Thursday 24 July 2008

Lazers, closets and feel good ideas from around the world


This week there was a raft of great work I came across. Director James Frost lends some tech wizardry to Radiohead, another first for them with a music video made without using cameras. Lazers, that’s where it's at: http://tinyurl.com/6e5e47.
The latest site for Ikea, once again is completely inspirational, as Sweden's Forsman and Bodenfors asks us to step inside Ikea's closet http://tinyurl.com/245ljc
I also loved this idea for Credit Union of Washington, it gave me a nice warm fuzzy feeling about a bank for a change, excuse me a Credit Union. Check out http://tinyurl.com/5d57zq and sign up for your daily dose of inspirational musings from Carl Weathers.

Friday 4 July 2008

Grass art for HSBC and the Wimbledon tennis tournament


For all you Wimbledon fans, this weekend’ finals with be further enhanced with a bit more culture.
Presenting grass art, artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey create “grass photographs” for HSBC’s partnership with the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Harnessing seedling grass light sensitivity, Ackroyd and Harvey, who are known for similar work worldwide, record photographic images by projecting black and white negatives onto grass as it grows in a dark room for 12 hours per day for more than a week. The grass grows in accordance to the modified light exposure, thus the photo “develops” on a living canvas. Personally would have casted Maria Kirilenko rather than the frumpy linesman, but a great idea nevertheless.