Bill Sullivan's Subway Turnstile Portraits

A series of engaging photos of New Yorkers making their way through the turnstiles. Check out his site where he has a whole lot more from the series. What a great project.

(via vvork)

(Via swissmiss)

Hannah Stouffer

Found an elegant illustrator and designer from San Francisco via Red.House. Beautiful portfolio of posters, editorial illustrations, t-shirt designs, and interestingly enough, marketing elements for big name clients liket MSN, Dell, Sony and Coca-Cola. link







: : found .hannah stouffer. via design sponge the other day and quickly became a fan of her beautiful graphics work."

(Via red.house.)

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MINI USA rolls out RFID-activated billboards

Genius idea for Mini outdoor boards. Assuming it's from the always smart guys at Butler Shine.

[from Engadget:] If there was ever a slick way to get folks to willingly carry around an RFID tag, MINI USA has it all wrapped up. Catering to every person's egotistical side, MINI has begun a pilot advertising campaign in Chicago, New York, Miami, and San Francisco, which gives select Cooper owners the chance to get an RFID keyfob in the mail, and moreover, a reason to consistently drive under MINI billboards. Users can select a custom message to be encoded on their RFID chip, and when they cruise near an overhanging MINI billboard, their particular message lights up for the world (or at least nearby motorists) to see. Of course, we're sure messages will be edited before delivery, and you still need to be down with toting a homing signal around with you each time you cruise, but let's face it, the mastermind behind this ad campaign probably got the raise we all wanted, but didn't come close to. So if you're a MINI owner in one of the four lucky cities, keep a keen eye on that inbox, and word on the street is that MINI USA is planning on hitting up more cities if (read: when) this proves to be a smash hit.

[Via Slashdot]

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(Via Engadget.)

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James Turrell's PS1 installation

from PS1.org



by floorvan via flickr


Saw the James Turrell installation for the first time at PS1. It's definitely an awe inspiring piece. As you enter this square room, you feel the crisp air right away and as you look up you realize there's no ceiling. The beautiful blue sky framed by white walls. That's it. It's an ethereal experience. Hard to articulate the delight. Here's the description from PS1's site:



"One of the highlights of P.S.1, this site-specific installation has been at P.S.1 since the fall of 1986. It was initially part of a series commissioned by Alanna Heiss focusing on light and perception. Meeting is composed of a square room with a rectangular opening cut directly into the ceiling. Carefully calculated artificial lights produce an orange glow on the white walls of the room, permitting the viewer to appreciate the intensity of the sky’s color. As Turrell described it: “There’s this four-square seating that’s inside, seating toward each other, having a space that created some silence, allowing something to develop slowly over time, particularly at sunset. Also, this Meeting has to do with the meeting of space that you’re in with the meeting of the space of the sky.” Meeting is one of Turrell’s series of “skyspaces,” all involving enclosed spaces with rectangular or rounded holes cut into the ceiling exposing the open sky."

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Apple iPhone

Just finished watching the keynote address at MacWorld where they introduced the iPhone. I will readily admit that I drink the kool aid when it comes to Apple products but this introduction really excited me. As Steve Jobs professed, it's a leap forward that feels just as monumental as the introduction of the Mac and the iPod. I've felt the same delight when I first got hands on those two ground breaking products and I can't wait to get my hands on the iPhone, too.

Here are the innovations (link). I'm especially impressed with the "Multi Touch" technology where hey eliminated all dedicated buttons. This you have to see to believe. I remember watching the Spielberg film "Minority Report" where they had those touch screens that Tom Cruise kept rearranging... I realized that this is that future. Like the mouse or the idea of an mp3 player, Apple did not invent the touch screen technology, but they made it into a "how did I ever live without it?" feature. Genious.

Well enough gushing. I'm probably only the 8329th Apple fan boy who's blogged about his excitement over this brand new toy but hey, it's a good day to be a geek.

Apple TV on sale now at Amazon!

In my haste to be first in line for the just announced Apple TV, I put in a search and these cute TVs appeared (link) Oh well, not what I was expecting but adorable. I wonder if this company (Hannspree?) speed dialing their lawyers?

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Instant ramen (noodles) inventor Ando dies at 96

The inventor of instant ramen Momofuku Ando died today. For better or worse, he changed the eating habits of millions of people when he launched the Nissin Chicken Ramen in 1958. Here's the article link from Yomiuri Shinbun. I'm sure many otakus and college students are raising their styrofoam bowls in his honor.


A few cool ramen sites: ramen blog, world ramen.net, Instant Ramen Facts, and a nice tribute to the art of ramen on the nytimes.

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