Dgenetics Musics is a self-contained music management company specializing in the development, production, and promotion of both recorded music and live music performances. They created this awesome video promoting their newest release GENERATION V. Directed by Drew Innis & animated by Born.
It’s like Thundercats and Power Rangers (the first season!) in one… which can only be a good thing!
This 2009 tear-off calendar is a great idea and an excellent gift for designers. Typodarium brings daily typographic inspiration to creative types around the world. This is the first tear-off calendar showcasing 365 different fonts. Discover a new font everyday, learn the background behind its creation and several other interesting details.
Typodarium 2009 (368 pages, size 8.5 x 12 cm, € 16.80)
Buy Typodarium
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Let’s face it: Online ads are eyesores—even when they don’t suddenly become animate and seize control of your screen. To our rescue comes a conceptual artist named Steve Lambert, with an idea to spread art at the cost of advertisers. “I’ve always had an eye for ads, but wondered why they were there,” says Lambert, the crusading founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency. He designed a free Firefox extension, aptly named Add-Art, which replaces web ads with curated artworks. Imagine, in the corner of your browser window, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece instead of an American Apparel faux-art ad. Now that’s thinking outside the box.
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One of the biggest photo collections in the world that ranges from the 1880s through to the seminal moments of the 20th century and on into the present day was made available to the public online by Google.
The bulk of the archive is from LIFE magazine, the premier platform for photojournalists in the 20th century. About 10m images will be available, from Marilyn Monroe and JFK to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. About 97% of the pictures have never been seen before, like the photo above where actor-director Woody Allen is playing Black Jack, in Las Vegas (1966).
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Prisoners in Greek prisons are deprived of basic human rights and dignity as human beings. This has led to an unprecedented wave of hunger strikes, that has been sweeping all Greek prisons from the 3rd of November, whereas the mainstream media hold total silence on the issue.
Bloggers unite and fight back for Democracy and defense of basic human rights. A call in the Greek blogosphere arises, urging every blogger simultaneously to communicate, publish or sign the following text on the 20th November :
“The situation in Greek prisons is unacceptable. Radical changes in the prison system should be a first priority”.
Karolos Papoulias, Head of State, 6/11/08“We are human. Prisoners but still human, I tell you”.
Vangelis Pallis, prisoner, 9/11/08
From November 3rd, all detainees in prisons throughout the country are on a hunger strike, claiming what should be respected, but is not : their lost dignity. What they face is the criminal silence of the mainstream media and the indifference of the political leadership. To this silence and political practices all we who sign this text DO NOT CONSENT.
The conditions in Greek prisons are unspeakable and may be understood only by the cold language of mathematics. In the supposedly reformatory institutions of the country a total of 417 detainee deaths were recorded over the past decade, while the rate has literally taken off to such a degree, that every month four people die in the hands of the State. Capacity in Greek prisons reaches 168% (10,113 detainees for 6019 spaces) with a ratio of minimum space for each man in some cases reaching 1square meter, while the daily public spending per prisoner is the meager 3.60 €. Prison cells are miserable, reminiscent of medieval times and health care is almost non - existent. At the same time, the Greek judicial system sends in prison one in every thousand of the overall population, while detainees without trial (in custody) are up to the 30% of the total number of prisoners. If quality of our Democratic system of governance is characterized by its prisons, then our Democracy is in crisis. If detainment is a penalty imposed for criminal behaviors by the State in the name of society, then in the case of Greek prisons we should all be accountable and most responsible of all, the Authorities. Facing such a reality all we who sign this text respond NOT IN OUR NAME.
The data revealed by official bodies for Greek prisons outline inhuman conditions of detention. According to a recent Report of the European Committee on the Prevention of Torture (2007), has found incidents of torture and inhuman treatment of prisoners, threats against their life along with series of violations in relation to their conditions of detention, deficits in investigating and punishing the perpetrators, incidents of violence in collusion with doctors and prison-guards and unacceptable health and medical care conditions. The European Court of Human Rights has issued a series of decisions, convicting the Greek state regarding abuse and / or other rights’ violations of prisoners by prison Authorities. The Greek National Commission on Human Rights has taken a decision – catapult, noting human rights’ abuses in Greek prisons and suggesting certain direct actions to resolve them. The Greek Ombudsman complains about the lack of cooperation with competent state Authorities, causing them literally to be banned from entering the country’s prisons for the last two years. The country’s bar associations, Non-Governmental Organizations, such as Amnesty International, and many political / social institutions unanimously denounce the unacceptable conditions in Greek prisons and call for greater cooperation to overcome the problem. If human rights are to be enjoyed by every human being, depriving it of detainees in Greek prisons, is an open wound for our society. In this situation those who sign this text agree to SMASH COMMUNICATION BARRIERS BETWEEN PRISONS AND SOCIETY.
Prisoners going on hunger strikes, resort to the last bastion of resistance left to them, their own life. A month before the strikes commenced, there has been a last call to the political leadership to solve their problems, as things were getting unbearable, but nothing happened. To stop the hunger strikes, prisoners have specific, realistic and decent demands that restore their lost dignity and recover their basic human rights.As a response to Greek prisoners’ mobilization the political leadership stands in indifference, acts only to make promises for the future and to repress their movements. Nevertheless, an indifferent stance of the political leadership at this stage will certainly mean dead hunger strikers. In these circumstances we say that we cannot remain passive waiting for the news of deaths from hunger strikes but we will stand by them. If the defense of democracy and human rights require the watchfulness of all of us, now is a chance for all, to take steps away from indifference and evasions of the problem.
Faced with the tension that prevails in prisons all over the country, we who sign this text consider the political leadership fully responsible for anything that will happen and demand both institutionally and in practice that BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL PRISONERS IN THE COUNTRY ARE GUARANTEED.”
A brilliant idea for an original totally different kind of city guide. It’s easy boring just to know where are the restaurants, the clubs or the museums. It’s even easier to ask for users, citizens of X city to add what they are interested in and contribute new “hot spots” for other users to find.
But.. where to go when you feel energetic? Where to go when you feel romantic? Where to go when you feel naughty? Now, there the right place.
One of American cult videoartist Bill Viola’s first and most beautiful pieces from 1979, intriguing, mysterious, primeval.
Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. With a career spanning 35 years his significant contribution to the genre of video art is today widely acknowledged on the international stage.
(thnx G.!)
Greek Graphic Designers Association in its effort to raise the Greek visual communication abroad cooperate with the magazine Newwebpick for the production of the new national issue of on-line magazine, “Connection: Made in Greece”. In this issue will show work and interviews authors from Greece.
The Newwebpick is one of the most famous design on-line magazines in the world with over 4,000,000 subscribers from 155 countries. The magazine raised all forms of visual communication. Graphic design, illustration, advertising, web design, animation, photography, and 3D design.
So far, they have cooperated with the magazine and have proceeded with on-line edition respective periodic many countries. Italy, France, Germany, Colombia, Egypt, and Bosnia are some of them.
Ideally the work to be displayed by the Greek community, should be pioneering and innovative features in the design, which may promote the Greek design in the global community.
The collection of works and management of the issue, will be done by the Union Grafiston Greece, and there is no cost to participate. As part of management or material Union is likely and, if need be to set up Consultative Committee on the evaluation of entries, and this will be communicated to the participants designers.
Camper wants to talk to you about a language you know very well: the language of imagination. That’s why they launched a project, which, just like the imagination, frees us, tickles us, and makes us take off. It is the Bank of Imagination.
Try it, imagine –using text, images or video, share, browse, meet people based on their imagination and even build on what others have imagined. You’ll find it all very self-explanatory at the Bank of Imagination. Once you open the page, you register, and you can fill the empty boxes with anything you can imagine.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” ~ Steve Jobs, The New York Times, 2003
Now, that’s something that goes in my Xmas wish list for sure! Designed in Tokyo by interior designers Rezon, this is their latest series, the ONOFF light-shade. Each is designed with a design that changes when switched on/off. Available at Tokyocube
“Stop the catastrophe. Greenpeace.”
Reminds me of an old PS3 ad.
Fantasy interactive (Fi), a creative services firm based in New York and Stockholm that boasts a client list full of big names like Porsche, Nintendo, Nordstrom, and National Geographic, flipped the switch on the alpha version of Kontain, a media-sharing site aimed at people who don’t have the patience or time to cut through the clutter of MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, or YouTube merely to share photos, videos, or other media–and otherwise “contain” their lives online (get it?).
Kontain is a free destination for visitors to blog and share photos, videos and audio with friends, family and even beautiful strangers. The launch of Kontain is a major milestone for Fi, and is the result of 10 years of company experience in the interactive and web industries.
This made me laugh. The above short film, in which a sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole and then greed gets the better of him, is made by Future Shorts, a short film label. The video got almost 550.000 YouTube views in two weeks time. More short films in the Future Shorts YouTube channel.
One of the things that keep me up working lots of hours is music (I bet the most of you out there agree). Miss Koula introduced me to a site dedicated to 60’s music lovers!
Popmeter, also known as Bonjour Mr.Phelps, is a jukebox that contains a selection of rare quality titles. Download and subscribe to Podcast via iTunes.
IGN has the first new footage from the new season. “Thank God for second chances”.
The isle of mystery returns Wednesday, Jan. 21.
Till then, Dharma wants you
According to iPhoneHellas.gr, version 2.2 of the iPhone firmware will be made available on November 21. The site says that the tipster is “reliable” but offered few details. Gizmodo calls the site “consistently reliable.”
There is still no word, of course, about the most requested and elusive of options: copy and paste.
Unfortunately no Greek landuage support :(
