Following on from our previous post that looked at Luke
Jerram’s umbrella installation and Random International’s Rain Room, we’re back
talking about England’s favourite subject once again.
‘Kinetic Rain’ was created by ART+COM, who were commissioned
by the Changi Airport Group in Singapore to produce this stunning, moving, art
installation for their Terminal 1 Departure-Check-in hall.
These beautiful raindrops are made of lightweight aluminium
covered with copper and all 608 of them are suspended from the ceiling over 75
square meters and 7.3 meters in height.
To distract you further from usual airport mayhem, the thin
steel ropes that are attached to the droplets actually pull and release in a
computerised 15 minute choreography, creating mesmerising movements and patterns
–hence the name ‘kinetic rain’.
Why doesn’t the rain look as pretty out of our window?
Check out ART+COM’s video to fully appreciate the
eye-catching concept:
If you didn't know already (but how could you miss it?!), Daniel Craig is back as 007 in
‘Skyfall’, the 23rd film in the Bond franchise. Now that it’s
finally here, we thought we’d take a look over some of creative work behind
promoting the British institution.
Most recently, give-it-a-go-heros in Antwerp were enticed by
a Coke Zero vending machine with the opportunity to win Skyfall première tickets. This ingenious experiential PR stunt coined by Duval Guillaume (a
Belgian ad agency) shows genuine members of the public taking part in their
‘Unlock the 007 in You’ campaign by accepting the challenge of racing to
another platform in 70 seconds. Queue the multiple distractions, obstacles and
cameras and see if they've really got what it takes:
And have you spotted one of these giant Bond buses?
Another great interactive promo that anyone can get involved
in is Heineken’s new multi-platform campaign; the TV advert, featuring Daniel Craig and
Bond-Girl Bérénice Marlohe, invites
viewers to ‘Crack the Case’ through a personalised interactive Facebook game.
They also followed this up with an experiential activity at London's Victoria Station with a 'Special Agent Recruitment Office'. 007 tasks included a reflex test, a Russian interrogation and trying to get hold of a bottle of Heineken protected by lazer beams.
The Heineken 'Special Agent Recruitment Office' (Pictures from the One Marlin Blog)
And last but not least, let’s not forget the creative prowess
and sultry tones of Adele, who is responsible for the Bond theme tune this time
round.
Luke Jerram's installation Just Sometimes... saw 1000 umbrellas decorate a 300m stretch of Rotterdam's canals during the Witte de With Festival last month. Visually linking the streets to the waterways during the 3 day Arts festival "Like a bunch of flowers presented as a gift, or fireworks on an autumn night, maybe ‘Just Sometimes’ it’s O.K. to create something that is simply beautiful that makes the public smile" .
Now when the skies open in the City you can see the brightly coloured umbrellas come out again - a perfect example of up-cycling Art work - after they were given away to the public. A nice way of keeping the memory of those floating gifts alive in the collective consciousness of the city.
Sounds crazy but this clever lot from the contemporary Art collective Random International have done exactly that and created Rain Roomon show at The Barbican's Curve until March 3rd 2013.
The interactive exhibition was born out of experimenting with temporary printing technology to create a long distance like ink-jet printer. But, became much more interested in people's interaction with the piece "It's the same with all of our work:" Explained Florian Ortkrass, founder of Random International
"it doesn't make sense without anyone there"
Here's what rAndom say about the piece in their own words:
"Rain Room is a hundred square metre field of falling water through which it is possible to walk, trusting that a path can be navigated, without being drenched in the process. As you progress through The Curve, the sound of water and a suggestion of moisture fill the air, before you are confronted by this carefully choreographed downpour that responds to your movements and presence."
Longwood Gardens recently finished its 4 month exhibition of Bruce Munro's LIGHT featuring 8 large outdoor installations. One of which was this incredible use of old CD's to replicate floating water lilly pads. Clever AND beautiful.
We paid a flying visit on Friday to the 100% Design exhibition at Earls Court as part of the London Design Festival. These are a few of the things we saw whilst we were there...
We love these sculpted bars.
Amazing architectural mouldings- we loved the rose one in particular
Some seriously stylish walling/ dividing systems
We love a nice laser cut tree!
Some very cool, very strong magnets- useful if you live in a tiny space and have nowhere to put your pans!
The exterior and interior of some very futuristic looking exhibition stands/pods. These screens can play individually or click together to be any size you need them to be.
There has been huge speculation about what the new iPhone 5 will look
like. Will it be see through? Will it have a finger print reader? Will be able to shoot projections across the room and solve the Pi equation?The truth is no one really knew until Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 at one of it's famous showcases. Some people however, have created mock-ups of what
they thought the most hotly awaited device of 2012 would look like. We took a look at some of the best and worst examples of the
iPhone 5 design predictions...
So here's what it actually looks like...
So as you can see it's pretty sleek, longer, thinner and also lighter.
Here are what others thought it could look like...
Apple Mouse
Looks a little bit like the Motorola Pebble... from 2009!
Stretch Ipod nano?
Funnily enough this combined with the 4s design does kind of make the iPhone 5
Super Slim
We thought this, even though every slim may have been quite near
Squarish This looks a little too much like an E reader!
Mini Mac
A holographic display would be useful, although pretty unlikely
Now for those designs that we think are a little bit too futuristic and a bit more Matrix / Minority report than 2012
Transparent
Not
too sure on any advantage of a see through phone apart from everyone
being able to see your squished ear whilst you're on the phone.
Hand Projection
Let's hope you don't have small hands
What we're calling 'The claw' or 'the spider' Hands free could be a bit of a pain...
....and then there's this....
We like this retro throwback to the 80's mobile phones/bricks :)
