Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) As they say, revenge is a dish best served cold. In the case of Revenge Crabs, the servings are colonies of pubic crab lice you can purchase to infect your ex as pay back for the pain and hurt after having…

The Denver Egotist has gone around town photographing the political street art that’s currently popping up all around Denver. “We’ll call them Obama’s posse.” they say – a lot of distinctivly Shepard Fairey work is adorning the walls, as well as some fresh new thinsg I’ve not seen before. Personally, I really dig the rainbow Lincoln Obama pictured here on the left.

Is this the work of SS+K the “non-traditional creative communications firm defined by a combustible mix of political consulting and high-level of creativity”? We know that Obama picked up GMMB & SS&K back in 2007 for creative work, so… it just might be?

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(TrendHunter.com) At the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon show in Germany, Volkswagen showed off their new concept car, the VW Topos Caddy Sail Design. It is a car with wooden top, designed for people to lounge on. The deck on…

(TrendHunter.com) Chris Elsasser says he creates “indoor anatomical art with lightboxes” using his own designs or actual x-rays. They come in mini, standard or specialty versions.

It is a new type of art (if indeed it…

We have heard that in-game advertising is the current trend that most companies are turning to and while it is indeed a good way to get noticed, it also means becoming part of the whole in-game scenario such as being shot at or being burned. One thing about in-game advertising, the actual setting where the ads will be placed become landmarks that players remember, especially when the game is about role playing.

So in a manner of speaking you can hit it big when your in-game ad gets blown up. But don’t worry about it, it will come back; each time a player returns or retries a level. The point here is that you are getting exposure and this is part of brand marketing. Establishing visualization helps build brand marketing although some instances where brand association may not be clearly made.

But if you want good advertising tactics, then in-game ads are the place to be. With the rave that these in-game ads have had, it is a worthy investment to make.

“It’s purely a byproduct of gameplay and this notion of a highly destructible environment,” said Jay Sampson, vice president at Massive. “Sticking to our ethos of ‘do no harm to the game,’ we tagged the parts in the environment for ads and like everything else in the game, they can be destroyed. It’s mirroring what the studio wants out of gameplay and making the most of it…If we did anything that wasn’t destructible [in Mercenaries 2] it’d be awkward. It’s taking advantage of the full environment.”

(Source) The Escapist

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I liked ‘The Rest of Now’, the Bolzano section of the Manifesta biennale so much that i fear that i’ll end up forgetting about the other exhibitions i saw at the Biennale this week. Two of the participating artists/architects took very literally the questions put forward by The Raqs Media Collective who curated the exhibition: What gets left behind when everything is taken away? What can be retrieved, and what can be remembered? How can the residual become the engine of meaning?

Over time, parasitic micro-organisms such as cyanobacterias and the Cladosporium genus of fungi, have occupied and taken over the walls of the abandoned Alumix factory. The restoration of the ex-factory means that the building is loosing its value as habitat for the organisms.

Architects Stangeland and Kropf decided to engage with this transitional state. The Naked Garden is generated by the mediation of different modes: biological propagation, mathematical abstraction and technological execution. A robot, programmed with the rules by which the fungi grow, engraves and perforates the wall already inhabited by fungi, thereby allowing light, water and wind to enter and to facilitate the basic conditions of life.

Jorge Otero-Pailos is an architect and theorist specialized in experimental forms of preservation. His contribution to Manifesta is The Ethics of Dust, an installation intended to preserve pollution and the dust that has to be swept away from the building during the renovation process. Pollution has negative connotation. Yet, it can tell fascinating stories about our social, cultural and industrial past.

During two weeks, Otero-Pailos and his team of architectural conservators coated in latex an entire wall of the a wall inside the ex-Alumix factory in order to trap the dust and any trace of air pollution that have accumulated over decades. The architect then peeled the latex off, displaying it like a semi-transparent and precious shroud.

Installation view of Jorge Otero-Pailos’s The Ethics of Dust

Following the tradition of nineteenth-century archeologists, who made plaster casts of the world’s monuments so that European academics could study the architecture of distant cultures, Otero-Pailos suggests a new way of looking at architecture and our history.

Manifesta 7 – the European Biennial of Contemporary Art runs until November 2, 2008 in Trento, Fortezza, Rovereto and Bolzano.

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