Nitmesh

VW’s Fun Factory - Piano Stairs

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Play the stairs...

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For The Ladies: This Ridiculous-Ass Shoe

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Tabletop Terrain

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To produce this new tea table, Berlin-based designer Daniel Dendra of anOtherArchitect explains that he used sound recordings taken from the streets of Cairo to generate CNC-milling patterns – thus creating one of the most complex joins I've ever seen in carpentry.

The acoustically-inspired topography fills the underside of the table, which meets flush and perfectly with the base (where Dendra has carved the exact opposite surface). It is the silence, so to speak, for the other surface's noise.

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Beautiful Reflection on Physical vs. Digital Storage

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It's self-explanatory...

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Roadside Assist

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From Giles at Ogilvy. Great piece of branded utility.

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It's Not What You Say That Matters

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Great simple explanation of Social Media. Please share.

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Paris 3D is the best looking iPhone app yet (Video)

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Paris in 3D.

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Context Collapse - Michael Wesch PdF2009 - The Machine is (Changing) Us

Please all watch this remarkable YouTube Culture and the Politics of Authenticity lecture from Michael Wesch's keynote presentation from Personal Democracy Forum 2009 - The Machine is (Changing) Us.
via the ever thoughtful and great Punk Planning blog

The Economist - 'Red Wires' Commercial Campaign

Very clever outreach to me of a rare Economist commercial from, I think, the ad agency, AMV. Tom Carty directs. What do you think?

Would you like a Meshfriend? Avatar Meshlining Relationships are real and here now

This is from Microsoft and is remarkable but caused me to imagine some scarily ominous ideas.
This opens up so many possibilities to the meshing of the online and offline experience. I call it meshlining, the blurring of the realities. Can you imagine a child being woken up every morning by their favourite Avatar friend? Wouldn't it become their most trusted friend maybe even with a memory too?  A memory of all our past. A memory that could be instantly recalled and played back as video. It would be a descendent of seesmic, ustream or justin.tv knitted with a virtual world but showing our development from a very young age.

Imagine as that child grows up it would hark back to it's Avatar friend, but then again that friend might age with them, always be there for them, the virtual piece of their lives. On call at a moment's notice, from any screen, whether mobile or static. Be there as a virtual psychotherapist? The virtual search engine friend that's always (supposedly) right, with that one verbal answer, demographic and contextual bullseye as opposed to the choice of millions of webpages? It would always have an answer, the right answer or would it be used as a form of control?  Steering you in a particular brand or product's direction, It's meshlining word of mouth, it's the perfect contextual avatar advertising!

Then there's steering you in a particular path in life?  Could your parents control you, feel safe in the knowledge of what their child was thinking and doing? Be alerted when key words were discussed or searched. Keeping their child's thoughts and actions on the straight and narrow. You could be constantly being mentally assessed from the analytics from your vitual 'meshfriend' then you, or your parents could nudged you towards a particular profession or form of training from it or I mean him or her and I guess primarily through games, making education a fun and informative time.  What kind of generation would our society produce? Would the youth rebel and subvert it or would we have a generation of the supertrained and supertalented who wouldn't have to remember anything at all?

 Could even our mental health be monitored by the meshlining company? This leads on to you having to have a different virtual colleague at your workplace to work in concert with you in the digital workspace or would your original meshfriend play this role in your life too? Be your mirror image? So our employers could also monitor our productivity, our mood, our state of health too.  We've seen this meshfriend already appear in films but this webvideo is a telling clue of a fast approaching, mindblowing (mesh)reality. What do you think and what ideas have I missed?  via wonderland