Archive for October, 2009 Exclusively from Yahoo! comes this hot-off-the-presses trailer for James Cameron’s highly anticipated new sci-fi (or is it syfy, now?) flick, Avatar. Click through to see the trailer. Looks pretty dope! French indie-rock band, The Parisians, recently released this video for their latest single, “Time For Nothing More.”
Comic book artist and cartoonist, Chris Ware, designed this socially spooky Halloween-themed cover for the November 2nd issue of The New Yorker. Ware’s depiction will probably be a reoccurring theme on Saturday night. Children dressed in their best Lady Gaga or Balloon Boy outfits happily waiting for candy, as their parents huddle in a daze on the sidewalk basking in the ominous glow of their iPhones. He also contributed a cartoon called “Unmasked” to the edition, which you can find by clicking here. Spot on, sir.
Argentina-based photographer, Esteban Diacono, takes a look at the mundane existence of the baddest bad guy of them all in this quite comical photo expose called, “The Real Life of Darth Vader.” The rest of the six-part series can be found on the next page.
This beautiful carved-wood (typo)graphy poster was designed by Rome, Italy-based artist and photographer, Francesco Basile.
Artist Michael A. Salter is an associate professor of digital arts at the University of Oregon who, in his downtime, builds massive robots out of recycled “polystyrene”–a Styrofoam commonly used for shipping electronics. Salter’s ‘Styrobots’ range from 2.5-feet (the little guy above) to 15-feet (the big guy above) to his largest creation, a 21-foot-fall behemoth who lives at San Jose University. The ‘Styrobots’ are currently on display at an exhibit called, “Robots: A Cultural Icon in Contemporary Art” at Wichita State University’s ‘Ulrich Museum of Art.’ The exhibit runs through December 18, 2009. Check out two videos showing how these guys are built (and an artist statement) after the break. 
To promote “Underdog”–the latest single off British band Kasabian’s brand new album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum–creative directors Phil and Steve (no last names given) conceived a giant (three stories high) Guitar Hero-like game controlled with footballs. They rounded up some of the most talented, young freestyle footballers from around England and filmed them kicking balls at sensors made from torn apart Guitar Hero controllers. Each of the brightly colored targets have pressure sensors embedded in them, and are attached via numerous wires to a computer that detects vibrations upon contact. What’s amazing is that after about an hour of practice, the footballers we’re able to score a 76% accuracy ratio. Wow! Check out the equally interesting making-of video after the jump.
Male, Maldives-based ‘algorithmic artist,’ Shahee Ilyas, created this pie chart showing the proportional color usage on flags from around the world. He starts at Afghanistan and finishes with Zimbabwe, compiling color information on more than 200 nations along the way (the image above is the composite of all of those flags).
Click through to see the pie charts for individual countries. Visit Ilyas’ website to see the “Flags by Colours” project in its entirety. 
Toronto-based art collective, Cube Works, recreates famous works of art out of hundreds and sometimes even thousands of Rubik’s Cubes. Their latest effort is an interpretation of Da Vinci’s, The Last Supper, which took five artists five months and 4,050 cubes to create. It spans 8.5 feet x 17 feet, and was purchased by an art collector in Florida It’s such an original idea that the Guinness Book of World Records invented a new category just so it could be included.
Creative Review’s newsstand version of their November 2009 issue comes in a revolutionary transparent bag that dissolves when placed in hot water. They’re the first magazine to implement this new packaging material called “harmless-dissolve,” which was developed in the UK by Cyberpac. Click through to see the bag disappear. Head over to CR for the whole article.
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