today and tomorrow

This is the Shaka, a version of the Wally 80 design. I want to be on a sailing yacht like this one right now!

This table lamp called Veio was designed by Neil Poulton. The horizontal part is filled LED’s which can produce all tones of white light, from the warmest to the coldest.

Maybe you’ve heard about the Large Hadron Collider, a 27 kilometer long, circular particle accelerator. CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) has build this huge research centre a 100 meters under the border of France and Switzerland. It is almost finished now, actually they are still cooling down the entire collider to -271.25 °C (-456.25 °F). When everything is up and running they will do high-energy collisions.
That sounds all very exciting… but I’m really amazed by the beauty of this. Who says that engineers don’t have any sense for esthetics? Just look at these pictures!

This installation is called ‘Twice Over‘ and was done by Tyler Coburn and Benjamin Farnsworth. It is a digital clock combined with some neon tubes. This is its schedule:

08:00:00pm Open Set / Midnight GMT
12:00:00am Empty Set
12:45:00am End Cycle

I’m not sure if you really could read the time from it. If you want to see what happens then go and watch the movie here.

EDIT:
Tyler Coburn just send me some more information about this project:

(2008), a collaboration with Londoner Benjamin Farnsworth, attempts to build a trans-temporal, trans-spatial communication device. Consisting of a digital clock and neon sculpture, our piece measures the distance between midnight (Greenwich Mean Time) and my local midnight (New York City). The observatory in Greenwich, England has always held a fascination for me, particularly because one can visit it and spatially inhabit the origin-point of time. Twice Over attempts a similar spatio-temporal collapse in a machine that nightly makes a transatlantic journey from an open to an empty set, and from one midnight to another.

found at vvork

This video is an extra from a mini documentary that Aaron Draplin & Jess Gibson are finishing up. Aaron tells about a sign he once bought on ebay and why he thinks that ‘America Is F*cked…….(Graphically at least)’.

This is probably an unofficial music video for Bergwein by Efdemin, but worth to watch and listen to. If you liked this one, you’ll probably want to hear Spark by Lawrence too. Both release their music on Dial, which is having a Dial Records Night on August 29th at the Panorama Bar in Berlin.

I Am Rich is an iPhone application that will cost you €799,99 or $999.99. Its description:

The red icon on your iPhone or iPod touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were able to afford this.
It’s a work of art with no hidden function at all.

Developed by Armin Heinrich.

found at wrongdistance.com

I quite like the visual language in the Prada fall winter 2008 lookbook. Does anyone know who was responsible for the art direction?

‘Love Stories‘ is the title of the work that Marian Bantjes did for Monograph, a booklet for subscribers only of the magazine Creative Review. Each Love Story is an illustrated text of the story of someone she loves. This one sticks out as it is for a cake, not a person.

This is the pendant version of the Scantling Lamps by Mathias Hahn.

found at dezeen