If you guys don’t know who Hifana is, they are a break beats duo from our Tokyo based music label. They are best known for their unique style of producing music entirely LIVE. They don’t use preexisting beat loops, only audio samples.
Recently we teamed them up with Nike to do this spot. These shoes were equipped with sensors so that when the shoes is bent to a certain degree it will produce a certain sound and also to demonstrate how flexible these running shoes are. Pretty cool stuff.
I saw this a few weeks back and when I did what surprised me the most wasn’t the fact how TECHY the table itself is, but how interesting it is when you use a IMT for live music performances. This is a great example of how electronic performers can still evolve into new ways of performing LIVE.
This isn’t so much of a design crit but more of a general observation. It seems like it doesn’t matter if he’s saving the world or trying to destroy it, on a majority of his posters, Nic Cage looks like he wants to rip someone’s face off…
Exhibit A – Bangkok Dangerous
This first one is classic straight on pissed off Nic. Also seen in such films as 8mm, Ghost Rider (see Exhibit B) & Face Off although, the last one was more of a blank stare
I have got to admit, like a lot of folks out there I have yet to get excited about the iPad. It is hard for a lot of designers and techies to imagine a use for it, but I think at times we forget designers and techies are a small percentage of the world populus. Sure iPad is a less than stellar name for a product, but it is still a really cool concept. I think Stephen Fry does say it best in this article.
I think designers can look at the iPad like a new land of interactive goodness to be conquered, like the folks at iA did with their iPad template (based on the work of out own TO based Teehan+Lax). Let’s try not to forget we design for the world, not ourselves, and that there is potential for innovation here.
This is some crazy laser etching… beautiful and some what obsessive in the making. I love the detail in this work.
“Making his major exhibition debut in London, New York-based tattoo artist Scott Campbell recently opened his latest exhibition, entitled “Always Almost There”, at the Lazarides Gallery. The show featured Campbell’s signature style in the form of laser etching on multi-layered creations. “Always Almost There” runs through October 30th, 2009.”
