Jack’s Whiteboard

musings of a visual thinker and unremitting creative

Yes, Kinda Like This

Someday I’d like to build a cabin like this one. I love the great outdoors... I just like to be able to sleep at night. This was designed by Gracia Correia and Roberto Ragazzi, and has been described as, “a bold statement that hides nothing”.

         

 

Brilliant Encore To Evian’s Roller Babies Video Campaign

     

 

And, in case you need to see the video again:

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography At Its Best

GREG JONES IS GOOD at creating HDR images. High Dynamic Range imaging is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard photographic methods. Keep in mind, these are photographs, not illustrations. By clicking on each image below (not on the small thumbnails, but the larger images) you can view them much larger which really shows the detail. You can see all of Greg’s work by clicking >here.

           

The Mojave Desert’s Airplane Graveyard

I GREW UP ON THE MOJAVE DESERT. I guess that’s why I’m drawn to imagery that shows it. I enjoyed this article by Ransom Riggs. I would love to visit this place sometime.


If you would like, you can read the entire article.

                                           

Just Show Up For Your Piece

ELIZABETH GILBERT, AUTHOR of Eat, Pray, Love, has thought long and hard about some remarkable topics.

In this inspiration video, from her TED presentation earlier this year, Elizabeth (bio) recommends a mindset that can change everything about the way creative people think about their work.

If you haven’t already seen it, enjoy. It’s absolutely worthy of 19 minutes of your life.

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World’s Highest Commercial

TOSHIBA AND GREY LONDON COLLABORATED to film "the world's highest commercial," shot 98,000 feet above Nevada's Black Rock desert. To capture the spot's footage, two Toshiba hi-def IK-HR1S video cameras and a lightweight chair were suspended from a high altitude helium balloon and floated into space until the chair exploded from extreme atmospheric pressure at 98,268 feet.

The London Olympics Digital Cloud

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ORIGINALLY SUGGESTED AS A CENTER PIECE FOR THE LONDON OLYMPICS VILLAGE, the digital Cloud will comprise thin and lightweight mesh towers 120 meters tall and stabilized by a series of metal cables. The towers will be dampened by a similar technology to that used in skyscrapers in Japan to resist earthquakes, so they would not be affected by the wind. Above the towers will be a series of interconnected inflatable plastic bubbles. Apart from displaying images and data, the Cloud would also function as a park and an observation deck. People would be able to reach the tops of the towers via ramps, stairs and elevators.

The designers of the Cloud plan to take the unusual step of funding the installation from millions of small donations from members of the public. One of the architects, Carlo Ratti from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, said the project was about ordinary people gathering resources together to raise the Cloud. The design is flexible enough to allow it to be adjusted to the funds available, so the number and amount of donations will determine the size of the Cloud.

The Cloud design was originally submitted to a competition set up by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and has been shortlisted. The competition aimed to attract entries for a tourist attraction in the Olympic Park that would be a legacy for London's east end. The winner of the competition has not yet been announced.

Regardless of the outcome of the competition, the Cloud's architects and engineers, who include author Umberto Eco, and engineers from Arup, a global engineering and consulting company, have decided to publish details of their concept. The structure is influenced by the work of a German artist famous for large inflatable structures, Tomas Saraceno.

courtesy, physorg.com