“A Battles collaboration with celebrated light artists UVA (United Visual Artists).” Found on YouTube.
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People make, say, and do cool shit every single day. Sometimes that’s easy to forget.
The Name
The name comes from a talk Douglas Rushkoff gave where he held up a laptop and said "This is an Anything Machine!".
The Colophon
The Anything Machine Project is powered by Tumblr and managed/updated by illustrator and designer Mal Jones.
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Design fantasies for obsolete Bay Bridge span
“It’s a safe bet that most Bay Area residents view the eastern half of the Bay Bridge as an aged structure that can’t be replaced soon enough. But a handful of designers see much more, an icon ready for a bold new life - such as a working farm that shares the deck with a hotel. Or a park stretched atop long blocks of housing. Or a hotel shaped like the prow of an ocean liner.” Found on SFGate.com via BLDGBLOG.
Haiti text message charity fundraising sets record
“The charity notes that within 31 hours of launching its text message charity appeal on Wednesday (January 13th) it had raised in excess of $3 million (£1.84 million), a third of the total amount pledged to the organisation by American donors.” Found on the Charity Technology Trust.
“American designer Nick Allman has created an installation where a light appears to be ripped out of the wall at the Dean Johnson Gallery in Indianapolis… As a studio furniture maker Allman strives to blur the line between furniture and art. By creating a narrative of destruction in the series Unintended Functions, Allman’s conceptual furniture forms question the boundaries of design and challenge the viewer’s notion of a functional, well- crafted object. Photographs are by Polina Osherov Photography.” Found on Dezeen.
“…this urban ecological system is taking as a model an organism in nature, specifically the mangrove plant. the mangrove plant and its collective the mangal, provide examples of social associative principles as well as structural capacities and hybrid responses to environmental and contextual conditions.” Found on suckerPUNCH via Warren Ellis.
“Video for my [Pogo’s] track ‘Upular’, composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the Disney Pixar film ‘Up’. Enjoy!” Found on YouTube.
Created by Phillips Design… Behold a solar-powered, self-sufficient biosphere that stacks interdependent mini-ecosystems on top of each other to create a holistic food chain, reduce the impact on the environment and also potentially feed an entire apartment complex full of people.
