i was approached last week to do a small interview for dutch newspaper ‘het parool’ for their ‘street style’ column on the subject of fashion (ha ha)… the final result and the photo weren’t (too) embarassing, luckily, although i somehow managed to get on the subject of wearing underwear outdoors…
it was published yesterday and the image was shot by young talent ‘robin de puy’, i’ll post a link as soon as she has uploaded it… (click on the ‘street style’ link in the menu)
another new poster for the sugar factory ‘SSSST!’ series arrived back this week, the printer f***ed it up, by changing the colour transparency completely, but never mind…
a funky tryptich of hand-drawn typographical posters for local music venue ‘paradiso’ made by letman and hanging all over amsterdam this week…
…could be here sooner than you think, this (military) technology called ‘adaptiv’ allows vehicles to mimic the temperature of their surroundings, what appears to be a car seen through infra-red optics, is in fact a tank…
…the hi-tech camouflage uses hexagonal panels or pixels made of a material that can change temperature very quickly. About 1,000 pixel panels, each of which is 14cm across, are needed to cover a small tank. The panels are driven by on-board thermal cameras that constantly image the ambient temperature of the tank’s surroundings. This is projected on to the panels to make it harder to spot. The cameras can also work when the tank is moving…
sweet idea: illustrator andrew kolb has turned bowies’ classic 1969 hit ‘space oddity’ into an illustrated childrens book, as yet unpublished and not cleared for rights (all of the texts have been pixellated on his own website) the whole set can however be seen, as featured, on the wired site…
