Dreaming in Mono

McDonald’s has launched a novel new advertising campaign in Northern Europe, which looks more like a TV miniseries (McDonad’s doesn’t feature in the episodes). It consists of a series of seven episodes of a story about Nordic dreams and rivalries and stereotypes of the Danes, Finns, Swedes and Norwegians who are attempting to break the [...]

Tokyo Sky Drive

Tokyo Sky Drive is a beautiful and hypnotic ride through the Tokyo night scape, set to a sound track of A Furrow Plant by Sugar Dub. It’s shot in HD on Sony XR500V, and there are also daytime versions.
Read more and see the reaction on Kitsune Noir.

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Lewis’s Fifth Floor: A Department Story

Lewis’s fifth floor: a department story is a photography exhibition running at the National Museum Liverpool until 30th August, 2010.
It is the first solo exhibition by Liverpool photographer Stephen King and it reflects his visits to the ‘lost’ fifth floor of Liverpool’s iconic Lewis’s department store, which has been closed to the public since the [...]

Terry Fator: Singing Ventriloquist

Singing ventriloquist Terry Fator won the second season of America’s Got Talent and now headlines at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in a five-year $100m deal (with an option to renew on the same deal). But like most overnight successes, it took a while to find success – the 44 yr-old has been honing [...]

National Magazine Awards

If are bored of reading the same old magazines every week maybe you should try mixing it up a bit.  The 45th National Magazine Awards has just announced its finalists – a quick scan down the list might inspire you to read Garden & Gun, Travel + Leisure or Martha Stewart Living. But if you [...]

Kidnap Me

French company Ultime Réalité offers to kidnap you without warning (after payment of EUR900). You’ll be dragged off the street, tied up  and gagged for up to ten hours. Other options include a manhunt or waking up in a morgue. Customers include high-level executives who want an extreme immersive experience.
Read more on Springwise

The Cove Team Takes on LA

Whilst waiting to collect their Oscar, it seems that Louie Psihoyos,  director of feature-length dolphin slasher documentary The Cove couldn’t help but indulge in a little more activisim, this time in a Santa Monica sushi bar call the Hump, which  was suspected of serving illegal whale meat. Louie and his team turned up for dinner [...]

Real Good Experiment

Blu Dot’s Real Good Experiment aims to track what happens to unwanted furniture when it is left in the street. They left 25 GPS tagged chairs on the sidewalk in NYC and sat back and waited to see what would happen. Watch the video to see what did happen.

Love Letters to the Future

Love Letters to the Future is an interactive website that encourages people to send a love letter to the future, asking the question “what would you say to your great grandchild?” Once you’ve read other people’s letters you can can vote for favourites or upload your own.
Inevitably there are a lot of letters that imagine [...]

Fashion That Changed the World

Fifty Dresses That Changed the World from London’s Design Museum is a collection of iconic dresses, such as the 1915 Delphos Pleated dress and Hussein Chalayan’s 2007 LED dress.
The book is part of a design series that also covers shoes, cars and chairs. Read about them on Dexigner.