L&D

ask me anything

[quotethat]

“Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

[prostheticknowledge]

20 Windmill-Powered Music Boxes

Installation by @royrobotiks features a collection of wind-powered music boxes (which you can make yourself):

A cluster of windmills is installed above the heads of the pedestrians on a public square in Namur, Belgium. Once the wind blows, each propeller powers a little music box that plays “Für Elise”. Since all music boxes are driven asynchronously, the single notes and chords of Beethoven’s iconic music piece are constantly re-arranged. The result is a wind powered sound installation which scrambles the original and permanently produces new compositions based on one of the world’s most well known melodies.

You can find out more here

[vacancyprojects]

[cabinporn]

Ecologic Pavilion by Studio 1984 In Alsace, France

In search of the architecture of the lesser impact, the “nest” is largely inspired by agricultural vernacular constructions. Its familiar shape and texture pay homage to traditional barns and are an attempt at restoring their discreet charm.

[listsanddiagrams]

Cargo

but does it float is posting again!

[ithelpstodream]

[listsanddiagrams]

Each year since 2000, Pantone releases a ‘color of the year’ (two in 2016), analysing ‘trends’ (based on a loose definition of the term ‘trend’) to come up with what the company executives think will be the colour that will be the most popular over the next year, or will embody the zeitgeist in chromatic form.

If you took the average of all the ‘colors of the year’ that Pantone has denoted so far, you would get this kind of putty-taupe colour, a colour of nothingness, a colour that you can barely remember after you have looked away. It’s fake skin, it’s old chewing gum. A useless, unwanted colour. RGB 161,129,131.

[magictransistor]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in Snow (Jäger im Schnee), 1565.

[beatonna]

Bruegel winter forever!

[listsanddiagrams]

Is it just me or are Handel’s Zadok the Priest, Bach’s Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, and Kapsberger’s Toccata Arpeggiata all really similar? I don’t have enough knowledge of music to be able to explain it, but to my ear they share some kind of underlying structure.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p1W1XJ96y9k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/quU8c6TyK5Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3n0IQ4GnrgI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[listsanddiagrams]

Smeg + Dolce & Gabbana hand-painted fridge collaboration

[listsanddiagrams]

Requiem, by Goat

14 track album

Goat have a new album out and it is siiiiick

[hifructosemag]

The scenes depicted in Mernet Larsen’s paintings appear familiar, at times even mundane: doing yard work; sitting in a staff meeting; waiting on a subway platform. Yet running through these representations of daily modern life is a distorted sense of reality that suddenly leaves one struggling to find footing within these worlds. View more of her work on HiFructose.com.

[inaclearing]

from Antartica I, Halley VI by James Morris

[sosbrutalism]

We are very sorry to hear that the fight to save Sirius seems to have come to an end. Yesterday the Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage declined heritage listing and thereby greenlighted its demolition. In his release the sentence “This doesn’t mean a practice that money trumps heritage” seems particularily odd, since this seems to be the exact reasoning behind the decision. Nevertheless we’d like to thank the Millers Point Community for all their efforts on preserving Sirius and standing in for its longtime residents. Even if the campaign wasn’t successful in the end it still helped raise awareness towards Brutalism. By putting the idea that there might be something worth saving here in people’s mind they have greatly helped other cases in their fight.

[listsanddiagrams]

God damn it, I loved seeing this building from the harbour bridge.

[iylshowcase]

Klyne - ‘Lend me another name’ (Director’s Cut)

Alan Masferrer directs the new video for Klyne, it is surreal, grotesque and hypnotic. The combination of CGI and live action images creates a powerful dynamic between the video and the music. Each building the other in their atmosphere.

The bass and piano and vocals applied to the shimmering surfaces of the subjects fits the clear nature of the sounds. They are unconventional together and are both so good.

[listsanddiagrams]

Visceral

[brutestyle]

[gurafiku]

Japanese Exhibition Poster: Future Fragments. Atsushi Suzuki. 2014