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Mark Wong: one minute movies

Mark Wong, 35, has spent the last three years turning films, including Speed, Pearl Harbour and Top Gun, into 60 second spoofs. The movie buff even built a life-size aeroplane cockpit in his garden for his version of Pearl Harbour. Mr Wong, an accountant, spends up to nine months planning, directing and making each movie with the …

TECH WEB

8-bit video game wedding invitations

Those lucky enough to be on the guest list for Darina & Niko’s geeky wedding received a CD invite containing a custom-made 8-bit Mario/Donkey Kong-themed video game which must be won to obtain the necessary wedding info. For those of you who are interested, here’s where you can download and play the invitations! You can download it …

ARTS

Ji Lee

Ji Lee is a corean designer that grew up in Brasil and went to NY for studying. Taday he’s creative director at Google Creative Labs and on his spare times, creates projects like the one above: small scenarios stuck to the ceiling, proposing new perspectives. His portfolio is worth a visit. | Via

ARCHITECTURE ARTS

Sunbeam Poem Projector

Sunbeam Poem Projector by Jiyeon Song. The type is formed ( as you can see ) through a complex array of perforations aligned with the passing of the sun. The poem takes about 8hrs to sweep through the full text. Based around the solar calendar, winter and summer display different poems. Extremely clever. Read the detailed description, …

PRODUCT

Edit your Consciousness: Spray to forget

SPRAY TO FORGET is a conceptual and functional product based on the possibility that “a substrate to physical reality exists, and that it can be deterministically altered and influenced by human intention.” – Duncan Laurie, The Secret Art SPRAY TO FORGET functions as a beneficial editor for one’s consciousness, removing undesired memories from the user’s psyche via …

INTERACTIVE TECH

CodeOrgan

CodeOrgan is a website where you can enter any website’s URL, and, using a complicated algorithm, it turns the website’s code into “music”. The songs will change as the “body” content of the website changes. | Via

MISC PRODUCT

Reknit

Reknit è un fantastico servizio offerto da Haik Avanian. Spedendo un vecchio maglione di lana, la mamma di Haik lo disferà e vi riconfezionerà un paio di guanti, alla modica cifra di 30 euro. | Via

ARTS INTERACTIVE

The Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade

Backlights, neon paint, and videogames!? What more could you want or expect from a Faile and Bast exhibition taking over two floors of London’s Lazarides gallery? Faile and long-time collaborator Bast have transformed the gallery space into a truly experiential exhibition. Faile and Bast’s signature elements resound throughout the gallery, creating an explosive installation. Viewers …

ARTS EVENTS

How Many Billboards? Art In Stead

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is pleased to present its most ambitious project to date: How Many Billboards? Art in Stead. This large-scale urban exhibition debuts 21 newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards in Los Angeles in February and March 2010. A dedicated website, howmanybillboards.org, …

PRODUCT TECH

The Tyrant Clock by Alice Wang

The Tyrant Clock, designed by Alice Wang has to be the meanest alarm clock concept ever invented. Some alarm clocks make a terribly annoying noise or require you to complete a physical task to shut them off. There’s even some now that will shake your bed until you’re up. Not the Tyrant Clock. This clock takes …

MISC PEOPLE

Play Mono Match on the Monobrow website

If you’ve got a spare five minutes to kill, walk don’t run to the Monobrow website — a shrine to that ubiquitous eyebrow mustache — and have a crack at the Monopoly memory game, where you’re tasked with finding matching pairs of famous Monobrows amongst somewhat less salubrious company.  | Via

EVENTS INTERACTIVE TECH

Hungry Hungry Eat Head

A site-specific play experience by Hudson-Powell & Joel Gethin Lewis for the Big Screen Edinburgh, produced by Bren O’Callaghan. Commissioned originally by City of Edinburgh Council, with further development (phase 2) made possible by AND: Abandon Normal Devices Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture.  |  Via