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Flap to Freedom

Help a battery hen race to freedom. Flap your arms, the harder you flap, the faster it goes. Created for the V&A Village Fete at ico design.

chrisoshea.org/projects/flap-to-freedom
icodesign.co.uk/chicken

Blood Is The New Black

I am super over screen printed shirts and then sites like this come along that totally re-kindle my love fetish. Blood Is The New Black is a bad website with some great artists and really good prices on shirts. Get them before they get ripped off by H&M.

Miroslav Tichý

"...After the communist overthrow in 1948 the young and promising world of the artist begins to tremble. Not willing to subordinate himself to the political system and follow the dicdates of Socialist Realism, he soon becomes an outsider. Noticeably he fails to cope with the repression under the communist system his resistance however never ceases. In opposition to the total integration of the individual into the ideologically tightly structured society he reponds with the negation of their social values. In the 1960s Miroslav Tichý, who is the son of a gentlemen's tailor, begins to neglect his appearance to such an extent, that his clothes fall from his body in rags. In his small home town he is increasingly being avoided as a derelict critic of the system. During this period he begins his photographic expeditions..."

Welcome to the amazing world of Miroslav Tichý .

Graphical House

Graphical House is a Glasgow based studio that is showing some hot work. I dont quite fancy their website but their portfolio is strong.

Outdated: Polaroid Art Show

If you're in Chicago this weekend you should stop by the Country Club Collective gallery for the Polaroid Show.

Friday and Saturday, August 15th and 16th, 6-10pm
After sixty years, Polaroid Corporation has announced that it is discontinuing the production of all instant films. OUTDATED is an art show intended to honor and commemorate the magic of Polaroid instant film. Celebrating sixty years of instant photography. 150 artists, 900 Polaroid photographs.

Cannondale G-Star Raw

It's been out for a while, but Cannondale recently released this cool bike from a limited edition - G-Star Raw, connecting the Bad Boy series look with a classic old bikes feel

Bacardi To Give Music Away

Bacardi, the beverage manufacturer, is launching a record label of sorts that commissions songs from artists and will make them available as free MP3 downloads. The Bacardi Bat Project gets its name from the bat symbol that adorns their bottles -- originally a nod to the fact that the original Bacardi distillery in Cuba apparently had a bat colony living nearby.

check this

•( Motion( graphics) design) •

Rob Millington

Source: MEDIAONEunltd

That Go!

That Go is Noel Paul and Stefan Moore, two fresh graduates of the DXArts, the Center for Digital Arts at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Their first music videos are two nice treats.

Watch Thunderheist - Jerk it (MPEG-4)

Watch Sophisticated Side Ponytail (Flash Video)

Source: NoFatClips

We Are Phi Tee Design

We are Phi design tees based on the golden ratio and aperiodic tiling. Their first design in the series is available now, and very sweet it is too. Each tee is printed on American Apparel FJ 2001 for a 100% ring spun cotton fine fit and with plastisol inks for a high-quality finish. Each tee comes in a gift box, individually numbered limited edition including a badge and print card.

Can Coca-Cola (and Social Media Tech) Save Lives?

For the past few weeks a campaign has been filtering through the blogosphere with exciting speed, reaching the likes of Inhabitat.com, BrandRepublic Treehugger.com and WorldChanging.com.

The ColaLife Campaign started as one man's idea; to tap into the hugely powerful distribution muscles of multi-nationals such as Coca-Cola, and ask them to distribute medicines to dying children in developing countries. Through a simple group on Facebook, ColaLife Campaign founder Simon Berry has gained international support and is now in conversations with Coca-Cola! The power of social networking is truly alive! To support the campaign, please join the Facebook Group!

I met the Walrus

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.
This short film came out last year and was even a candidate for an Oscar (which, evidently, it didn't win). The reason why I'm posting it now is that it finally became available through youtube (around a month ago, actually). SO by all means DO enjoy. It is great in many different ways. And if you would like to read more about it visit the official site