Memos from September 2009


The Golden Gate Bridge on Wheels

Flickr Video

Had the oppor­tu­nity to cross the Golden Gate Bridge last week­end with the homie Mike. It got some­what windy that day up there, but not too bad. Any­ways, a must to do if you ever have the chance.

Photobooth

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These have been get­ting more and more pop­u­lar with today’s events; espe­cially wed­dings. But lately, this is prob­a­bly one of the nicest look­ing ones I’ve seen (though online). It was pro­duced by Mar­ija Ivkovic & Lach­lan Moore.

This is the worlds first fully portable, high res­o­lu­tion, dig­i­tal, archi­tec­turally designed part inflat­able pho­to­booth. Devel­oped by two com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­phers from Mel­bourne, the con­cept was stum­bled upon when we turned a tiny room into a dig­i­tal pho­to­booth for a stu­dio lunch party. It was an instant hit, with queues of peo­ple and around 800 shots taken by the end of the night!

The fol­low­ing day we thought ‘let’s build one’. So we did!

Though based in Mel­bourne, they ser­vice most parts of Aus­tralia. It also seems that they are open to the pos­si­bil­ity of events out­side of the coun­try as they have it as an option on their site’s esti­mate form. For more info, you may check them out at photobooth.com.au

Freebord’s Downhill Neon Video Game

Pretty cool Free­bord viral.

36 Free­bor­ders took over an SF street at night to cre­ate a Tetris-like game using neon-lit puz­zle pieces. Check it out here.

Fame Kills: Kanye x Lady Gaga

Here is the promo/teaser video for Kanye West & Lady Gaga’s joint-concert tour com­ing this Fall: Fame Kills.

I was orig­i­nally plan­ning to go see it in Vegas dur­ing Pac­man vs. Cotto week­end, but prob­a­bly would see it locally (San Jose maybe). I fig­ure it might just be too much stuff going on that week­end in Vegas. And yes, you might be say­ing: “but what about the whole Team Tay­lor > Kanye / VMA deba­cle, etc., etc.?” Yah, kind of a bad move.

Not the thing to do at the time. Hon­esty > Tact, maybe? But as Alexan­der Pope would put it, “to err is human, to for­give divine.” And yes, there are far more things going on around the World that most peo­ple should be aware of (myself included): Iran Elec­tion, Dar­fur, Global Warm­ing, …

Any­ways, one thing that I have to be truth­ful and give props to is that his Glow In The Dark Tour (w/ Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna, and N.E.R.D.) was sick! Not to men­tion, like it or not, you can’t deny that the Music he pro­duces is unique and mem­o­rable to the masses.

Last but not least, for more tour dates and/or info, check out famekillstour.com

Source via Kanye’s Blog.

Update
Seems that the video has been deleted from the Vimeo site. Here’s one from Youtube

Art Inspired by Cars

Two typog­ra­phers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Camp­en­houdt) col­lab­o­rated to design a font with a car.
The car move­ments were tracked using a cus­tom soft­ware, designed by inter­ac­tive artist Zachary Lieber­man. ( openframeworks.cc )

Here’s the video, When Dri­ving Becomes Writ­ing (iQ Font: The Mak­ing Of).

I recall BMW doing some­thing like it, but with paint. Here’s the video they released for the Z4.

Mean­while, you may down­load the iQ font here. You may also click on the fol­low­ing thumb­nails to view the results: