The 'change - coin deposit lamp' by Finnish designer Tima Naskanen is a concept that addresses our human behaviors and the impact that we as a society are having on our natural environment.
Niskanen's project is a task light intended for public spaces, such as a library, encouraging users to turn off the lights when leaving a desk / work area. In order to turn the lamp on, one must deposit a coin into a slot built into the light's supporting base. removing your money after use, switches the lamp off - saving money and energy.
Love this. The video was made using a mirror filter and shot on an Olympus EP-1 (PEN), from the Japanese high-speed train Shinkansen from Shinosaka to Tokyo.
It seems there are many parallels to be drawn here between the notion of playthings and adult situations. Not to mention the idea that Lego bricks create an instant pixelization effect, adding to the X-rated allure of these images.
Japan based design studio Bitplay (Jack Chang and Josh Cheng) presents its first collection of products: 'Puzzle', 'TikTikTik' and 'Bang!' at Tokyo Designers Week 2010.
Bang! is probably my favourite of the three, although I'm not quite sure how the actual logistics of it would work. I also really like the concept of "Puzzle". Its a great (and very simple) idea if not entirely practical having an alarm clock which doesn't actually function as a clock.
To operate simply 'shoot the lights out'. - Point the accompanying gun at the lamp and it turns the light off. - The the lampshade knocks to an angle, showing its been hit.
Play with time, or at least your alarm clock.
Puzzle makes it fun to set your alarm clock by letting you manipulate the numbers yourself. You physically arrange the strokes of the digital numbers in order to set the time on your alarm.
So on Sunday TBWA\Manchester entered a team into the inaugral Creative Cup, pitting 32 of Manchesters creative agencies against each other in an all or nothing battle to the death/5-a-side football tournament Enduring unseasonally high temperatures, some of sporting hangovers (Paul), and illness (Sean) and with the games coming thick and fast, Team TBWA managed to win 8 games on the bounce before an unlucky penalty shootout defeat in the semi-finals cruelly knocked Team TBWA out.
All in all Creative Cup was a great day, the weather was awesome and nearly £2000 was raised for charity. It was just unfortunate we couldn't walk away with the cup, but there's always next year!
As an empolyee of TBWA\Manchester there is great scheme available where you recieve half a day off once a quarter to go and do some thing cultural.
This is the story of my Culture Club afternoon.
With the current quarter ending on Thursday and free slots rapidly dwindling I quickly booked mine for Monday afternoon with the intention of going to see Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery, however I arrived to find gallery is closed on Mondays.
Annoyed at my lack of preparation, I quickly hot footed it across to the Cube gallery on Portland street, as there is usually some good little exhibitions on there. Although on Monday it just seemed to be hosting a forum on energy saving from Calor. I did manage to snap a pictures of the seemingly only piece of work being displayed.
So after these two disasters, I made a beeline for the Cornerhouse, but alas their 3 galleries were also closed (for changeover this time). All that was left to do was to take stock with a tasty beverage in the Cornerhouse's fine cafe/bar. At this point I recieved a phone call from Matt Cook, who was also on his Culture Club afternoon and suffering a similar fate to myself. After doing exactly the same route, he was now in the Northern Quarter finding the galleries closed there too.
Do people really not visit galleries on Mondays?
After much deliberation (and some beer), I decided to check out a film at the Cornerhouse. There was one film on, Enter the Void. Its got pretty good reviews and I watched a cheeky trailer on my iPhone which looked cool.
I was warned by two separate cinema employees about the use of strobe lighting and flashing effects as well as the threat of motion sickness during the film. This only made my anticipation of the film grow, however what I wasn't warned about was that the sickness felt by previous viewers of the film probably wasn't caused by the portions of the film shot in the first person, but was probably due to some of the the subject matter.
Now, this is a good film. Its shot in a pretty cool way, and uses some interesting and very stylised techniques. Some of the cut scenes do go on for far too long however, and about halfway through it suddenly becomes the most unexpectidly (porno)graphic film I've seen. I certainly felt "cultured" by the time I left!
I did also manage to squeeze in a walk through the set of the Hollywood blockbuster "Captain America" being filmed on my doorstep in the Northern Quarter on my way home. Below are a few snaps taken on my iPhone, for more information, (better) photos and videos on the filming check out this great blog, captainamericafilmingmanchester.co.uk.
Here is a video of the scene where the fire damaged car in my photos is being blown up.
Conclusion.
All in all it was a great half day even if it did get off to a slow start, with the culture having to be hunted down. So next time round and to avoid seeing a man reaching the point of climax from inside a woman, I might just do a bit more preparation. #cultureclub
Last Sunday I took part and completed my first half marathon, The 30th BUPA Great North Run as part of a team from TBWA\Manchester. Everyone did really well with their respective runs and as I type we have raised £1,765.00 for Henshaws, Society for Blind People. If you still want to donate, its not too late and every penny is really appreciated.
I managed to just sneak inside my target of sub 2 hours, with a time of 1 hour 58 minutes 09 seconds, finishing an overall postion of 10497 out of 54000 runners. So only any hour behind Haile Gebrselassie!
Last Tuesday I went to the launch of a new illustration exhibition at Odd Bar in the Northern Quarter. I'd definately recommend popping in if you've got a few spare minutes, there are some really nice pieces - I particulary liked the typographic work. Its on for a month and its all at very affordable prices, I you wanted to take some home with you.
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