This movie was painstakingly made by crafter Holly Klein. The set pieces and characters were all cross stitched by hand, then scanned into a computer and animated.

Must have taken an absolute age to do, but an innovative idea all the same.

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At Defon 3...

About 10 years ago we read articles about Oakley and their internal game where everybody in the company believes that they are fighting a war. The head office was reported to look like a military bunker, situated in a desert with most of it underground. Today we see pictures – and even if it is more than ten years old, it’s still a pretty rad place to spend your offices time as an employee.

Ready to engage

The bar at Oakley HQ

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In Africa practically every traffic light is an art gallery featuring wire windmills, 3D township landscapes and hessian lion’s heads. But elsewhere – the stuff we try our best to ignore is regarded as ‘art’.

On March 4, Red Bull’s “Art of Can” exhibit opened on Miami’s tony South Beach. The show consists of 47 art pieces inspired by, and made from, Red Bull cans. The striking pieces include a Medussa head, a Hermes foot and a “Fab-redbull-ge” egg, among others. The event also incorporates couture, featuring designs by former contestants from the popular reality show Project Runway. The exhibit runs through March 14 and then again in Dallas, TX, in July. [via]

Makes us wonder what other ‘innovations’ we take for granted would be see as remarkable in the First World? Meerkats…mechanical meerkats?

The Airplane Hangar - get it?

The Airplane hangar / hanger set that we wish was sold at every robot.

Designed as a tribute to Tempelhof airport near Berlin the hangers themselves have the shape of the legendary C-47, which became famously known as the candy bombers during WW2.

Too clever

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Clean up this bloody mess

Perfect for when that Dexter guy comes to visit.

Get it

Morning nurse

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All the t-shirts and music featured in this stop-motion video are for sale. Which means that the entire thing is an ad that you can own a piece of if you like it. Geeks. Clever – but still geeky. [thanks Sachin]

Work it

Proximity engaged public lighting [lights that you can play with] is a big turn-on for us here at the Cherryflava HQ. Some members of the team actually stash copies of LED lighting catalogs under the small arsenal of guns that we store here. It’s like Scope magazine for nerds. So this installation You Fade To Light by rAndom International for Philips Lumiblade. and video is now being played on repeat [with much excitement] in the office.

You Fade To Light” allows the audience to engage with the light itself intuitively and in a physical way. With custom software developed by designer Chris O’Shea, it has been built in London with several hundred unique OLEDs from the world’s first-ever production line for OLED lighting at Philips in Aachen, Germany. [via]

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In general, city skyscrapers are damn ugly. It’s no wonder people feel tired and listless when they walk into these places. They’re not natural, or fun or inspiring in anyway. How innovation and creative thought is meant to flourish in a solid concrete block pumped full of artificial light and air conditioning is beyond us.

So it’s pretty exciting to see how some interactive designers are playing with QR codes, LEDs and augmented reality to make city landscapes – more there!

Sadly – we don’t for a second think that any of this thinking will be implemented in South Africa any time soon, but it’s always inspirational to see how creative, interactive technology is making cities more attractive and engaging elsewhere.

Top video is of a shop that uses QR code tech to offer in-store info like specials and coupons plus you can see the Tweets and comments of the people inside, thanks to Twitter geotagging [more here]

This is an interactive building in Belgium that passers by can interact with via a touchscreen.

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Dive...dive

In an attempt to escape today’s Apple frenzy – we’re taking shelter from geekdom in the Tea Submarine.

You guessed it – it’s a tea-infusing yellow sub for the more playful tea drinker. Down bubble. [thanks Izzie]

All aboard!

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Previously:

Origami tea bags: Making tea an experience – Cherryflava

Tea-shirts – Cherryflava

Ketchup...

You may have used a sachet of McDonald’s tomato sauce to fake a shark attack in the pool once or twice before, but the ‘campaign against landmines’ used the idea as a pretty effect PSA in New Zealand. Tear open the wrapper and off goes the guy’s leg…blood and all.

On that previous point, perhaps the ’shark spotters’ can plant similar sachets on the tables at The Gallery in Fish Hoek to warn swimmers what will happen if they don’t listen when the siren goes off.

Looking innocent enough

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