January 30, 2012 – 6:24 PM
This is awesome. A group of guys (Doug Wilson, Brandon Goodwin and Jess Heugel) made a documentary about the photo lettering machine used in the 50s-70s, to be outdated by the advent of desktop publishing and computers. Site here. Premieres in SF Tuesday, February 21, 2012 – 7:00 PM @ Typekit San Francisco: 2601 Mission [...]
By Andreas Tagger
|
Also posted in 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Books, Design, Documentary, Film, Fonts, Technology, Typography
|
Tagged brandon goodwin, design, doug wilson, edison, jess heugel, letterpress, lino, linotype, photo lettering, printing, typekit
|
January 20, 2012 – 1:45 PM
Wow… Saw this on our realtor’s blog. Totally amazing footage of San Francisco with vibrant colors. A breathtaking 21 minutes of pure visual pleasure that harkens back to Hitchcock. So surprised this video only has 5,500 views…
By Andreas Tagger
|
Also posted in 1950s, Architecture, Ari's Posts, Bay Area, Documentary, Film, Inspiration, San Francisco, Vintage
|
Tagged 1955 cinemascope, bell and howell, california, cinemascope, filmorama, filmorama lens, hitchcock, san francisco, tulio pellegrini, wide screen
|
January 10, 2012 – 5:53 PM
Randomly saw this video on Liveleak of MIT’s High-Low tech group’s project on a “kit for sketching electronics”, in which a designer is able to stick some crazy looking electronic components to a piece of paper and then draw with a pen to create a circuit. It’s really interesting at the end where an interface [...]
By Andreas Tagger
|
Also posted in Art, Art objects, Data Visualization, Electronic Music, Installation, Interactive, Paper Art, Synth, Technology, Toys
|
Tagged a kit for sketching electronics, electronic arts and crafts, ferrous paper, high-low tech group, leah buckley, low tech electronics, mit, mit media lab, paper art electronic, paper electronics, paper installations, paper instruments
|
January 5, 2012 – 7:48 PM
On our Christmas vacation we were very stoked to make it down to Niland, California to visit this colorful mountain installation called “Salvation Mountain” I previously blogged about back in August. It was about an hour and a half drive from Palm Springs, and a little difficult to find (we asked the locals), but it [...]
By Andreas Tagger
|
Also posted in Architecture, Ari's Posts, Art, Art objects, Environmental Art, Inspiration, Murals, Painting, Places to Visit, Signage, Signs, Surrealism, Travel, Weird
|
Tagged anthony bourdain, art cars, bombay beach, burning man, calexico, california, desert, god is love, holy mountain, leonard knight, mad max, mountain art, niland, nomads, painted mountain, palm springs, salton sea, salvation mountain, things to do in palm springs
|
November 30, 2011 – 11:58 AM
via Wiki (so funny they destroyed the puppets at the end of the series). Beautiful stuff, Fingermouse rocks : Fingerbobs was a British children’s television programme made by the BBC in 1972. The first episode was broadcast on 14 February 1972 on BBC1 as part of Watch with Mother. The show was created by Joanne [...]
By admin
|
Also posted in 1970s, Art objects, Costumes, Crafts, Paper Art, Performance Art, Television
|
Tagged bbc, bod, fingerbobs, fingermouse, flash, gulliver, michael cole, rick jones, scampi, yoffy
|
October 25, 2011 – 12:34 PM
Ossian Brown, member from the awesome electronic group Coil, compiled this book of strange and creepy Halloween costumes from his personal collection of found photos. The intro is written by David Lynch. Get it on Amazon. Some of the costumes look like they recycled some old KKK garb they had lying around the house, lol…
By admin
|
Also posted in Drama, Fashion, Surrealism, Weird
|
Tagged coil, creepy costumes, haunted air, ossian brown, scary costumes, scary masks, victorian halloween costumes, vintage halloween costumes
|
October 18, 2011 – 1:03 PM
Just got a nice note from Sally Dige, a Danish Canadian designer and artist. She recently filmed, edited and recorded this video for her catchy synth-wave track “Immaculate Conception.” The video has a nice retro 80s feeling and vibe, and it’s a catchy tune. Kudos to doing this all work by yourself girl! Hope to [...]
October 18, 2011 – 11:46 AM
Already the app store’s #1 best seller, and it’s 99 well worth it cents for a limited time. This synth is so sick; gorgeous touch interface, animation and the warm analog sounds Moog is known for. Video here. Animoog, powered by Moog’s new Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE), is the first professional polyphonic synthesizer designed for [...]
By Andreas Tagger
|
Also posted in Cell Phones, Electro, Electronic Music, Interactive, iPad, IPhone, Synth, Technology
|
Tagged analog digital synthesis, animoog, app store, ipad synth, moog, oscillators, polyphonic synth, retro synth
|
September 28, 2011 – 2:17 PM
Fascinating article in this month’s Wired about UVB-76, an enigmatic Soviet antenna that has been broadcasting sequences of coded numbers (AKA a “numbers station”) to secret agents and the military for the past 20 years. The mysterious phenomenon of numbers stations have been a cult obsession with shortwave radio enthusiasts for the past twenty to [...]
By Andreas Tagger
|
Also posted in Advertising, Data Visualization, Uncategorized, Weird
|
Tagged conet project, dead man's switch, encryption, espionage, ICBM, iridial, military, numbers station, secret agents, secret codes, spies, uvb-76
|
August 21, 2011 – 6:57 PM
This video is awesome, and so is the sound. Stoked it’s not from Brooklyn. Available on Mannequin records or eMusic. Mannequin is so happy to release under its wings one of the best talents in the minimal synth new scene that you better don’t miss. We are talking about the serbian duo Sixth June – [...]
By admin
|
Also posted in 1980s, Disco, Drama, Electronic Music, Minimal Wave, Synth, Wave
|
Tagged belgrade, come closer, laslo antal, lidija andov, mannequin records, minimal wave, sixth june
|
August 9, 2011 – 11:52 AM
This is so beautiful. So, so well done. As mentioned before on the childhood throwbacks post “12″ is one of our all time favorites, right up there with “Contact is the Reason.” One -two-three…eleven…twelve. Created by artist Abbey Luck. Check her site out, really cool stuff there. More info and the making of on Laughing [...]
A surreal world of 1/4″ headphone jacks, food, fireworks, and cats. Created by Terri Timely. Starts a little slow but picks up.
Wow, this is so cool. How people find the time to craft things like this is beyond me. Just beautiful!!!
Seizure inducing rainbow madness. Music by Extreme Animals (on tour now!), video by Jacob Ciocci. Available from the Music Is A Question With No Answer DVDR (Audio Dregs 2010). A new installment in the Critter Collection series by the Extreme Animals! This is a DVDR with video pieces by Jacob Ciocci and Extreme Animals music, [...]
Really nice minaturism in this Jackson hole adventure. By Tristan Grezsco.
April 27, 2011 – 12:58 PM
Nice video of Cody Hudson’s work / collaboration with Stussy. Also check out his show, entitled “Freedom”, at Guerrero Gallery, running until May 7th.
April 26, 2011 – 11:02 AM
It’s San Francisco, but made out of 100,000 toothpicks by artist Scott Weaver, and ping pong balls can actually roll through the sculpture. Would like to see this. I don’t know how people have the attention span to make something this amazing. Check the video to see the ping pong ball tour. Mor info here. [...]
February 17, 2011 – 3:58 PM
Crazy paper design from Alberto Parise and Giovanni Pasini for an exhibition between Swiss and Italian designers. More info here. Also, a very cool time lapse video showing the creation.
February 7, 2011 – 1:31 PM
Animation by dutch artist and designer Rogier Wieland. Other nice things on his site.
November 25, 2010 – 10:35 AM
Another rad song + video from Moon Duo. Actually love the music video.
