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Tired People Get Free Coffee For Yawning At This Machine

"Walk up to the machine, yawn, collect free coffee. 210 potential customers in South Africa’s O.R. Tambo International Airport were treated to the free java… The software detects the shape and movement of muscles in the face, and comparing them to stored templates. As soon as it sees a yawn, it pours out a cup.” Robert Ferris. 27 July 2013. Business Insider. Australia.

Douwe Egberts South Africa FaceBook Page: https://www.facebook.com/DouweEgbertsSA

The Agency: Joe Public

http://www.joepublic.co.za

"We wanted consumers not only to experience Douwe Egberts coffee, but also ensure that the brand makes a lasting impression on its upper LSM consumer target audience" Joe Public’s Chief Creative Officer Pepe Marais

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Prototype—The Laugh Park

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Josie Shih-Chien’s Future Design Fiction - The Laugh Park:

A practical, social and most of all joyful Cube experience.

See more of Josie’s design process here: http://catjoise.tumblr.com/

In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards rediscovering the common ground that once existed when people saw themselves as part of nature and not outside of it. The destiny of whales cannot be separated from the destiny of man, and the destiny of man cannot be separated from the destiny of all of nature. I am exploring new narratives that help build a bridge across the artificial boundaries we have established between ourselves and other species.Gregory Colbert

Colbert’s images, visceral yet dreamlike, return us to a place we long for but cannot name. His photographs and films reawaken an ancient memory in us of a time when we lived in balance with our animal kin. Since we first painted their silhouettes on the walls of caves 35,000 years ago, animals have inhabited our stories, our dreams, and our imaginations.

Another stop motion video that I made!

Colbert was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. He began his career in Paris in 1983 making documentary films on social issues. His first exhibition, Timewaves, opened to wide critical acclaim in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland. For the next ten years, Colbert went off the grid and did not publicly share his art or show any films. He began traveling the world to photograph and film wondrous interactions between animals and humans.

Those pictures are so powerful.

Gregory Colbert website:

https://gregorycolbert.com/

This is so beautiful, breathtakingly beautiful!

The film presents poetic pictures of human and the animals. I was totally lost in thought. Philosophy, peace, or something even deeper! It is the best of the best. I have to share it!

I think of my life’s work as a celebration of all of nature, an orchestra that plays not the sounds of one musician, the music of one species, but rather an expression of all of nature’s songs.

Gregory Colbert

Colbert believes that there is a shared desire for all species to participate in one universal conversation. He sees nature as the greatest storyteller of all and himself as an apprentice to nature. His works are collaborations between humans and other animals that express the shared poetic sensibilities of all species.

Scientists can help us understand the nature world by giving us the “how.” Colbert believes it is the role of artists in all creative disciplines to try to inspire a transformational “why.” He offers a non-hierarchical vision of the natural world, one that celebrates the whole of nature’s orchestra.

Just at the moment we are burning down what remains of nature’s living library, Colbert is creating an intangible library of the wonder of the natural world that reminds us of what is being lost. He began his thirty-year project two decades ago and he continues to work with animals on every continent, making his works the most comprehensive interspecies collaboration ever created.

Roger Payne, famous for the discovery of whale song among Humpback whales, said of Colbert's work, “Gregory’s images return us to the sanity of our undeniable, unavoidable, inextricable connection to nature. And they do it with beauty, grace, lightness-of-being, strength. His images, like whale songs, are the last wild voices calling to the consciousness of terminally civilized humanity, our last contact with nature before we submerge forever in our own manufacture and lose forever the final fragments of our wild selves.”

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