In this wicked video from Philips corporation we see a concept of LED tattoos embedded in human skin that come alive when touched. This concept is based on real work done at the University of Pennsylvania. Scientists there are working on silicon-and-silk implantable devices that would act like a LED screen sitting just under the surface of the skin. The images would appear as a tattoo and be fully customizable. The silk substrate onto which the chips are mounted eventua… Continue
This totally cool video covers four semesters of geometry and trig in just over 4 minutes. But that's not what it really is about! Instead it uses the math and the beautiful music to illustrate the emotional relationships between two marbles - one yellow and one blue. The video is by Britta Johnson and th… Continue
The first museum in Italy to be devoted to modern works has finally opened in Rome. The MAXXI formally known as the National Museum of the XXI Century Arts. The facility has been under construction for a while and has not been warmly accepted by Italy's artistic elite. The country of course is home to an… Continue
This incredible dress was made out of 24,000 extremely thin 2mm x 2mm LEDs, thousands of tiny crystals to reflect the light, and enough batteries to power it for an hour. Called the GalaxyDress it is described as the "largest wearable display in the world". It is on display as the center piece of the "Fast Forward: Inventing the Future" exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The museum commissioned the dress for their permanent collection. Continue
The unusual artwork of David Buckingham is on display at the Packer Schopf gallery in Chicago until November 14th. Buckingham is from LA. He goes out to junkyards and into the desert where he scavenges for metal that he cuts, welds, and recycles into new and far more interesting forms. Here are a few of his p… Continue
This TED video is of Daniel Pink a former speechwriter for Al Gore and now a motivational speaker. He describes why the incentives used in business today do not work for creative tasks and outlines a new methodology that can produce far better results. From my own perspective he is dead on. I am far more motivated by autonomy and purpose than I am by the promise of a once-a-year bonus or raise. Most everyone here at theMet is creative in one way or another so I am very interes… Continue
This graphic (courtesy of Forbes) shows the locations and carbon emissions of the 200 dirtiest power plants in the world. I happen to live right under the red blob on the Ea… Continue
These videos by GoViral show some of the best European advertisements of 2008 that went viral. Most of these ads never appeared in the US and I never saw them until I came across these vids on the GoViral.com website. They show some really inventive work!
The ads are divided up into general categories and each video presents a different group. The one above is for Electronics. Here are the others.
Public Service and NGO (non-g… Continue
Added by Mark Huckabee on October 24, 2009 at 7:22am —
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World record for mattress dominoes (who knew there even was a category for this?) and also a very cool ad for the bedding company. Love these viral video ads! Continue
This is what all advertising should aspire to be! This is a terrific 5 minute video for Johnny Walker scotch. Who would think that we'd actually WANT to watch a 5 minute commercial? This one makes it worthwhile. Shot in one continuous sequence in the hills of Scotland this video is now going viral because it tells a compelling story in an entertaining way. Why can't other companies be this smart? Continue
A new ad campaign by Volkswagen has quickly gone viral. This terrific piece has been emailed, twitted, and linked a bazillion times in the last few days (and look now I'm blogging about it!). Created by ad agency DDB in Stockholm the campaign features entertainment first and product placement second. In fact the only mention of VW in this video comes at the very end. I believe this is the future of good advertising, giving people something truly entertaining and then letting t… Continue
Added by Mark Huckabee on October 12, 2009 at 5:00am —
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Alice first introduced us to this device in a blog post here. Now a lot more information has come out about this interesting tablet computer. This video shows a great deal more about the interface and uses that the device will support. It looks like a dream machine for anyone involved in creative work. When I was a student I would've killed for something like this. Now as so… Continue
G.M.B. Akash is a young Bangladeshi photojournalist. He is a true artist with the camera. But more than that he is a humanitarian. He photographs those on the edges of society focusing mainly on Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. He has won many, many awards and one of his photographs was even fea… Continue
At the Story Hotel in Stockholm guests book their rooms online, pay in advance, and receive a code via email or text message that gives them access to their rooms. What could be simpler?
The hotel was designed by the Swedish firm Koncept (website here). It o… Continue
Many of you have seen MUTO a grafitti-style animation created by Blu (blogged about here) and you may have also seen the stop-motion animations produced by David Ellis. Now they have collaborated on this piece of performance art. Filmed over ten days in Italy during the FAME festival it represents a huge amount of work. For… Continue
Added by Mark Huckabee on September 24, 2009 at 4:30am —
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Anyone who has watched an episode of The Big Bang Theory or Two-and-a-Half Men has seen the message flashed quickly on the screen at the end. These messages appear at the end of every episode of shows produced by Chuck Lorre. In addition to these two shows he also produced Dharma and Greg… Continue
Added by Mark Huckabee on September 22, 2009 at 9:05am —
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Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler at ETH Zurich have developed an industrial robot that can build walls. The robot called R-O-B is mounted on a flatbed trailer to allow it to move along the construction path. The brick wall will be constructed on Pike Street in New York, in full view of t… Continue
At the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show this week Volkswagen is displaying their new L1 diesel - electric hybrid that in testing has gotten 170 miles per gallon. This astounding achievement is made possible by the use of lightweight composite parts and extreme care with the aerodynamics.… Continue
This house sits on the banks of the river Loddon near Wargrave England but as you can see flooding sometimes causes it to sit directly IN the river. It was designed by the award-winning firm John Pardy Architects. Built as a one-off residence it is known as Hind House.
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A line of kitchen appliances designed by Karim Rashid for Slovenian appliance manufacturer Gorenje are on display at the IFA show in Berlin. They incorporate a band of color produced by LEDs that can be changed to suit the decor as shown below.
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