the best way to start any day

If orange juice and coffee doesn't quite get your heart gowin in the mornin, maybe these videos will.

To me, digital art/media is another fundamental force that creates, captures and expresses what design magazines, artwork, still photography and reality can not.

The collaboration between creative minds in music and art videos are among my favorite forms of digital art/ media. The more creative minds..the merrier.

Because there are too many extraordinary videos that keep coming my way to include in one post, I've decided to keep them stashed on Vimeo.

Theses artists/visionaries/musicians (creative minds) are outta sight.

These are my new favs

                                 

Sébastien Tellier / Boys Noize remix - "L'Amour et la Violence" (HD) from Bertelli Bertelli on Vimeo.

         Dear Lucy McLauchlan (artist below) you don't know me, but we are good friends.          

  
Beat13 / Lucy McLauchlan "Tacit" from Beat13 on Vimeo.

This video/work of art is creepy but quite captivating..I find myself not even reading the subtitles..

                                

LUCIA from diluvio on Vimeo.

 

!!!new music favs!!!

Aeroplane's new December Mix

I'm madly in love with 'Crave you' (3:40 mins into it)...lovvv lovvv itt

  Aeroplane " Chart Mix " December 2009  by  Aeroplane

Simian Mobile Disco-Cream Dream

..he dropped this(within his new album Temporary Pleasures) awhile back but its still quite the tasty sunday treat

!!Look!!!

Mother nature strikes again in Sydney and this time she whipped up quite a Red Dust storm. But thanks to photographers who documented its beauty and shared their shots on flickr, Tom Coates pulled together some gorgeous photos.

Look!!

See more gorgeous shots in his lil flickr gallery.

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Its Christmas Eve!! Lets dance!! Save the Christmas jams for tomorrow and bounce to these beats today!!

Vega-No Reasons

Uffie-MCs Can Kiss

Siriusmo-High Together

The Hood Internet-BIZ MARKIE vs PHOENIX vs CLASSIXX-Just a Friendomania

Duck Sauce- Anyway(LAZRtag remix)

MF Doom-Air(Astronote remix)

Terry Poison-Comme Ci Comme Ca(The Twelves remix)

CreativeMinds that keep me full.keep me healthy.keep me happy

To me, these lovely ladies are all-stars and my creative mind could not survive without them. Now that I'm finito with school, I have a lot more time to sniff out the creative minds that post their work along with creative minds they too hold near and dear.

Its a bit of a challenge to complete pieces, that are in the works, when I fall in love with and get distracted by so many beautiful references within the blogosphere. I try not to delve too deeply in to these labyrinths of cute girls in cute clothes doing/making cute things in cool places but sometimes these blogs are just too good to overlook. Before I started to really look for and through the thousands upon thousands of blogs from all over the world, I would pay an embarrassing amount of money to walk away from magazine stands with the same quality of references for my work. I still am quite the international fashion, architecture and industrial design magazine junkie, but these lovely blogs are saving me a lot of money.

In the past month or so I've been lucky enough to come across many new faces and I try to consume their work/posts on the daily.

So yeah, thanks ladies for doing what you love to do and sharing it with the rest of the world.

Here are some of my new findings...

Daydreamlily : sooooo many beautiful images..
Blog: Nadinoo : a.k.a reference heaven
Dripbook : a growing archive of under the radar photographers that, luckily, have a place to showcase their love
Margaux motin : ALL-STAR!! her sketches are simply spectacular and make me laugh. Some day I would love to meet ms. Margaux...and Hilary Knight..
Dezeen : an actual site with a legit URL. sweet design (of all kinds) lights my fire
Connie Wang : she makes my heart sing. her photostream is quite a dream
chlorhydrate: this site's in french and from what I can/can't understand 'she' is an artist and primarily does collages. I like her work. Although I don't speak no français, creatively, we defiantly speak the same language.

(to be found on: chlorhydrate

within the 'Moleskine Times album')

(within the 'Nouveaux Collages')

...and then there's my fav music blogs..but that's a whooole nother story...

CreativeMind: 13thWitness

Sir 13thWitness has got a blog, a photostream, a homebase, and some videos that are pretty outta sight. He follows some cool cats about their town and documents their passion for hittin the streets with their favorite mode of transportation. I love that he gets it all on video..i mean Viemo and I love the way he compiles his footage. His 'Underground Vibes' video makes me want to finally learn how to skateboard. But I think that'll just have to wait till 2010. I have a feeling 13thWitness isn't going to slow down with making videos anytime soon (he finished two in a month), so look out for him in a town near you, he juusttt may be rollin through.

Some lovely vids of his

Underground Vibes

Underground Vibes from 13thWitness™ on Vimeo. 

Escape From Tomorrow 

(A Day In the Life With Nigel Sylvester)

Escape From Tomorrow (A Day In the Life With Nigel Sylvester) from 13thWitness™ on Vimeo.

 

CreativeMind: Leonardo Solaas can engineer dreams

Always forget your dreams? Or maybe you never dream at all. Wish you could not only have them but take screenshots of them? Well my friend, Leonardo Solaas has got you covered. With just one word, Leonardo Solaas can engineer a dream for you. Dreamlines is just one of his many mesmerizing projects. 

Check it ouuut. Its outta sight.

"Dreamlines is a non-linear, interactive visual experience. The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association."

My dream was about diamonds..of course..and below are some stills from it.

....oo..kayyy

  ..uu..huuhhh...

..whatt tHE??....

Now it's your turn!

 Create your dream here!!

Source: Leonardo Solaas's site

CreativeMindS United: The Great Indoor Awards 2009

Tokujin Yoshioka (work seen below) may know how to make a consumer/memeber of the general public stop in their tracks outside a store window, but these interior designers certainly know how to take your breath away once you step inside.

'Giving recognition to the best interior design worldwide, The Great Indoors Awards is an international, biennial, interior design award. The total amount of prize money is €30,000.'1

"The Great Indoors Award is intended to provide the interior designer with a platform of some stature, as well as to prompt debate and disburse information on interior design. The aim is to reward work of excellence and, at the same time, to show this work to the world. We hope to motivate and convince potential clients from both the private and the public sectors. Above all else, we want The Great Indoors to give the profession of interior design the status and position it deserves. An unambiguous name would be nice, too. "1

-Guus Beumer, Director of Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht and Director of NAiM/ Bureau Europa

& Robert Thiemann, Editor in chief of Frame magazine

 These are just some of the nominees!

Firm: 3XN (DK) Project: Saxo Bank, Copenhagen 2008 Client: Saxo Bank

Firm: i29 Interior Architects and Snelder Architects (NL)

Project: Poetry in Motion, Amstelveen 2009 Client: Panta Rei College

Firm: Panorama (CN) Project: DJS, Hong Kong 2008 Client: China Resources Retail Group Co., Ltd.

 

*some of the winners*

Firm: Office for Metropolitan Architecture - OMA (NL) 

Project: Prada Transformer, Seoul 2009 Client: Prada

(winner of the Show and Tell -Reatil catagory)

Firm: Design Spirits Co., Ltd. (JP) Project: Beijing Noodle no. 9, Las Vegas 2008 Client: Beijing Noodle

(winner of the Relax and Consume - Leisure category)

  Firm: Design Spirits Co., Ltd. (JP) Project: Beijing Noodle no. 9, Las Vegas 2008 Client: Beijing Noodle

Although I'd prefer to seeing these spaces in the 3D, the photos have left me a bit speechless.

Creators, participants and winners of The Great Indoors Awards, your outta sight.

1 Beumer, Guus, and Robert Thiemann. The Great Indoors 2009. Web. Dec. 2009. http://www.the-great-indoors.com/.

I love window displays x installations

I love companies that pride themselves on their larger than life and innovative window displays.

I especially love it when companies collaborate with note worthy artists to bring attention to both the artist and the store/merchandise. Apparently, Maison Hermes feels the same. Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka's new installation for Maison Hermes is one for the books. It's based off a previous window display he presented in 2004. The display can be seen until January 19th 2010.

window installation at Maison Hermès Japon

                                                                all images courtesy of tokujin yoshioka design


“On designing a window-display of Maison Hermès, I intended to express people’s daily ‘movements’ with a suspicion of humor. There are moments when I perceive a hidden presence of a person in the movements born naturally in daily life. I created a design where one can perceive someone behind the scarves as if life were being breathed into them. The window is designed with an image of woman projected onto a monitor. The scarf softly sways in the air in response to the woman’s blow.” – TY

Window displays are meant to draw the consumer into the store to shop shop shop and spend spend spend. But with a display this cool, I think they'll find customers prefer to watch the installation over browsing the $$$$$ merchandise.

I love collaborations and this one is outta sight.

Source:designboom

Lets dance!!!

Lets dance to new free music!! Fear of Tigers has just released their debut album.
It's a fun little album thats great to listen to during your morning routine. You can download it for free and check out a recent interview with the Japanese/British producer Benjamin Berry. Brought to you by Too Many Sebastians.

I Can Make The Pain Disappear

Adventures of Pippi Longstrump

CreativeMind: Franco Monari

Adventures feed the soul and inspire the creative mind.

Although I thrive on black and white photography, vibrant beautiful color melts my heart. Photographer  Franco Monari's photography melts my heart. He turns his adventures within barren and abandoned places into works of art. I doubt you’ll disagree, so check out his site and his photostream and you’ll see why he’s outta sight.

 

 

 

CreativeMind: Kengo Kuma

I came across this master minds work when I did some cyber hunting on a new line of jewelry being released by Vendom. Like the Tiffany+Frank Gehry collaboration, the renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Ma,Yu have join forces and released a line of jewelry called . The 
  intricate pieces are small reincarnations that draw from details seen in Kuma's structures. The collection is simply divine and I'm so glad to now be acquainted with both the collection and the architect.

(some pieces from the collection) 

"Kuma's goal is to "recover the tradition of Japanese buildings"and to reinterpret it for the 21st century"1 and he finds inspiration from light and nature. To put it simply, I love all of his designs and hope to visit some of his work one day.

He's outta sight.

For more, check out his company

Kengo Kuma and Associates .

Water/ Glass Villa in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan

 

Z58 (office building) Shanghai, China (above) 

'Lotus House' in Eastern Japan

Sources

1   Wikipedia. Kengo Kuma. 29 September 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kengo_Kuma(November 20, 2009)