The Longest Way

Probably way behind on this, but I find it inspiring and well done. Makes me want to travel.

The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

The Fun Theory

awesome.
more at thefuntheory.com

Via David

Jay-Z - Blueprint III

New Jay-Z album cover is cool enough visually, even with the red stripes added with photosho...wait...

wow...

(not a bad album to boot)

(via Bobby)

Actually cool bike helmets

Fuseproject was commissioned by New York City to create a new product and brand for the new generation of bikers, would provide safety both in a context of a free bike program, and of a policy to promote cycling in the City.

The helmet features an innovative two-fold design that consists of a protective polystyrene shell on the inside, covered with a customizable soft fabric that attaches with integrated straps. Unfortunately this product is not yet available for purchase, NYC is currently distributing helmets at community events around the city.

IQ Font

The type nerd in me rejoices with his fellow technology nerd. The iQ font was created by the tracked movements of a little Toyota.

3-D Projection on buildings

555 KUBIK_ extended version from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

I absolutely love this.

via Gizmodo

Go Plates

When you need a free hand to, you know, actually eat the food you're carrying around - just put your plate over your brew. They're called Go Plates. Love it.

via Geekologie

Automated Tabletop Cutter

Loved the idea for this. The possibilities are really exciting - imagine all the fun stuff you can do with your recycling.

Automated Tabletop Cutter

Michael Jordan/Gatorade street art photos

A street art tribute to Michael Jordan made out of 19,000 Gatorade bottles

BooneOakley.com - Home Page

youtube as a website. brilliant.

Netflix Origami

This made me smile because we have a never ending supply of these around the house.

Happy Memorial Day!

Mama's Sauce

Mama's sauce is a design/print shop in central Florida that just blew my mind. They take great care in their print processes, and seem to truly love the art form. Refreshing.

This poster for a crawfish boil was actually printed with Old Bay seasoning mixed in with the ink! Amazing. Looks super-great too.

Here There Be Monsters

The Portfolio of Here There Be Monsters in itself is worth a post, but what really caught my attention was how they use Google Maps to present the site. The click-drag can be a little annoying, but it is a really unusual and captivating idea. Worth checking out.

Someday Is Today

I'm proud to announce the launch of Someday Is Today a collaboration between Benjamin Clyde, Aaron Martin, Shawn Romano, Northland Church and myself.

We decided to take another approach on the idea of taking overseas service trips, and focus on the things that prevent people from taking the dive. This campaign included a series of videos played during the services, and a simple website that funnels you into a trip that fits you best.

I helped with the web structure, overseeing the amazing designers (simple job) and some of the messaging.

Our vision for it starts with Northland, but could include lots of churches/ministries/organizations using the campaign and listing their trips here. If you're interested in participating, let us know.

Honda Insight and Vimeo

Honda Insight is running an amazing video/campaign on Vimeo. The entire page is effected along with the video. Is it bad it kind of gave me goosebumps?

via Brandon's Twitter

Martin Luther King Sings

via Daniel

Zip Up Tangles

Yes, please.

Someone please put these into production. Thank you.

Peter Funch

Photographer Peter Funch takes a series of photos from the same spot and composites them together based on theme. Love it.

Via yewknee

ToneMatrix

ToneMatrix

Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute.

Nice.

Video on a Sphere

Video on a Sphere

Talk about "immersive" media...love it

Boxed Water is Better

Boxed Water is Better seems pretty neat:

Started with the simple idea of creating a new bottled water brand that is kinder to the environment and gives back a bit - we found that it shouldn't be bottled at all, but instead, boxed. So we looked to the past for inspiration in the century old beverage container and decided to keep things simple, sustainable, and beautiful.

via the dieline

ThruYou

What you are about to see is a mix of unrelated YouTube videos/clips edited together to create ThruYou.

http://thru-you.com/

Fascinating. via Brandon via zefrank

Crisis of Credit Visualizations

Fantastic visualizations of the crisis of credit

Via Hunter Chorey

Twestival tonight!

If there's a twestival in your town, I really encourage you to go tonight.

It's a simple meetup happening in 175+ cities around the world with the goal of raising money for an amazing cause, charity:water. My church has been supporting them for a while, and they're legit. They help build wells for people who currently drink disgusting water that they have to walk miles for. It's amazing to think about how other cultures have to live because of a lack of simple technology to dig a well. Here's more on charity:water:

charity: water for Twestival from charity: water on Vimeo.

Each Twestival is locally and volunteer run, but the one in Charlottesville is awesome. Donors have provided everything, so every single penny from even my beer purchases will go to charity:water. Basically a regular night out with all money going to help.

On the right side of the main Twestival page you can see the cities around the world that are taking part. Find your city, buy a drink, and let's get some wells dug.

(ps - if you come to the charlottesville one, you can get your grubby hands on this SICK print by publicdomain/modern mysticism)

That awful new Pepsi logo

I've got lots of thoughts on how bad the new pepsi logos are, but this guy introduced a new perspective on the unfortunate mark. This image cracks me up.

Also, if you havent seen the "Breathtaking" presentation that's been "leaked", you should check it out. It's supposedly the brief that explains the case for the shapes of the new logos...but it HAS to be a joke...right?

Pseudo-3D Video Conferencing with a Generic Webcam (Chris Harrison, Scott Hudson) - ISM '08

fascinating

via yewknee

Bike Lane That Travels With You

LightLane by Altitude inc

The system projects a virtual bike lane (using lasers!) on the ground around the cyclists, providing drivers with a recognizable boundary they can easily avoid. The idea is to allow riders to take safety into their own hands, rather than leaving it to the city.

Brilliant. Love this idea for so many reasons.

Via GOOD via IDasia

Twitter Chatter During the Super Bowl

As the Steelers and Cardinals battled on the field, Twitter users across the nation pecked out a steady stream of "tweets." The map shows the location and frequency of commonly used words in Super Bowl related messages.

My favorite is when the Boss takes the stage.

via twitturly

Hobonox audio tool

Hobonox is beautiful, really well done, and I'm sure fascinating, but reminds me why i never did well in my studio production class in college.

The idea is to:

Produce your own electronic music with the Hobnox Audiotool...Choose your set-up, add, remove and arrange the devices you need and record your track to the myFiles’ section of your Hobnox account. From there, publish and share...

Love the look of the interface and like the pan-able stage (although sometimes you accidentally grab a machine when you're trying to pan around), but this is a great example of how giving people great power to control small details ends up becoming complicated and difficult. People with studio experience, however, might disagree and feel right at home. Worth checking out.

via westerndave's twitter

Duplex

“Duplex is an aquarium/cage favouring an improbable encounter between a bird and a fish. The aquarium is thermoformed so as to create a space where the bird can fly at the same visual level as the fish.”

via IDasia (which, by the way, is my new favorite)

AWAKENING

Jeremy Cowart's photography is quite good to start with, but the Awakening book project really caught my eye. He went around with the Passion world tour and captured it in breathtaking images. How can someone edit together a couple thousand photos each as stunning as the last? Looking forward to seeing this book when it comes out.

Via Jeremy's Twitter

Reflective Black Vinyl

This bike has been wrapped with this cool vinyl material which looks black, but with direct light or flash, it looks white and reflective. The video shows it off best. How cool.

via Core 77 (who, by the way, is killing it these days)

Easy PB&J Jar

Yes, Please!

Some interesting industrial design from Sherwood Forlee. His Easy PB&J Jar features a clean and simple glass jar with two lids.

The Easy PB&J Jar is a jar with two lids that allows you to access all of your peanut butter easily without having to resort to breaking open the jar. As you near the end on one side, simply flip the jar over to get the rest. The straight and smooth internal walls also ensure that no peanut butter is ever left behind a nook or cranny like existing jars.

via sustainable is good

Q Drum

I tend to like ideas like these that generate water closer to the source, but for places where this is not possible, the Q Drum is a great, simple idea:

The idea of the Q Drum originated in response to the needs of rural people in developing countries who have a problem carrying adequate quantities of potable water from a reliable source. A burden which is generally bestowed on the women and children of each community. In Africa for example, many debilitating back and neck injuries are a result of women carrying heavy loads on their heads....
The Q Drum is user friendly and the unique longitudinal shaft permits the drum to be pulled using a rope tied through the hole. There are no removable or breakable handles or axles, and the rope can be repaired on the spot or easily replaced...

Brilliant.

Via LeeSteffen

Photoshop Interface on a billboard

Street Art Berlin ("don't forget..."), originally uploaded by epoxy _.

street art commentary on popular images. photoshop interface pasted onto the images. love it.

Check out the full set.

via brandon

The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks

Stuff like this cracks me up

via paul armstrong

24-hours of airtraffic

Tension - A Portrait of Barack Obama

Tension - A Portrait of Barack Obama, originally uploaded by mmike2.

1000 feet of steel high tension wire, black enamel and poplar base

holy moly. i love this kind of art.

via Time via Nathan

Happy Christmas from AKQA

via Brandon

The Turn

The Turn is a fascinating look at the work of artist/singer Fredo Viola. The navigation alone is worth marveling over, but the concept might even eclipse that. He records multiple video tracks of an audio piece (song) and puts them together to "watch" the song come together. This is standard fare on youtube these days, but this presentation is mesmerizing and beautiful. Extraordinarily well done.

via dbox

Lakai- Fully Flared Intro

quite the twist on the traditional skate video

Idea Generator

For when you need a jumpstart, the Idea Generator.

via creattica

We are a creative community

I stumbled on this Johannes Leonardo site tonight. Frankly, I don't 100% get it, but it's fascinating and thought provoking.

Hack the wiimote

Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote. Apparantly this is old news, but cool nevertheless. This Johnny Lee guys is pretty awesome.

More here

via Baekdal

The Atlas of the Real World

The Atlas of the Real World is a beautiful look at how the world would be shaped if it was based on other criteria. The one on the left is Internet Users in 2002. The book is available here.

Multicolr

Idee's multicolr search lab is really fun to play with. Choose a color and it finds creative common photos containing it. You can even select multiple colors. Fun to play with.

Playing For Change: Song Around the World

Wish their mission statement was more clear, but Playing for Change is a neat concept. They went around the world and had different musicians record different tracks. Fantastic.

Via Chris

New Five Euro Commemorative Coin

Stunning.

Via Core77

Did you know?

A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis

Fascinating and very well done. Check it out.

via Chris

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Blog of peter centofante: father, husband, brother, UX designer, freelance graphic designer, believer, realist and thinker (at least i'd like to think so.) This blog is a collection of my thoughts and things i find interesting.

I believe that ideas can change things. I think that when people are inspired by something, they rarely attempt to copy it, rather they use that spark towards their own goals, projects, and worldviews. In light of this, my goal is to share many ideas, in the hopes of making everything better.

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