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what is the plastiki?

this is a fun little poster for a fascinating sounding story: basically someone has built a boat made out of waste PET bottles and is sailing it around the oceans…

m / 05-04-2010 17:29

press > pause > play

i just watched this trailer for an upcoming docu-film on the creative industry, makes me feel optimistic and pessimistic all at once, more info and details here

A new generation of global creators and artists are emerging, equipped with other points of reference and other tools. The teachers aren’t certfied schools anymore -it’s web sites, discussion forums and a ?learn by doing?-mentality. We see the children of a digital age, unspoiled or uneducated depending on who you ask. Collaboration over hierarchy, digital over analog – a change in the way we produce, distribute and consume creative works.

m / 05-04-2010 17:26

wijn nu

very nice dutch modernist ‘dada-ish’ mid-1920’s letterhead, it isn’t credited to ‘piet zwart’ but i’m guessing it should be… or does anyone know better?

m / 05-04-2010 17:23

how to feed the world in in 9 minutes

nice little moving infographic made for an exhibition and aimed at kids, seeing as the original was french this is probably a secondary voice-over but it kind of lets it down a bit, in my opinion

m / 05-04-2010 17:19

each frame consists of 21 tile images

some nifty programming work has enabled this fella to convert ‘google street view’ into a film-making tool

m / 04-04-2010 14:24