Cute cruel story

This is one of cute animation for the zoo of Buenos Aires. watch VIDEO

exquisite corpse?

Psst! Pass it on... is a series of short animated films created in collaboration by a select group of motion graphics artists from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Berlin. Inspired by the Surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children's game of Telephone, the minute-long films consist of three sections by three different design teams. The artists worked sequentially, linking up their animations to create a single piece over the course of about 9 weeks. The films feature a variety of styles and methods of production including live-action, stop-motion, 3d & 2d animation.

The Psst! Pass It On... project was created to promote the work of exceptional designers, directors, and animators in a non-competetive process that embodies a spirit of fun, collaboration and respect. We love motion graphics. We hope it shows.

Psst! Pass It On... was curated and conceived by Bran Dougherty-Johnson of Grow Design Work.

BARCODE design

Winner in cannes of the titanium lion for innovation
"Why Has the Barcode Never Changed?

This is the question the design team at Design Barcode asked itself when it set out to innovate a new way for companies to think about how their valuable product real estate gets used.

After endless study of Barcode technology standards, a process was invented that allowed a design element to be integrated into the barcode.

In 2005 Design Barcode was awarded the Good Design Award in the Communication Design Category, and has since created designed barcodes for major Japanese brands such as Suntory, Calbee, Wacoal and others.

Now, Design Barcode has partnered with PACARC, LLC, a leader in bringing the most innovative products from Japan to the United States. Together, we aim to make Design Barcode available to great brands across the United States."

Halliburton vs funny guerilla

It seems that Halliburton has some bussiness in insurance services.
Funny! Great guerilla campaign!

" At today's conference, Wolf and a colleague demonstrated three SurvivaBall mockups, and described how the units will sustainably protect managers from natural or cultural disturbances of any intensity or duration. The devices - looking like huge inflatable orbs - will include sophisticated communications systems, nutrient gathering capacities, onboard medical facilities, and a daunting defense infrastructure to ensure that the corporate mission will not go unfulfilled even when most human life is rendered impossible by catastrophes or the consequent epidemics and armed conflicts.

"It's essentially a gated community for one," said Wolf.

Dr. Northrop Goody, the head of Halliburton's Emergency Products Development Unit, showed diagrams and videos describing the SurvivaBall's many features. "Much as amoebas link up into slime molds when threatened, SurvivaBalls also fulfill a community function. After all, people need people," noted Goody as he showed an artist's rendition of numerous SurvivaBalls linking up to form a managerial aggregate with functional differentiation, metaphorically dancing through the streets of Houston, Texas."

Microbians!!!

Argentinians and futbol are good friends.
Wanna watch some sweet cocacola spots for the Argentinian market during the world cup?
Here they are: Thanks to LOLA.
Hope you get the fantastico español!

Ver anuncio Coca-Cola – Rivalidades. 6 Mb. Quicktime Ver en Youtube. (versión diferente)
Ver anuncio Coca-Cola – Murciélagos. 2 Mb. Quicktime. Ver en Vimeo.
Ver anuncio Coca-Cola – Microfans 3 Mb. Quicktime. Ver en Vimeo
ver anuncio Coca-Cola – Cubito de Hielo. 2Mb. Quicktime. Ver en Vimeo.
Ver anuncio Coca-Cola – Abuelo. 2 Mb. Quicktime. Ver en Vimeo.
Ver anuncio Coca-Cola – Electricista. 2 Mb. Quicktime.Ver en Vimeo.
Ver anuncio Coca-Cola – Calzoncillos de la Suerte. 2 Mb. Quicktime. Ver en Vimeo.
Ver anuncio Nissan – Toys. 6 Mb. Quicktime. Ver en Youtube.

Pearls of Wisdom

Miguel bose- Brian Eno connection!

Brian Eno es el maestro! Miguel bose is one hot spanish dude! FRRRreaking hot! Anyhow....both were GLAM rockstars in their respective countries back in the British glam days. I can see now were did Bose found his inspiration. I really enjoy the "here comes the warm jets" album. He is one hot mutha! The awosome Brian Eno:

the very funny uzbeks

Super late news from this
side of the pond:
BORAT!!!!!
I like!!! sexy times!!!
and controversy

JOCK!

I have heard many times the term "jock" from several friends as a way to describe a pretty but stupid male. I called them "tonto hermoso" in spanish, but there is a term used often in the states for such pretty but pretty much dumb individuals: the jock. I still find really interesting the fact that an athlete is sinonimous of dumb. Equally that dumb athlete has to with being a womanizer. I think jocks are jocks by choice...so they and the jock lovers are aware of how the jock lifestyle plays into their pleasure. Besides all gay porn is full of "jockness", so it is appealing to men...dumb creatures are prefered.

Jock has several meanings.

- In American English it is a slang term for an athlete, typically one thought of as stupid. This term is especially common in secondary schoolss and college. The stereotypical Jock is obsessed with sports. It may have come from 'jock strap', slang for 'athletic supporter'.

- In American English it is also a slang term for the penis. This meaning may be related to the previous definition, because an athletic Jock is considered to have a higher level of testosterone, the male hormone.

two faced.

THIS COLLABORATION IS CRAZY!

FREAK!

Europe switching pop icons:
from Kylie Minogue to an isladic freak called Silvia Night.
What a freak!....unapologetic, and cocaine dazed....crazy "cindy lauper ripoff "with a thick accent...I don't get it! This circus is so cheap that makes me wonder who feels inspired by this cheap trick? anyhow...pop music for the numb minds arround the globe. Pop music is pop music: the best and the worse of culture in a can.

easy target

A new USA scandal is on its way...This time the war on Iraq is going to face the ghosts of Vietnam civil involment...There is a video and of course some "interested" people involved.

Call me german...

...Beatiful movie.
Go to the movies section of the website, and then look for "everybody loves a german".

babes in slow motion

Sensorial stuff is powerful when it contains purely sex...
Editorial designers know it well...the promise of sex allows a world of posibilities...Justice for all!
pretty feminine forms captured elegantely.
We need some men, men!

Faces of the world

hello web world!
I have been taken by aliens for some months...
I'm here back making contact with the weird awesome stuff that I get my neurons into.
have you wondered how your cousins will look like if your parents brother's and sister's were totally awesome and got in bed with who the liked... Anyhow. This project shows the awesomeness of cultural megalopolis and genes only if....
all people reproduced. The example is in Pamplona, Spain.

Going Muslim on globalization

What is up with Muslim Fundamentalists?!!!
Are they so blind by the logic of faith that they fail to see that they are just doing exactly what make them the worse case for society and beliefs? Those "protesters" are just making the cartoon even more forceful and clear for "westerners".
I just can't believe that other Muslim don't say anything about the insanity of this protesters making such a mess against the FREEDOM that we share in "western territories". That stupid faith should stay in Muslim territories if can not deal with the liberties of others overseas! If they want hermetism have it! Isolate yourselves from development by not being able to evolve! First faith and the reason?!
Are they forgetting that countries that are not governed by religious systems can do as they wish....A thing called democracy. They just don't get freedom of thought or freedom of beliefs, or any freedom! Talking about polarizing people against them!

Cool

The video is what I call the cool in nothing. The still image I extracted from the video is just so rich that I can not stop loving it.
This website is just amazing.

corazon roto

Call it stress, call it love...It breaks hearts!

the bagel and you

I was thinking in Manuela my friend from Austria and I had to look this up. The bagel!
"The origin of the bagel is up for debate, although it seems to have early taken a foothold in Poland. The first printed mention occurs in Krakow, in 1610 in a list of community regulations that stipulate that bagels are to be given to pregnant women. (Interestingly, given the bagel's association as a 'Jewish' food, there is no mention of religion in this regulation-apparently Christian women ate bagels as well). Others support the theory that an Austrian baker created a stirrup (or 'beugal') made out of dough to give to the King of Poland in 1683, in thanks for his help in defeating the Turks, and in honor of his great horsemanship. (Other German variations of the word are: 'beigel', meaning 'ring', and 'bugel', meaning bracelet.)"

Bjork drunk and loving cats

I have always had a good feeling for her work...
My significant other liked my Bjork look alike face when we met. At that time I had what I reffer to as a more "Bjrkolian look": short dark hair. I'm happy just to hear her sing and loving all that is alive. What a wonderful artist. She makes me happpYYYYYYYY! Check out the other non bjork videos on that website!

Guilt therefore drama

Herein the social being and sex after a Woody Allen experience.
I saw today "match point" the latest Woody Allen Movie. Woody Allen is pretty good in defying and exposing conventionality through his movies. I liked the movie. A little extreme... I think the end is way to dramatic...Probably to make a point about luck and fairness, and how far can those be from moral ideals. But really really creepy scenarios if one considers how many people fall in the hands of lust. Morality is tricky when lies give appearance of control. When a person becomes instrumental to other, dynamics are then only means to gain control. Lust exist no mater social conventions. I would dare to say that lust is only based on prohibition of those same conventions: the allure of the illicit: the borderline of darkness. How much people are willing to take desire as a test to all that they are? A test of how free they can be from the rule of "the others"? From getting all without giving anything?

Noses and stuff

As a designer sometimes I need a lot of useless stuff....Hopefully in digital form so I only clutter my head for a few minutes. Good place to find stuff...

MOVIES!

or in this case
SHORTS!
SUNDANCE
FILM
FESTIVAL
I recomend supermarket love song...I'm definetly more a shorts person than a movie person.

R.I.P.

I read the whale ordeal in different online news papers around the world.
It is interesting how different the story is told accordingly to the country's audience.
My favorite.

Can you hear me?

Technology fused with jackets (still to casual to call it fashion) is now available for cold weather inhabitants.

So beautiful!

There is something about utilitarian clothes with a girly attitude that I find so whimsical. ZERO a dry and blunt approach to uniform style from a girly attitude. Simple with heart, and sensibility, not the empty luxe of the minimalism from the 90's.
Maria Cornejo/ZERO is one of my favorite designers. The image has a link to previous collections and the ZERO website. Here is the SPRING COLLECTION
Here is the link of my favorite ZERO collection up to date

lola and chia duermen

Trajan

weird, informative, and kind of funny.

Simple yet complex

interesting work

the current system of freedom and slavery

In the cover story, leading feminist writer Joan Smith provides a telling investigation into the extent of sex trafficking into the UK. She argues that, while lad culture may have decreed that prostitution is respectable, many men might wittingly or otherwise be committing rape for having sex with women compelled into prostitution.

Minneapolis the most fun city in the USA, EVER!

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

"the goal was to find a city that is an "outrageously fun experience with something for everyone." Minneapolis won because it's the home of Mary Tyler Moore, four professional sports teams, and the best mall in America. Minneapolis has more theaters than Boston, more parks than Denver, more golfers per capita than any other city in America, and with 10,000 lakes in the state, Minnesota, has more coastline than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined. It even has 15 dog parks. Woof! Cranium CEO Richard Tait said, "It's almost a no-brainer" to crown Minneapolis the Most Fun City."

The good samaritan

Website dedicated to showcase design work for social causes.

War, money, and religion

I read this morning some news about Iran and Iraq confronting each other close to some geographic point that has always been cause for disputes. It seems that Iraq has fallen into the state of limbo that creates conditions for Iran to take over those regions. I guess the latest nuclear developments in Iran is a reason for many to fear: specifically any efforts in making Iraq wholesome. I foresee this situation as the next war...I'm so sorry that the Arabic region is maintained through the cohesion of a system of belief so strong and absurd as (any) religion and the power of the arms. It seems to me that those countries are still governed like many regions in my home country: Colombia. The power of oil (in Colombia's case: cocaine) plus the power of violence gives "legitimacy" to some sort of crooked "democracy". At least in Colombia women have way more freedoms than women in the Arabic/Persian region. Religion plays a huge role in making people be submissive to abusive power,without any challenge. South America is very religious but not to the point of choosing a self imposed exclusion from the rest of the world,human freedoms, or the capitalist establishment. Still religion makes people behave abandoning life to a superior being...Not taking reponsability of their lives or other's lives. That is a crucial element of poverty and underdevelopment in many countries. That and the institutionalizing of exclusion of people from a competitive level of education locally and internationally.

Anyhow...Whether the news are a fact or not the reference to the past makes a strong precedent for future "incidents".War in the Persian land is getting closer.

Slow down

I have problems understanding that I need 8 Hours of sleep, when those same 8 hours can be used for something creative. I guess it is a non cool trait that all that are productive share in capitalist times. There are plenty of urban getways that will be happy to see some money spent in "free times".
Too much perhaps.

The Swiss, yummy!

Awesome tourism campaign for Switzerland.

burning Paris every once in a while

I have been pretty much amazed by how one of the first world countries; France, deals with immigrants. France is not dealing with what I think is the cause of the the isolation of some by mainstream culture..."Minorities" in France are not "French", because to be French is to cease to be many things in favor of "Frenchness" (what it is only those very proud french would know). To understand one self as "French" one should abandon whatever is not French...And of course that might be anything that might be "unacceptable" by "French" standards. Let's say that the most recognizable trait of "unfrechness" is to be poor... "Mais oui!" might say some...not understanding that integration consists in being flexible about the way oneself, (french), or one's culture (French) might change when there are immigrants...Difficult topic in deed, moreover when French have resisted even integration to "equal" Europeans, in the European Union, by the fear of loosing the frenchness.
I ask my self: Is it possible to be "minority" and French at the same time? "Mais oui!" might say some... But the reality says otherwise. During the early construction of the city states in Europe's late middle ages, in Paris was illegal for many to wear clothes that belonged to the few that had the power: wigs and moles! Mon dieu! Yes! At early stages of "frenchness" development those that decided who belonged and how did not, did it based on how far from muddy environments was the individual...not much has changed...and frenchness is still defined by "the location on the mole on the face"!. Social Mobility is regarded as a European right: for some europeans...and almost inexistant for those who are not. A good book about this topic.
Social Mobility for minorities (non french individuals) is not part of the idea of "frenchness". It might have it's exceptions, of course...but France is failing to offer that possibility to many.. I'm afraid that is the case in many day to day situations against what logic might say. (E.G.:age is one of the most common elements in labor selection: age discrimination is perfectly OK for employees in France,contributing to classism within european citizens). And let's keep in mind that a resume has to offer the very specific schools that only some attend being born in european territory: not very open for integration of minorities. Affirmative action anybody? I love some of the "french" traits...but to marry that perspective of "rightness" to the point of killing rationality, and succumbing to neglect real inequalities?

Rioting by some rebellious minorities, is of course fuel for the antimmigration policies. Silly silly immigrants (sans papiers) if they think that using violence anything will change in their favor.

Now,the burden is in France's government as director of "justice" and "frenchness". Are those good values that make part of the french identity going to spoils for keeping the "Frenchmen" away from the reality that the many non French experience in France? Why is it that Minorities in the US or other European cities don't go on a rampage for lack of opportunities? May be because there are options to achieve social mobility through effort or maybe not...

My point is: cultural identity has to do with the level of integration of one self and others to a common idea. Cultural identity is a construct of a group in relation to other. Men to Women, child to adult, Frech to non French...In that sense when an identity is in conflict with other identity might be for the lack of possibilities of integration, and lack of balance. Any effort to extinguish the conflict by hiding symptoms rather than attack the cause is futile.
The following is a series of reports on the state of affairs with Minorities in France form the BBC:

"In 2002 Abdel and Mohamed Djaiziri bought a small supermarket chain in one of bleakest of these estates, Les Pyramides - named after one of Paris' glitziest areas.

The Tunisian brothers then did a fateful thing. They turned the supermarket, affiliated to the Franprix chain, into a halal shop.

It was purely a business a decision, they insist: In a predominantly Muslim area, there was no point stocking pork or alcohol that would stay on the shelf.

"When a shopkeeper has a range of 15,000 products available to him, he will choose those that will sell," Abdel Djaiziri said in a recent interview."

But the mayor felt the move contributed to creating a ghetto by making life difficult for non-Muslims, and tried to get the store closed on health grounds."

art, peace at the top

I guess if one has made millions, it only makes sense that the next thing to do is to find peace by giving others a little tea...

"In New York, a Frenchman has taken tea to another level: he practices the tea ceremony in a wooden hut and Japanese garden he designed and built on the rooftop of his Manhattan townhouse. What's more, Pierre Sernet takes his act on the road, using an open-air, cube-shaped teahouse he designed. Sernet is a banker-turned-performance artist, and he performs the ancient Japanese tea ceremony in exotic locations and spreads a message of acceptance and peace in the process.

He calls his act, "Guerilla Tea." He has brewed and served tea in places ranging from the Thar Desert in India to the Great Wall in China to Niteroi, Brazil. He sets up his portable teahouse and invites local strangers to share a cup of tea and a tranquil moment."

Cartography as a tool of domination

Whenever I stumble upon this map, I can not stop thinking in the madness in human nature and how political power shapes ideas across many cultures.
"The Mercator projection creates increasing distortions of size as you move away from the equator. As you get closer to the poles the distortion becomes severe. Cartographers refer to the inability to compare size on a Mercator projection as "the Greenland Problem." Greenland appears to be the same size as Africa, yet Africa's land mass is actually fourteen times larger (see figure below right). Because the Mercator distorts size so much at the poles it is common to crop Antarctica off the map. This practice results in the Northern Hemisphere appearing much larger than it really is. Typically, the cropping technique results in a map showing the equator about 60% of the way down the map, diminishing the size and importance of the developing countries"

What's stronger: Jaws or brains?

A woman gets eaten by sharks. That is a sad story for humans in deed, specially for the deceased's "church group". Now, how is that after the shark attack, trying to find the "guilty" sharks, killing them and trying to find pieces of the woman is going to change the fact that sharks are carnivorous animals? The shark community will be happy to take a few out of the water, more food for the other sharks! That solution is just senseless! How is that taking the life of some sharks is going to help humans to become more respectful towards animal territory or animal instinct. Call me a "shark huger" but I think the efforts of finding predators after they do what they do to very inopportune humans wondering, swimming , hunting in their territory is just futile, and completely out of the scope of the real solution: don't swim where there are sharks!
Or get a strong cage!

The dragon and the little cricket

Microsoft "unplugged" a website from the world wide web, only because the government of China asked to censor a Chinese user....Interesting news, where Chinese laws (censorship) and Mutinational interest get mixed. Microsoft being an American (supposedly free) enterprise has to obey Chinese censorship logic because of the fear of losing the Chinese market...A favor from Microsoft to the not very open Chinese government. Crazy!
"Michael Anti, also known as Zhao Jing, a researcher for The New York Times, wrote the Beijing-based blog, which featured coverage of subjects such as a string of cat murders in Shanghai that attracted the attention of the outside press. The blog was deleted New Year’s Eve."
"Former CNN correspondent Rebecca MacKinnon revealed in a posting on her own blog on Tuesday that Microsoft had removed the blog. She pointed out that Mr. Anti had recently covered a walkout called by journalists at the Beijing Daily News after several editors there were fired for writing about recent accounts of police shootings of protestors."

Rivers of silver and bood

When I was 16 years old I read a book tittled : "Las venas abiertas de America Latina" by Eduardo Galeano ... After more than a decade, it remains as one of the most forcefull books, reavealing dynamics of power and economics in multinational times. This book is very usefull for anybody that would like to understand the shift towards social governments in South America, the adoration of el CHE, or the latest president of Bolivia, as examples of solutions to post-colonialism (not for that being a factual solution).
The intro to the book. Spanish. English (very rough automatic internet translation)

ohhh so pretty!

I love this collection by Claudia Rosa Lukas.(AW56)
The underwear is fugly! And some of the fashion photos are freaky...
But again AW56 is beautifull!!!!!! Little red riding hood chic.

One of the best

One of the most impresive professionals in motion design:

Who's honor?

Dead by honor

A furious comment after reading that link's content: It seems that honor is a matter of MEN owning women! when is this crazy construct from stupidity going to end...? Why do we women have to put up with such imbecility? If men were murdered by women in the degree that honour murders happen, millions of women would be killed to protect men.
But in this male world, these murderers will stay alive after killing women "by honour". Civility only goes as far as it crashes with male interest....

from wikipedia:

Previously, honour figured largely as a guiding principle of society, functioning as part of a code of honour for a gentleman and often coming to expression in the practice of duelling. One's honour, that of one's wife, of one's (blood-)family or of one's beloved formed an all-important issue: the archetypal "man of honour" remained ever alert for any insult, actual or suspected: for either would impugn his honour.

The concept of honour appears to have declined in importance in the modern secular West. Popular stereotypes would have it surviving more definitively in alleged "hot-blooded" Mediterranean cultures (Italian, Arab, Iberian...) or in more "gentlemanly" societies (like the "Old South" of Dixie). Feudal or other agrarian societies, focused upon land use and land ownership, may tend to honour "honour" more than do deracinated industrial societies. Traces of the importance attached to honour linger in the military (officers may conduct a court of honour) and in organisations with military echoes, such as Scouting.

"Honour" in the case of females is frequently related, historically, to sexuality: preservation of "honour" equated primarily to maintenance of virginity, or at least to preservation of exclusive monogamy. One can speculate that feminism has changed some linguistic usage in this respect.

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Cultures of honour and cultures of law

It has been suggested that Changes in Honour be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)

One can contrast cultures of honour with cultures of law. From the viewpoint of anthropology, cultures of honour typically appear among nomadic peoples and herdsmen who carry their most valuable property with them and risk having it stolen, without having recourse to law enforcement or government. In this situation, inspiring fear forms a better strategy than promoting friendship; and cultivating a reputation for swift and disproportionate revengeMontesquieu to Steven Pinker have remarked upon the mindset needed for a culture of honour. increases the safety of one's person and property. Thinkers ranging from

Cultures of honour therefore appear amongst Bedouins, Scottish and English herdsmen of the Border country, and many similar peoples, who have little allegiance to a national government; among cowboys, frontiersmen, and ranchers of the American West, where official law-enforcement often remained out of reach, as is famously celebrated in Westerns; among the plantation culture of the American South, and among aristocrats, who enjoy hereditaryprivileges that put them beyond the reach of codes of law. Cultures of honour also flourish in criminal underworlds and gangs, whose members carry large amounts of cash and contraband and cannot complain to the law if it is stolen.

Once a culture of honour exists, it is difficult for its members to make the transition to a culture of law; this requires that people become willing to back down and refuse to immediately retaliate, and from the viewpoint of the culture of honour, this tends to appear to be an unwise act reflecting weakness.

Conceptions of honour vary widely between cultures; in some cultures, honour killings of (usually female) members of one's own family are considered justified if they have "defiled the family's honour" by marrying against one's wishes, or even by being the victims of rape. These honour killings are generally seen in the West as a way of men using the culture of honour to control female sexuality.

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Related concepts

In contemporary international relations, the concept of "credibility" resembles that of honour, as when the credibility of a state or of an alliance appears to be at stake, and honour-bound politicians call for drastic measures.

Compare the concepts of integrity, face (social custom) in stereotyped Oriental cultures, or of mana in Polynesian society.

For a similar concept with many connotations opposite to honour, see shame.

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Quotations

• "To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's". Pedro Crespo in Pedro Calderón de la Barca's The Mayor of Zalamea, 1st day.

• "... Honour ... remains awake in us like a last lamp in a temple that has been laid to waste." — Alfred de Vigny, Servitude et grandeur militaires (1835).

• "... during the time that the aristocracy was dominant, the concepts honour, loyalty, etc. were dominant, during the dominance of the bourgeoisie the concepts freedom, equality, etc." — Marx and Engels, The German Ideology.

• "We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst." — C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

• "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die..." — William Goldman, The Princess Bride

• "To die with honour, when one can no longer live with honour." — Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly

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Amazing!

astonishing! This guy is an excellent animator/designer. I'm in shock by the beauty in his work.

Seeeeeeeeeeeed

Great magazine content,
great design: pure science.

TV for contemporary people

This is the web channel from the WALKER art center. The Walker is one of the best museums of contemporary art in the world. These are the broadcasts from previous lectures on art, culture and design issues held at the WAC. Priceless!

Crazy man with millions, go figure!

New Blog

Some friends and I had to create a blog as an assignment... what a better excuse to create a collective of girls! wee. The mothership has landed!