The below video happens to be both extremely funny and quite topical, considering the weekend’s Oscar dramatics.

Pretty great video from Chicago’s ‘Ok Go’ -

How long will we wait to see a version of this on a TV commercial?

OK go

I don’t know about you but I have always possessed a keen desire to see just how San Francisco would look if it were to be moulded out of Jelly…. (or Jell-O as our Transatlantic friends call it…) My prayers have been answers! No longer the stuff of my imagination, it is in fact reality…thanks to artist Liz Hickok
She creates scale models of architectural elements, out of which she makes the moulds for the jelly, adds backdrops and dramatically lights the scenes from the back or underneath. Unfortunatly, given the nature of jelly, Liz’s hard work doesn’t last very long…Just click on the photo to see more fab photos… moulding a city out of jelly is one mean feat….

City view from Jelly-catraz..."The Rock" not as we know it

Experts have released images with accurate depictions of Apple’s future products. Forget using your fingers, the future is running to your desired app!

Hello campers. I went to the Speak The Web conference in Manchester’s Noho (that’s in Northern Quarter, yeah?) this week, to hear internet luminaries wax lyrical about their prospective fields and the future of net-land.

Speak The Web

The event included talks from Ben Childs (mobile web development chap), Dom Hodgson (SEO and all-around coding geekery), Remy Sharp (HTML 5 know-it-all) and the self-styled rockstar of CSS Andy Clarke (or ‘Clarky’ as he kept referring to himself).

It was an emotional affair, particularly with Remy Sharp’s explanation of HTML 5’s current limitations – he was showing examples of flash-less video content using only html, as well as showing how HTML5 will be able to communicate directly with MySQL without the dependence of PHP – if I’ve got that correct. Either way, it blew my tiny mind somewhat.

Even more rousing was Andy Clarke’s ‘Hardboiled’ or ‘no-compromise’ proponent of CSS3 usage, where he advocated graceful degradation of the more advanced CSS3 techniques – basically, he wants us all to build websites using all the latest CSS3 techniques available to us, and then work backwards to try and fix up horribly old and massively annoying browsers such as IE6. This was controversial in that most web designers have been under the mantra that ‘thou shalt make websites that work across all browsers and look and function the same’ – Andy Clarke simply stated that this was rubbish and if we don’t take advantage of the latest CSS3 offerings as well as the facilitations of the latest browsers, there may never be need for people stuck with IE6 to upgrade. Other than the frequent security risks that have been in the news a lot of late.

His talk drew the most criticism, but was thusly the most entertaining. There was also quite a bit of facial hair in the room. And much coding-knowledge-pugilism.

If you get chance, you should go along to another Speak The Web event as they’re focusing on the web-talent of North England, rather than doing what most of the other conferences do and just focus on London and Brighton, which makes a nice change.

View the website here: http://speaktheweb.org

An interesting exhibition on Alan Fletcher is on at CUBE, Portland Street.

Alan is regarded as Britain best ever graphic designer ( by the observer) and one of the giants of 20th century design (by the guardian) and worked with Peter Saville at Pentagram.

Looks good…

The exhibition is on until 3rd April – £4 entry.

Clearing out rubble in your backyard can be a bit of a chore sometimes….more so if looking around you think that the walls could do with a lick of paint…some people just don’t know when to stop….

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

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…Well, that’s how it appears anyway…

Tokyo Flash sells watches, yes that’s right, watches- something that, in it’s fundamental design, is supposed to let you know the time of day at the glance of an eye rather than you having to lug around your sundial….What’s the problem?….none, I suppose, if in the time it takes you to read the time, the time has actually changed!

Perhaps I’ve just completely and utterly missed the point and it isn’t really about being aware of your time keeping, it’s all about having a snappy little number on your wrist…I wonder if it would be quicker to get my camera/mp3/radio player/calculator/GPRS/internet ready mobile out my pocket and call the Speaking Clock….

"...At the third stroke, the time from BT will be...."

I’m not quite sure what inspired him or what they were built for or whatever, but I saw these and was just amazed and felt the need to share them with you!!! These are artisist Jean-Luc Cornec’s telephone sheep from the Museum of Telecommunication in Frankfurt.