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Incase EO Travel Collection
The EO Travel Collection from Incase has been custom designed for travelers who rely on technology. The best part about the collection is the butterfly design that opens flat for quick and easy airport security screening. This allows you to keep electronics fully protected as your bag passes through the scanner, and eliminates the hassle of moving your devices to security bins. Available now here.
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oki-ni Celebrates New Website by Launching Their Product Into the Stratosphere
oki-ni THE LAUNCH from oki-ni on Vimeo.
Oki-ni is one of the world’s leading online menswear portals and to celebrate the launch of their new website they’ve sent some of their latest and finest pieces into space.
“As part of THE LAUNCH we sent a selection of our product on a 2 hour round trip, firing it over 100,000 ft (just shy of 20 miles) into the stratosphere before returning it safely to earth.”
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Lockitron allows you to lock door with phone
Any smartphone can use Lockitron through its intuitive two-button app. With Lockitron you can instantly share access with your family and friends by entering their email address or phone number. Lockitron connects to the Internet thanks to built-in WiFi.
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Red Bull Stratos: Felix Baumgartner will jump from Stratosphere live stream
Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of space that will try to surpass human limits that have existed for more than 50 years. Supported by a team of experts, Felix Baumgartner will undertake a stratospheric balloon flight to more than 120,000 feet / 36,576 meters and make a record-breaking freefall jump in the attempt to become the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall (an estimated 690 miles / 1,110 kilometers per hour), while delivering valuable data for medical and scientific advancement.
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Jay-Z’s Barclays Center Finale Concert
Thanks to Life + Times & Youtube, Jay-Z‘s sure-to-be-epic finale was livestreamed for fans across the globe. It marked the eighth and final show of his concert series in Brooklyn.
On top of the livestream, Jay-Z announced that he will be releasing an EP, rightfully titled Live In Brooklyn, on Tuesday. The project will include eight tracks and eight videos, all from tonights close-out performance.
You can pre-order Live In Brooklyn now, exclusively on iTunes.
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Lockitron
Any smartphone can use Lockitron through its intuitive two-button app. With Lockitron you can instantly share access with your family and friends by entering their email address or phone number. Lockitron connects to the Internet thanks to built-in WiFi.
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Gianfranco Zaccai: Great food should be like great design
About Why Design
At Herman Miller design is the language we use to ask questions and seek answers to the problems our customers face. The design process is a journey into the unknown—or as George Nelson once quipped, “I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were.” Before we decide what we do and how we do it, we like to begin by asking the question “Why?” In Why Design, a new video series, we explore the world through the eyes of our designers, and share something of why we value their point of view.
Gianfranco Zaccai
Gianfranco Zaccai enjoys a design problem and a good meal with equal gusto. Born in Italy, Gianfranco co-founded Continuum, the Boston design firm in 1983. He has designed medical equipment, consumer goods, and retail environments. His passion for research led to the innovative and award-winning Compass system for Herman Miller Healthcare in 2011.
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Inside The Brooklyn Nets’ Barclays Center
Nilay Patel joins SB Nation’s Amy K. Nelson to take a look around Brooklyn’s new insanely high-tech stadium, The Barclays Center.
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Kidult: Visual Dictatorship
KIDULT ” Visual Dictatorship” from misery on Vimeo.
In his latest video Kidult delivers a powerful reminder touching on the current state of corporatism merging with the worlds of fashion and graffiti. Putting his work in context by juxtaposing himself against names including including Christian Louboutin and Marc Jacobs, the Paris-born graffiti sprayer effectively presents a commentary on high fashion’s bastardized use of the street art form. Divulging additional footage of his tags on numerous commercial storefronts, the video also follows Kidult Army crews through Hong Kong, Paris and New York accompanied by dialogue throughout.
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The Audi Quattro Slot Car Experience
Handcrafted 20 ft x 7 ft custom-track environment
Creating a raceway of this size, scope, and detail takes more than a walk to the corner hobby store. So we commissioned the world-renowned track builders from Slot Mods USA to handcraft the course.
Scale model Audi A4 slot-car body and four-wheel drive chassis
Every detail matters. So when model-year-accurate Audi A4 slot cars couldn’t be sourced, we simply made them from scratch. An industrial laser scanner was used to generate the digital outline, then body shells were created on a 3D printer and paired with separately sourced four-wheel-drive slot car chassis.
Mimicking quattro®’s cornering capabilities
By their very nature, slot cars are designed to come off the track. The Audi advanced quattro® all-wheel-drive system on the other hand, is specifically designed to help you do just the opposite. To reproduce the Audi A4 handling characteristics in a slot car, we spent hours testing and custom tuning the traction magnets on each vehicle – while still leaving enough play for racing to remain competitive.
Custom in-car cameras, housing and transmitter
Most slot car POV video footage is shot using a mountable camera strapped to the roof of the car. Not good enough for Audi. So we adapted miniature spy cams to fit inside the car, with custom circuitry to wirelessly transmit the live stream. A custom housing was also built into the 3D printed body shell to help minimize camera shake and vibration.
First of its kind: iPad slot-car controller
In a typical slot-car setup, drivers use a handheld resistor to modulate voltage to the track and, in turn, the speed of the slot car. This nearly 100-year-old system forces the driver to race from a bird’s-eye view trackside, instead of the driver’s seat where they should be. To change this, we developed a custom iPad app to pair with our in-car cameras – putting the driver right in the cockpit for the first time ever. And instead of the traditional electric controller, a digital thumb control interface was created to regulate acceleration and deceleration.
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Glass Curtains
Kelly Slater, Danny Fuller, Dane Gudauskas, Reef McIntosh, Derek Dunfee, Drew Toons, Koa Rothman, and Wardo Surf Cloudbreak.
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New MySpace Teaser
Fifteen months after its acquisition by Specific Media, a preview of MySpace’s new makeover has been unveiled by Justin Timberlake — who took an ownership stake in the social network. The video doesn’t go into a lot of detail, but it hints at:
- Users log in via Facebook or Twitter and the option to bring photos or other information with them.
- Status updates look similar to the mobile app Path, with photos largely displayed and user comments showing up underneath.
- The music component including ways to browse albums, find popular songs and artists and more.
It also points to a new MySpace URL, New.MySpace.com, which enables users to give their email address for an invite to the new service. It has yet to be seen if MySpace is building its own music service or if will partner with streaming services such as Spotify, Rdio or Rhapsody.
I know a lot of people will be rolling there eyes about the news and I’m not sure if I can handle another social media platform to update and maintain but I’m excited to see what they can offer and hope it does offer something of need.
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OTHERS by Hypebeast: Developing Japanese Style with Kogi “Poggy” Motofumi of UNITED ARROWS & SONS
Designer Kogi Motofumi aka “Poggy” shares his ethos and inspiration behind the casual sub-line UNITED ARROWS & SONS, his recipe for mixing streetwear with high-end fashion, and his affinity for the suit. Having been at the forefront of the various transitions in Japanese fashion and the street culture scene, Poggy’s eclectic sense of style has never led him astray.
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A$AP ROCKY: A$VP C4 Documentary
A$AP ROCKY: A$VP C4 from Luke Monaghan on Vimeo.
Here is the full version of A$AP Rocky’s “A$VP C4” documentary, which was put together by Luke Monaghan for Channel 4 in the UK. The piece displays Dat PMF and crew members A$AP Yams and A$AP Twelvy having a look back at how their movement started, the making of the “Peso” video, as well as Rocky’s first show in London, among others.
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Made by Hand: The Cigar Shop
Made by Hand / No 4 The Cigar Shop from Made by Hand on Vimeo.
A project from bureauofcommongoods.com, Made by Hand is a new short film series celebrating the people who make things by hand—sustainably, locally, and with a love for their craft.
In 1974, Dominican immigrant Don Antonio Martinez started a small shop in New York City selling hand rolled cigars. Thirty-eight years later his son, Jesus, carries on the tradition. The shop combines craftsmanship with community, mixing equal parts work and play.
Director-Producer KEEF
Co-Director ELIAS RESSEGATTI
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PBS Off Book: The Art of Animation and Motion Graphics
Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a long history of creating style and poetry unachievable through live action filmmaking. It is a tool for educating, a place for experimentation and play, and a way of telling personal stories that reach the viewer with powerful visual metaphors.
Featuring:
John Canemaker, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Canemaker
Jesse Thomas, Jess3 http://jess3.com/
Justin Cone, http://motionographer.com/
Julia Pott http://www.juliapott.com/
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Red Bull Upstream 2012: Wakeboarding Upstream in Slovenia
Robert Pokovec & Dominik Hernler travel Slovenia looking for new possible locations for the next edition of Red Bull Upstream. The two athletes tested out Bled Gorge before traveling to the famous Soca River, which fascinates with its beauty. Despite freezing water temperatures, Robert and Dominik put on a show at both locations.
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A$AP Mob Featuring Flatbush Zombies: Bath Salt
The A$AP Mob link up with the Flatbush Zombies for their new single off their Mob compilation.
XXYYXX: About You
Directed, Edited, Cinematography by Jeff VASH official video granted by Relief In Abstract Records inspired by xxyyxx.
xxyyxx is the moniker of 15-year-old Orlando musician, Marcel Everett. Marcel has an interest in chillwave, dubstep, and experimental indie, having played guitar for 5 years with no traditional training. He labels his music as self-proclaimed Fro-fi, an off-shot of the chillwave movement.
Marcel Everett is constantly changing his style. Marcel is heavily influenced by 80s new wave and r&b, maintaining interest in vinyl and old cassette collections. He’s likened to How to Dress Well, Toro y Moi, and Washed Out.
Marcel started out in 2009 as a guitarist for many local bands including experimental hardcore band Esmeralda. His bedroom projects slowly turned into his main focus, releasing songs under the name of beardance. Now renamed as xxyyxx, he is signed to Relief in Abstract Records with his first album, Still Sound, newly available in July 2011.
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Microsoft Unveils a New Look
It’s been 25 years since we’ve updated the Microsoft logo and now is the perfect time for a change. This is an incredibly exciting year for Microsoft as we prepare to release new versions of nearly all of our products. From Windows 8 to Windows Phone 8 to Xbox services to the next version of Office, you will see a common look and feel across these products providing a familiar and seamless experience on PCs, phones, tablets and TVs. This wave of new releases is not only a reimagining of our most popular products, but also represents a new era for Microsoft, so our logo should evolve to visually accentuate this new beginning.
The Microsoft brand is about much more than logos or product names. We are lucky to play a role in the lives of more than a billion people every day. The ways people experience our products are our most important “brand impressions”. That’s why the new Microsoft logo takes its inspiration from our product design principles while drawing upon the heritage of our brand values, fonts and colors.
The logo has two components: the logotype and the symbol. For the logotype, we are using the Segoe font which is the same font we use in our products as well as our marketing communications. The symbol is important in a world of digital motion (as demonstrated in the video above.) The symbol’s squares of color are intended to express the company’s diverse portfolio of products.
Starting today, you’ll see the new Microsoft logo being used prominently. It will be used on Microsoft.com – the 10th most visited website in the world. It is in three of our Microsoft retail stores today (Boston, Seattle’s University Village and Bellevue, Wash.) and will shine brightly in all our stores over the next few months. It will sign off all of our television ads globally. And it will support our products across various forms of marketing. Fully implementing a change like this takes time, so there may be other instances where you will see the old logo being used for some time.
We’re excited about the new logo, but more importantly about this new era in which we’re reimagining how our products can help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
Posted by Jeff Hansen
General Manager, Brand Strategy, Microsoft
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