They’re baaaack! And our little friend has gone through some internal changes (my, my, they grow up so quickly):
- Video with sound
- Black & white mode
- Resolution: 2 MP 3 MP
- Macro: 10 cm 4 cm
- Camera face: White Mirror (ideal for self-portraits)
Digital Harinezumi 2 "mood in Central Park" from 2122748828 on Vimeo.
Okay, there is no headphone company out there that is more with it than AiAiAi. There are a few headphones out there now that are clear homages to skinny, minimal old school Walkman headphones: Koss Portapro, WeSC Pick-Ups – and of course there are also the authenticists I’ve seen around that rock the actual Walkman headphones. AiAiAi schools all of those guys and takes sound+design+pizazz to the next level!
In collaboration with Danish design studio, Kilo Design, they took the rad 80s look and added their own spins on it that would make even Marty McFly covet a pair. You know how when you normally get headphones, all you do is take it out of the box and that’s it? No fun with customization. With these, it comes disassembled (in a fun way) and you get to put it together yourself: the clean, brushed steel brace + 3 sets of sliders of various colors, to connect the ear cups to the brace + ear cups themselves. Included is a drawstring carrying case, because these headphones are just that easy to take apart and throw into a purse or murse. Another important feature of the Tracks is the built-in microphone for iPhone users, available in 3 out of the 6 available colorways.
Specs:
Driver: 40mm
Plug: 3.5mm
Impedance: 32 Ohm
Sensitivity: 112 +/- 3dB
Max. Input: 40 mW
Mic Operating Voltage: 3-10V
Check out the gallery below and get in on the good stuff. Shipping and in-store now!
One wall in Paris. 5 years of graffiti. Whipped into a 3D animation by Serge Gainsbourg.
40 years after his sex symbolism, and he has still not lost his cool.
Serge Gainsbourg - animation des graffitis sur 5 ans du mur rue de Verneuil from Arnaud Jourdain on Vimeo.
It’s that time of the year again when Field Notes Brand releases their new colorway for the season, and this time, it’s called JUST BELOW ZERO and features three beautiful icy-cold colors with special metallic inks. They’re en-route to us now and we should have them any minute, but as always, you can make your pre-orders now for shipping (select JUST BELOW ZERO in the drop-down) or pickup in-store.
Also, we still have a few packs of the Mackinaw Autumn colorway left!
The internet seems to be the world’s hard drive. Bye-bye photographs – there’s a copy on Facebook; bye-bye documents – there’s a copy on GoogleDocs. Zach Gage sought to play with the seeming permanence of web data by creating a site that marginally changes with every unique visitor – ultimately becoming a blank page:
Unlike personal data however, data on the internet has a seemingly infinite shelf-life. Between search-engine caching, cloud-hosting, re-blogging, plagiarizing, and the way-back machine, the net collects and eternally stores vast amounts of information.
Temporary.cc eschews this paradigm. For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website’s code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be truly indexed, as any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modifiy it.
Eventually, like tangible media, Temporary.cc will fall apart entirely, becoming a blank white website. Its existence will be remembered only by those who saw or heard about it.
As Heraclitus observed, “You can not step twice into the same river” – the river is constantly flowing, constantly changing, therefore the water flowing past your feet 1 minute ago is not the same water as right now. There’s also that part of all of us that likes to make our presence known to future frequenters of a location (e.g. “Tony wuz here 6/12/98″ etched into a park bench) Of course Zach Gage has a much cooler, more interactive way of demonstrating the ever-changing river/bench that we know as the internet.
Make a difference here: Temporary.cc
There’s a Tim Burton retrospective at MoMA from the 22nd of November running aaaalllll the way to April 26th. As if there wouldn’t be enough people dying to go see it, Tim Burton created a 30-second video to be aired on TV and online, including a Burtonized MoMA logo. Since we all have to wait until March 2010 for his version of Alice in Wonderland, this retrospective should keep us satiated for the time being. Check out the Burton video below:
Via MoMA/P.S.1′s sweet new blog
Schadenfreude
[shahd-n-froi-duh]/[ˈʃɑd
nˌfrɔɪdə]
n. Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
1890–95; < German, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy
Schopenhauer once said, “To feel envy is human, to savor schadenfreude is devilish.”
Except sometimes most of the time, because it’s hilarious. That’s why FAIL Blog has been so successful.
But the creator of FAIL Blog does have a sweeter side – now he’s created SUCCEED Blog, to counterbalance “HAHA that’s so messed up!” with “HAHA that’s so awesome!”
Endorsed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, design and architecture studio mode:lina has created a sonic installation made of a hanging entanglement (in the shape of a cloud) of corrugated pipes, each serving as an amplifier that emits sounds accumulating around its actual position. This project was largely inspired by the concept of Audioarchitektura (Sonicarchitecture), which the studio describes as:
A utopian vision of a city that cannot be heard. An innovative system of sound emission, which isolates people from the unbearable audiosphere of crowded streets, traffic and all the noise that unnaturally has become an inseparable part of our life. Invisible Sonic-buildings, spread along the sidewalks, in parks and boulevards, emitting sound waves that drown out the city noise. Passer-by walking in their range are surrounded by the sound of hypnotic composition of Steve Reich’s concert, broadcasted live from the concert hall or a melody of raindrops falling on the tin roofs of urban buildings. Today this is a utopian technology, but Sonic Architecture is also a basis for discussion on acoustic ecology, city’s acoustic landscape and its impact on the inhabitants.
Having been born and raised in New York City, there is something deeply comforting to me about the incessant sound of honking cars, the click-clack of a businessperson against , and the hustle and bustle of a metropolis. Even at sleep-away camp in the mountains of Colorado, I would lie awake at night, unable to fall asleep because I was unsettled by the sound of nothingness (and a nearby creek), and longed for the sound of a car alarm. On rainy nights, the sound of raindrops falling down on our covered wagons (yes, wagons=bunks; 4 kids per wagon) sort of sufficed, but there’s still something so different about the sound of rain blanketing the city, when urbania is still audible but sounds miles away. What I needed in Colorado at age 12 was a couple of these mp3s of the many seemingly insignificant little sounds that make up the sound of a city:
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If you’re ever in Poland, the installation is on display at SPOT./ in Poznań.
Just a quick note here of something interesting I came across. You know the WeSC Alp Horn headphones we’ve been carrying for a while? Well, I just came across a photo by Jonathan Mutch on Flickr of the B&O U70 headphones. Look familiar? Hmm WeSC, not to bash you, but looks like your design wasn’t so original after all. I’m a big design geek, so I’m more mad at myself for not recognizing that earlier…
