Archive for July, 2008

Néojaponisme

July 29, 2008

Today was mad hectic at the agency. All three floors of the shop were buzzing with creative energy/activity. All day people came and went from the Radar space, and the hour hand on the clock swirled at a rapid rate.
Let’s travel back in time:
3:00 PM: I need a break. My eyes are burning from starring [...]

Mermaids, Homophobia and Slut Machine

July 27, 2008

Is W+K all about promoting chaos? You decide. Their recent print/outdoor campaign for Nike is accused of flagrant gay bashing by loads of commenters on the W+K site where the work is posted. I’m not sure there’s anything homophobic about these ads. Don’t NBA players love rimming? According to a gay commenter on Gawker, “It’s [...]

AP Radio Episode #27

Step 1. Read our post Reggae Top 10 of All Time.
Step 2. Sit back, roll a number, spark it and hit play. Enjoy!
Track Listing:
Jacob Miller - Backyard Movements
Bob Marley - Keep On Skanking
The Congos - Children Crying
Desmond Dekker - 007/Shanty Town
Sugar Minott - Oh Mr. DC

 
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Data Visualization

Technorati estimates that the blogosphere has doubled in size every six moths for the last three years. On average, 175,000 new blogs are introduced to the web each day. For the typical individual/organization, keeping up with, communicating and making sense of this data is difficult/impossible. How then, can one effectively communicate what is happening [...]

The Image Fulgurator

Julius von Bismarck’s Image Fulgurator is a modified camera that’s capable of projecting images onto street furniture (a bench, wall, sign etc.) where they appear in the photos of strangers, but remain invisible to their eyes.
So how does it work? According to Wired, the “half guerrilla-art stunt and half homemade-gadget awesomeness” has a “slave unit [...]

Pressure Flip Combos

July 23, 2008

Rodney Mullen - arguably the most skilled tech skater of all time - acquires his supernatural powers through the studies of mathematics, physics and the Bible. His unintelligible pressure flip combos are a hybrid of peerless intelligence and divine intervention.

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