Hasta La Ideas

pOne thing I appreciate about NYC’s boiling-hot summers is that I don’t have to run my electricity-hogging clothes dryer; a hanging rack does does the job fine. And now Levi Strauss Co. is running a design competition to promote air-drying as a means of environmental preservation, asking entrants to design modern updates and alternatives to the clothesline./p

pAll of the entries to date are A HREF=”http://myoocreate.com/challenges/care-to-air-design-challenge#view_entries_” available for viewing/A (and voting on) online. Some of our faves:/p

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pThe far-fetched but fun A HREF=”http://myoocreate.com/challenges/care-to-air-design-challenge/entries/277″ Windmill Dryer/A is essentially an electricity-generating turbine with blades you can dry clothes on./p

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pThe A HREF=”http://myoocreate.com/challenges/care-to-air-design-challenge/entries/294″ Palm/A is a deceptively simple-looking coat rack with fronds that can deploy from the center, creating multiple hanging points./p

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pThe rain-proof, wind-catching A HREF=”http://myoocreate.com/challenges/care-to-air-design-challenge/entries/296″ Breezeway/A is a communal dryer designed for apartment building roofs and has the capacity of six dryers. Individual, lockable drawers separate your undies from the Jones’./p

pCheck the rest out A HREF=”http://myoocreate.com/challenges/care-to-air-design-challenge#view_entries_” here/A./p

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DMY Berlin 2010: designers For Use/Numen of Vienna and Zagreb wove a web of adhesive tape around scaffolding at the DMY Berlin venue in the Tempelhof former airport last week. (more…)

pMuch has been made of forthcoming 3D display technology, which has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with data. But until that day comes, there are still plenty of things we can do with 2D displays that mimic 3D and require 3-dimensional user input. To see what we’re talking about, check out the absolutely mind-blowing display technology, demonstrated at TED by researcher John Underkoffler, which A HREF=”http://kottke.org/10/06/real-world-minority-report-computer-interface” kottke.org has dubbed/A the “Real-world Minority Report computer interface.”/p

pFast-forward to 6:30 and get ready to spit your drink out:/p

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Il 12 giugno si è svolta a Bassano del Grappa, la finale mondiale della Galactic Battle of Foosball. La giornata inizia alla Grapperia Nardini, aperitivi mezzo mezzo per scaldarsi, poi mangiata al ristorante Ottocento. Con la panza piena e i cuori pieni di orgoglio nazionale, le squadre finaliste hanno iniziato a darsi piena battaglia. Alla fine l’hanno spuntata i nostrani Giuffreda Antonio e Giuseppe Donato Lucera sconfiggendo gli onnipotenti Ammerigani!
Si parte quindi per il Sud Africa assieme ad Andrea Rosso per nuove avventure. Stay tuned!

The Guardian has commissioned the Hannover-based Lego animator behind the Lego Fussball website to recreate all the goals in each of England’s World Cup matches.

The first film, featuring England’s match against the USA has already become a major draw to guardian.co.uk It lovingly recreates, using several different camera angles, both Steven Gerrard’s opening goal for England and, rather unfortunately, Robert Green’s bumbling goalkeeping error which allowed USA to level the game…

We emailed legofussball to find out more about the lego animations

CR: How many people are behind legofussball.eu?
Fabian Moritz: It’s only me, a crazy football-fan, who produces and manages the videos and the website, legofussball.eu

CR: Where are you based?
FM: I’m from Hannover, Germany. I make the films in a storage room just four square meters in my home.

CR: When did you start making these films?
FM: In Summer 2007 I had my debut with a friendly match between my favorite team Hannover 96 and Real Madrid, which was won 3-0. Reactions to the film were great, so I made more.

CR: How long, typically, does it take to make each film?
FM: Of course, it depends on the number of goals in the match. Typically, I spend about three hours for each goal.

CR: Was re-creating the England goalkeeper’s error fun? Or was it quite tricky to get right?
FM: In general, unusual scenes are a lot of fun, because I get to be very creative in those scenes. I have never recreated a goalkeeping error before, so I really enjoyed it (sorry)!

CR: Who is your favourite to win the World Cup this year?
FM: Difficult question – especially after watching the first few games. Brazil, Argentina, England or maybe even Germany.

To see more of this kind of thing, visit legofussball.eu – and keep an eye on guardian.co.uk after each England match to see the rest of the films Moritz makes to commemorate (in glorious Lego) all the goals in England’s World Cup matches for The Guardian.

Let’s just hope there’ll be no more embarrassing errors by our boys in South Africa for him to recreate…