Jalopnik reports that Italdesign-Giugiaro has just semi-purposefully unveiled the next generation of Volkswagen’s hatchback offerings. Thew new Golf concept is certainly striking:
Almost makes a guy not feel so bad about the absence of the Scirocco on our shores. Almost. What are your thougts?
I guarantee you most 15 or 16 year olds would be so much more interested in The Great Gatsby and its endless droning on about the corruption of the East Coast if they could play it as a sidescroller. And now they can!
(Engadget)
LOVE this. Featuring the vocals of Romy Madley Croft (of The xx, if you couldn’t have guessed immediately). Gorgeous.
Well, we now know how one might translate some of Danielewski‘s zanier ideas into a tangible paper book.
What you are seeing here is an amazing, handmade German art book called Thoughts on Dreams that has been threaded with hyperlinks to direct readers from one important section to another. It is sublime. I also love how it really illustrates the idea of interconnected content in a way that does, actually, look like a sinewy spider’s web or neural network.
(Engadget)
“We’re rehearsing for our own future – why not do it as pleasantly as possible?” – Syd Mead, futurist
The second installment of BMW’s films on the future of mobility has just been released and it combines a plethora of things I like including: retrofuturism, cars (obvious) and visionary artist, Syd Mead (who is awesome).
David Herbert’s 2005 sculpture/monolith VHS is an 8-foot-tall video cassette copy of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. What does this piece mean? I’m not entirely sure, but I’m just going to assume it’s an audacious statement against Betamax.
(io9)
I love it when BMW goes to the movies. I’m sure you remember their 2001-2002 films starring Clive Owen – most notably “Star” with Madonna in the backseat of an M5. Proving what a difference a decade makes, the newest series of BMW videos, “Wherever You Want To Go,” will be focusing on the future of mobility. From really expensive productions about the BMW lifestyle…to basically the same thing but about green technology and human scale transportation solutions. Anyway, it should be a lot of fun and the videos will be released all throughout February, beginning on the 1st.
(Autoblog)
Made famous by BMW, the concept of the art car has picked up another German manufacturer as participant: Mercedes-Benz. MB sponsored a four car installation entitled Recollection Quartett which places iconic models from the marque inside of sculptures conceived by Frederik Heyman and styled by a trio of fashion designers. All a part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin (where else?).
Rock group Angels & Airwaves’ Tom DeLonge (formerly of Blink 182) produced and created the music for the spacey film Love. The movie’s about a astronaut stuck alone on a space station, and the visuals are remarkable.
And they are – io9 nails it. To quote them again:
Plus, the music is pretty gripping (something I was earlier dreading when I first read of A&A’s involvement, I was wrong it’s lovely).
And it is…and I did, too. I really don’t like Angels & Airwaves all that much (though the visuals for their first single, “The Adventure” – oddly, set in space – did allow me to partake for a viewing or two) but this soundtrack (if the trailer is to be believed) is sublime.
I wish I could set my blog posts to remind me about things because I want to remember to see this movie. Perhaps a new plugin to research? I also really should finish Moon, I’m realizing…