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DJ LEJO ADDS NEW MEANING TO SCRATCHIN'

This one's been around for a minute, but is a great example of how global Hop Hop culture has become. This one comes to us by way of Russia...check it out...

SONY INTRODUCES IT'S ULTRA THIN, FLEXIBLE, ELECTRONIC PAPER TECHNOLOGY SCREEN

On Friday, Sonyannounced their 2.5 wide x 0.01 inch thick electronic paper video screen. All we want to know is how long will it take for us to watch youtube on the go on one of these bad boys?

THE NEW FERRARI F430 BLACK MIRACLE DESIGNED BY HAMANN MOTORSPORT

For more info visit:
www.besttractor.blogspot.com | www.hamann-motorsport.de | www.ferrari.com 

THE NEW AMERICAN DICTIONARY

The New American Dictionary: Interactive Security/Fear Edition is a new book by the Boston performance group, the Institute for Infinitely Small Things. The dictionary, a paperback which retails for $19.95 on Amazon.com and at the Harvard Book Store, catalogs 67 fear and security terms that are either new – i.e. preparedness - or recently redefined – i.e. torture. The New American Dictionary is a humorous, provocative book that calls for readers to pay attention to the ways in which terminology of fear, security and war have permeated American English post-9/11. Terms in the dictionary include: Islamofascist, Freedom Fries, Friendly Fire, Regime Change, Smart Bomb, Surge, and 62 more…

THE XIP3: THE SWISS ARMY OF JACKETS FOR THE MACGYVER IN YOU

It's a jacket, no it's a a backpack, no it's a pillow, no it's the Xip3...
To judge for yourself visit: www.xip3.com

THE GRAFFITI REPORT CARD: UGLY GRAFFITI HATERS UNITE

Graffiti Report Card: A way to combat bad graffiti by shaming the writer
By Brandon Thomas Baunach

What is the Graffiti Report Card?
The Graffiti Report Card is a mechanism that you can use to judge graffiti. It’s a sticker with an arrow on it that points to the graffiti. The sticker has a number of categories you can judge the graffiti on as well as a space to write your own comments. The way you use the Graffiti Report Card is you:
1: Find a piece of graffiti you love or hate.
2: Print out the PDF I’ve included in this article (HERE)
3: Fill out the graffiti report card with your comments
4: Stick it up on the wall next to the graffiti
5: Take a picture and send it to me

What is the background of the Graffiti Report Card?
It’s a project I started a couple of months ago after seeing my neighborhood (The Mission District of San Francisco) receive an amazing amount of ugly, large, and talentless graffiti. I wanted a way to combat the ugly graffiti while at the same time give praise to the talented graffiti writers who I feel make the streets more beautiful. It occurred to me, that many of our local taggers don’t realize how ugly and talentless their graffiti is, so I wanted to give them some feedback.

For the rest of this story visit: www.designcrack.com

THE INFINITE VIDEO FORMAT WAR IS COMING

Blu-Ray will dominate the industry in three years. Or maybe it will be HD DVD. The general consensus is that whoever wins doesn't really get a lasting victory, since they're both in the last physical video format ever. That sentiment has largely been the consensus of the press and leaders in the tech industry.

The end of physical formats for movie and TV shows could be called digital convergence, a happy, wonderfully singular, unified digital world. Content moves seamlessly from your multifunction portable device to your TV, between your computers, and to every monitor and audio system and random networked appliance in between. To have that happen in a stream of bits floating effortlessly on radio waves, without physical discs or specially designated boxes, would be truly wonderful.

But an end to physical video formats doesn't mean an end to format wars. In fact, once film and television content are no longer bound by physical media, we're in for the mother of all format wars.

For the rest of this story visit: www.gizmodo.com

Shame On Ikea

Banned Ikea TV Ads

The Vintage Mac Museum

This site has a great collection screenshots of some of the oldest design applications on MacOS.

PIXELATOR

Pixelator is an unauthorized on-going video art performance collaboration with the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, Clear Channel Communications, and its selected artists.

(Translation: Pixelator turns those ugly, blinding video billboard ads into art.)