The Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin shows 100 examples of contemporary Japanese product design - modern interpretations of traditional items. Many are crafted from equally traditional materials, using techniques perfected over centuries, like these lacquer ware bowls.

Urushi bowls

Katachi
Die leise Form aus Japan
03.03.2010 – 02.05.2010
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

Nalden meets Niels 'Shoe' Meulman from Nalden on Vimeo.

Here is the artist video from the last "talk about the weather" showing the artist at work.

Viral video for virtual phone system company grasshopper.com

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Social Networks, what dreams are made off
Now you' re the new dork
There is nothing you can't do
This V.C money is brand new
The geek is now damn cool

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Former colleague and street-art artist Ronzo just published a short making off documentary about a credit crunch monster popping up around London's financial district.

Ronzo's Pity of London - Part 2 from Ronzo on Vimeo.

The 'City of London' statue is a dragon sculpture marking the boundaries of London's financial district since centuries. The 'Pity of London' statue is a sculpture of 'Crunchy - The Credit Crunch Monster' munching on a pound coin. It marks the home of the credit crunch.

www.ronzo.co.uk

Julius Wiedemann and Rob Ford from the FWA teamed up for TASCHEN Verlag to present you with "sixty success stories from clients' briefings to final projects" - and two of them are ours. Both our Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab and Vandalsquad feature as examples for a successful investment online.

You can flip through the entire book here, or read more at the TASCHEN website. The Internet Case Study Book is out in April 2010.

Eugene Zatepyakin recently finished his SURF Library for the Adobe Flash Platform and we really can't wait to play with it.

SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) is a robust image detector and descriptor, first presented by Herbert Bay et al. in 2006, that can be used in computer vision tasks like object recognition or 3D reconstruction.

The algorithm is based on sums of approximated 2D Haar wavelet responses and makes an efficient use of integral images. As basic image features it uses a Haar wavelet approximation of the determinant of Hessian blob detector.

Well, this sounds really nerdy, but have a look at the following examples to get an idea what's going on!

Example: Multiple references

Example: Hide & Seek

Example: Casino

Well done Eugene.

More info can be found

• on Eugenes Blog
• on the ASSURF Wiki
• on Vimeo

Nicely crafted music video for new Ramona Falls single, directed by the talented Stefan Nadelman.

Ramona Falls "I Say Fever" from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

There seem to be endless new business opportunities through twitter. This page bundles all tweets of people publishing that they are currently not at home.

http://pleaserobme.com/

SLOW MOTION meets FILM NOIR, ... or Meyer Meets Sarah? Nice short, celebrating the execution of "Slow Motion plus Content". Arev Manoukian directs a dramatic and visual exploration. Be sure to watch in Fullscreen. Also a big "Clap, Clap, Clap" for the amazing Making of. Don´t miss this one.

Bestiarium - Fantastic exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, until 24th of May. It seems that because "it's with animals" a lot of people bring their kids along. And then face difficult questions when standing in front of images like the above one.

Hamburger Bahnhof Site

Walton Ford Special Site

Fantastic pictures by Mr. Koxvold, on Flickr. Reminds me of some of our Less Rain stationary, after being in the sun for too long.

File under "Massive Motivational Strategics". Glad, we have the great ones to remind us why we do this, even if nobody cares! Saul Bass about the importance of focusing ourselves on work that matters, work that creates value not just for our clients, but also for ourselves.

First-Person Tetris

Just stumbled across this blog/ twitter feed of "Sleep Talkin´ Man" Apparently written down by his wife Karen when Adam talks in his sleep.

"I'm all blue with gravy spots. And I'm proud of it."
"Don't leave the duck there. It's totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it'll have much more fun."

Very entertaining and amusing.....

"I love the fact you're a moose. Yes. So soft, so soft."

"I was sitting on a chair in the living room. My pen was lying on the table. I reached out my hand and picked up the pen."