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Mobile phones – 1979; Moog synthesisers – 1969; home computers – 1967 and, umm, snooker playing robots called Hissing Sid – 1981. All of these technologies and more had their first mass airings on Tomorrow’s World, the BBC’s flagship science program that spanned almost 40 years, where science fiction was presented as science fact. The BBC has today released an archive of quirky film reports and live experiments that, in their time, examined the changing state of technology. You can see the future then… now… here.
Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Monday, 14th of September 2009 Permalink
Morrissey’s Greatest Hits is released today - I really like the new advert that accompanies its release. A request from Morrissey’s myspace page asked fans if they’ve graffiti’d their bodies or own any cool Morrissey memorabilia. Check out what fans sent in and watch the video here.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Monday, 11th of February 2008 Permalink
Things Magazine bring you The Pelican Project, hard to pick a favourite decade or cover, the 60’s and 70’s are where most of the superb graphic solutions are. My favourite changes everytime I visit the site, some are above, but today it’s ‘How Children Fail’
Dave Brown
Posted on Wednesday, 30th of January 2008 Permalink
When I was younger and had more time on my hands, I worked out how to fold a £5 note diagonally to make the Queen look like John Mcenroe, I was very proud of myself (although it appears I wasn’t alone). As great as that was, I’ve got nothing on these guys! link (via Fun Fever)
Dave Brown
Posted on Monday, 14th of January 2008 Permalink
Ever since coming to the States I’ve been amused by the 110V electrical sockets that look, if you’ll forgive the pun, shocked.
It’s the sight of faces in everyday objects that is the founding principal of Faces in Places, an ever expanding, user contributed library of images of faces in, er… places.
It takes over where the Francois and Jean Robert book left off and hands the mantle to anyone with a digital camera. One such person to contribute is Dave Gorman (yes, that Dave Gorman) who has, among a crop of beautiful Flickr sets, his own collection of faces.
Smile.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Thursday, 27th of September 2007 Permalink
If you fashion a beard and work in the creative industries then Mark Brereton would like to hear from you. Mark is working on “How to get ahead with a beard in the creative industries” – a book that will explore whether a beard adds more success within a creative role and career.
I’ve had a beard for ten years (that’s not my beard above btw) and I can confirm that a warm chin is definitely a more creative one.
Anyway, if you would like more info or you would like to help out by appearing in the book please contact Mark directly.
David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 25th of September 2007 Permalink
For all you old skool gamers, heres a blast from the past. Zzap 64 magazine launched in 1985 was a monthly mag that I purchased back in the day for my Commodore 64. Every cover was a beautiful hand drawn illustration by Oli Frey up to issue 63. If you remember either the Commodore 64 or vaguely remember the cover artwork take a look at the entire archive here.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Thursday, 20th of September 2007 Permalink
Staying close to my Ravensbourne roots, I thought I’d plug a 2007 graduate. If it was Yuta Watenbes way all that he would carry in his pencil case would be a pencil. His project named A Dozen Pencils is a visual exploration of The pencil, from memory, behavioural, humour and pencil language, and creating some really sweet products as a result. Check out his other stuff here
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Thursday, 16th of August 2007 Permalink
The Photographer’s Gallery in London is collecting photographs of plastic bags in the wild to create an online archive. Shown here from top to bottom: Matthew Gordon, A. Betancourt Atias and Alex Kickham. Submit your own, perhaps while your waiting for a certain environmental version?
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 20th of July 2007 Permalink
One man’s junk is another man’s website. In this instance it’s a collection of the worst photography (so adjudged by the respective photographers) such that they were seconds away from being deleted. Instead they found their way to deletedimages.com and will likely endure longer and reach a larger audience than the photos that ‘made the grade’.
It’s an interesting flip-flop and much of what you’ll see is actually quite nice in a lomo-esque kind of way. (via notcot.org)
Gary Butcher
Posted on Tuesday, 10th of July 2007 Permalink
