Some fantastic wetsuits from by ditto, I'm just so suprised nobody's thought of doing it before. Check out their site here
Thursday 28 May 2009
How has this not already been done
Studiometrico - Bastard Store Milan
One of the latest project firmed by the italian design studio “studiometrico” which converted an old cinema in Milan, into the new Bastard flagship store. The spectacular and hazardous ultimate milan recreative device including an administrative offices and a suspended bowl.
Via Fabrik
Wednesday 27 May 2009
The Bloody Apprentice
Cassetteboy vs The Apprentice, what a cracking video. Cassetteboy is brilliant, if you haven't heard any of his other mashups, he's well worth a Google.
The Bloody Apprentice from cassetteboy on Vimeo.
Monday 18 May 2009
I love this
Not sure where I found it. Not sure who did it. Do let me know so I can link to your work.
Saturday 16 May 2009
Rubbish, Rubbish, Rubbish, There is nothing on hun...
The conversation slows and then dies.
Without warning or any control I start to speak in a uninterested and mono-toned voice. Arm outstretched and the word rubbish, rubbish, rubbish robotically falling out of my mouth.
Finally I wake from my hypnotic trance and turn to Amanda and speak the words I have come to dread.
"Hun there is nothing on"
100's of channels, hard drives full of movies and yet we can not decide what to watch.
A few years ago I came across TED. I think Tom a pal from work introduced me to the wonders of this site.
Why this wonderful, fun, and entertaining content is not broadcast on mainstream TV channels....Arggggh while tat like Big Brother et al fills our screens...arggghh. Well enough of a rant seriously check this out! Do it! You will be amazed!
Facts unchecked
I adore this site. factunchecked
Well ok not the site as much as the idea. It is so easy to publish a thought, fact or idea online. Then to engage in that fact or idea only to find out that the publisher did nothing to confirm the fact or research the idea.
The transient nature of blogs, sites etc makes it very easy to publish anything, say anything, offend and even disgust a user. Before anyone re-acts to this post No, nope, no way, not a chance would I agree with censorship.
I believe the individual user of the channel be it a blog or a radio station etc can decide for themselves and censor the media by changing and or switching off the feed.
Perhaps this is a lesson in questioning the norm and poking at the embers of lowest common denominators.
Lets all start asking why, how and when and perhaps the side effect will be a movement away from the mass and an embracement of the unique, the special and the undiscovered
Sexy lugs, beautiful bikes and amazing materials
Prior to Trek buying the company from Gary Klein. Gary's bikes used aerospace grade aluminum which were aged hardened. Each bike came with a lifetime guarantee. These bikes were pieces of art. Industrial strength engineering matched with an elegance that only a sculptor could produce and a master craftsman envisage. Space age meets hippy paint work and Craftsmanship.
Spotify working on mobile app and more
Online music service Spotify is hoping to launch a mobile version and expand to the US by the end of the year.
The streaming service, which lets fans listen to more than three million tracks legally and for free, has gained more than a million users in the UK.
Speaking about the plan to go mobile, Spotify founder Daniel Ek said: "We want to be everywhere. We won't only do one device."
But fans would have to pay to put Spotify in their pockets, he revealed.
Speaking at The Great Escape music conference in Brighton, Mr Ek said the mobile offering would only be available to subscribers.
"Portability is an important aspect, [as is] interoperability with other devices," he said.
"That's definitely something we think is a premium product that people are willing to pay for - being able to bring the music with you or being able to have it working on your stereo."
The company is working on an iPhone application, but also wants to make the service available on other handsets, he said.
"I definitely hope that it will be before the end of this year that we'll do something which allows people to bring the music with them."
The company is also expected to announce a deal with fellow streaming site Last.fm to provide song recommendations, making it easier for fans to find acts they like. If you haven't checked out last.fm you really should. It's fantastic for recommending music you might like, gigs you should go to and much more. Us guys here at crab have been huge fans of both Spotify and last.fm since their launch and thoroughly recomment you take a look at them.
Thanks to the BBC for the above arrival, to read on some more please follow this link
Let there be light
Amazing, stunning, cool. Check this site out for more mad hacks and mods. HacknMod
Rado r5.5
Friday 15 May 2009
Multitasking reality or myth
In any given day a Web / Designer has to:
1. Manage their time
2. Digest a huge amount of information
3. Learn new skills and apply them
4. Deal with complex issues
5. Be creative
6. Be judged
This all happens daily both internally and externally. Designers have become adapt in making a lot of things happen at the same time or have they?
Take a look at Ward Sutton
What the hell are we doing to the Earth
I was on my way in this morning happily zipping past the traffic when a passenger in a car opened her window and proceeded to empty what was left of her breakfast meal from MacDonalds onto the street.
I followed the car till it stopped at a traffic light and tapped on the now closed window and expressed in polite tones why I found her behavior disgusting.
The scary part of this was she had not been aware of her actions she seemed to have been on auto pilot.
People lets start sorting this out
Thursday 14 May 2009
How to measure time
cesium
chemical elementalso spelled caesium (Cs)
chemical element of Group 1 (also called Group Ia) of the periodic table, the alkali metal group, and the first element to be discovered spectroscopically (1860), by German scientists Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, who named it for the unique blue lines of its spectrum (Latin caesius, “sky-blue”).
Atomic cesium is employed in the world’s time standard, the cesium clock. The microwave spectral line emitted by the isotope cesium-133 has a frequency of 9,192,631,770 hertz (cycles per second). This provides the fundamental unit of time. Cesium clocks are so stable and accurate that they are reliable to 1 second in 1.4 million years. Primary standard cesium clocks, such as NIST-F1 in Boulder, Colo., are about as large as a railroad flatcar. Commercial secondary standards are suitcase-sized.
Currently there are 5 Atomic clocks around the world. 2 in Japan, 1 in the US, 1 in the UK and 1 in Germany.
Perhaps the following clocks are not as accurate but somehow they exude more charm, interest and fun.
3.16 Billion Cycles
Thermal Clock
Cinematic Timepiece
Counting to a Billion
Wednesday 13 May 2009
Surf Photography: Stuart Gibson
Born and raised in tassie, Stuart Gibson's been shooting surf photography professionally for the past 4 years and has a very impressive portfolio, definitely someone to keep an eye on…
Check out more of his stunning work and a quick interview here
http://www.stugibson.net/
{Via Stuart Gibson » Australian Edge}
Monday 11 May 2009
Old Masters, new tricks
Come on Nokia et al, put your thinking caps on and try to develop something that has the appeal, flexibility, charm and robustness of the iPhone.
In the Crab studio we come across a new and inventive way of using the iPhone on a daily basis. From musical instruments to decesion making apps.
I use it to keep track of the websites we look after, to communicate via text, email, voice and VIOP, to entertain myself and my 3 year old.
This is truly the tri-corder of our times. I am looking forward to the release of the latest OS.
Twitterific, is fantastic
All of my mates are fed up with me banging on about Twitterific for the iPhone, but I don't care.
It used to have a fixed spot on my iPhone Springboard, it had a great look and was wonderfully easy... too easy. Once I got into Twitter a little more I needed an app to handle a few more of my Twitter needs. Tweetie fore filled these needs - but cost me - and Twitterific got bunked off. Now Twitterific is back! It's still got it's sexy black look but now has a host of new features. My two favourites being the Tweet sound it makes when it updates, and the conversation thread feature.
Check it out, you won't be disappointed.
Nerds are the new rockstars!
Joshua Davis (above) is a New York based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions.
Check out his fantastic ongoing collection on work
graffoto: photorealistic graffiti to make you drool
a huge amount of people don't realise just how artistically and technically incredible graffiti can be these days, and a depressingly large section of society still believe this kind of street art consists purely of text and tags, crudely sprayed onto public toilet walls. after seeing a piece by belin here in manchester, i've spent the past year or so pretty much addicted to the subject of photorealistic graffiti (aka graffoto), whether it be on walls, floors or canvas, and thought i'd point you in the direction of some incredible artists and collectives. the fact that these people are able to produce designs of this quality using a spraycan absolutely astounds me and i have a huge amount of respect for all those who manage it.
where possible i've included links to the artist's website/myspace/flickr page but in some cases i'm still unaware of them. if you happen to know any that i've missed, let me know and i'll add them. also, if i haven't included a 'photo source' link it means the picture is from the artist's site.
Check out the pics here
[Via Deputy Dog]
BBC reveals stunning sample footage shot with TyphoonHD4 camera
The BBC has already proven itself to be quite the source for some impressive HD images, but the network's Natural History Unit looks to have really outdone themselves for their forthcoming South Pacific documentary, which makes use of a modified, $100,000 TyphoonHD4 camera. Of course, those exact modifications appear to be a closely-kept secret, but it has apparently been outfitted with a special underwater housing designed by German high-speed camera expert Rudi Diesel, and the camera itself is able to shoot in high definition at 20 times the speed of a normal HD camera, which results in some pretty amazing super slow motion footage. You can get a taste of that after the break but, trust us, you'll want to head up the read link below to really get a sense of what this thing is capable of.
[Via Engadget]
Martin Jetpack flies again
You know, for a device as potentially bad ass as the Martin Jetpack is -- the company boasts a maximum range of 31.5 miles at 63 mph, and the ability to hover at 8,000 feet above ground effect -- the video we've seen thus far has been pretty lackluster. Of course, you can't actually get your hands on one anyways (check back in January 2010), but that isn't stopping the company from accepting your $10,000 deposit for the opportunity to get in on the ground floor. Despite all that, we couldn't help but feel all a-flutter when we watched the newest clip and realized that someday soon our dreams of super heroism might be fulfilled -- and with a rocket strapped to our back, no less. Check it out for yourself after the break.
Check out the vid here
[Via Engadget!]
Mozilla Prism
Turn any web page into an app. Instead of running all your web apps in the browser, Prism lets you run them in their own window just like normal applications. A single faulty app or web page can no longer take down everything you are working on. In the future, we will be releasing web app bundles from the Prism developer community that let you customize your application to use many of the operating system features common to a desktop application.
Plugin for Firefox and Mac OSX
Check it out here
Gruber Assist electric bike
Electric bikes are so much fun, but they can look a little clunky. This is the most discreet electric bike configuration we've seen yet, because hey, it's almost invisible. It's so stealthy, an unscrupulous cyclist could almost slip one of these into a racing bike, unnoticed. Almost.
Check out the vid here
Thanks to Dvice for this
Life before D&AD
Blog post from Mike Dempsey's blog
'Back in 1963 seventeen graphic designers got together to produce a book. In the introduction it sets out three main points: ‘To demonstrate the effective use of graphic design in commercial and social contexts: to encourage the wider employment of the graphic designers’ particular skills and aptitudes: and to define, if only by implication, attitudes and approaches to graphic design current in England at this time.’ Clearly pithy copywriting was low on the agenda at that point. But the work featured from these young, thrusting twenty and thirty somethings was pretty revolutionary when most graphic designers were still know as, ‘commercial artists’. The book was designed by Derek Birdsall and could only stretch to two colours. But for all that we can see the geneses of British graphics on the pages of this slim volume. All the key names are there: Denis Bailey, Derek Birdsall, George Daulby, George Mayhew, Peter Wildbur, Ian Bradbery, David Collins, Bob Gill, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Sidney King, Roy Kinneir, Margaret Calvert, Romek Marber, Barry Trengrove and Tom Wolsey. The industry was far smaller and more intimate then. Now we're bursting at the seams. Here are a series of spreads from the book...'
Long-Exposure Shot of a Roomba's Path Shows Beautifully Organized Chaos
Ever wonder what the path of a Roomba looks like as it cleans your house? It's an amazing combination of randomness and precision, as shown by this long-exposure shot.
The shot was taken by shutting off all the lights in the room for 30 minutes and taking a long exposure of the path the Roomba took while cleaning up. It's beautiful and surprising. I always assumed it worked with using some sort of grid, but that clearly isn't the case at all. [via Gizmodo]
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