The Corpus Callosum

My good friend Cheryl Koo, the brain-child behind fashion label The Other Duck, was visiting Beijing a couple weeks ago and hooked me up these sick tees! She’ll be touring around the globe in September 2010 throwing fashion shows in LA, NYC, Hong Kong, and Tokyo so be sure to check back for dates and venues.

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Insightful TED Talk by Simon Sinek on how humans are biologically programmed to act based on emotion and not logic. It’s not the What/How, it’s the Why.

via blankanvas. Thanks Pat!

A childs’ imagination is a wonderful thing. Before their inquisitive minds are polluted with societies’ expectations and drowned with responsibilities, children have the freedom to explore their creativity without any worry or fear. What if this innocence and creative curiosity wasn’t lost as they age and mature?

Introducing The Monster Engine by Dave Devries, an internet phenomenon that started as a personal art project and now turned into an award-winning book, lecture, and gallery exhibit!

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Exit Through the Gift Shop - A Banksy Film

Paramount Pictures has teamed up with infamous graffiti artist Banksy to bring us the world’s first Street Art disaster movie, “Exit Through the Gift Shop”. After an acclaimed premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, “Exit Through the Gift Shop” will be opening in selected cities across the USA starting April 16 to May 21.





Dirty Hands - The Art and Crimes of David Choe

I first heard about David Choe through his prison art and was impressed with his gritty creative talent. Upper Playground has created a documentary which takes an in-depth look at his philosophy on life, art, and his reformed views after his incarceration. “Dirty Hands” will begin screening on April 30th, 2010 in Los Angeles and then make its way up North to San Francisco on May 21st.

The blogosphere has been saturated with news and images about the earthquake in Haiti but what’s it really like at ground zero? Immersive Media’s innovative use of 360º video capturing technology enables us to see it with our own eyes. It’s similar to a video stream except that the recording allows you to play/pause at any moment and rotate 360º to view any part of the scene (you can even rotate while the video is playing)! Amazing stuff with multiple applications for online news, real-time events, and viral marketing/advertising.





Imagine getting live updates through various Twitter feeds with supplementary real-time 360º videos. This type of technology will only bring our global village closer together and allow people access to information which was either not available or censored just five years ago. Check out all four videos at this link, courtesy of CNN. Thanks for the link Leon.

Liu Bolin is a Beijing-based artist whose work was made famous at last year’s Solo Show at the Galerie Bertin Toublanc in Paris. His most famous exhibit titled “Camouflage” is based on Bolin’s exploration into human nature, showing how people blend into their environments for safety, much like the chameleon in the reptilian kingdom.

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I wish I had gone back to Hong Kong during National Week to check out the Graffiti Analysis 2.0 exhibition at the Input/Output Gallery. Graffiti Analysis 2.0 is an open-framework application that tracks the motion of graffiti tags and digitally represents them in 3D forms based on a single-line input created by the user.

It’s a remarkably cool project by digital artist Evan Roth and software developer Chris Sugrue. It may look like a one-trick pony right now but with a few more technical tweaks and colour customizations, this effect will surely make its way into advertisements and mainstream media in the near future.

Graffiti Analysis 2.0 - Oct 2, 2009 at Input Output from Evan Roth

Digital Blackbook (Graffiti Analysis 2.0) from Evan Roth

In addition to this amazing timelapse video of the National Day parade created by Dan Chung, here are a few more stunning images that capture China’s organizational brilliance.  Courtesy of XinHua.

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