Author Archives: Scotty D

Tate Gallery of Lost Art

Tate Media has just launched an online exhibition entitled The Gallery of Lost Art. It allows the user to explore the stories behind numerous famous artworks that have been stolen, lost or have simply disappeared over the last century. Read more…

Video of the day: The History of Pentagram

A beautiful film tracing the history of Pentagram design, told through the story of a boy born on the day Pentagram opened it’s doors. Read more…

Nissan LEAF: A World Without Petrol

Nissan launched the new 100% electric LEAF in Sydney with an art installation that showed how petrol bowsers might be used in a world without petrol. A nice quick way to show ‘no petrol’ and making the art objects interactive in a VW ‘Fun Theory’ kind of way, gave people a chance to interact with the exhibition. Read more…

Uniqlo Wake Up Social App

Uniqlo have created an app in conjunction with Japanese composer Cornelius that creates a unique way to wake up in the morning. The app automatically creates a song that contains current time, weather and day of the week. Users can choose to share a record of the time, weather and temperature at the exact moment the alarm was stopped via social media. Read more…

Video of the Day: Welcome to The Star

A new TV ad/Viral from The Monkeys for The Star casino. A lounge lizard gives a rolling tour of the casino on his piano belting out an 80′s rock classic. Read more…

Spotify launch their new iPad app

Spotify unveil their long-awaited new iPad app with a nice little promo video. Looks pretty tasty. The album art comes up around the size of a CD cover. Remember those? Read more…

Explore John Peel’s Record Collection

A project entitled ‘The Space’ has just gone live and is an online archive of the late John Peel’s collection of almost 70,000 vinyl records. Peel’s time in pirate radio and as a DJ at the BBC saw him help launch the careers of many seminal bands. Read more…

iPhone Diorama

Animator Mike Ko produced this nice little piece of film entitled ‘iPhone Diorama’. Perhaps a peek into the future of what a holographic iPhone could be like?

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