Here's a video presentation he did a couple years ago on the topic:
I highly encourage you to bookmark his blog (bentobjects.blogspot.com) for whenever you need a source of creative inspiration or just something to make you smile...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Creative Inspiration: Terry Border's Amazing "Bent Objects"
Terry Border's Bent Objects have been around the net for quite a few years now, and you've likely seen a few of the more famous ones already in your travels online (the McDonald's French Fry creature is a popular one). But I bet you didn't realize what a HUGE collection he has compiled over the past 5 years. Here are some of my favorites...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
A Day at Design Fantasy Camp. Sign me up!
Via Lunchbreath
(See also: Lifecycle Planning for Designers I thought about posting that too, but it's too depressing)
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Sedikit Tentang "Torture" Puisi Wislawa Szymborska
Di bawah ini adalah puisi Wislawa Szymborska yang judulnya "torture". Saya amat menyukainya, permainan bahasanya sungguh menarik, masih terasa walau sudah dialihbahasakan. Bahasa aslinya adalah Polandia, dialih bahasakan menjadi bahasa Inggris. Berikut puisinya:
Torture by Wislawa Szymborska
Nothing has changed.
The body is susceptible to pain,
it must eat and breathe air and sleep,
it has thin skin and blood right underneath,
an adequate stock of teeth and nails,
its bones are breakable, its joints are stretchable.
In tortures all this is taken into account.
Nothing has changed.
The body shudders as it shuddered
before the founding of Rome and after,
in the twentieth century before and after Christ.
Tortures are as they were, it's just the earth that's grown smaller,
and whatever happens seems right on the other side of the wall.
Nothing has changed. It's just that there are more people,
besides the old offenses new ones have appeared,
real, imaginary, temporary, and none,
but the howl with which the body responds to them,
was, is and ever will be a howl of innocence
according to the time-honored scale and tonality.
Nothing has changed. Maybe just the manners, ceremonies, dances.
Yet the movement of the hands in protecting the head is the same.
The body writhes, jerks and tries to pull away,
its legs give out, it falls, the knees fly up,
it turns blue, swells, salivates and bleeds.
Nothing has changed. Except for the course of boundaries,
the line of forests, coasts, deserts and glaciers.
Amid these landscapes traipses the soul,
disappears, comes back, draws nearer, moves away,
alien to itself, elusive, at times certain, at others uncertain of its own existence,
while the body is and is and is
and has no place of its own.
Frase pengikat dalam puisi ini adalah "Nothing has changed" dan "body". Kedua kata tersebut ada di semua bait dan membuat tiap baitnya menjadi sebuah rangkaian. Dan, yang menarik puisi ini membahas soal tubuh. Bicara soal tubuh adalah soal eksistensi. Tubuh adalah penanda kehadiran. Dalam skema paling umum dari eksistensialisme, eksistensi mendahului esensi. Ke-aku-an manusia, mulai dilihat dari tubuhnya.
Setiap bait puisi ini selalu menyebut tubuh untuk sebuah eksisten yang tak berubah (Nothing has changed). Namun bersamaan dengan eksisten yang tak berubah, eksistensi sendiri adalah sebuah usaha tak pernah selesai. Bait terakhir "while the body is and is and is"; "and has no place of its own." menunjukkan usaha dan kondisi yang membuat eksisten itu dinamis. Singkatnya yang ingin dikatakan puisi ini tentang tubuh adalah soal eksistensi: perubahan yang tidak pernah berubah.
Torture by Wislawa Szymborska
Nothing has changed.
The body is susceptible to pain,
it must eat and breathe air and sleep,
it has thin skin and blood right underneath,
an adequate stock of teeth and nails,
its bones are breakable, its joints are stretchable.
In tortures all this is taken into account.
Nothing has changed.
The body shudders as it shuddered
before the founding of Rome and after,
in the twentieth century before and after Christ.
Tortures are as they were, it's just the earth that's grown smaller,
and whatever happens seems right on the other side of the wall.
Nothing has changed. It's just that there are more people,
besides the old offenses new ones have appeared,
real, imaginary, temporary, and none,
but the howl with which the body responds to them,
was, is and ever will be a howl of innocence
according to the time-honored scale and tonality.
Nothing has changed. Maybe just the manners, ceremonies, dances.
Yet the movement of the hands in protecting the head is the same.
The body writhes, jerks and tries to pull away,
its legs give out, it falls, the knees fly up,
it turns blue, swells, salivates and bleeds.
Nothing has changed. Except for the course of boundaries,
the line of forests, coasts, deserts and glaciers.
Amid these landscapes traipses the soul,
disappears, comes back, draws nearer, moves away,
alien to itself, elusive, at times certain, at others uncertain of its own existence,
while the body is and is and is
and has no place of its own.
Frase pengikat dalam puisi ini adalah "Nothing has changed" dan "body". Kedua kata tersebut ada di semua bait dan membuat tiap baitnya menjadi sebuah rangkaian. Dan, yang menarik puisi ini membahas soal tubuh. Bicara soal tubuh adalah soal eksistensi. Tubuh adalah penanda kehadiran. Dalam skema paling umum dari eksistensialisme, eksistensi mendahului esensi. Ke-aku-an manusia, mulai dilihat dari tubuhnya.
Setiap bait puisi ini selalu menyebut tubuh untuk sebuah eksisten yang tak berubah (Nothing has changed). Namun bersamaan dengan eksisten yang tak berubah, eksistensi sendiri adalah sebuah usaha tak pernah selesai. Bait terakhir "while the body is and is and is"; "and has no place of its own." menunjukkan usaha dan kondisi yang membuat eksisten itu dinamis. Singkatnya yang ingin dikatakan puisi ini tentang tubuh adalah soal eksistensi: perubahan yang tidak pernah berubah.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Help find these people. Pass it on...
Help find the owners of the Lost pictures of New York.
Watch the video and you'll understand...
If you recognize anyone in these pics, contact Todd Beiber at brooklynfoundfilm@gmail.com
Pass it on...
Watch the video and you'll understand...
If you recognize anyone in these pics, contact Todd Beiber at brooklynfoundfilm@gmail.com
Pass it on...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
20' x 50' Stop Motion Hand Painted billboard
As a former sign guy who used to hang out with lots of old-school sign painters (true artists), I really appreciate this...
Shot high above the streets of New York City, UP THERE is a documentary film that takes an inside look on the dying craft of large-scale hand painted advertising and the untold story of the painters at Colossal Media who are fighting to keep the artform alive.
Trailer:
Full length film:
Directed by Malcolm Murray, based on an original concept by Mother as a promo for Stella Artois beer demonstarting the ritual of the perfect pour.
Bonus.. The gorgeous new online book from Colossal:
Shot high above the streets of New York City, UP THERE is a documentary film that takes an inside look on the dying craft of large-scale hand painted advertising and the untold story of the painters at Colossal Media who are fighting to keep the artform alive.
Trailer:
Full length film:
Directed by Malcolm Murray, based on an original concept by Mother as a promo for Stella Artois beer demonstarting the ritual of the perfect pour.
Bonus.. The gorgeous new online book from Colossal:
Friday, January 14, 2011
Really cool interactive Banner ad
A very innovative concept for Gol Airlines in Brazil...
The banner ad challenged users to imagine what it might be like to fly with their cell phones. They would then submit their mobile number into the ad and seconds later they got a call with flight instructions while the webpage turned into into a live flying game controlled by their phone.
As users fly over the webpage, strategically placed "deals" appear in your line of sight. The ad ends with a reminder that traveling is easier when you check-in via your mobile phone. Brilliant!
The banner ad challenged users to imagine what it might be like to fly with their cell phones. They would then submit their mobile number into the ad and seconds later they got a call with flight instructions while the webpage turned into into a live flying game controlled by their phone.
As users fly over the webpage, strategically placed "deals" appear in your line of sight. The ad ends with a reminder that traveling is easier when you check-in via your mobile phone. Brilliant!
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