o2 Architecture has teamed up with prefab developers Blue Sky Homes to construct a sustainable, modestly scaled residence to serve as a prototype for a prefabricated line of homes. This 1,000 sq. ft. home is located in the the Mojave Desert 4,000 above sea level which is just sitting on 6 columns. This home provides a modern yet stylish home that can be made to order, yet still be affordable to met your needs. You can watch the video below on the homes design and construction. If you want to see more photos of the home, then you can check it out on Contemporist.
I found a black and white clock with a minimal design and I want one. It's currently is just a concept but I could see this product becoming a reality. One because of the design and two because of the simplicity and three because people love clocks. Each figure in this clock set has a self-contained power supply and independent control, it can be fixed to any surface autonomously. Their is also a light sensor that will switch the clock to an invert mode: the figures are white in the dark time of the day and black at the daytime.
This is going to be a hot show, not because it's in Tampa but because it has some great talent heating up the dance floor. The Identity Festival is a one day festival packed full of great electronic music. The line up for the Tampa show is off the hook with acts like Kaskade, Pretty Lights, DJ Shadow, Steve Aoki, The Crystal Method and more... Tickets are still available for this festival if you have the time to take off work or school on a Wednesday. If you can make it out, I will see you there. If you want to see what you'll be missing check out the video below.
Let me introduce to you the Pentax Q-Black , the world's smallest and lightest digital camera with interchangeable lenses. It's only 3.9 x 2.3 x 1.2 with a 12.4 megapixel CMOS image sensor, capable of producing 12-bit DNG RAW and JPG images. You can even choose from a variety of specialty lenses which include prime, zoom and fisheye lenses... Some of the other features include HDR Capture, 1080p HD Videos, Sensor-Shift Shake Reduction, 3 inch LCD monitor, 5 FPS, Bokeh control filter and smart effects. Did I mention it could fit on your key chain as well.
The Table Drum Augmented Audio App allows iOS devices to turn that constant finger drumming into digitized drum sounds, in real time. The app works like a drum pad instead of the other apps out there where you have to tap the screen to trigger a sound. All you have to do now is tap away anywhere you like and the app uses the microphone to listen for the taps from your fingers. It can distinguish between 4 different sounds. So the sound of your finger tapping your desk at work could be the bass, while tapping on your coffee cup could be your high hats.
If I had an iPhone I would definitely get this app so I could annoy my coworkers around me with my sweet drumming skills. This apps is now http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifavailable at the iTunes Store for $3.99, so if you have an iPhone get this app today and start virtually drumming away.
Sorry for the short notice, but I will be playing again at The Hookah Lounge in Clearwater on August 20th from 10pm - 2am. You should come on out and hear some good ambient/indie/dubstep for the evening while you enjoy your delicious hookah. They have 65 different flavors of Shisha for the picking. It's $15.00 bucks for unlimited and $8.00 for a single. If you haven’t been, it's well worth checking out. See you there!
I've stumbled upon SR692 and his large collection of retro Swissair poster designs today. I'm not going to lie but their are some seriously good designs up in this collection. Most of these poster designs came from the 30's to the 80's, which are archived on the site.
What I like about this collection is the simplicity of each design. They utilize the generic airplane icon, a headline and the Swissair logo making for a minimally designed style. You can't go wrong with that. If you want to know more on the Swiss Airlines logo. I know that Wanken did a whole post on Swissair: Behind the Logos interesting read. You can find it on ISO50.
Broken Time Machines, which is Alex Varanese musical side project has just released the first single "The Ghost of Mission Street". It's a six-minute exploration of spacey, dreamy pop melodies with a glitch of electro and layered percussion. Not only does this track have a unique but day dreaming quality, it's also accompanied by a surreal and believable location with less-than believable details, such as the deconstructing jetliner seen through a concrete atrium.
I think this is a great combination of art and music brought into this project and I look forward to hearing more tracks by Broken Time Machines. If you want to check out more of Alex's work I highly suggest it. Don't forget to download your copy of The Ghost of Mission Street.
FP7 is an ad agency that was looking for some promotional posters for an event as well as to hand out to the clients. The idea behind these posters was to base the posters on key insights about the agency world, that would make someone think. In the terms of design though, Ryan Atkinson and Steve De Lange went with the classic but edgy look using typography and the grid system to generate these minimal promotional posters. The agency wanted to have posters that the clients or future employee would want to keep. If I worked for this company I would definitely want a couple of these posters. If you want to check out more posters in this series you can find them on Behance
