Potato Head

Ginou Choueiri is Lebanese artist living in Beirut. She says about her potato portraits:

"I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms. Potatoes grow, live, and then decay, mirroring the ephemeral existence and fragility of our own human nature."

LED music facade

lights on from thesystemis on Vimeo.

lights on is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a facade that contains 1085 LED controllable windows. The windows' colors are changed in realtime with music that's broadcasted on speakers surrounding the building.

Wind facade

In 2002, Ned Kahn worked with the staff of Technorama, the major science center in Switzerland, and their architects, Durig and Rami, to create a facade for the building which is composed of thousands of aluminum panels that move in the air currents and reveal the complex patterns of turbulence in the wind.



via Swissmiss

Living Tokyo

The energy of Tokyo beautifully portrayed by WOW.

The video is a promotional video they did for the Citizen.

It is by far one of the best videos I've seen in a while. It's a beautifully orchestrated combination of amazing images, nice music and well-excuted editing that perfectly encapsulates the ever-changing urban rythm of Tokyo.

As An•D pointed out, the city seems to come alive as if it was one single organism.

Vote for the 15 housing projects from hell

Oobject.com is perhaps one of my favourite sites. It is a site that compiles ranks of unusual and interesting gadgets and stuff.

This time it is a ranking of 15 housing projects from hell.

check it out and vote for yourself.



My vote goes to the mass housing project in Ixtapaluca, mexico.

Despite the mechanic soullessness of the plan layout, I can't help but being a bit fascinated about the image.

50 cars = 1 bus

Thousands of Swedes drive every day in their own car to the airport. A car carries an average of 1.2 passenger while a bus carries 50 passengers.

In an environmental awareness campaign and advertisement for Flygbussarna, Acne advertising stacked and packed 50 cars to form the shape of one bus.

An attempt in making people in passing cars aware of the environmental impact they have... or could save by taking the bus.

Almost Walking Cities

I stumbled across these images of this humongous excavating machine built by Krupp in Germany. It is used to move earth open air mines.

The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long, weighs 45,500 tons. It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million. It requires 5 operators and can move at the speed of 0,5 km an hour.




Seeing the image above, I instantly thought of Archigram's ideas of walking cities.

"The Walking City is constituted by intelligent buildings or robots that are in the form of giant, self contained living pods that could roam the cities. The form derived from a combination of insect and machine and was a literal interpretation of Corbusier's aphorism of a house as a machine for living in. The pods were independent, yet parasitic as they could 'plug in' to way stations to exchange occupants or replenish resources. The citizen is therefore a serviced nomad not totally dissimilar from today's executive cars. The context was perceived as a future ruined world in the aftermath of a nuclear war." from wiki

Imagine having these giant mechanical beasts roaming the earth. It would be something straight out of something from a 60's sci-fi movie.