5 Apr
2012
The Morning After
Photography students, Giesemann André and Daniel Schulz photograph nightclubs the morning after the night before.
I'm not sure what/where these club are, but the bottom one looks like the amazing Cocoon in Frankfurt.
via fubiz.net
13 Mar
2012
Olafur Eliasson’s Your rainbow panorama
Olafur Eliasson’s dazzling “Your Rainbow Panorama” is a permanent installation on the rooftop of the ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. The spectacular work of art has a diameter of 52 metres and is mounted on slender columns 3.5 metres above the roof of the museum. Visitors can literally walk through the entire color spectrum viewing the world for the first time in all pink, green, blue and yellow tones.
2 Mar
2012
Instameetmcr - #oneoff
'ONE OFF’ LEAP DAY INSPIRES NEW SOCIAL MEDIA LED ART EXHIBITION.
To celebrate the ‘one off’ leap year day on Wednesday, four Manchester instagrammers (Kate Towey, James G Brown, Gina Hewitt and Fiona McGarva) organised a social media led collaborative art project to create ‘One Off’: a photography exhibition in Northern Quarter gift shop Incognito’s gallery space, an old bank vault.
The ‘People’s Choice’ Vault – photo by instruct.
Entrants were asked to simply take a photo using the hugely popular iPhone photography app, instagram on the theme ‘One Off’ and tag it using the corresponding hashtag. All submitted photos were displayed with the most popular 18 photos being framed and entered into the ‘people’s choice’ competition with the winner decided by those who attended. Checking the tag now, there were almost 350 submitted photos.
I submitted a couple of images, with one being lucky enough to be selected for the ‘people’s choice’ award and being framed and displayed with 17 selected others inside the old vault. Unfortunately I didn’t win, but I think 13 votes was quite respectable (which put me in about 5th place, not that I was counting or anything!)
My submission - bentopliss 
The exhibition will run until to March 14th, so if you’re in the area its well worth having a look or feel free to follow me on instagram (@bentopliss).
The winning entry – photo by marklloyd68
Incognito, 5 Stevenson Square, M1 1DN. 0161 228 7999
Opening hours Mon - Sat 10am - 5.30pm, Sun 12pm - 4pm Incognito / @Incognito_UK
http://www.instameetmcr.co.uk/
http://web.stagram.com/tag/oneoff/
23 Feb
2012
John Clang - Time
Photographer John Clang has cut, glued and then reassembled a series of photographs all taken from the same spot. By mixing the different elements from multiple images, he portrays a sense of flow and movement that you don't always get in a singular image.
9 Jan
2012
Truth Hurts
Sure, having an iPhone is pretty cool, but there are a couple of catches to it. Nico Ordozgoiti's designed these wallpapers to keep that in mind.
5 Jan
2012
Infrared Hong Kong
Hong Kong-based designer Yiu Yu Hoi turns his fast-paced city into a slow moving dream with the use of infrared photography. He first learned about this technique from photography forums which got him "totally fascinated" with how shockingly different he could make his city scenes appear.
3 Jan
2012
Top Ten: Music Artists 2011
According to my last.fm stats, these are the my most listened to artists of the last 12 months. Its also a pretty accurate representation of my favourite albums of the past year.
1 Cut Copy - 330 plays
2 Metronomy - 264 plays
3 Tame Impala - 239 plays
4 Daft Punk - 234 plays
5 The Chemical Brothers - 233 plays
7 LCD Soundsystem - 183 plays
7 Caribou - 183 plays
8 Radiohead - 182 plays
9 Arctic Monkeys - 152 plays
10 Chromeo - 142 plays
With the below being my most listened to track of the year:
via last.fm
20 Dec
2011
Lego Production Factory in Billund, Denmark » Design You Trust – Design and Beyond!
Minifigure heads on the Lego production line in Billund, Denmark, where two million Lego pieces are made every hour. This machine, one of several similar ones in the factory, can paint different expressions on each side of the heads.
The Billund factory’s ‘Cathedral’ warehouse, which is ‘manned’ by eight robots and 15 automatic cranes.
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