Ok Go!

This band is becoming famous for their one-take videos. And of course for the brilliance of those videos and hopefully as well for their music.

Here is another gem. The second video to their single “This too shall pass” A short while ago I already posted the first version of it. But this one here topped that one by a million miles.

Do you remember the Honda ad where we follow for a minute and a half a chain reaction that has been build from the part of a Honda?

Now the new OK Go! video beats the cr*p out of the Honda Ad. All i can say: Pure Genius!

Watch it again and again – and you ll discover new elements in it. I hope there is a making-of video, cause I wanna see if they really shot it all in one go, or if like in the Honda ad clever editing was used.

In any case for true inventive brilliance: All thumbs up for the creators of this. A true music video masterpiece.

These truly imaginative images from Tim MacPherson make me wanna be a child again. Brilliant ideas. It took me a few seconds to see that the motorbike actually wasn’t a motorbike at all.

Check out his webpage. www.timmacpherson.com

This old fella was coughing his lung and soul out. He was standing there for minutes. It didn’t seem too hopeful for him

A little more than a week ago my friend Ally told me about this iPhone app called Hipstamatic, which mimics old camera lenses and analogue film developing processes. It gives your iPhone images the feel of old-school photographs with all it’s odd colour nuances and imperfections.

I instantly fell in love with it – and at the same time I fell in love with Photography – again. I started taking candid photographs of the life and the people around me – on my way to work or when going home, or just wondering around the streets.

Because no one would notice that i take their photos while pretending I m just typing on my phone – I achieve the almost impossible. Photos that in no way interfere with the subject. I photograph reality as it happens. This has been my dream since I started doing street photography.

The new series of images will be called Every Day People. And will be a tribute to London and it’s millions of colourful citizens – but also to life in general. The things we love, laugh but also loath sometimes. Because that that’s life – in a nutshell – and now also in my photographs.

I really like this concept here. Giving life to the outer surface of a building by projecting computer graphics over it is defnit some I wished I’d see more often. What about turning a whole city for a week into a semi virtual re-invented version of itself? Everything transforms constantly. There are so many boring structures in pretty much every city. Why not turning concrete blocks into living colourful creatures from a different universe?

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5595869&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1&group_id=

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

These guys from urbanscreen have some good ideas. For example this one here where they’ve turned a building into an interactive flipper video game.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2981936&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

Pinwall | interactive facade pinball | urban screening from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

This reminds me of a at the time ground breaking installation called Blinkenlights by the Chaos Computer Club in 2001 in Berlin. They created a simple dot-matrix on the Haus des Lehrers building right next to the Alexanderplatz. By installing 8 times 18 lamps behind the windows which were connected to a computer they were able to display simple messages, graphics and animations.

But for me the best thing was the possiblity to play Pong – the classic video game – on it too. You had to ring a phone number with your mobile phone which then connected you to their computer. By pressing 2 for up and 8 for down you could play the game standing in front of a 18 storey high screen. I remember being completely blown away by this idea!

If you fancy finding out more about it check out http://metaebene.com/blinkenlights