Up There

The Ritual Project have created Up There, a beautiful documentary following a group of New York daredevil painters as they hand paint a 20x50 foot brick wall advertisement. Directed by Malcolm Murray with music by The Album Leaf.

All In One

Director Frédéric Sofiyana's All In One is an experimental short film commissioned for the upcoming book+dvd release “Black Material”, which showcases the artwork of Robert Knoke. Very cool, very surreal. Perhaps inspired a little by the Tony Kaye Dunlop ad.

The TxtBomber

I don't know too much about this, but it looks incredible. The txtBomber is a handheld gadget invented by Felix Vorreiter that prints text on any flat surface using Arduino-controlled pens. Vorreiter describes it as “a one-hand-guerillia-tool - a machine not much bigger than a pressing iron - that generates political statements on the fly and immidiately prints them on any flat surface". Very interesting.

Pulse Of The Nation

Pulse of the Nation is an interesting project devised by a group of researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard University, studying the characteristics and dynamics of Twitter. By data mining the social networking site over the course of a year (using over 300 million tweets), Pulse of the Nation shows a number of mood trends, regarding both times of day and geography. The peak in the overall tweet mood score being observed on Sunday mornings, and the trough occuring on Thursday evenings.

A Headset That Reads Your Brainwaves

Tan Le of Emotiv Systems presents a new computer interface that reads its user's brainwaves. The Emotiv EPOC, as it's called, uses a set of sensors to tune into electric signals produced by the brain. These sensors detect the user's thoughts, feelings and expressions, which allow them to wirelessly control the functions of a PC. Here she demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications.

Glastotag

Another great idea from Poke London for Orange's sponsorship of this year's Glastonbury festival. Glastotag is a 1.3 giga pixel image is of a 70,000 strong crowd at the Pyramid Stage basking in the sunshine during the England vs. Slovenia match. Taken with two Hasselblad H4D-50 Cameras, Glastotag is aiming to hold the world record for the most people tagged in any image online.

EA's Human Avatar

Dare has taken the virtual customization feature of EA's new massively multiplayer online game All Points Bulletin into the real world, letting an unmerciful online mob decide the new look of some poor guy called Josh. Just like players of the game can customize their avatar's haircut, piercing, tattoos and clothing, the group's collective decisions are being inflicted for real. A dedicated site allows visitors to become voters, deciding on what is turning out to be a pretty ridiculous appearance.

Twirdie

Twirdie works like this: You enter a word that you think is very popular on Twitter right now. The ball then goes a foot for every tweet with your word or phrase in it from the last 60 seconds. You then have to enter progressively less popular words to reach the hole without over-shooting it. Nice.

Make Mine A Builders Tea

I haven't really been showing any degree show work here as it seems to be plastered on every ad/design blog going. However, I do really like this campaign from Claire Watson, a creative at the University of Central Lancaster. The line reads "Builders created this tea, so we let them do the ads". Very nice.

Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do

For Swedish pop star Robyn's new charmingly titled track Don't fucking tell me what to do, Blip Boutique has produced a 3d video that feeds in tweets from fans stating the things that are killing them, with their name credited at the bottom of the webpage. Fans simply have to tweet their vices and add the Twitter hash tag #killingme. Created entirely in code in collaboration with Stopp Web in Stockholm, with typography by Jakob Nylund.

Graffiti Analysis: 3D

Graffiti Analysis is a series of physical sculptures by Evan Roth, made from motion tracked graffiti data, with time extruded in the Z dimension and pen speed represented by the thickness of the model at any given point. The data is 3D printed to create a physical sculpture that can be exhibited as a data visualization of the tag. Very inspiring stuff.

Tube or False?

In its 147-year history, some weird and wonderful things have happened on the tube. So TfL are running a poster campaign on the Underground at the moment, inviting commuters to spot whether fact really is stranger than fiction. The posters direct users to the TfL site where they can find out whether the fascinating fact is Tube or False. Some lovely design too.

Double Rainbow

Yosemitebear is currently an Internet phenomenon. And watching this video you can see why. The guy is beautiful. Double Rainbow shows a man at one with nature (He get blown away by Turkeys and the moon too). You can see his Kermit the frog remix here and the AutoTuneNews' version here.