I found this amaaaaaazing photographic portfolio of French photographer Denis Darzcaq. No strings no photoshop. Just people defiying the law of gravity for a moment. Don't try this at home. When the social elevator is broken you have to know how to bounce. Between the take off and the fall, the ...
As per a Xavi Vergés request in my post about the redesign of this blog, I introduced a whole new Archives section in the blog so all posts can be accessed by chronological order. I also tossed in a calendar that can be found at the bottom sidebar. All this ...
I was discussing this morning with my colleague professor Ignasi Ribas about machine intelligence. We went over the usual stuff: IBM Deep Blue beating chess master Garry Kasparov, 2001's HAL, brute force computing and robots dreaming of electronic sheep. Finally we ended up where most of these discussions end (especially for ...
I wonder if there's still anyone who doesn't know about the new iPhone (reinventing the phone) from Apple. It was presented a couple of days ago (blogged life by engadget), it hit frontpages and every news bulletin yesterday and today Cisco is claiming that they had a trade mark on ...
US band OK GO have a special way of shooting videoclips. OK GO’s funny dance style even gave way to a dance contest held on YouTube. Don’t miss their latest video where they perform on treadmills. By the way, the music is excellent. OK Go YouTube website OK Go official website
Have you ever wanted to be a famous dj but you sucked scratching? El Chavo and Robin Masters probably do. They are the Dubai Sistaz the first air-scratchers and they come straight outta Barcelona. Respect. If you thought air-guitar was cool wait until you see the Dubai Sistaz doing their thing. As they ...
Two Barcelona based companies and the City Council turn trash into fashion. Some call it trash, others call it fashion. They call it trashion. Demano (something like handmade in Spanish), a small company created by three colombian designers in Barcelona, recycle cultural event banderoles into bags, aprons or notebooks since 1999. The ...
A New York street artist places blank bubble stickers on ads in public spaces, giving people the chance to write whatever they want in it. From the bubble project manifesto: “Our communal spaces are being overrun with ads. Train stations, streets, squares, busses, and subways now scream one message after another at ...
A 21 year old British student is selling 1,000,000 pixels in his homepage for $1 each. Sounds dumb? He’s raised 196,800 so far. Alex Tew wanted to study Business Management but didn’t like the idea of having a huge debt after 3 years of High School. He thought that $1,000,000 would ...
You don’t like the audio guide in your favorite museum? No problem. Just create your own and podcast it. Art Mobs have produced unofficial audio guides for MoMa, and they’re available as podcasts for you to download. So instead of listening to the monotone voice of the official MoMa narrator, you could ...