I am done with our economic order. Its not like we didnt know all a long that the game is rigged, but how they are ripping us off right now, without even hiding it anymore…..Arrghhh it fucking pisses me off to see these dandy bankers fear-mongering and blackmailing the governments with their “bail us out, [...]

riesenmaschine hatte zuletzt auf diese wundervolle, noch im Wachstum befindliche Sammlung gedruckter produktumhüllender, -beschreibender oder gar -bewerbender Absurditäten hingewiesen. http://fickr.org/

Do you remember this post on splitting times? It was about advanced features in quicksilver – the fast app launcher for mac (win users should check launchy btw…).
So let me introduce you now to ubiquity.
Ubiquity is an firefox add-on in a really basic alpha state. But what you can see there is totally exiting [...]

After the closing of Berlin’s city airport Tempelhof some creative minds come up with a couple of really fly ideas about what to do with the area. One of the best is probably the project called “The Berg” wich more or less seriously suggests to raise a mountain on the spot. Well, thus my yodel [...]

Not current, but still worth to be recalled…

Remember the fantastic Cadbury advert with the drum-playing gorilla or all the beautiful Sony Bravia clips with the Play Doh rabbits, the coloured bouncy balls or the paint fireworks? All these outstanding examples of advertisement were produced by the London-based advertising agency Fallon.
In 2007, Fallon – in colabo [...]

Its soo on:

A must-see! American scholar Annie Leonard explains the circle of consumption.
“From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and [...]

After we all know how money is actually created from the documentary Money as debt, found earlier on splittingtimes, here it is in a more compressed version from someone else:

…recently at the Barbican Arts Centre London…
“Frequency and Volume is composed of 48 radios, which can potentially all be tuned to different channels simultaneously. [...] On entering the space, participants’ shadows are cast on the wall. Monitored by a video tracking system, each shadow tunes in to a radio frequency, changing channels as it moves [...]

Chris Jordan’s art project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. See the awesome zoom-ins here.
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