Hasta La Ideas

JR, an ambitious photographer and recent recipient of the 2011 TED Award, has recently released a video short based on his exhibition work completed while in Shanghai called ‘Wrinkles of the City’ that is worth a look. via:

While still-newish LAMOCA director Jeffrey Deitch and the residents of Los Angeles might still be at odds concerning the former’s decision to paint over a mural the museum itself had commissioned, fearing its subject matter might upset its neighbors, the recent blast of publicity might wind up being at least a tiny bit positive for the artist himself. Blu, the Italian painter/filmmaker/street artist who was at the receiving end of Deitch’s whitewashing paintbrush, has just released a collection of his work on DVD. From animated wall-paintings to time-lapses of his many murals, it contains a bulk of his work from over the past 10 years. So while Blu likely would have prefered that the LAMOCA debacle had not played out as it did, perhaps the increase in DVD sales because of it might provide at least something of a cushion. Here’s the trailer:

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Climb every mountain and ski any path with the world’s first GPS-enabled goggles

For backcountry trailblazers, Recon Instruments‘ new Transcend goggles introduce advanced technology for carving your own path while providing essential protection from sun and snow. The GPS-enabled goggles “require minimal interaction” yet boast an impressive amount of features, including a full-color micro LCD display, Google Maps overlay, real-time statistics (speed, altitude, vertical, run-counter, temperature and more), and keep a log of averages, maximums and minimums for each run over the entire day.

Vancouver-based Recon fitted the goggles with lenses from Boulder, CO-based Zeal Optics, who created two versions—polarized ($400) or for an even greater sun shield, polarized and photochromic ($500). Both styles are PC and Mac adaptable and through a micro USB port you can easily upload your stats at the end of the day.

The goggles weigh just around nine ounces, last six to eight hours through a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and sell online from both Recon Instruments and Zeal Optics.

Neues maker: Berlin’s Neues Museum, rebuilt and restored by David Chipperfield Architects in collaboration with Julian Harrap.

“There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular, to look like it is changing the world. I don’t care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.”

–David Chipperfield in the January issue of ARTnews. He will receive the Royal Gold Medal for architecture in a ceremony at the Royal Institute of Architects in London on February 10.

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