A couple months ago, my man Mark hooked me up with a Fatlace blog which added to my ongoing dilemma of what I should be blogging about on this domain. Well I’ve decided that Adrian-Lai.com will be my professional home. My blog here will focus on design, brands and interactive media culture. The idea is to keep me up to speed with new developments in this space and hopefully also become a resource for readers. My Fatlace blog will be more of a personal diary of my life in Shanghai. Photos, Observations and Eats. Then there’s Kaleido, which is a visual mixtape with my girl – Basically an image/audio dump of ffffodder on the web. And I continue to contribute to PSFK whenever something worthy comes my way.
So, welcome to the reloaded Adrian-Lai.com. Thanks for reading:)
Provocative presentation on how the idea of Netness (The more things you connect the better they work) is a better metaphor for the future than Moore’s Law (The law that computation speed doubles every 24 months.) For example:
An 80 yr old man
Who lives by himself
Takes a shower
When he falls into the tub
What if…
The Tub Knows
That the man is falling
That he has osteoporosis
And then proceeded to contact
911 and his family
And then proceeded to
Rearrange its molecules
So when he hits the tub
The tub catches him
I’m downloading “Debacle,” Nike SB’s new HD Project, right now and pretty stoked for it to finish. First off, good move giving away the vid as a FREE download. Classic countdown tactic to tease the launch date and smarter to do it on Facebook rather than build a Teaser Site.
But what sets the site apart is that the 22 min HD video is also available for viewing online. Peep the link to the Adobe feature on Hega TV (interactive design studio) and how they collaborated with Adobe to perfect the online HD viewing experience. Because the crux of the video is that it was shot in HD, it’s an important factor in the experience not to be overlooked. Just too bad that the internet sucks so bad in China that the online viewing doesn’t work…
My friend Robin has a dope new poster available on her site. Edition of 500 and it’s only 5 bucks including shipping to the US and Canada! Check it and if you’re in NY, check her out at the NYZinefest this weekend.
I’ve only heard one track off the new Mos Def but I think it’s a S C O R E. Back when I first started buying music, I used buy albums based on their covers. This one has an interesting back story. It’s a still from the 70’s film “Killer of Sheep” by Charles Burnett.
From the site:
Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.
Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife in the living room, holding his daughter. The film offers no solutions; it merely presents life — sometimes hauntingly bleak, sometimes filled with transcendent joy and gentle humor.
Killer of Sheep was shot on location in Watts in a series of weekends on a budget of less than $10,000, most of which was grant money. Finished in 1977 and shown sporadically, its reputation grew and grew until it won a prize at the 1981 Berlin International Film Festival.
Since then, the Library of Congress has declared it a national treasure as one of the first fifty on the National Film Registry and the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the “100 Essential Films” of all time. However, due to the expense of the music rights, the film was never shown theatrically or made available on video. It has only been seen on poor quality 16mm prints at few and far between museum and festival showings.
Peep the first track off the album:
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
PSFK
Flickr
Facebook
Twitter
Tumblr
Delicious
Recent Comments