Ever seen a graffiti artist at work? Not sure what amazes me most: the scale of the drawing, the assurance of the painter, the depth of the rendering, the crudity of the painting tools? Fascinating. “Insane51? is a young grafitti artist, born in Athens in 1992. A student of Fine [...]
Feb 192012
Oct 022011
Since 2004, Google has embarked on the digitization of world culture. To date, more than 130 millions of unique books have been digitized and are freely available on the Web *. An optical character recognition system allows the indexing and search of text through all the digitized books. This [...]
Jun 282011
Photographers, marketers and innovators have this in common that in their job, “great” only comes with “timely”. It takes a great sense of timing (or is it luck?) to get the right thing out at the right time. But maybe even more important is to sense when to communicate about the [...]
Jun 202011
Coming in July, OS X Lion brings a new way to interact with Macs: multi-touch gestures. Using the computer trackpad, we’ll be able to pinch, tap, scroll, and swipe our way through most of the system functions, like we do on the iPad. Nine years ago (yes, nine years!), Steven Spielberg [...]
Jun 192011
Inspired by an Android phone, a Nespresso machine, and a design à la Courrège, Guillaume Moshi Guyader designed a washing machine like no other. The Moshi’Matic can be controled remotely by a Droid app, has soap capsules fitted in a Nespresso-like compartment, and comes with a choice of refreshing iPad-cover colors. [...]
Jun 152011
This is pretty amazing. Take a popular composer like Eric Whitacre, send a message to fans asking them to record themselves singing along one of his composition and to upload the result on YouTube, mix all tracks and videos together, and what you get is a choir of over 2,000 [...]
Jun 112011
What’s an artist in the era of digital technologies? If you’re skeptical whether some computer rendered images may qualify as “true art”, check out Aaron Koblin’s website. His early work on flight patterns based on data from the U.S Federal Aviation Administration is widely known and has been copied many times. [...]
Jun 082011
Finally some cool, refreshing stuff from Microsoft! Windows 8 looks great, but they should definitely kill that guy who’s forcing them to carry over the “old Windows” apps into the same interface. Wonder how that’s going to work out. Watch the demo on YouTube!
Hello! I'm Jean Huy. I'm a tech marketer in California, passionate advocate of intelligent design and creative technology. I like to pin here things that recently caught my attention, for the pleasure of sharing and commenting on.