BMW GINA

Autoblog.com says: The BMW GINA Light Visionary Model that was seen via video being installed in the BMW Museum in Munich last week has finally been revealed, and the futuristic design study shows how BMW designers are thinking outside of the box when it comes to the materials that make up a car and also how the car relates to the driver. GINA stands for "Geometry and Functions in 'N' Adaptations", which basically means that designers from both BMW and BMW Group DesignworksUSA were allowed to throw out the rulebook. This is most evident in the GINA Light Visionary Model's outer skin, which is made entirely out of textile fabric that's pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires...

Amazing. Beautiful. Want.

Big Ideas... (don't get any)

while i'm on this radiohead video kick...

enjoy this.

(watch full screen. really.)


Big Ideas (Don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

All I Need

It's been a while since I've posted anything. Been busy with school. I saw this a couple of months ago, and just found it again and still can't believe how incredibly moving it is.

Spot On

Indexed does it again.

Quite Remarkable

The creativity and time that went into this is amazing.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Explainer: How To Make a Skull Bong

Slate's Explainer addresses the logistics of how to make a skull bong. Made of a real skull that three teenagers in Houston decided would be a good idea to extract.

"If the skull were too brittle to be easily drilled, the teenagers might have flipped it upside down. Then they could put the slide through the nose as before but use the large hole at the base of the skull—the foramen magnum—as the mouthpiece. The disadvantage of this method would be the tendency for the skull bong to roll over when set down."

I love the seriousness of this article. Very The Onion.

GEM.

this song is amazing and the video is even more.

gem moments:

1:24 - his grunty face

2:13 - the mouthing of the echo - like we all don't know that's an effect done in production.

2:17 - the failure to edit out his mouthing something else when there are no actual words being sung at that point in the song

2:37 - his hand gesture. um. really?

2:39 - ass slaps to correspond with hand claps in the song (see Jeremy's comment!)

3:26 - the fact that neither of them is even attempting to resemble actually playing the song on their guitars

the ridiculousness abounds.

I essentially just made you a Pop-Up Video.