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Guerrilla Innovation
Britain's cycling infrastructure in 20 pictures- The Guardian asked its readers to share their pictures of what cyclists have to put up with. Here are 20 highlights lowlights. • More photos on The Guardian... (more)
- Your own pirate TED Talk
- Create your own pirate TED Talk with the installation "Ideas Worth Spreading" by Evan Roth. The installation mimics a TED stage complete with props, headset, camera, projection, spotlight etc. 3 If in New York you can try it out for yourself at F.A.T. Lab's FAT GOLD exhibition at Eyebeam. The exhibition is on view until April 20 (so hurry up!). • Ideas Worth Spreading... (more)
- No More Stars (Star Wars Abandoned Movie Set)
- Photo project by the Italian photographer Ra di Martino who discovered the architectural remains of the Star Wars movie set on Google Maps. It turns out that Luke Skywalker's childhood home is not located on planet Tatooine, but in the Tunisian dessert at the coordinates 33°59'39 N 7°50'34 E. More about the photo project on The Guardian. • www.radimartino.com... (more)
- Graffiti in Springfield
- Graffiti spotted in The Simpsons. • Via urbanshit... (more)
- Once Upon
- What would Google+, Youtube, Facebook and Pinterest look like if they were created in 1997? Once Upon is a web project by the media artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, who re-created four contemporary websites with the technology and spirit of the late 1997's. Netscape Navigator, frames and modems may not resonate much with digital natives, but to the generation before them Once Upon is a sweet reminder of early day web-aesthetics. The sites Google+, Facebook, Youtube and... (more)
- Smartphone generated snowfall
- Just before Christmas POKE London came up with a snow-cannon installation that allowed people to trigger a snowfall using their smartphones. Posters in Rivington Street in Hackney encouraged pedestrians to make a call or check in using Foursquare. Those curious enough were rewarded with a snowfall to the tunes of 'Let it Snow' by Dean Martin. • Making Hackney Sparkle... (more)
- Urban Typographic Furniture
- A piece of urban furniture and landmark created by pupils at the elementary school Tove Ditlevsens Skole (TDS) in Copenhagen. The sculptural object is one of many elements conceived to revitalize the public space around the school and in Copenhagen's Vesterbro district in general. The idea behind the object is developed by the pupils themselves after a week of workshops and prototyping facilitated by the urban network Supertanker. • More info on Facebook (in Danish)... (more)
- Call for Participants - John Cage 4'33" Flashmob in Berlin
- A flashmob is planned on the last day of 2012 in Berlin in honor of the experimental composer John Cage. The flashmob will stage John Cage's famous composition 4'33" - aka four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. The piece was composed in 1952 for any instrument and the score instructs the performer not to play the instrument during the entire duration of the piece. Everybody can participate in the collective performance of 4'33". Only requirements are to bring an instrument an... (more)