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Posted By Benji • 10th March 2011

By Timo Arnall and a team of designers from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design. Read more at New Scientist.

Categories: General
Posted By Benji • 24th February 2011

Locked in a Vegas hotel room with a Phantom Flex camera, filming 1080p at 2,564 frames per second. By Tom Guilmette.

Categories: Photography
Posted By Benji • 23rd February 2011

Footage of the Casteller human castle festival in Spain. And yes, one of them collapses. By Mike Randolph.

Categories: Film, Photography, travel
Posted By Benji • 13th January 2011

By Mindrelic

Categories: Film, travel
Posted By Benji • 12th January 2011

By And Now Media

Categories: Film, travel
Posted By Benji • 30th September 2010

A poster per day from BBC headlines, by Jonny Selman: BBCX365.
The story of how it started here.

More after the jump.

Categories: Design
Posted By Benji • 24th September 2010

Europe according to the USA, by alphadesigner. More after the jump.

Categories: General
Posted By Benji • 31st August 2010


A truly stunning interactive video from the Arcade Fire and Chris Milk. Using all the jiggery-pokery involved in HTML 5, and, in particular, its video embedding capability. Enter a postcode, or area, and the video becomes tailored around a distinct place, with video segments popping up all over your screen. Ground-breaking stuff. [Best viewed in a Chrome browser]

Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas. Link

Categories: Music, Technology
Posted By Benji • 27th May 2010

By Blu.

Categories: Art, Film
Posted By Benji • 26th May 2010

Some more images from my recent trip to Morocco, taken on my phone.

The leather tanneries of Fez.

Marrakech medina

Storm water in Fez

Categories: General, Photography, travel
Posted By Benji • 24th May 2010

Some images from my recent trip to Morocco, taken on my phone. Yup, that phone. Increasingly I’m finding that when I go away, a phone is all I need for writing, researching, taking photographs, recording audio, and even rough video.

A roadside butchers on the way from Fez to Chefchaouen.

A record store owner in Fez.

Powdered wool dye in the Marrakesh medina.

Categories: General, Photography, travel
Posted By Benji • 11th May 2010

There’s a stall on Broadway Market that sells hardbound photography books, somewhere around the middle of the market. It also sells the original prints of 60-something London photographer David Hoffman, who lives around the corner. Alas, many of his older photos accrued over 30 years – of the poll tax riots, the Wapping protests – are only available at the stall, but his website has a good archive of recent shots. Hoffman drops by the stall every Saturday to see if the owner has any money for him. And when asked why he’s dedicated his life to capturing these fractious moments of British social history, he simply says “to be there” according to the stall owner. Nice.

**UPDATE*** Funnily enough, on the same day we wrote this post, a story broke in the national about David Hoffman having his house raided for displaying a poster calling David Cameron a wanker.

Categories: Photography