Hasta La Creative!

• TERRITOIRES – 6ème biennale internationale de la photographie et des arts visuels de Liège – Organisation du centre cuturel de liège Les Chiroux.
• Extra City – Mimétisme – antwerp
  Group exhibition probing an alternative conceptual framework for "theatricality" in the visual arts. Rather than looking at formal exchanges between theatre and the arts, this exhibition brings together works that use and critically reflect the abilities
• Alain Robbe-Grillet est mort – 20Minutes.fr, information en continu.
  L’écrivain Alain Robbe-Grillet est décédé le 18 février 2008, à 85 ans. Chef de file du «Nouveau roman», il était l’auteur entre autres de «Les Gommes» (1953) , «Le Voyeur» (1955) et «La Jalousie» (1957).
• Blek Le Rat à fleur de pochoir
  An exhibition in Paris and a book about Blek Le Rat
• Consequences of GM crop contamination ‘set to worsen’| guardian.co.uk
  Consequences of mixing will be more serious with new crops that are altered to produce pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals. The crops could harm human health and be toxic to wild animals.
• Archinect : News : “Do Cities Have Expiration Dates?”
  A conversation with architects Qingyun Ma and Thom Mayne – Sunday February 17th, 2008 at 9pm on 89.3 KPCC FM, Zócalo Radio Mayne says, people believe that L.A.’s residents are comfortable living in a “fake old new world,” rather than “exploring w
• The Raw Feed: Muscle Suit for Carpenters Unveiled In Japan
  prototype designed to help carpenters fit ceiling boards in place. This particular task is unnatural to the human body and takes a lot of brute force. The robot suit takes on most of the load, so the carpenter doesn’t have to.
• Swimmers’ Sunscreen Killing Off Coral
  Four commonly found sunscreen ingredients can awaken dormant viruses in the symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae that live inside reef-building coral species.
• Pasta&Vinegar » Sparko: the robotic Scottish Terrier
  Created by Westinghouse engineer Joseph Barnett, these oldest US robots are very curious. As matter of fact, Sparko is reported missing: “The biggest challenge remaining to Weeks is finding one of the three robot dogs, all named Sparko, that were built
• Aram Bartholl – Blog: „I.R.A.S.C. Infrared light against surveillance cameras”
  Infrared light against surveillance cameras" is an infra-red device working as a protection shield from infra-red surveillance cameras. Everybody can rebuild this device without special technical skills.
• Modern Mechanix » How Navy’s New Tricks Concealed Ships
  Based on optical laws, the Navy’s World War II camouflage used black and white painted patterns on vessels, producing startling visual deception that was confounding even at a 50-foot range. Strongly contrasted stripes in the designs made accurate obser

(TrendHunter.com) As a motivation not to spit your gum into the street, designer Jung-taek Choi has created the Gum Flower. The Gum Flower’s wrapper is a piece of origami. Once you are done with your gum, you fold the wrapper into a cute little origami flower and put the gum inside the flower. Now you have a colorful…

(TrendHunter.com) While the Takkiainen was designed to bring together lonely people who might happen to brush up against each other in a busy city, the most fantastic implication of the Velcro jackets is their possibility to attach babies and children to the body. How much easier would it be to stick your kid on your…

(TrendHunter.com) Marilyn Monroe continues to be one of the world’s most influential female icons, as is continually proven by celebrities who try to emulate her. The latest is Lindsay Lohan who posed for a spread in New York Magazine inspired by the famous shoot, “The Last Sitting” in which Marilyn Monroe got naked …

(TrendHunter.com) Scratch and sniff is so ’90s. Marketers for Welch’s have gotten a lot more savvy when trying to appeal to the senses of their customers. The company has launched a new lickable ad campaign for their grape juice.

Similar to perfume ads that have panels you pull back to offer a hint of the fragrance…

(TrendHunter.com) PacketVideo (PV) is releasing a pocketable mobile broadcast receiver that turns WiFi-enabled phones and personal media players into mobile TVs. The portable receiver decodes a digital TV signal and repurposes it for use on the phone, sending it via a wireless signal to a playback device.

The recei…

I noticed that New Yorker, Fred Wilson, used Gridskipper to find Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco this weekend (while looking at colleges with his daughter).

I learned to drink coffee in San Francisco, so the topic is one I have passion for. So does San Francisco lifestyle book, 7×7.

7×7, in effort to provide context for what it calls “the third wave” in coffee culture, quotes Joel Pollock, head roaster at Stumptown in Portland (an even more advanced coffee market):

“When you’re roasting coffee, you’re caramelizing sugars, there’s the potential for citric notes, herbal notes, floral notes. But when you roast dark, you’re taking all these notes and turning them into carbon—and that’s the same carbon if you’re working with coffee from New Guinea or a piece of chicken.”

I love the way this man talks about coffee.

(TrendHunter.com) LeapFrog is offering middle schoolers a replacement for handwritten index cards, allowing them to enter data via virtual “cards” and run through them on the 2.5-inch screen. It is also a audio player, so kids can jam while they study. Vocabulary and flashcard questions are programmed in using a soft…

“Recent advances in cereal technology have allowed us to take Shreddies cereal to a whole new level of geometric superiority. Welcome to Diamond Shreddies country.”
This spoof campaign by Ogilvy in Toronto was so effective it had some consumers scratching their heads. See for yourself.

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(TrendHunter.com) Ever since the Xbox 360 has hit the markets there have been few mods, most of which have been total flops, until now. Head in the Game Controllers have taken the Xbox controller and vamped it specifically for the #1 selling Xbox game, Halo. The present controller layout for the game is practical yes…