Dubai In Images

Just a selection of some of the images I too in Dubai last month.

A great experience and completely mad place.

The Artcade

Love the thought of re appropriating retro obejects to have a different use but allow their original context to have a role in their second life.

Can imagine having arcade machines as mini galleries in bars; or on street corners. A great way to showcase digital art and animation.

Via PSFK

Synethesia Video

Synesthesia by Terri Timely from Pamala Buzick on Vimeo.

This is fucked up but pretty awesome. Best enjoyed in full screen.

Shipping

Shipping
Originally uploaded by neilfuture

I've gone mad on my iPhone application that turns my iPhone camera into a lomo camera. This is one of my favourite ones from a journey up north on the train.

iPhone Goes Lomo

Look, I turned my iPhone into a Lomo style camera, well actually I just downloaded a neat app called QuadCamera.

Here are some of my first few shots ... taken at last nights amazing Friendly Fires gig.


Then shots taken on the bus to work this morning ...



I think that this could become my new favourite application. More images coming soon.

Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture at The Barbican

On Monday I was unexpectedly presented with a day off - an unusual day completely to myself. I loaded up my SLR and went down to the Barbican to see the Le Corbusier exhibition.

Most inspiring was the detail of his thinking and his reputation as a true innovator. Interestingly he was one of the first architects to lead with double height windows in the designs of his buildings. Beyond their size, they were designed and placed so they presented sufficient light in the winter but were out of sight of a mid-day sun at the height of summer, so as not to overheat the rooms of the building. Whilst this maybe common-sense to the architects of today, you can see and learn that Corbusier was the first of many things - this just being one of them.

I've always been a lover of architecture (I actually did work experience at an architects when I was in high school) and was rather excited about how his level of thinking embodied design, art, physics, engineering, architecture, mathematics and sociology. And his creative output stemed further than his purist vision of architecture into the creation of interiors, funiture, poety, book publishing & writing, photography and Art. Surely Le Corbusier is Great Grandad of the SlashSlash generation.

And whilst he was clearly a genius, his commitment to ideas inspires me and I'm sure will inspire others, with the notion to get out of the creative comfort zone. Now I'm saying if he can do it, I can do it, he was quite clearly a creative genius, but its food for thought that our creative output, or indeed our non-creative outputs, don't need to belong in a narrow field but should be lived through a canvas of other opportunities. Afterall, Le Corbosiers work was far more about the idea and more about the vision for something great.

Go visit its on till May 24th

Images via the Barbican

Simpsons do Adidas House Party Spoof

Via adverblog Via Canvas8