One Dream Rush is a film festival sponsored by 42 Below Vodka to showcase 42 films, each 42 seconds long around the theme of dreams.

Virtual Street Corners brings together two communities who rarely interact with the help of a video connection.

Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw make up Sweatshoppe, a mutimedia performance group who have developed a way to “paint” with video.

iRobot, the makers of the Roomba, have released footage of their bizarre new robot prototype, Chembot.

The Wall Street Journal recently produced a fascinating video covering the new world of peer to peer finance which features Hub Culture’s Ven, which can be used both online and off.

After seeing a newspaper photograph depicting birds perched on power lines, Agnelli noticed a distinct resemblance to notes on stanza.

Jer Thorp of the blprnt blog has created a simple but compelling data visualization of Twitter posts across the planet which say “good morning” in some way.

In his fist speech since major surgery, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has announced that his company wants to get into the digicam market.

Three artists – sculptor Jock Mooney, filmmaker Steven Eastwood and painter Mia Taylor – have just completed a month-long show/residency at The Gallery at Jerwood Space in London entitled Laboratory.

cityoneminutes is a global web video project that allows you to observe 41 different cities around the world in one-minute intervals.

Artist/designer Chris Rubino shared a video with us that follows him as he creates four paintings for the new Ace Hotel in New York City.

[Video by Jim Helton]

3rd Ward
3rd Ward is a 20,000 sq. ft. open workspace and studio facility developed for and supported by artists. Founded to cement a permanent artist community in Bushwick, the space houses the works of those who may not otherwise have the room or resources to do what they do. 3rd Ward also offers classes and events exploring the entire range of the artistic spectrum, including photography, video, wood and metal fabrication, design, digital media and more. Wednesday night’s Drink-n-Draw sessions offer artists and non-artists alike the chance to mingle, be creative and buy artwork and other craft goods. The gallery [...]

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The main tank at Okinawa’s Churaumi Aquarium in Japan holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water behind the world’s second largest acrylic glass pane (8.2 meters by 22.5 meters). Known as the ‘Kuroshio Sea,’ the tank houses whale sharks and manta rays among a plethora of fish. Jon Rawlinson recorded a mesmerizing video of the tank, set to the music of Barcelona.

Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.
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In cities across the world, the food cart has classically been a source for authentic, reasonably priced culinary discoveries for the mobile masses curious enough to take the plunge.
While blogs such as Midtown Lunch (based in NYC) and Food Carts Portland delve deeper into the cart culture of their respective cities, VendrTV is a web series that takes you across America and looks at the most interesting and delicious portable fare.
Each episode runs a 7-10 minutes, and is hosted by the curious and exuberant Daniel Delaney, a Philadelphia-based entrepreneur who clearly has a passion for mobile eats – he conceptualized [...]

Last week we came across this music video/ advertisement for Taco Bell (created by DraftFCB), a riff on Diddy’s 1990s anthem,It’s All About the Benjamins“. The commercial, entitled “It’s All About the Roosevelts”, seems to have drawn inspiration from the popular Lazy Sunday” skit featured on SNL four years ago, a self-parodizing rap video about the banal lives of Chris Parnell and Adam Samberg.
SNL’s characters rap self-seriously (but in actuality, self-deprecatingly) about the boring details of their daily lives, from visiting cupcake bakeries to finding directions on the Internet. The comedic effect is a result of a combined dissonance; it’s [...]