O inusitado: 2012

segunda-feira, dezembro 03, 2012

quarta-feira, novembro 28, 2012

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domingo, novembro 25, 2012

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Escreva Lola Escreva: GUEST POST: VIOLÊNCIA OBSTÉTRICA - A VOZ DAS BRASI...: Cena do documentário Hoje é Dia internacional do Enfrentamento à Violência contra a Mulher . Publiquei um guest post sobre abuso sexu...

segunda-feira, novembro 12, 2012

Urban Landscapes Transformed: 23 Stunning Urban Murals

Urban Landscapes Transformed: 23 Stunning Urban Murals: [ By Marc in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

Alleyways and city streets are often criss crossed with urban art, though it usually takes the form of paint out of a can. Thankfully this is not always the case, as urban property owners team up with exceptionally talented artists to create murals so realistic and interesting, that they could easily hang in a gallery, but so large that they hang on it, instead.

(Images via idesignarch, rentalcarmomma, darkroastedblend)

Artist John Pugh created this tear away painting revealing the skeleton of Roman architecture peeking out of a modern building. A gorgeous tunnel going through a building may serve as quality art and a fantastic view in Lyon, France, but it does pose a danger to the errant driver who decides to ride into the sunset. Meanwhile, in Toronto, the back of the Gooderham Flat Iron building serves as a city artistic staple, depicting the facade of gorgeous old architecture peeling away from a modern edifice.

(Images via northendwaterfront, moillusions, joshuawiner)

The Salem Street Power Building serves as a beautiful backdrop to an old gate and some very real bikes. One feels like they are peering into an expansive hall full of workers and wooden cask barrels, instead of a flat wall. At Boston’s Old City Hall, the trompe l’oeil style painting reveals a gorgeous entrance that doesn’t actually exist; displaying the depth of the history, without taking up the space.

(Images via urbanartcore, brooklynstreetart, laughingsquid, weburbanist)

The Giant of Boston was a uniquely controversial addition to the city, by Os Gemeos graffitit artists, that has since become a staple of the downtown outdoor art scene. “Liberation and Revolution” is the name of a gigantic mural painted by the artist Ever, which, early though this picture is, portrays a stirring scene about life’s complexities, tempered by the image of laser-eyed cats frolicking on the side of a large building. Swiatecki created this 12 story masterpiece, in a solid 3 months of hard work.

(Images via mymodernmet, art-is-fun, cleveland, telegraph)

Escif, a Valencia-based artist, created this gigantic on/off switch to turn a few heads during an arts festival in Poland. Anat Ronen created a mural that is a bet meta, as it photographs you taking a photograph of it. Columbus, Ohio features this play on the famous American painting “American Gothic” with an outdoor twist. Famous mural artist John Pugh created this depiction of the final monarch of the Hawaiian islands, Queen Lili’uokalani.

(Images via naturamurals, art-is-fun, postersandprintsblog)

The Beasley Building in Philadelphia holds this trompe l’oeil masterpiece, turning a once non-descript corner into a bustling construction zone. Kobra makes one feel like they stepped back in time, as a tall building holds a testament to the neighborhood’s past. Artists Saber and Shepard Fairey collaborated on this art piece, featuring two incarnations of the American flag in abstract.

(Images via themetapicture, buzzfeed, dullneon)

This gorgeous mural changes the entire landscape, turning it into a seaside view along the coast. In Vienna, Austria, an artist brought their vision to life in a thought-provoking piece brimming with sad emotion. Miles MacGregor created “FlowerPower Girl” which is both realistic and brighter than life. His other work can be found at Elmac.net.

(Images of streetsofbeige, gigi-rose, moillusions)

D*face put together this Los Angeles mural as an homage to pulp comics and posters of the past, with a darker edge. Artist John Pena put together this cloudscape, showing the transformation from nothing to something, to nothing. This final photograph is of a mural that wisely used the existing landscape to create a much different, and rural, feel for this city block.

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With the iPhone "Sweater" Case, ArtizanWork 3D Prints an Object That's Both Soft and Hard

With the iPhone "Sweater" Case, ArtizanWork 3D Prints an Object That's Both Soft and Hard:

Something we haven't seen a lot of yet in 3D printing, but which we're sure will become common, is people rocking a single material in such a way that it changes characteristics within a single object. Up above is the "Sweater" Case, which beat out 70 other designs to win Shapeways' recent Design for iPhone 5 contest. Designed by ArtizanWork, a Maryland-based collective of independent artisans focusing primarily on jewelry, the case goes from rigid at the edges to flexible on the larger surface as the material changes thicknesses. Looks pretty cool in the vid:

"Handwoven by robots," the company cheekily writes, "the cross stitching can move separately from each other creating an awesome tactile feel while acting like mini shock absorbers that protects your phone." It's available both on Shapeways' website in white, or you can buy directly from ArtizanWork with a few more color choices and a protective anti-stain coating.
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The Bubble Chandelier: From the Streets of Brooklyn to the Lofts (also possibly of Brooklyn)

The Bubble Chandelier: From the Streets of Brooklyn to the Lofts (also possibly of Brooklyn):

When Shaun Kasperbauer submitted his project "Bubble Chandelier" earlier this week, the bulbous yet unmistakably upcycled form, "originally inspired by the cell-like shape of soap bubbles," caught my eye. We've seen several variations of bottle lamps in the past—from Matteo de Colle's charming shades to Degross's refined "Utrem Lux" series, the lush lumens of the "Lightin" to the lo-fi marvel of "Liter of Light"—but Kasperbauer's version merited a closer look.

Upon a little digging, I was surprised to find that the project dated back to April 2011. Noting that his current company Souda, which he co-founded with Isaac Friedman-Heiman, was founded this year, I inquired about the 20-month gap. Kasperbauer responded at length:

The Chandelier was originally made as a school project of mine a few years ago. Isaac and I, along with our third studio-mate Luft Tanaka, just graduated in May from Parsons School of Design for product design. I had been shopping around for commercial spaces during the last month of school and we signed a lease on our studio space on June first. We are just in the process of launching our first line, which includes a few revamped pieces that we had designed in the past along with a few new objects (and a number of items still in development). While the Bubble Chandelier was originally prototyped a few years ago, it has just now finished its first production run. The relationship with SURE WE CAN is something that came about once we started looking to produce the fixture.

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quinta-feira, novembro 08, 2012

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quarta-feira, novembro 07, 2012

A Chair for Disaster(-Related Boredom) Relief?

A Chair for Disaster(-Related Boredom) Relief?:
"Hey pops, the times are a-changing," suggests the sparse website. "Gone are the days when you could impress the friends with your old oak rocking-chair."

Enter the iRock: billed as the first-ever power-generating rocking chair, Zürich's Micasa Lab has updated the classic rocker with a tech twist: "As long as you rock, you charge you iPad or your iPhone."

We have added... a generator that transforms the movement into power. We have equipped the iRock with an iPad stand and a set of built-in speakers in the back rest. Over the last couple years, we have come to depend on an increasing amount of technical gadgets...

The iRock is a product that explores how furniture can interact with technology and actually support the power for this technology. Movement is energy and to collect as much of this energy as possible is one of our future challenges. The laws of physics dictate how movement and friction constantly creates a vast amount of energy that in most cases is lost. iRock is a attempt to collect some of this energy and put it to real use. If you use iRock for 60 minutes you can recharge an iPad 3 to 35%.

The iRock is set at a "pleasant 37° rocking angle," allowing for a generous range of motion in generating power, which can be stored in a built-in battery for later use; I assume that the 25W speakers are also rock-powered.

The main challenge was to get the generator working efficient. After trying out several designs we finally got it right and with a set of gears we're now able to get sufficient power to charge the built in battery that in it's turn are charging the iPad/iPhone. A concept we were working on for quite some time was the use of rubber bands and springs to increase the effect of the movement but we ended up with a solution using a winding mechanism that is geared up to run the generator.

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Getting It Right the First Time: Hands-On Review of the Ultimate Spatula

Getting It Right the First Time: Hands-On Review of the Ultimate Spatula:

Add this new acronym to your phrase book: GIR, or Get It Right. For their very first product, the designers at GIR have cooked up what they're calling the Ultimate Spatula, a single piece of molded silicone that's easy to hold, easy to clean and can handle food temperatures up to 460 degrees. You'd think by now someone would have been able to nail spatula design, but most spatulas available to consumers have a number of flaws. For example, a spatula made from multiple parts, including a head, handle and grip, means there's at least three extra joints for food gunk to get stuck in. Metal handles get too hot; wooden handles have to be hand washed. The GIR spatula, however, is made from a single piece of silicone molded over a nylon reinforcement that runs through the entire body, ending just 5cm from the tip, lending the blade enough structure to mix heavy, wet ingredients while retaining the flexibility to run it flush against the inside of bowls, dishes and cookware.

To see if the GIR spatula really was "the best spatula you've ever used," we road-tested it in a variety of dishes and temperatures. At first we were skeptical that the blade wasn't thin enough at the tip to scrape the bowl clean, but after using it in dense, wet cookie dough, hot, sticky oatmeal and a greased frying pan for flipping our eggs over easy, we found the tip was able to run between the food and the cooking equipment seamlessly. We bent the blade back with the palm of our hands, used it in an impromptu kitchen sword fight and ran it through the dishwasher, where we were sure the heat would mangle its pristine silicone body, but it emerged from our endurance test without a scratch. Consider us convinced.

GIR's Kickstarter goal has already been met two-and-a-half times over, but you can still donate $20 and preorder your Ultimate Spatula in one of ten colors.

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Clever Cable Management Via 3D-Printed Shirt Button

Clever Cable Management Via 3D-Printed Shirt Button:

Wearable electronics still aren't ready for primetime, but until they are, here's a clever bridge product: Shapeways user Egant's Button 2.0, which features a precisely-dimensioned groove in one side, providing handy cable-clipping capability for your headphones.

It's totally one of those why-didn't-I-think-of-this head-smackers, but I have a feeling that as more and more of us get 3D printers, it won't matter....

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What's Going to Fly on Kickstarter These Days, and Why?

What's Going to Fly on Kickstarter These Days, and Why?:

Dan Goldstein's cardboard molding method

Randy Ganacias with his 3D-printing set-up in the background

The Kickstarter rendering ban may have washed out a generation of would-be products, and quite a few failures, but talented designers continue to get projects funded by working with what they've got.

Industrial-design-related Kickstarter pitches from one year ago will look very different from the ones we'll see a year in the future. By looking at the most recent Kickstarter product design successes in the low-target price range, it's not difficult to see what people are willing to get behind. Here's two of recent note:

San-Francisco-based designer Dan Goldstein's RE-PLY Chair handily attained his $10,000 goal while still at the halfway mark.

In our opinion, here are some of Goldstein's success points:

- He uses a readily-available material, cardboard.

- He states he's been working on the chair for six years, and backs that up with documentation on his pitch page, which contains photographs of his prototyping process.

- The chair works. The pitch video shows the product in use, driving home the notion that this is a real product.