June 30, 2008
Most Popular Articles From The Last 7 Days
Our top five articles from June 23 - June 29, 2008. Results are based on Google Analytics and in order of overall page views
We Need More Power, Keep Dancing! - Dan Gould
Magical Image Digesting Duck - Dan Gould
Lessons Learned from Ze Frank (Being Me) - Christine Huang
Nike To Finally Release Back To The Future Sneaker - Dan Gould
Pool Crashing via Google Earth - Dan Gould
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June 27, 2008
Surfing The Amazon River
Hoping to turn out a series of adrenaline infused commercials for Nissan, professional surfers Jon Rose (US), Mar Ohno (Japan), Sergio Laus (Brazil) and an entire film crew were flown down to one of most isolated and unique breaks in the world.
The wave, called Pororoca, is a tidal bore at the mouth of the Amazon River. It’s created when the leading edge of the incoming tide from the Atlantic forms a wave that travels up the river. Still a secret to most, the wave has developed into somewhat of a legend amongst surfers and an annual championship has been held there since 1999.
Nissan put together this short film documenting the trip, as well as the wave.
Additionally, Surfline has a fun little sideshow with Jon Rose detailing the entire adventure.
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June 26, 2008
PUMA’s Series of Short Films on Bike Culture
PUMA have just released a series of short films exploring bike culture. Produced by Daniel Leeb of Cinecyle Productions, The I-Cycle Film Series consists of five surprisingly well made videos documenting five different influencers and the contributions they’ve made to the bike community. Each video is about 5 minutes long and explores the importance of biking and why these advocates personally love moving on two wheels.
Unfortunately, the videos can’t be embedded, but you can check them all out here. Features include:
Matthew McGuinness, cofounder of The 62, a Brooklyn-based art collective who started Re-Bicycle
George Bliss, the man behind New York’s Pedicabs
Brendt Barbur, founder of The Bicycle Film Festival
Matthew Modine, actor and founder of Bicycle-For-A-Day
Antonio Bertone, PUMA’s CMO
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Street Artist Brings Storefronts Back to Life
Keeping in line with our series of ad manipulation posts, Wooster Collective directs us to Specter, an artist putting up two dimensional works installed in windows, door frames and advertisements that change the visual appearance of the structure. Boarded up windows are completely wheat pasted over to make it look like the room is filled with pallets, plain doors lead into grand entrances, and even a few cockroaches have managed to find a way onto McDonald’s sandwiches.
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June 25, 2008
The History, Collaboration, and Popularization of Burning Man
A new documentary entitled “Dust And Illusions” by Olivier Bonin, features an in-depth look a the history of Burning Man. After four years of research, filming and in-depth interviews with people involved in the Burning Man community, this film explores how the anarchic festival is coming to terms with it’s own popularization.
What started out as a small gathering on the beach of San Francisco has evolved into a fully functioning city in the Nevada Desert. And with nearly 50,000 attendees last year, many participants are concerned that the event’s mainstream appeal will jeopardize the festival’s utopia vision.
While the documentary is still in the post-production phase, it is set to be released in early 2009. However, there will be a special preview screening at CELLspace in San Francisco this Saturday, June 28th.
Check out the trailer below:
[via Laughing Squid]
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Chris Jordan at TED
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Chris Jordan’s statistically shocking images of American consumerism. This past February, at the TED Conference in Monterey, Jordan presented his works exploring many of “the behaviors [we as a society] all engage in unconsciously on a collective level.”
For the most part, Jordan’s images speak for themselves, but they all seem to have a bit more impact when you hear it from the artist himself.
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June 23, 2008
Most Popular Articles On PSFK From The Last 7 Days
Our top five articles from June 16 - June 22, 2008. Results are based on Google Analytics and in order of overall page views:
Nike PhotoiD - Orli Sharaby
How Long Can P&G Last? - Piers Fawkes
How To Write For The Web (And Not Lose Readers) - Dan Gould
Most Liveable Cities - Piers Fawkes
Threadless: Business Strategy? What Business Strategy? - Orli Sharaby
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Art Collective Remixes Advertisments
CutUp are an anonymous collective of artists based in East London known for experimenting with urban environments. The group’s latest project entailed the removal of large billboards and bus stop posters, which were then cut up into small squares, and then reassembled in the original location using the source material to create entirely new images.
Check out some images from the groups studio and of their work here.
[via Scott Burnham]
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Montreal’s New Public Bike System
We’ve covered a number of public bike share systems in the past. Montreal is now introducing a system of their own that enables users rent an aesthetically reasonable bike from any station within the network and return it to any other station of their choice. Aptly called the Public Bike System, the setup differentiates itself from similar concepts in the amount of trust it relinquishes to the public and the efficiency in its construction.
The entire system is run on solar-power, uses wireless communication, and is completely modular. Stations can simply be dropped off at any destination with next to no infrastructure required. And because all the bikes are include RFID tags, both users and management can find out in real time the number of bikes and parking spots currently available at any station. This ability to monitor its inventory in real time, coupled with the modular station components is where this system really shines. When additional bikes or parking spaces are required, additional bikes can be deployed and the stations be expanded in a matter of minutes, leaving no trace of their presence once removed.
Users are able to choose the specific bike they want and can pay by either by debit, credit, or a special members card. They can even report damaged bikes through the touch screen pay stations.
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