The work of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, whose designs have been worn by the likes of Lady Gaga and Bjork, are being featured in the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands. van Herpen uses 3-D printing to make dresses like this one:
(you can see a model actually wearing it in the video above)
More images and information: 3-Der: Iris van Herpen’s 3D-printed dresses in Groningen Museum
(via Fiarce)
See also: The New Aestetic and Future Fatigue
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2012/03/30/3d-printed-fashion-of-iris-van-herpen/
A series of informative posters detailing how some of the most notable drum sequences were programmed using the Roland TR-808 Drum Machine. Each sequence has been analyzed and represented as to allow users to re-programme each sequence, key for key.
If you would like an A3 print please send a mail to shop@robricketts.co.uk and I will email you as soon as some become available.
Rob Bricketts: Program Your 808
(via Iso50 via f mass)
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2012/03/28/808-programming-posters/
mutecontingent:
“Rad Hourani breathes new life into the concept of unisex: his clothes don’t make men look feminine, nor is he trying to make boys out of women. He designs for people, not a specific gender. In his own words, a Rad Hourani person is someone who, like him, “doesn’t seem themself as a man or a woman, and looks beyond all demographic categories.”
— BON, Issue #18
From http://morbidfashion.tumblr.com/post/10757316477
London based graphic designer Gex sells these stark posters representing different philosophies.
You can see them all here and purchase them here. You can read the text better in the online shop.
(Thanks Supervert)
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/43i3rvCZArI/
Curt Hopkins compares the discovery that a company’s logo lights up the same brain regions in fans of that company that religious iconographic lights up in followers of the religion.
Anyway, the public (well, at least the free, male, moneyed public) that took such a hands-on role in shaping the policy of the Republic was displaced by an Imperial government that consolidated power in one man, whose will was carried out by a bureaucracy. When that happened, the formerly most influential elements of the society turned away from public life to “mystery religions”: Mithraism, the worship of Isis and of course Christianity.
In the same way, it feels that we’ve lost something in turn. I’m not sure what it is – religious faith, political will, tribal affiliation? – but I can feel it. With the loss of that thing, people have turned to brands, particularly to tech brands, with their promise of connection, amplification, justification, belonging. The promise of salvation and relevance.
ReadWriteWeb: Thou Shalt Have No Other Jobs Before Me: Geek Fanatacism Lights Up Same Part of the Brain as Religion
Also check out what Douglas Rushkoff has to say about the future of branding in social media.
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2011/05/31/brand-fanaticism-lights-up-same-part-of-the-brain-as-religion/
The story of why we aren’t all living in Dymaxion houses today is a convoluted epic of business failure (for one thing, starting up a production line for houses using cutting-edge aerospace technology was something that had never been done before; for another, Bucky’s business sense was not, sadly, as good as his design sense) that has been recounted in numerous biographies. What interests me about it is that it’s a far more humane approach to the problem of providing housing for the masses than his Brutalist contemporaries, whose designs tended to be fixed, immovable, made cheaply out of low-end materials, and built with high density mass housing in mind rather than low impact customizability. It was also way ahead of the field in terms of awareness of environmental constraints; while we could design better today, we’d be making incremental tweaks, whereas Bucky came up with the original idea of modular, lightweight, mobile low-impact housing ab initio.
Charlie Stross: “Why are your houses so heavy?”
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2011/05/25/charlie-stross-on-buckminster-fuller-why-are-your-houses-so-heavy/
A collection of future warning signs by Anders of Anders Transhuman Page. These are from October, 2006 – predating the similar signs that appear in Doktor Sleepless.
Andart: Warning Signs for Tomorrow
(via Justin P)
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/QSmY1QGj9Ck/
The Dymaxion car reconstruction project mentioned here previously has been completed. For better or worse, it was just rebuilt as a one-off art project. Until the end of the month, you’ll be able to see it at the Ivorypress Art+Books gallery in Madrid.
Guardian: Norman Foster’s back-to-front car
(Thanks Bill!)
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/e88KKpC89f4/
