July192008
Dollar Store Hack »
“In an effort to investigate design and push creative methodologies we hacked existing dollar store items, designing, sketching and building a variety of personal and home goods. All our materials were acquired at the dollar store. Our goal was simple; design by hacking cheaply made plastic junk, and hopefully, manipulating some irony and employing some criticality in an otherwise humorless and often anonymous world of product.” (found via Ehrensenf)Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ »
by Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch“Facebook is pursuing social networks it believes have copied their design or features by suing German social network StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook filed a suit in the Californian Supreme Court against the German company for what it claims is an infringement of Facebook’s ‘look, feel, features and services’.StudiVZ claims to have 10 million active members, and is the largest social network in the German-speaking world, covering Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. The network is actually comprised of three different sites; each one a separate social network aimed at different segments of the market. StudiVZ.net is the classic site for college-aged students, SchuelerVZ.net is for high school students and MeinVZ.net is for older adults (these three networks were very hard to decipher in German when I attempted to sign up).
Facebook does seem to have a claim here, as the German site looks like nothing more than Facebook in red and translated in German. Everything from the first public page, the sign-up page and the profile pages look eerily similar to the US-based social network. StudiVZ was acquired earlier this year by the German media group Georg von Holtzbrinck, with an acquisition price in the €100M range. They always say to sue where the money is, and Facebook has certainly found a pile of it by targeting Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.” (link to the article)
Mercedes-Benz new sound logo, just a sample from CD ‘Symphony of Voices’, which costs around 300 Euros. Mercedes paid about 250k(?).
“Yes, that’s correct. We are very proud to report that Mercedes licensed that sample of the boy singing from our Spectrasonics Symphony of Voices library as their exclusive new sound logo. BTW, they were fully aware that it was already available in this sample library for a long time and had been used many times in famous scores, but they liked it so much that they wanted it for their corporate audio logo. So it was a completely legitimate transaction with a special license we arranged for them to use the sample as their corporate audio logo.
Best regards, Eric Persing
— President/Creative Director Spectrasonics”
(statement via DigitalAudioService)
Reblogged from Petites Annonces.
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Reblogged from A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ALLISON WEISS.
"Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need."
Sebastien Tellier's - L'amour et la violence REMIXED BY BOYS NOIZE »
“A sublime Sébastien Tellier track, ‘L’Amour Et La Violence’ encompasses a soft piano with the addition of Tellier’s translucent vocals. Boys Noize has reworked the track keeping the same soft sound but with more emphasis and the addition of drums and bass.(thanks to Jens)
This track is easily comparable to ‘Sexual Sportswear‘ and SebastiAn’s edit; both are amazing tracks, originals and edits.
Thanks, Discobelle.”
“In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.”
The interview is interesting, and the animation complements it perfectly. (via yewknee)
Great interview. AWESOME Animation.
Reblogged from cubicle 17.