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Situation on the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland, Villa Widlund stands out as a solid white, geometric, concrete landmark in perfect contrast with a backdrop of picturesque ocean views and serene beach landscapes. Construction and furnishings are minimal so that each room highlights the windows and spectacular outdoor views. Everything about this modern beach villa is dreamy – I’d have trouble deciding to be in or out!

Designer: Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects

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Hi folks-who-follow-my-sketchblog. Just wanted to let you know that I just quit my proverbial day job and I’m available for freelance work. I actually do more than draw wry cartoons. I’m serious. If you’re curious, you can find out more about me and what I have to offer. Or, just ignore my self-serving pandering, and watch this space for more of what you came here for: IRONIC JOKES.

Os caras que trouxeram até você o iPhone e o Gmail agora querem conectar a sua lavadora de roupas, interruptor e basicamente todos os demais dispositivos elétricos que você possa imaginar à Internet. Prepare-se para ficar maravilhado.

A Electric Imp saiu do seu esconderijo hoje e anunciou uma linha de cartões Imp que podem ser instalados em qualquer dispositivo eletrônico para colocá-lo na Internet e até mesmo controlá-los por lá. Os pequenos cartões são bem parecidos com cartões SD comuns, mas têm antena Wi-Fi e processadores embutidos. Você pode instalá-los em um dispositivo que já existe usando alguma das placas de circuitos que a Imp vende e a empresa já negocia com integradores a criação de slots pré-instalados da Imp em uma vasta gama de produtos. Uma vez instalados, eles se conectam à Internet e aos controles de software baseados na nuvem da Imp, permitindo que sejam controlados remotamente e trabalhem em conjunto com outros dispositivos conectados.

Esta é a “Internet das Coisas” sobre a qual temos ouvido tanto falar. Mas diferente da maioria das soluções, esse não é um sistema vertical que exige que você compre dispositivos desenhados para serem conectados a uma controladora central. A grande sacada da Imp é que eles funcionarão com qualquer dispositivo e então programados para controlar cada um conforme necessário. Não é preciso criar um software de back-end para controlar os dispositivos, a Imp cuida dessa parte toda.

E a linha de produtos compatíveis é impressionante. Por exemplo, você pode ter um Imp conectado ao sensor de nível de água na base de uma árvore de Natal que envia uma mensagem de texto automaticamente se o nível de água ficar muito baixo ou diminui as luzes da árvore para evitar um incêndio. (Veja o vídeo demonstrativo abaixo com um Imp fazendo exatamente isso, com o time da Electric Imp configurando tudo em tempo real em cerca de um minuto.) Você pode configurar a bomba da piscina para funcionar apenas quando a eletricidade estiver abaixo de um dado preço pelo Kilowatt Hora. Fabricantes de máquinas de lavar podem usá-los (bem como os consumidores) para ter um feedback sobre o quão eficiente elas estão sendo usadas. Imps poderiam ser conectados a sensores no solo de um jardim para ligar e desligar o sistema de irrigação automaticamente.

O software baseado na web usa uma interface gráfica no estilo “arrastar e soltar” para configurar comandos, tornando bem simples usar e criar ações. Para usuários mais avançados, porém, ele também é programável, o que abre um mundo de possibilidades. Os usuários poderão compartilhar tarefas que criaram, bem como designs de hardware. Algumas placas desenhadas pela Imp serão vendidas na SparkFun no meio do ano, mas eles realmente esperam que as pessoas hackeiem e compartilhem seus próprios designs.

Assistir ao time da Electric Team (que inclui o ex-gerente de engenharia do iPhone Hugo Fiennes e o ex-designer do Gmail Kevin Fox) criar ações complicadas em tempo real é maluquice. Mas um dos recursos mais impressionantes da demonstração com implicações mais avançadas foi, de certa forma, uma pequena parte de como tudo isso funcionará.

Qualquer um que já tenha tentado colocar dispositivos Wi-Fi burros para funcionar em uma rede doméstica ou do escritório sabe que o processo nunca é igual e, com frequência, bem chato. Colocar um Imp para funcionar em uma rede Wi-Fi é super fácil e um feito engenhoso. Você coloca o SSID e senha da sua rede Wi-Fi no Electric Imp do seu celular (iPhone ou Android) e o app pisca uma luz em um fotosensor no cartão Imp, usando pulsos de luz para transferir o login. Isso. É. Demais.

Um pacote prévio para desenvolvedores chegará no final de junho. Os cartões custarão US$ 25, enquanto uma placa de circuito básica deve chegar às lojas por US 10 e as mais complexas, por US$ 20 (os preços das placas ainda não foram confirmados). [Electric Imp]

Ever want to know how hats are actually made? You're in luck! Sara Grundy of Sorensen Grundy Milliners will let you in on the secret. After dark, in the millinery workroom, mini maintenance workers construct hats in the most clandestine way. Here she shows us, in pictures, what actually goes on when no one is looking.

This particular hat is called "Construction Overhead."

"The impulse behind making the hat was based on a combination of factors," said Grundy when we asked her what the inspiration was behind this idea. "There has always been a tradition in millinery to make miniature versions of traditional hat shapes such as the Victorian mini top hat and as a company we have tended to play with scale quite often making mini trilbies, berets, top hats and other classic shapes. We wanted to take this further by playing with the idea of scale for this piece.

"As we both have children we are constantly immersed in stories and films about miniature worlds, such as Arrietty, The Borrowers and Gulliver's Travels. Revisiting and appreciating these stories as adults has probably encouraged a desire to create something whimsical.

"Model millinery involves a hat being completely hand made and often there is a huge amount of hand sewing involved. Because it's such hard work and takes such a long time we have often daydreamed about having the help of a miniature workforce or leaving something half finished that get's magically completed overnight. We trained together in a millinery workroom making hats for Paris and London fashion shows and know what it feels like to be working away behind the scenes and through the night.

"We like to think that there is humour to our work and as well as wanting to make something that is amusing we also wanted to stretch the definitions of what millinery can be. 'Construction Overhead' is an imagined scenario, a hat capturing a moment in a fantasy narrative which hopefully offers more than just something to be worn on the head."

Carboard Cities, a site of illustration and art by Laura Redburn feature collage works. Many focus on dreamy, hazy scenes with her newest showcasing women and nature. Symbolism is used quite a bit in her work, with the main subjects often feeling removed, displaced, or something to conceal.

All images via her website.

Laura also did an animation featuring some of her collages. Check it out below:

Untitled from cardboardcities on Vimeo.

I was led to Brooklyn design studio Dark Igloo's work through Web Urbanist's recent post on their creative Google mural. After looking through Dark Igloo's Flickr stream, I came across a set called Analog Interactive Mural that just made me smile from ear to ear. Love how they've created a set of black and white framed art pieces that seem to interact. Stare at them for a bit and you'll see hidden stories emerge.

Check out these two murals (the first one has some close-up shots.) Talk about transforming boring white walls...

Dark Igloo's Flickr

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Thanks for downloading and listening “Elements 01″ compilation. We really hope you enjoyed as much as we enjoyed compiling it. Elements 1 is compiled and curated by The Future Elements. It has 35 tracks and lot of them were provided exclusively by artists. Its a free download compilation. The Future Elements is a site [ and to be extended as a micro label ] which features Reviews / Interviews / Mixes / Compilation etc. We mainly cover styles such as Ambient, Post-Rock, Drone, Electroacoustic / Experimental, Shoegaze, Dreampop, Indie etc.

FAQ:

1. So its a free download compilation? That’s just so awesome!

Ans. Yes! However, Bandcamp charges extra for download credits. After we reach, upper limit of that, album already becomes paid. For now, we have 500 [ 200 free + 300 purchased ] download credits. After reaching these limits, album can be downloaded from [ Mediafire ] for free and it will become paid download on bandcamp. The money we receive from it will straightly go to buy further more download credits from bandcamp.

2. I can’t download individual tracks. Why?

Ans. Because its simple. Lot of artists worked hard on their music and to feature on compilation. Its meant to be
listened / downloaded together. Also, we lose download credits from bandcamp. In future (compilations), we may change individual tracks to paid download while compilation as a whole will remain free download. Money received from individual tracks will go for purchasing more download credits.

3. You have lot of awesome artists featured on compilation. Were there any more compilations by you or will there be any?

Ans. Well yes. The Future Elements might function as a record label in future. And we believe this compilation is a big step forward for that. There were no other compilations by The Future Elements but Noor (The Future Elements) curated two compilations for Japan fundraising. [ Hope For Japan ] and [ More Hope For Japan ]. We also hope to present at least two compilations per year and hopefully, next one will be really special or conceptual.

4. Who designed those awesome covers and your website?

Ans. Nitin Garg from India. He is a kick ass communication designer. [ Nitin Garg ].

5. Really cool. I would like to be a part of The Future Elements or maybe I would love to submit my musical works for next compilation.

Ans. Sure! For any query please email; thefuturelements@gmail.com and make sure you visit our website: [ The Future Elements ].

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Artist – Various Artists
Album – Elements 1 [ * * * * * ]
Release Date – 2012
Genre – Ambient, Post-rock, Minimal, Drone, Dark-ambient, Ambient-classical [ AWESOME ]

Tracklist

01. Bob Guido – Leaving the World Behind 04:00 info
02. Lowercase Noises – We are Okay 07:35 info
03. Sky Flying By – Laura 06:34 info
04. Until We Last – To Space and Back 04:57 info
05. Absent Hearts – Whispers Of A Sleepwalker 04:46 lyrics
06. Hyde and Shriek – Djarum 03:42 info
07. Apta – Breath 09:10 info
08. Arafúra – Forget Me Not (De Waarheid Drijft Altijd Naar De Oppervlakte) 05:41 info
09. Good Weather for an Airstrike – Goodnight, Boogaloo 04:05 info
10. Nitin Garg – Hazy Fields are Breathing 03:58 info
11. Adam Lamprell – Gleam 04:22 info
12. Kyle Bobby Dunn – The Royally Fucked 04:35 info
13. Heinali – Flock 06:40 info
14. Anoice – Ripple 07:41 info
15. The Mountaineering Club – Christina Fjord, May 30th, 1889 05:18 info
16. Asfandyar Khan – Warp 03:16 info
17. Blue Skies And Paign – Architecture in Leningrad 03:46 info
18. Tipu Sabzawaar – The Distress Shimmer 04:13 info
19. The Echelon Effect – What Makes Us so Uncommon (The Eternal Twilight Ambient Remix) 03:48 info
20. sink \ sink – Astronávt (Stray Theories Remix) 04:28 info
21. Twisted Perspective – The Winds Far Above 02:57 info
22. Inachus – Escape 03:09 info
23. Cousin Silas – The Falling Curtain 04:21 info
24. Josco – Cacophony 02:15 info
25. Pie Are Squared – It Gets Windy In the Middle of Nowhere (Excerpt) 07:36 info
26. Pleq – ハーモニー 10:58 info
27. Man Watching the Stars – The Fires Of Spring Incarnadine 08:38 info
28. Whitespace – Consider the Heavens 02:33 lyrics
29. Nobuto Suda – I Offer these without Any Sense of Loss 06:00 info
30. The Sound of Rescue – Anonymous 05:40 info
31. My Cats a Stargazer – Night Kites 04:47 info
32. umber – All the Ships 05:59 info
33. The Golden Gonk – A.W.D.N.B. 06:14 info
34. Will Samson – Runaway, Runaway (Remastered) 06:24
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Grabit is a door handle fitted with a fingerprint scanner. The door opens only if it recognizes the fingerprint, however that’s not the coolest part. What makes this design plausible and functional is the position of the scanner. It’s placed at the most ergonomically viable place, making the act of opening (or locking) a door, very fluid.

Designer: Donguk Seo

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Sem dúvida nenhuma, a “iTV” é um dos produtos mais falados do momento. Mesmo sem existir, muitos já dão como certo que a Apple, em um futuro não muito distante, lançará sua televisão. Mas quando isso sai da boca de alguém como Walter Isaacson, a coisa ganha mais credibilidade.

Durante a entrevista para a TV Cultura, no programa “Roda Viva”, Isaacson, em alguns momentos, comentou que a Apple poderá lançar sua televisão (por exemplo, no 24º minuto da conversa). Mas, como bem apontou o leitor Juliano Rossi, mais para o final da entrevista surge algo bem interessante:

A melhor parte está aos 57’30″, quando o Isaacson diz que omitiu os detalhes da iTV do livro, por não achar [correto] expor os segredos [da Apple], falando que só irá comentar a respeito quando o produto for lançado. De certa forma, ele confirmou que o produto de fato existe e vai sair.

Definitivamente, uma tapa e tanto nos céticos (como eu), que não acreditavam em uma televisão fabricada pela Maçã — sem falar no analista Gene Munster, que deve estar pulando de alegria nesse momento.

Agora é esperar para ver! ;-)

“Don’t make fun of men who wear their pants around their ankles - They could be suffering an anatomical malformation. Respect the difference.”

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Sometimes the Uncertainty of Everything Can Really Scare Me, 2011, 6 screens on Cougar cover, 24 x 18 in. 

Brouwerij West, 2011, 5 screens on Cougar cover, 18 x 24 in.

Lallapalooza aftershow at Schubas, 2011, 4 screens on Cougar cover, 18 x 24 in.

Gene Ween, 2011, 4 screens on Cougar cover, 18 x 24 in.

Riding into the Wind Without Looking Back, 2011, 4 screens on Cougar cover, 18 x 24 in.

Riding into Wind Without Looking Back (detail)

Lallapalooza aftershow at Lincoln Hall, 2011, 4 screens on Cougar cover, 18 x 24 in.

Iron and Wine

Wait For Me, Abby Bernstien (blue), 2012, 5 screens on Cougar natural cover, 18 x 24 in.

Spring is Here, 2012, 9 screens on Cougar natural cover, 18 x 24 in.

Artist Statement

I am drawn to the concept and process of constructing something from the ground up, from physical structures to entire subcultures. Being in my mid twenties, I have been teetering somewhat comfortably between resisting certain conventions of adulthood and the struggle to carve out some modest piece of this world. I am using themes of construction and disassembly to relate my pursuit for security and my desire for autonomy, two things that seem to regularly be put at odds with one another.

Furthermore, I depict physical construction partially as a metaphor for the creation of a community or subculture. In the instances of punk rock and skateboarding, the twin pillars of my adolescence, these subcultures were built up and became forces greater than—but controlled by—their participants, forming niches for those of us who seemingly had been pushing square pegs into round holes. More importantly, they were formed in part through a kind of sociocultural appropriation, showing that structures put in place to satisfy order and subordination can be repossessed, dismantled, altered, and refocused. The prevailing culture can be reassembled and used as a means to undermine itself.

This work is largely about making something of one’s own, whatever that something happens to be. As we grow up, we are routinely compelled to act against our own best interests, and there will always exist a need for something entirely of our own that we can control.

About The Aritst

When you ride a train back to your hometown, you look out across the vast scenery – into a sky that seems to stand still in its endless blue while the trees and the scattered towns and the telephone wires rush by like a movie reel. In the middle of the country, far away from the bustling city and the boiling traffic is a plain white house with one giant tree and one tiny swing in the yard. The house looks empty and the only car there is a broken-down and rusty one but the swing is swaying in the breeze. And as you pass that yard and the swing and come upon row after row of subdivided neighborhoods with houses that all look exactly the same with the same car in each drive-way and their drivers all leaving at the same time going to virtually the same place – you are still being haunted by that swing.

When I look at Justin Santora’s work, I not only see that swing, but I see the child that once swayed in it. Justin’s prints and illustrations are complex in process and thought but simple in beauty. The ideas of innocence and the loss there-of, the weaving memories that shape our lives, and the longing of someone who is outside looking in are all prevalent in the composition of Justin’s work. The nostalgia of childhood that lingers on into our adult lives and the paths of daydreams we want to lose ourselves in are inherent in his art. The starkness of the landscapes and the muted panes of color form an emotional bond with the subject matter of the pieces through the painstakingly detailed fine lines and scratchings of the drawings themselves. Based out of Northern Illinois, Justin’s amazing work stands out as a monument to all of our wishes even in the face of our sometimes daunting reality. - Erin Armstrong, Kill Hatsumomo Prints/Screwball Press

Justin Santora’s Website

Justin Santora’s Blog

Justin Santora’s Interview

Thanks to IPAINTMYMIND for finding this artist!

Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto creates incredibly intricate mazes made entirely out of salt! Currently showing at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Kanagawa, Japan is one of his newest works entitled "Forest of Beyond."

The story about why Yamamoto started down this path is a sad and tragic one. He was a third-year student at the Kanazawa College of Art in 1996 when his younger sister died at the young age of 24 — two years after being diagnosed with brain cancer. To ease his grief and to honor her memory, he starting working on these installations. Salt has a special place in the death rituals of Japan, and is often handed out to people at the end of funerals, so they can sprinkle it on themselves to ward off evil. Since 2001, he's been creating these amazing floor installations by filling a plastic bottle, usually used for machine oil, with white salt and then sprinkling it on the floor.

The Hakone installation (seen above and immediately below) looks like a giant tree with vein-like branches. Working 14 hours a day, it took him two weeks to complete.

As he told Japan Times, "I draw with a wish that, through each line, I am led to a memory of my sister. That is always at the bottom of my work. Each cell-like part, to me, is a memory of her that I call up, like a tiff I had with her over a pudding cake she took from the fridge. My wish is to put such tiny episodes together."

See a selection of his other incredible works, below.