New Trends
New Trends / Polaboy
February 11, 2012 | New Trends | by Fitacola |
Polaboy is an enlarged polaroid on a scale of 10:1 (to 88x107cm) and backlit with cutting edge LED technology. It is a giant polaroid-shaped frame that can be customized with your own polaroids and changed at any time. It can work as your own personal window to a cool landscape or a moment in time. Love it.
New Trends / Brilliant billboard promotion for sun lotion
February 10, 2012 | New Trends | 
by Bridget Barnett |
Artist Simon Femandez is behind this clever outdoor advertisement for sun lotion. The billboard is covered in a 1 million tiny beads which reveals hidden artwork featuring a sunbathing woman when hit by sunshine. Femandez was hired by Brazilian ad agency Click Isobar for the project.
February 9, 2012 | New Trends | by Nicole Steen |
Robert Chaplin is a man driven to accomplish the “never been done before”. A true maverick, he is the publisher of The Matchbook (a copy resides in the library of the Tate Museum) and also the smallest book ever written: Teeny Ted from Turnip Town written by Malcolm Chaplin has a total size of less that 0.07mm x 0.10mm. The Robert Chaplin/SFU Nanobook project was produced using a focused-gallium-ion beam with the assistance of Dr. Li Yang, and Dr. Karen L. Kavanagh of Simon Fraser University.
February 7, 2012 | New Trends | by David Gaz |
When I came across this challenge on the Good website, I was floored. I’m a big fan of crowd sourcing and how powerful the small things in life can be. I believe that a million tiny acts of kindness can have more impact than a few great big ones. Not only does it help people out, but it encourages people to keep doing it.
February 7, 2012 | New Trends | by Icarus |
Alex McLean and Nick Collins are legends of the Live Coding scene, a geekfest of performance virtuosity in which music is made by writing the code that makes the music live on stage. It would be no surprise if Live Coding does not make it to Top of the Pops any time soon, if there is never to be a Steve Vai of the Live Coding world. I’m not even sure if I’m that into what comes out. Read more
February 7, 2012 | New Trends | by David Gaz |
I think that people ought to to be nicer to one another. The thing that irks me the most is that people readily buy into Leo Durocher’s famous misquotation, ‘Nice Guys Finish Last’. Nothing could be farther from the truth. So when I stumbled across this site, I was elated. It’s great to see talented and smart people like Tim Kring show us that we can be nice and also cool. My favorite part is the Deny Access button!
February 7, 2012 | New Trends | by Bradford Haubrich |
In today’s over-saturated smart phone app market, it is very easy to over look quality products. From chopping up vegetables, to running through old temples, these games get pumped out quickly, played hap-hazardly, and then forgotten. Catball Eats it All, is a phenomenon is this world of short downloads and shorter attention spans because of its consideration to every detail. Artist, muralist, and illustrator Yis Goodwin hand painted every character, item, and background to create a smart phone game that is visually like no other I’ve ever seen. Though the concept is simple, eat all the items on the course before the dog tries to eat you, this visually stunning game keeps me coming back for more. Read more
New Trends / Crates transform into everything you need for a home
February 6, 2012 | New Trends | by Low Lai Chow |
Nondescript crates open up to reveal sofas, beds, workstations, wardrobes, kitchens, foosball tables, home cinemas. Now all we need is a place for all these boxes. Read more
New Trends / Mine Kafon: Minesweeper that kills mines, not time
February 6, 2012 | New Trends | by Low Lai Chow |
Remember the classic arcade game you used to play on your beatdown PC when you got bored? Time is not the real enemy, mines are. As a kid growing up in Afghanistan, Massoud Hassani used to make toys that got lost forever after the wind carried them into minefields. Now he has now designed a real minesweeper that wanders where winds blow, scouting out mines to reap their long overdue death. His invention is now being tested by the Dutch army.
New Trends / $44,750 MWE Emperor 200 Ergonomic Workstation
February 4, 2012 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
If supervillains don’t actually exist, then who the hell is buying these $44,750 ergonomic work stations complete with LED-backlit 24-inch touchscreen displays and built-in air-filtration systems?
New Trends / Pugz Luv Beats
February 4, 2012 | New Trends | by Joshua Harker 
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Pugz Luv Beats is halfway between an iPad game and a musical instrument. As you send your pups running around harvesting some love for themselves, they start making different beats. It’s easy to get distracted from playing the game and lose myself in making jams.
February 4, 2012 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Once upon a time I was totally into visions of the future that included vehicles such as this Lit Motors C-1 fully-enclosed electric motorcycle. Now, I’m foreseeing a bit more Mad Max crossed with Lord of the Flies.
New Trends / GoSkyWatch Planetarium on the iPad
February 3, 2012 | New Trends | by MartyParty |
If you love to stare at a starry sky, this will change your life. It shows you planets, constellations and all kinds of planetarium info in real time, as you point your iPad at the sky.
New Trends / Record Me: digitizing the humble note
February 2, 2012 | New Trends | by Peter Mclisky |
Although this is a bit high tech, this device is a nice step backward in the land of personal communications. Nicer than an email and more personal than an SMS, you can record on multiple channels to leave live messages to your lover, mother, other, from yourself or your dog. Tactile, too.
New Trends / Poitín: an old-school traditional Irish liquor
February 2, 2012 | New Trends | by Angela Casserly |
Kickstarter project founder Ashlee Casserly is a Washington D.C resident. She is looking to revive an old-school white spirit called Poitín (pronounced puh-cheen) which originated in Ireland about 1,000 years ago. Poitín is Gaelic for ‘little pot’, derived from small coppers pots used by the home distillers. Read more
Julie Verhoeven has covered the fashion industry as a designer, illustrator, creative director and tutor. Everything she creates is amazing, but it’s her illustrations for different editorials that I find to be the most impressive! Ranging from the abstract to cartoon, her varied style is as creative as it is unique.
Last Fall, I moved to a flat with a balcony and this Spring I really fell in love with ‘gardening‘. Things taste better and look better when you grow your own! 50 years from now, when we’ve ruined nature, sucked all nutrients from the soil, and the cities look like a Mad Max movie, we are bound to use our windows as replacements for gardens, fields and forests.
Back in the day, when I was a skinny teenager on the great pedestal of life, I had a real obsession for the understated, low-fi, deliciously melodic and somewhat blurry sounds of the New Zealand Flying Nun bands. I would pool my meagre savings and canvas the local record shops, scouring the racks for the latest cassettes from The Bats, The Chills, The Clean, and, later, The Straitjacket Fits. Read more
An archaeologist at Stanford, Michael Shanks, has completed an interesting study of the ‘prodigious amount of thought’ given to the design and layout of a casino’s gambling floor, such as the pictured Las Vegas Venetian. Read more
I don’t intend on tempting any grape cravings which some borderline AAs may be experiencing, but everyone deserves some red after a long day. Drop of the Day is an easy way to receive fantastic quality wine at an extremely competitive price. Sure there are places online that offer cheaper alternatives, but Drop of the Day offers quality wine that pleases your wallet and your taste buds, too. Better yet, there is a new drop available to choose from each day for around AU$9 per bottle. Hmmm, I recommend you go for the blends.
The Phenomenal Handclap Band is a collection of musicians and artists from Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who perform live as an eight-member powerhouse, creating an eye-popping spectacle more akin to a spiritual church revival than a rock show. We have their single, 15 to 20, available for free download via the Music Download section of Lost At E Minor.
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Australian-born creative, Marc Newson, is considered to be one of the most influential designers of the past few decades. Having originally studied jewellery and sculpture at Sydney College of the Arts, ‘he started experimenting with furniture design as a student and, after graduating in 1984, was awarded a grant from the Australian Crafts Council, and staged an exhibition — featuring the Lockheed Lounge — at the Roslyn Oxley Gallery in Sydney’. Read more
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Pitched as ‘Ulterior Motives in Contemporary Art’, Disorder Disorder is running until November 14 at Penrith Regional Gallery. It’ll be well worth the trip out west of Sydney: the Australian, Japanese, American and European cast reads like a warriors of street art roundup and includes Mike Giant, Ed Templeton, Anthony Lister [artwork above], Ozzie Wright, and Jonathan Zawada. Read more
Never ever, ever, ever, ever park here
Some friendly advice for the neighbours, who simply don’t get it, or street art? You decide which one it is.
Mathematics? Leave me out. Fashematics? Now you’re talking! This gem of a site is a runway equation that adds up to a whole lot of wonderful.
Michelle Blade’s psychedelic artwork
Michelle Blade’s washed out paintings are deceptively simple, her washy acrylics creating psychedelic textures and conjuring ghostly figures from the past. Read more
Francoise Nielly’s Yellow series
Parisian visual artist Francoise Nielly brings technicolour to the forefront in her latest series, Yellow. Featuring thick impasto palette knife strokes and trippy neon hues, Nielly captures the vulnerable expressions of her muses to a tee. Read more
Too sweet for words, these beautiful hoop earrings by Sydney-based designer Carmel Taylor are a real touch of origami for your ears. Read more
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