Québec > Programme employeur de choix

DA + BRANDING > Intranet

MCweb > Marketing régional

DA + BRANDING (logo)> intranet

aisselles

jambes

torse

maillot

Photos par laetitia & sebastien pour la section mode du Clark Magazine no.41

Poor visibility; weather again unsettled today. Surreal rocks and riven lowlands, valleys fog-shrouded. Frightening depths, and emptiness. Rarity of air is noticeable. What are you looking for in this hostile stretch?

by FIELD

dans le même ton que AJ Fosik, mais en gâteau.

Par Scott Hove, Oakland.
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Daily Stack is a playful tool that helps you become more aware of your daily work-flow and time management. By creating a physical representation of your tasks, Daily Stack speaks subtly to your conscience and helps you manage your time through unobtrusive ambient feedback.

It consists of a base device and a collection of wooden bricks in different shapes and colours. The bricks represent different kinds of tasks and time-intervals. By adding a brick to the base you commit yourself to the task and time span that the selected brick represents. Daily Stack communicates with a desktop widget on your computer that enables you to keep track of your time and tasks in progress. It also enables you to browse through your past and and compare your days in a colourful informative pattern.

Family traveling northwest at 63 mph on Interstate 244 near Yale Avenue in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, at approximately 4:15 p.m. on the last day of 1991

Man cruising south-southeast at 74 mph on Interstate 5
somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles on a summer day in 1993

Man heading south at 73 mph on Interstate 5 near Buttonwillow Drive
outside of Bakersfield, California, at 5:36 p.m. on a Tuesday in March 1992

Man finding his way south at 64 mph on Interstate 5 near Wildcat Canyon,
California, on a Sunday in 1993

Person driving somewhere in the last decade of the previous millennium
(whereabouts unknown)

Woman waiting to proceed south at Sunset and Highland boulevards,
Los Angeles, at approximately 11:59 a.m. one day in February 1997

Woman guiding her automobile down Washington Boulevard in Culver City,
California, at 44 mph at 4:11 p.m. on December 16, 1990

Woman wheeling down Sunset Boulevard at 34 mph in Beverly Hills
on an afternoon in the summer of 1990

Person driving somewhere in the last decade of the previous millennium
(whereabouts unknown)

from Los Angeles based photographer Andrew Bush

THE HYENA & OTHER MEN
Mallam Galadima Ahmadu with Jamis and Mallam Mantari Lamal with Mainasara, Abuja, Nigeria, 2005

Jatto with Mainasara, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria, 2007

Amiloo and Clear, Abuja, Nigeria, 2005

Abu Kikan with Frayo, Asaba, Nigeria, 2007

Pieter Hugo’s Nollywood is currently showing at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles (until 29 May)

Apple’s reply:

LOL, but then again, it’s apple’s problem isn’t it.

War is on.

Designed to be compatible with all iphones and retro handset.
The handset is fully funcational. > Easy to use, avoid radiation
get it here

Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol taken over the course of six months

SS Great Britain in Bristol was also taken over the course of six months

Images captured on a pin-hole camera made from an empty drink can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.
Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008 – the winter and summer solstices.

These pictures shows six months of the sun’s luminescent trails and its subtle change of course caused by the earth’s movement in orbit. The lowest arc shows the first day of exposure on the winter solstice, while the top curves were captured in the middle of summer.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1088227/Pictured-Longest-exposure-photos-taken-UK-produce-stunning-image-iconic-landmark.html#ixzz0mVJxO0HA

Move left – left arrow key
Move right – right arrow key
Fire laser – space key
Pause game – P
Quit game – Q
Mute sound – M

by neave

no. 10 + no. 35

no. 14

no. 18 + no. 36

no. 83

by fumie ishii

http://app.recordmakers.com/demo/YouTube4.mov

I’m not a fan of the iphone. In fact i’m kind of fed up with the mass direction apple is going.. But this iphone app by Record makers is making me revise my all anti-iphone position… Record makers are a French independent label and they asked artists Mrzyk & Moriceau to brand their 10th birthday. Mrzyk & Moriceau created this beautiful iPhone app inwhich you can create random art by swiping different parts of the drawing.

Have fun with one finger only! Drawings by Mrzyk & Moriceau
Sounds by Mr. Oizo
Opening by Sébastien Tellier

record makers

Record Makers are the ones behind Sébastien Tellier and thus created this video to commemorate their 10 years of activity > by Mrzyk & Moriceau as well

more stills

see it/download it here

If you’re in L.A., it’s there :

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Fig 2 : Geology Pillow

Fig 1 : Botany Pillow

all 3

Part of our Science Project Collection, these pillows are made of eco-friendly materials.
• 100% wool felt background
• Applique made of Sensuede (Sensuede is made of recycled polyester, derived from both post-industrial and post-consumer sources, including PET soda and water bottles.)
• Sewn in the USA
• Spot clean

available at the supermarket.com > 20% off till Earth day.

magic in every bite

CLEVER LITTLE BAG :

With the ‘CLEVER LITTLE BAG :’, Puma kicks-off the next pivotal phase of it’s sustainability program.
The tens of millions of shoes shipped in our bag will reduce water, energy and diesel consumption on the manufacturing level alone by more than 60% per year.

In other words:
approximately 8,500 tons less paper consumed,
20 million Mega joules of electricity saved,
1 million liters less fuel oil used and
1 million liters of water conserved.
During transport 500,000 liters of diesel is saved and lastly,
by replacing traditional shopping bags the difference in weight will save almost 275 tons of plastic.
That’s only one brand, I hope others will follow.

But having said that, where am I going to put my bills for my income Tax?
Andif they’re just switching cardboard for fabric (cause they’re still using a lot of material) than what’s the real impact?

Expected to hit the shelves globally by 2011.

Kind of odd to look at.
Crime maps (USA) provides the public with valuable information about recent crime activity in their neighborhood. the goal is to assist police departments in reducing crime through a better-informed citizenry. It’s in the making, not all states stats are integrated.

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by photographer Matt Logue

SERIE 1 BILD 2

SERIE 2

SERIES

By Hort

Collages rarely reveal the sources from which they are created and rarely expose the remnants left behind after extracting a desired element.
This magazine acts as a counterpart to collage; the remnants exhibit their own visual power. Through the removal and deconstruction of the existing layout, new images appear while flipping through the magazine allowing the viewer to redefine their way of seeing and creating.

Due to enormous interest in watching I’m Here at Imhermovie.com ABSOLUT (yes cause nothing can be free of advertising)
has decided to increase the capacity from 5 000 to 12 000 viewers a day.
Last weekend it had 230 000 unique visitors, which was far more than expected.

Today, at 15h10, there are less than 536 seats left. hurry.

Chi Velorum- Letterpress Dice Print

Delta Eridani- Letterpress Dice Print

Alpha Coronae Borealis- Letterpress Dice Print

Beta Arietis- Letterpress Dice Print

The Letterpress Dice process

The compositions are built by arranging between 720 dice and 1,147 on the bed of the press, and ink was rolled directly onto the face of the die for each impression. They are printed on a very light green japanese handmade paper called Kitakata, which has a deckle on all four edges.

The size are between 8½” x 11″ and 22″x26″

By Stukenborg on etsy

WILLIAM EGGLESTON
Untitled, 1972

HELMUT NEWTON
Scene from a Pina Bausch Ballet, Wuppertal, 1983

STEPHEN SHORE
Twenty-First Street and Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1974

HUANG YAN
Pork Landscape #1, 2000

JOEL STERNFELD
McLean Virginia, December 4, 1978

EDWARD BURTYNSKY
Rock of Ages #23, Abandoned Section, Adam-Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont, 1991

EDWARD BURTYNSKY
Shipbreaking #10, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2000

WILLIAM EGGLESTON
Untitled, 1972

DAVID LACHAPELLE
Last Supper (Jesus is my Homeboy), 2003

I’m just short of two things > 5 to 50k to spend on a picture and being in NYC on the 16th.
Appart from that, i’m so buying a couple of prints.
Auction > April 16, 2010 >10am and 2pm
450 West 15 Street New York, NY
full catalogue here and here

The Places We Live (an interactive exhibition produced in cooperation with the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo) renders the day to day portrait of sixteen households located in 4 slums:
Caracas-Venezuella, Kibera-Nairobi-Kenya, Dharavi-Mumbai-India, Jakarta-Indonesia.
Life size images and audio segments in the exhibition help create the experience of a personal encounter with the slum dwellers. Each slum is represented by one room, where all four walls are built out of rear-projection canvas.

here are a couple of samples :

With a population swelling above 18 million, Mumbai is the world’s most densely populated urban area.
Even though it is the richest city of india, about two-thirds of its residents live in poverty, or slums.
Dharavi, Mumbai’s most infamous slum, is home to about one million residents living off the official city grid.
It is likely to vanish within a decade to make way to middle class apartment blocks.

This is the Shilpiri Household (Dharavi, mumbai, India) : [ PLAY the vocal translation : ]

Kibera, East Africa’s largest slum, is home to a quarter of the Nairobi’s population.
About 700 000 people squeeze into a piece of land the size of New York’s Central Park.
Because of it’s unauthorized status, ir receives no municipal services such as public water, sanitation, schools, health care, etc.

This is the Arori Household (Kibera, Nairobi, kenya) : [ PLAY the vocal translation : ]

Artifice runs so high it verges on the grotesque.

no. 3

no. 8

no. 1

no. 5

Micheal Wolf (post antérieur 100 X100) impose un regard intime sur la ville de Chicago.

It’s interactive (like Google Maps), letting you zoom from a view of the whole city, down to an individual street > any address, anywhere in the city. Here are a few highlights: Central Park + Greenwich Village.

Watch them take over google maps! Help them expand to other 8-bit cities

Thy it!

GRIZZLY BEAR

H1N1

L.W.T.U.A.

44 Idents for the introduction of the Toyota Aygo by zeitguised.
Amazing 3d work, as always

> Agency: CHI, London
Length: 5s, 10s, 15s
Sound: Michael Fakesch

If you don’t remember zeitguised >
they’re the ones behind peripetics,
which won countless awards and is still to this date, one of the best 3d short film ever made..

click on them to view more details
Poster Ads from BBDO São Paulo for Getty images.

From Artist Buff Diss, Done with Masking tape.

Talked about him here

Bergenobliqusaml

Temerickturndsmal

des paysages grisé où l’on sent une présence humaine au passé : l’univers de Nicolas Moulin

Packing what they could, leaving the rest to rot, the entire island population fled to the mainland in the blink of an eye…

…leaving the island in oblivion and disrepair.

more images here and here

Packard Auto Plant, Detroit

Murmansk, Russia

hong kong

tokyo landfill project

kawasaki

Shanghai, China

by Brooklyn based photographer Jason Koxvold

tir-à-l’arc 2

le vent

Un weekend en campagne avec mimi > enfin un compte flickr..

Photos par polygoon
trouvé en lisant un post de Visuelle.co.uk

houses > a serie by Oregon based photographer julia baum

but it’s microsoft :(
so if you’re on a mac like me, too bad for you. Got to love bill gates!

find out more here
download it here

light years

heart

by kimm whiskie, Lithuania.

216 prepared dc-motors + filler wire 1.0mm

30′000 plastic bags, 16 ventilators

1 polysiloxane hose 3.5mm, compressed air

from Zimoun (CH),

While in operation

I liked it better before it got a makeover.
..but still a great urban project.

Photos by Joel Sternfeld

by Sam O’Hare
Shot on a Nikon D3 (and one shot on a D80), as a series of stills. Used a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 lenses for all of these shots. Most were shot at 4fps in DX crop mode.

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hiatus no.11

hiatus no.27

hiatus no.18

hiatus no.31

x marks the spot, no.6

x marks the spot, no.7

x marks the spot, no.9

hello

Austin, TX based photographer Keith Davis Young
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Zebra

Sweet Potatos

rabit

fox

dog

Perfume / Voluntee

Sleep Walkers

Sleep Walkers

Sleep Walkers

by Tonico Lemos Auad

Once thought to be of limitless capacity, the ocean is filling up with garbage, most of it plastic.
Every square mile of ocean contains 50 000 pieces of trash
and 1 000 miles north of Hawaii there is a floating layer of debris the size of the continental United States.

Know more, read plastic porn

Reminds me of the work of Chris Jordan > Midway

These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

Interactive version available at dansedance.com

Use the A-Z buttons to activate each object on the desk. Once you activated on of them, press the same button again to desactivate it. To reset the scene and start again, press Return.

by
Julien Vallée, Nicolas Burrows and Simon Duhamel

Description >

“Each day, we are surrounded by seemingly insignificant objects, taking them from one place to the other,
or leaving them on a table for weeks, without paying any attention to them.
We ignore or forget them, using things only when we need to, making sure they don’t interfere or inhabit our space.
But what if they were not so stable and subservient? What if they could swivel, bounce or even fly.
And what if they did so all at the same time?

We want to imagine a place where objects could live and move, harmoniously, and of their own accord.
Without interfering with each other these objects would bounce, roll, turn and cross each other’s paths.

This experiment is about re-discovering our daily surroundings.

This is the making of the interactive video that was originally made for If You Could Collaborate exhibition.
Each object is assigned to a letter on the keyboard, and can be activated or deactivated at any time.”

making of
café

Numeros

stamp

white fence

Tint
white cat

ham pyramid

plane
flight

from Toronto/Montreal based photographer Kotama Bouabane

In den Zillertaler Alpen

the result

Creative Review Cover

Central Saint Martins

Creative Review Bier

A-Z of Money

New York Times Magazine

From UK based Chrissie Macdonald

sonar no.1747

sonar no.1750

Experiments based on the hybridisation of human heads and animal bodies are taking in a remote and mysterious laboratory in Mongolia, with the aim of creating a new species of pet. These disturbing tests were filmed in a series of videos that were uploaded onto YouTube and onto a fake website (now offline) and retrieved for Sonar as the image of the 2008 festival.

This reminds me of the work of South Korean photographer Yeondoo Jung’s series Wonderland

On an other note, I really like these as well.

I Miss Trevor Burks

bike

records

Un moment banal rendu surréel > Dust.
Une série évolutive par Ujin Lee.

Same project, about 4 hours later.

This little app is great. It basically traces all the paths you make with your cursor. Dots emerge when your mouse is resting.

Found it via Kitsunoir

Chicaco based photographer Aaron louis fowler

Bjørn Wad (photographer) + Elisabeth Lund (photographer) = Wad Lund photography, Norway.
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night, no 21

night, no 24

night, no 22

night, no 9

night, no 8

night, no 4

morning, no 4

morning, no 5

morning, no 31

Georgia based photographer Will Govus

Thanks CNN Ciné Club NAmur

‘ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH’ ENDPAPER FOR FALLON

PUBLICIS CREME EGG EXHIBITION. EASTER 08

QVEST MAGAZINE FASHION STORY

DER SPIEGEL EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

INTOXICATE

London based illustrator / image maker > James Dawe

From Portland [Oregon] photography student > Delaney Allen

Nadav Kander is the winner of the Prix Pictet 2009.
He received the CHF100,000 from Kofi Annan at the Passage de Retz, Paris, on 22 October 2009.
At the same time Ed Kashi was selected to complete the Prix Pictet Commission 2009.

Edward Burtynsky, Iberia Quarries # 8, Cochicho Co., Pardais, Portuga

Nadav Kander Bathers, Yibin, Sichuan Yangtze, The Long River Series

Chris Steele-Perkins, Japanese Self Defence Force weapons training between Gotemba and Fujinomiya

Chris Steele-Perkins, Car park near Gotemba

Ed Kashi, Nigeria, 2006 Curse of the black gold: 50 years of oil in the Niger Delta

The Prix Pictet is the world’s first major prize dedicated to photography and sustainability.
It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate vital messages to a global audience.
This is art of the highest order, applied to confront the pressing social and environmental challenges of the new millennium.

This year the theme of the award is earth.
Earth refers to the planet and the soil beneath our feet, to the marks that man makes on the face of the land – either directly through the creation of mines, toxic waste, urban wastelands, mountainous refuse dumps and blasted desert landscapes; or indirectly, through the scars left by fire, flood or famine and the impact of natural disasters: earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes or the migrations of displaced people.

Exhibition dates at the Empty Quarter Gallery: 9 February – 6 March 2010, so there’s still time.. If you happen to be in Dubai..

Acade

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