Best Coast: Nice cover the famous Indie Band

Ralph Lauren? Making bikes?

http://thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1793/ralph-lauren-bikes--rlx

So true

VERY INSPIRING

Green Velvet Music Video

MOTION GRAFFITI ? GIF GRAFFITI ?

Watch these graffities animated in gif format:

http://www.geekiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Glasgow1-600.gif

WETSTERN GOD

The always controversial work of Lachapelle now focuses in a modern approach of religiosity. Taking an icon like MJ who dared to sacrifice his own color skin to send a certain message to the world. Maybe crazy, mayby eccentric, but certainly BIG and timeless as a message.





But this isn't the first time we see this approach on religiosity. Vanessa Becroft shows a less naive and more ironic approach to it. A virgin is feeding to black babies reflecting the
paternalism of the western culture over the african people. Again the combination of black and white skin color throws out the message that beyond skin colors there's God.

In a way MJ had also the idea of sending a bigger than life message when he changed his color skin too.

Street Art finds a unique canvas

Find more on this link:

http://www.zeutch.com/graphik/vhils-12902

LIFE AFTER YOUTUBE

YOUTUBE celebrates its fifth Aniversary.
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim didn't imagine what that project they were developing in 2005 would become in just one year. Didn't had a clue that Google was a year away of offering them 1.6 Billion Dollars for their company.
Probably the most powerful tool for sharing content of all times has made TV look like a
toy and regular people look like TV stars.
But what s really interesting about all this is that whenever you want to find out what's the kind of content people want to see and what's the kind of entertainment spectators are demanding right now, you just have to have a look at the number of viewers. No games, no faking, no advertising. This is the real thing. Only five years after, welcome to the youtube era.

LOGOS + DESIGN = OUR INVIRONMENT

http://vimeo.com/10149605

This short was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short so the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain, must be really happy.

I reminded me the documentary Objectified from the same directors that did Helvetica.

In a way these logos, just like the design objects with which we live everyday are commonly assumed as part of our landscape and we kind of forget how they transform our way of living.

These two documentaries put in perspective the nature of the world we live in. Far from the nature we can find in the country side, it is an environment/nature created by us that affects us without even noticing it. I love the fact that most of us don't even care about it but behave and live our lives according to their "mandate".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9E2D2PaIcI&feature=player_embedded