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Music: All-Time Kate Bush video favorites
A selection of our all-time video favorites by “Kate Bush” available online:
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Time: Thirty years of Granta covers
The UK literary magazine “Granta” was founded 1889 by students at Cambridge University. It had some difficulties in the 1970s and was relaunched 30 years ago. 101 issues later today they provide a retrospective of issues since their restart in 1979. And every issue since then is still available in print.
Contributors since 1979 include Salman Rushdie, Doris Lessing, Paul Theroux, Julian Barnes, Gabriel García Márquez, John Le Carre and George Steiner to name just a few. The content from…
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Visual Language: Communicate anywhere in the world
Visual language is any communication which is primarily visual. It focuses on improving thinking, learning and communication by making it more visual. Driven by globalization, increased complexity in the things of our daily life and the convergence of vocabularies from different fields, visual language is composed of tightly integrated textual and visual elements.
Key to the concept of visual language is the possibility to communicate critical information items to anyone, in any language…
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Animation: Classic music as a roller coaster
How to advertise for a classic music orchestra? Well the Zurich Chamber Orchestra came up with a quite interesting idea. A sheet of music step by step turns into a roller coaster with the lines and notes becoming the rails.
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Music: Eric Avery - All remote and No Control
Andrew Huang has created this great video for Eric Avery’s song “All Remote and No Control” from his latest album “Help Wanted” released last week.
If you enjoy Eric Avery’s music and watching plants growing out of people this is your video.
Available as…
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Music: Imagine
It’s weekend and after all the bad news that people in many countries might soon starve to death due to food shortages and all the other disasters we hear about every day, we thought why not take a timeout for a few minutes and listen again to one of the most beautiful songs.
The three minutes watching the video and listening to John Lennon’s all-time-classic Imagine will definitely get you into a more positive mood.
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Music: One eskimO - Hometime
Sweet animation that was created as the official video for the song “Hometime” from One eskimO.
Download of the video and more information at “One eskimO web site”.
Great music to chill out.
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Design: Skateboard Artwork
These decks are stunning. Vancouver based artist Nathan Matthews aka Giant Human creates them for various skateboard labels.
Check out his work (he does snowboards too) at “his web site”.
We found some of his deck designs at the following shops/labels…
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Music: Bjoerk Wanderlust
There’s a lot of hype on Bjoerk’s video Wanderlust from her last album “Volta” going around on the web in the moment. And of course you can already find multiple copies and clip-cuts on YouTube.
The video is really an impressive, innovative work and the images are outstanding, so we thought you might want to watch it as a high-res version. We believe that mobile phone display size low-res flicks are just not up to what it needs to enjoy this piece of art.
It has been made available as…
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Comix: Jazan Wild’s Carnival of Souls
A digital comic book available as 4 issues/videos. 11 more Carnival issues are promised by Jazan Wild to be available soon…
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