Cool Hunting
In recent years Nokia has designed deco handsets, turned LCD screens into mini art galleries, backed arts related organizatons, and tasked creative types (like judges of the Tribeca film fest) with creating cell phone-produced work. Currently, as part of their sponsorship of WarmUp 2005, P.S.1's 8th annual weekly Summer music series, artists selected by Nokia use the phones to create works on-site at the Saturday events. Recent artists include New York-based Jan DeNike who asked visitors to kiss in photos and videos as "a dialogue with the history of kissing in art and films." You can see her work and more on Nokia's online WarmUp site. Running through September 3rd, the "live" art set to WarmUp's critically-acclaimed soundtrack (next weekend features Lovebug Starski of Wild Style fame) is part of a Nokia's bigger commitment to the arts under an initiative called "Connect to Art."
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To demonstrate the significant leap in Nokia NSeries' video phone quality, Nokia commissioned 16 independent directors to film and compose shorts using nothing but their new phone. All featured on the NSeries website, the series, titled Open Your Eyes, pays homage to the beauty of mundane places. Jason Nichols takes a romantic ride over New York’s East River on the Roosevelt Island tram, Prashant...
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Working in design retail, one of my favorite job perks was visiting architecture firms and sometimes catching a glimpse of building models. Beyond architect biopics, I have little recollection of seeing building models used in film, though apparently there's a wealth of footage available. Architect Gabu Heindl and film theorist Drehli Robnik recently compiled such footage (a curated selection of 80 clips) into an...
Created by Vancouver Film School students Marcos “Boca” Ceravolo and Ryan Ulrich, Duelity is a pair of short animations that describe the beginning of time from a creationist and evolutionist perspective. An ironic take on the subject, Duelity tells the creationist's version of the beginning of the universe using the language of science and presents the scientific cosmology of evolutionists using Biblical lingo. Beautifully...
Photographer Leigh Davis, dividing her time between New York and Montréal, editorial work (for publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Tokion and Res) and clients such as American Eagle Outfitters, Bruce Mau Design, and Carnegie Mellon University, is a very busy woman. Lucky for us she's managed to find time to finish up one of her current projects titled "Ensemble." It's a...
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