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troll art

i know it’s all a bit immature but hey, it made me laugh quite a lot: trolling a dating website, with a sense of humour like that it may even have paid off

‘hey perfection,
you have beautiful eyes, i’m an art student and couldn’t pass up a chance to draw your beauty, let me know what you think :) ‘

for those not familiar with the term wikipedia describes ‘trolling’ as follows:
…an internet term for a person who, through willful action, attempts to disrupt a community or garner attention and controversy through provocative messages… (link via mister ‘david shrigley’)

m / 21-06-2011 09:05 - tags: , , ,  

new work june ’11

several new projects we have recently finished: the website for ‘fotofestival naarden’, a festival book and website for the ‘cinéma arabe’ film festival and flyers and various printed matter for the ‘sugar factory’ nightclub (helix)

m / 17-06-2011 11:20 - tags: , , , ,  

the choice of a generation

if, like me, you’re british & born in an era when, the beatles were still together, then the image above will need no explanation…

the BBC test card is certainly one of the visual icons of my generations’ early youth, apparently also that of ‘anthony burrill’ who together with ‘ewoudt boonstra’ has just updated the test card for this generation

m / 15-06-2011 12:11 - tags: , ,  

you ad could not be here

…according to reports, Google is developing the technology to enable them to start selling advertising space on real life billboards and posters in Street View. Google registered a new patent which describes how it plans to identify buildings, posters, signs and billboards and give advertisers the ability to replace these images with their own ads…

further evidence of the shift from a physical to a virtual world and of course, the weird world we live in… the lawyers are already sharpening their knives it seems

…as cool as this is, it raises a number of potential questions which I’m sure will have to be dealt with some point in the near future, especially if this technology can be used for turn-by-turn navigation and Augmented Reality applications. Who actually owns the real life space once it’s online/mobile?…

m / 13-06-2011 09:58 - tags: , , ,  

print to pad

‘process journal’ have just made the transition to an ipad app and very credible it is too, probably one of the better examples i’ve yet seen, clean and highly accessible, plus it’s free… so what are you waiting for?

m / 12-06-2011 12:59 - tags: , ,  
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