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Call for workshop participation
Tangible code
Wednesday 15th of February – Saturday 18th of February
at Atelier Nord Oslo/Norway
by Marius Watz & Erich Berger
Free participation
Application deadline Friday 27th of January
Send applications with CV to sense@anart.no
Recently, code evidently became artistic material and programming artistic
practice. The coding artist literally hacks his/her artwork, forms it with
skilled hands, touching and communicating with and through it.
Physical electronic interfaces enable the artist to tighten the relation
between the artwork and the audience.
Tangible code is a workshop for artists and practitioners who are interested
in the concepts of programming and physical computing.
The employed tools are the multi platform and open source programming and
hardware environments Processing and Arduino. (more…)
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground
Sight road sign, Finland.
Source: Tiehallinto.fi
I noticed these road signs that reminded me Mac’s command key when I come first time to Finland, but I was too lazy to find out about any coonections… This sign is used across Nordic countries to mark general sight places, like old buildings, churches and castles. But this time a mystery is revealed by the authors of Macintosh GUI (Susan Kare, Steve Jobs):
It’s difficult to come up with a small icon that means “command”, and we didn’t think of anything right away. Our bitmap artist Susan Kare had a comprehensive international symbol dictionary and she leafed through it, looking for an appropriate symbol that was distinctive, attractive and had at least something to do with the concept of a menu command.
Finally she came across a floral symbol that was used in Sweden to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a campground. She rendered a 16 x 16 bitmap of the little symbol and showed it to the rest of the team, and everybody liked it. Twenty years later, even in OS X, the Macintosh still has a little bit of a Swedish campground in it.
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An update: The original story seems to have been stolen:
Sigur Rós
Here you can find beautiful masterpiece of beautiful Icelandian Band: Sigur Rós, Glósóli music video.
Via pingstate.nu
The definitive collection of idea generation methods
Martin Leith says:
This website lists and explains every idea generation method I’ve encountered during the past 15 years. It is the result of extensive research; my many sources include books, management journals, websites, academics, consultants and colleagues.
The methods have been drawn not just from the worlds of creative problem solving and innovation, but also from other worlds such as organisational change, strategic planning, psychotherapy, the new sciences and the creative arts.
The methods are listed below. Each is linked to a description, and in some cases you will find full instructions for using the method to generate ideas.
Link: ! Films publicitaires pour agences de publicites spots publicitaires spots TV spots tele cinematheque films pubs concours de creation
Although there is no exact date is stated, Finland announced to be visited by THE NIGHT OF THE ADEATERS on October of 2005.
The Night of the Adeaters®?
“La Nuit des Publivores”
What is this?
The Night of the Adeaters is a festival show that offers 6 hours of non-stop action :
it shows 500 of the finest, most amazing, funniest, most artistic, most creative and most unexpected advertising films from around the world.
The Night of the Adeaters is cinema, show time, a statement of our times, a common language for all audiences.
It is fun, easy and has a contagious element of excitement. A night full of surprises for new audiences who participate unreservedly in a party-like atmosphere.
From its birthplace in France, The Night of the Adeaters is already an established and anticipated annual event in 160 cities across 47 countries such as France, Russia, Japan, China, Mexico, … Iraq (!), Mongolia, to name a few…
With advertising there is no need for subtitles. The message is short and compact enough to be understood by all, crossing boundaries of language and culture.
From: Independent Online Edition > Features : app2
Late-summer festival time in a handsome city of the North, and a lone piper is wheezing doggedly outside a famous department store. After the slow twilight, crowds stroll (or, in a few cases, sway) to and from a grand fireworks display. The day before, I’ve met a bestselling crime writer whose avidly-followed series of mysteries use a troubled ‘tec to unmask the secrets of his society.
Yet we’re on the 60th parallel here, not the 56th; in Finland, not Scotland. The piper outside Stockmann of Helsinki is indisputably female (not often seen near Jenners of Edinburgh); and, unlike Ian Rankin, the local king of crime still serves, as he has for 34 years, with the city police.
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Link: HEL LOOKS
These folks created a great site that shows selected street fashion pictures taken on streets of Helsinki.
Worth to bookmark!
Link: CGNetworks – BIG AD
These guys take challenge to make really something BIG. Let’s see, how they’re accomplished their task:
CGSociety CGFilms
Plaza and Animal Logic gather to make something really BIG, for a laugh.
2 August 2005, Paul Hellard
The BIG AD parodies many ads and films that have BIG well-known musical scores, BIG casts of beautiful people, BIG breathtaking scenery and BIG effects. The TVC will be shown in August in Australia in a new campaign for the Carlton Draught beer. The spot opens with two opposing ‘armies’ slowly marching towards each other and singing to the strains of Carmina Burana.
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