Hasta La Ideas

Come out and join Core77 and Hand-Eye Supply this weekend in Los Angeles – we have something for everyone:
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Friday, September 6, 2013
8:00pm – 10:00pm
CRAFT IN AMERICA STUDY CENTER PRESENTS “PROCESS”

Join us for an evening with Craft in America Study Center for a courtyard screening of the episode “Process” from their highly acclaimed PBS series. This episode places emphasis on how one may acquire the necessary knowledge and skills it takes to set out as a professional craftsman.

We’ll end the evening with live music from the Craft in America House Band, who will play American roots traditionals from the series.

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Saturday, September 7, 2013
6:00pm – 8:00pm
FILM SCREENING: MARK ESCRIBNO’S “THE SUPER NOBLE BROTHERS”

We love the DIY ethos and this 2009 documentary about Davey, Tommy and Andy Noble, brothers and local celebrities in Milwaukee, WI has it in spades. Indie record labels, obscure artists, almost famous bands and a killer soundtrack to boot.

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Sunday, September 8, 2013
6:00pm – 8:00pm
JIMMY N’ ADI PRESENT PLATONIC SPEED DATING FOR CREATIVES (RSVP REQUIRED)

“These Are My Friends and Their Friends” is an ongoing project inviting Adi’s ultra-talented friends to collaborate on non-commercial work. With this project Jimmy n’ Adi aim to connect the disconnected world of Los Angeles’ creative community, the people who are directly and currently changing the face of advertising and art.

On September 8th, creatives will be invited to participate in a project called “These are My Friends and Their Friends: Platonic Speed Dating.” Adi Goodrich has invited Jimmy Marble to host the event with her. Participants are given invitations for themselves and a guest to join in the project. Each participant will be paired for three minutes with a random guest. Jokes and drawings will ensue as guests shift from one date to the next.

Space is limited. Registration required. SOLD OUT!

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The Hand-Eye Supply Pop-Up at Space 15 Twenty
1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028

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News: billionaire technology tycoon Elon Musk has unveiled his vision for the future of design, with modelling software controlled by hand gestures linked to 3D printers.

In a movie published this week, Musk demonstrates a variety of motion capture, virtual reality and 3D printing technologies that his space transport firm SpaceX has been combining to improve their design and production methods for making rocket components.

“I believe we’re on the verge of a major breakthrough in design and manufacturing in being able to take the concept of something from your mind, translate that into a 3D object really intuitively on the computer and then take that virtual 3D object and make it real just by printing it,” Musk says in the movie.

The entrepreneur says that present methods of interacting with computers feel uncomfortable: “We try to create 3D objects using 2D tools, which just don’t feel natural.”

He explains that SpaceX has integrated sensor and visualisation technologies to develop a more natural and efficient method for designers to view and modify designs using gestures.

“If you can just go in there and do what you need to do – just understanding the fundamentals of how the thing should work, as opposed to figure out  how to make the computer make it work – then you can achieve a lot more in a lot shorter period of time,” he says.

In the film Musk demonstrates an interactive technology called Leap Motion that allows users to control visuals on a computer screen. He grabs, rotates and spins a wireframe model of a rocket engine by making simple hand movements in mid-air such as pinching and swiping.

He also shows the 3D wireframe technology projected onto glass, like the technology seen in sci-fi movie Iron Man. In a final demonstration, Musk shows how SpaceX has used Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets to edit a digital model of an engine in virtual space.

Elon Musk is also founder of Paypal and electric-car firm Tesla Motors. Last month he revealed designs for a supersonic Jetsons-style transportation system to link Los Angeles and San Francisco in just 30 minutes.

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Just about anyone can probably come up something cool to do and a most of us can probably actually do some of those cool things. A select few of you (I’m not counting myself this time around) are also able to document those things with photo and video and present them in a way that’s more compelling than your average Instagram or Vine, and possibly make a buck or two doing so. NYC-based artist and filmmaker Casey Neistat happens to be able to do all of the above extremely well, and, after years of putting together wild, wacky and otherwise out-of-left-field short films, someone at Mercedes-Benz took notice. That’s right: Casey Neistat made a car commercial. And it’s awesome.

(For those of you who might retort that it’s a contrived attempt at ‘shaking up’ a staid format—the car commercial—ask yourself this: would you not do the same thing? And would you even come close to the result?)

Granted, it’s one thing make a car commercial and another thing to embed it in a Friday afternoon blogpost (credit also to the automakers themselves), so in the interest of highlighting the substance behind the ecstatically over-the-top finished product, Neistat has done us the favor of posting a three-part making-of doc, and it’s as good as anything he’s ever done… including the commercial. This, readers, is what storytelling is about.

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Réalisé par des membresde la compagnie française CitéCréation, le plus grand mural du monde se situe à Berlin et recouvre les 22 000 m2 de surface d’une copropriété de 3 immeubles. Un projet titanesque réalisé en accord avec les habitants, qui postule d’ailleurs auprès du Guiness Book of World Records.

The City Marathon PT Pack from Adidas Originals—released today, 6 September 2013—honors the ultimate pursuit of 26.2 miles on foot. The team at the German athletic powerhouse updated the Marathon PT in three new colorways for…

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