Dunlop Falken Tires are being promoted in Japan through association with a “Melody Road” set up in the Nagano Prefecture. A billboard informs motorists that if they slow down to 40 km/h on the twisting hilly road, they will hear a melody played out by their tires on the road. The safety message won the …
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Skype launches a 10-day live-phoning experiment featuring a man camped outside a phone booth in Spain. Twenty-seven-year-old Mexican sports enthusiast Rob Cavazos was selected by Skype to become the “Wilderness Man”. As he is fluent in English, German and Spanish, the public can call him directly or via Skype from a website, www.phoneboxexperiment.com .
The InstrumenTube is a clever interactive project for the YouTube community in which you can play piano, electric guitar, upright bass and other instruments using either the YouTube time-line or the annotations. Via
A 3d animation created over the course of 5 years documenting the graffiti on the wall outside of Serge Gainsbourg home. Via
The Japanese retail brand MUJI and LEGO teamed up to develop a set of 4 different boxes. Inside those boxes you’ll find the classic LEGO bricks but also a few sheets of paper. No big deal. But when you also have the right punch hole tool, you can combine both to create something new. You can order …
To build extra excitement around the upcoming Tim Burton retrospective, MOMA has released a new animated spot directed by Tim Burton. The animated reconstruction of the MOMA logo is reminiscent of the Toy Story teaser trailer. The exhibition (sponsored by Syfy) will open to public on November 22nd, 2009 and will run through April 26th, 2010. Danny …
Hector Zamora‘s public art project in two buildings in Bogota.
R1 radio by il-gu cha is an analog radio which requires one to tune the radio by physically rolling it on a surface. Studying how people manipulate rather than bury their interactions with a product, the radio brings about a new kind of behavior between itself and the user. By using a bevel gear system wheel …
Seeper, a London based arts and technology collective, created this architectural projection mapping for the Branchage Film Festival. Via
Fabio Viale is an Italian sculpter who works with marble, but doesn’t make it look like it.
Shaun Emerson, 30, is a Miami transplant who has brought his Florida flair to the streets of New York. Dressed in a Spider-Man suit, with an oddly elongated, custom-designed rickshaw in tow, he rides around at night and has quite a following. Unlike Spider-Man, he doesn’t wear a mask. And like Spider-Man, he does not …
This Sunday, October 25th @ 8:30 p.m. (PT) tune into the world’s biggest band performing on the world’s largest stage. YouTube and U2 have joined forces to live stream U2’s performance this Sunday at The Rose Bowl Stadium. Don’t miss the live webcast! Find out what the time will be your country. Click here. U2 …
Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans …