“A graffiti/film/music three-way
Dulux Valentine and BETC Euro RSCG Paris brought together graffiti artist Matt W Moore, directing collective Le Groupuscule and techno artists Monsieur Monsieur to create a colorful installation/video.
MWM painted murals in Marseille, Lyon and Paris which were brought to life with music and video.” – Creativity Online
The making of and public reactions:
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17,000 years ago, someone filled a cave in Lascaux, France with paintings, discovered in 1940 by a few teenagers and their dog. If you’ve ever taken an art history course, you’re likely familiar with these ethereal images.
But now it seems that nature is attempting to take the cave back, sending typically cave-dwelling fungi, molds and lichen to reclaim the galleries. Air conditioning systems, sprays and quicklime have all been employed to preserve the cave’s interior.
Part of me laments the potential loss of such an interesting piece of art history, and part of me feels content that this is simply the way of things, and would like to point out that it is our meddling that’s created a problem that wasn’t a problem for thousands of years. We’ve already learned so much about the people who created the cave galleries, and many more people will experience the caves through images than real life anyway. Adieu, Lascaux, and thanks.
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Wish you could carry them with you where you go? Or perhaps install them all over your house so you can conduct brainstorming sessions at a moments notice?
It seems like nowadays, next to your cell phone, dry erase boards could be the 2nd most important thing when it comes to life in the business world. I know here at HQ we have upwards of 12+ dry erase boards I think, some mobile, some mounted on the wall, etc. Reason being, you truly never know when the moment is going to strike and you need to start sketching things out, making notes or drawing funny pictures. They truly are one of the most versatile business tools.
Well, the dry erase board gods have apparently heard all the collective cries of help from the world and have contracted IdeaPaint to help take things to the next level. Yes, that’s write innovation in the world of dry erase and home decor just happened…
Now, you don’t have to mount a clunky board to the wall in your home or office (good news for people who aren’t good with tools, angles and levels, i.e. – me), you can just paint any wall in the house and turn it into a dry erase surface. What’s also pretty sweet is that if you were to write on the board with a permanent marker by accident (fess up, some of you have done this), you can probably just paint right over it and start clean again.
So if you have the itch for some brainstorming, doodling, list making, whatever, this paint may just help make a large blank wall in your home or office your new best friend.
Now to start the petition to have all the dry erase boards at HQ taken down and all the walls painted with IdeaPaint.
Imagine, an entire office of dry erase walls…
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Yes, even phlegm can be lovely. Who knew?
He [Hippocrates] stated that human behavior depends on the number and density of fluids in human body, initial liquids were blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. Furthermore, fluids were located in different parts of the body, these were: head, gall bladder, spleen and lungs. His theory was a foundation for the modern temperament theory. Temperaments are known now as sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic. – Irina Sidorova
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If I had been alive and in Tokyo in 1978, I would have had many a smile at their reminder posters. Images ranging from Manga to Toulouse-Lautrec remind you to be considerate of others and, most importantly, not to forget your umbrella. See them all at Pink Tentacle.
Inconsiderate train monsters
No smoking
Remember your umbrella!
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This is epic and engrossing, def worth 10 minutes of your time.
BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
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I considered calling this post “Poster Overload,” but is that really possible? Well, maybe. Check out this gigantic gallery of amazing European poster art, assembled by Bob Staake:
And, if you haven’t already be sure to take a peak at HyperQuake’s very own poster series!
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Being both an artist and a girl, I’m pretty much pre-programmed to enjoy ballet. The artist side loves the movements, and the forms dancers make with their bodies. The girly side is pretty much just in it for the sequins, if we’re really being honest here. Anyway, this is one of the most amazing ballet performances I have ever seen. SPOILER: SHE DANCES ON HIS HEAD. Watch.
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So, for all our Twitter followers, this is slightly older news by a week or so, but we wanted to share it on the blog as well.
The ‘Create Your Own Environment’ poster that we posted about a number of months back has been traveling around the world lately as we wanted to share it with as many people, blogs, organizations, etc., that we value and respect, as possible.
Some of the people we’ve sent it to have loved it so much that we’ve gotten some shout outs about it online in a few places. To say we were pretty ecstatic about that and the fact that so many people like the piece, would be an understatement.
Not only do we want to say thanks to all the blogs who talked about the print (again, Thanks Everybody!), we want to encourage everyone that reads our blog to make sure they go check out these sites.
We know you’ll find something inspiring and something that you like about each of them. So don’t wait any longer, go see what they had to say about our poster and posterquake.com and stick around for a bit to check a few of their sites out. Tell them the crew over at HQ says hey.
HQ on For Print Only – www.underconsideration.com/fpo
HQ on Dirty Mouse – www.dirtymouse.co.uk
HQ on The Doomed – thedoomed.co.uk
HQ on French Paper Sample Room – www.frenchsampleroom.com
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So the issue of cloning has been a hot debate ever since the world’s most famous sheep, Dolly, hit the news media back in 1996 as the first mammal to be cloned.
Ever since then, people have been trying to clone everything. Heck, it seemed like everyone was obsessed with the topic so much so that many of us had to sit through horribly unfunny movies about cloning.
Well, fast-forward to 2010, and cloning has met design in a rather unique way, courtesy of a young man named Philipp Stolenmayer. What has Philipp done that is so great you want to know? Well, he cloned himself through the design of a life sized papercraft model.
Yes, I know it’s not a true ‘clone,’ but there is no doubt that it is quite awesome. Philipp outlines the steps to his project here if you are interested in giving it a go.
If that seems a bit ambitious for your first papercraft project, let us know. We might have something for you to practice with. We’ve been kind of obsessed with papercraft lately. If you’ve been following us on Twitter, you might know what we’re talking about…
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