Via ManchesterLab I am currently researching the history of life on Planet Earth plus attempting to create a short film to show the dramatic transformation that the tectonic-plates have forced upon the surface landscape of the earth. This is an edit as I will be adding geological era, period labels and maybe slowing the image transitions so… [Read more…]
February 12, 2012
Via TechChurch We already know that most people on Twitter are sheep with few followers and who don’t Tweet much. But what about the rams? If you want to lead a flock on Twitter, you need to be heard. People with 100 followers send out an average of 2.4 Tweets per day, while those with 1,800 followers… [Read more…]
January 22, 2012
Via Michael Rigley Network: Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network. A video produced and directed by Californian graphic designer Michael Rigley, who also create’s expressive typography and experiential design in multiple mediums… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
Manchester Lab was delighted to be invited to celebrate the forthcoming launch of PlayStation’s new handheld device, PS Vita, at the Vita Rooms Manchester party, where there were an equally brilliant turn out with the likes of Tim Westwood and local boys Amir Khan, Mario Balotelli, Phil Jones, Bez and Bernard Sumner all enjoying proceedings.… [Read more…]
November 26, 2011
Starting this week, futureMANCHESTER, the city’s festival of all things sustainable and environmentally friendly, has returned for a second year with a jam-packed schedule of events, talks and workshops for everyone to enjoy. Please see full schedule here (PDF) The festival, organised by MERCI, showcases the work of Manchester organisations who are working together to… [Read more…]
November 21, 2011
Via Michael König Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. All credit goes to the International Space Station and their team. The editor, Michael König, tried to keep the… [Read more…]
November 19, 2011
Shawn McIntosh‘s new signature frame and bars at fitbikeco.com Via FITBIKECO Also check out Van Homan‘s new video bike check, where he’s riding his signature VH3 frame: fitbikeco.com/parts/frames/vh3 Via FITBIKECO Via samstrongful Garrett Reynolds pulls off just the second four-peat in X Games history by winning his fourth straight gold medal in BMX Freestyle Street. Related Links FIT… [Read more…]
September 28, 2011
Via Johny Cook A quick edit of the Carhartt Team rider, Alex Donnachie, riding his local park up in Perth, Scotland, tech lines in abundance. Related Links Carhartt (carhartt.com) Carhartt Team (carhartt-wip.com) Ride UK BMX (rideukbmx.mpora.com)
September 12, 2011
Via Earth 2 Hub /earth2movie Related Links Melissa Sterry (melissasterry.com) Sustain Magazine (sustainmagazine.com) Biospheric Foundation (biosphericfoundation.com) Earth2Hub (twitter.com/earth2hub)
September 3, 2011
CUBE is delighted to be announcing from the 1st of September CUBE will be ‘To Let’. This project is a new commission and plays a major part of our forthcoming exhibition. Junebum Park is an artist based in Korea. Through a clever shift of perspective, Junebum transforms the most ordinary of environments into extraordinary scenes in which the artist’s hands interfere with… [Read more…]
August 7, 2011
I just wanted to pass on this message we received about the exciting project mentioned below. Check out the Biospheric Foundation based here in Salford. – http://www.biosphericfoundation.com Letter Forward by Vincent Walsh (Director of the Biospheric Foundation) Biospheric Foundation Upper Floor Irwell House East Philip Street M3 7LE Dear all, The Biospheric Foundation website has been… [Read more…]
June 16, 2011
Envirolution is a community organisation that aims to create an engaging space for local people to present their achievements and innovative solutions to the environmental problems we face in society today. They have organised this great event happening this Saturday (18th June 2011) we’d like to draw your attention to. The one day event will be… [Read more…]
May 16, 2011
After two weeks of studio work, gallery openings, exhibitions (see previous posts here) and FutureEverything Festival, It was back to some normality today but more importantly for me, inspired by the Bupa Great Manchester Run yesterday, it was back to running! Although I knew my body would struggle to obtain my previous standard 4.5mile run,… [Read more…]
May 8, 2011
May 7, 2011
Having been into the FutureEverything studio this week helping out with a few designs and more menial tasks for the Handmade Exhibition, I want to give a shout out to some of the highlights of the 2011 festival starting this Wednesday (11th – 14th May) around the City. FutureEverything is the UK’s leading festival of digital culture… [Read more…]
April 27, 2011
Following on from our post “Day.25 Think Quarterly” about Google’s new magazine “Think Quarterly”, as suggested, we took time to reflect on one of the articles within. Inside there’s a great interview with Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, entitled “Lunch with Hal” where he discusses the mass of data technology and the internet has allowed… [Read more…]
April 10, 2011
Have you read Google’s new magazine, “Think Quarterly” released on 24th March? It’s essentially a quarterly marketing magazine for its customers. It’s simple design and user friendly pages are full of CEO interviews and insight into data, the changing ways in which its presented, so its undoubtedly going to be useful for audiences to understand the web. “We… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012
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