Hasta La Ideas

Bringing new bands to light, NYC clothiers Barking Irons‘ recently launched an acoustic video series The Collect, created in partnership with creative production agency Phearcreative. The resulting videos capture musicians as they write, perform and discuss their music.

So far, the Collect has illuminated the work of eight artists, including Riverboat Gamblers and Justin Towne Earle. Barking Irons will continue to show more of “cool rock & roll, blues, and country acts” in their monthly installments of the series.

To celebrate the new project and accompanying site, Barking Irons and Phearcreative will host a launch party 15 April 2010. Be sure to swing by The Collect as the project grows.

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pAs a compliment to the series “This is Sculpture,” the Tate Museum Liverpool has commissioned film director Mike Figgis to produce a series of short films that document conversations with Liverpool locals about works of art found in the first floor displays./p

pIn this video, schoolchildren from Liverpool discuss the meaning of Dan Flavin piece “Untitled,” installed for 24 hours in their school hallway. Though most of them are not on board with Dan, my favorite part is when one kid utters “It just looks like a masterpiece.” /p

pIt seems that Liverpoolians are, in general, equally suspicious of Jeff Koons:/p

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pNow if only there was a similar series on design…/p

pemThanks, Thom!/em/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/videos/schoolkids_discuss_dan_flavin__16258.asp”(more…)/a
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pI am very appreciative of the opportunity to have spoken at a href=”http://www.swiss-miss.com”SwissMiss/a’s a href=”http://creativemornings.com/”Creative Mornings/a event last month, and as I mention at the start of the video, I wanted to do something special for Tina’s new baby Tilo. Given the monumental snow storm the preceding day and morning-of, it was a thrill to see so many people come out early for the event. /p

pWe arranged the chairs in a semi-circle, turned down the lights, and I have to say that a morning song format did lend itself well for what was going on outside. Given my vantage point during the talk, I think emI/em was the only one who could see the snow drifting down out the windows, but it added a sweet romance to the thing (and made it extra hard to concentrate on the lyrics). In case you were wondering about them, they’re pasted below (I abbreviated a stanza near the end for the sake of brevity…it was getting long). It’s a great song for kids, but now I know it’s a great song for designers as well. It sure was fun to take a look at it through that lens#151;that’s in the second half of the video!/p

pThanks to a href=”http://hellorolo.com/”Roland Lazarte/a for doing the video; thanks to a href=”http://www.bobulate.com”Liz Danzico/a for hosting and the a href=”http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/”SVA MFA Interaction Design/a for the space, and again to Tina for the invite. Hope you enjoy./p

pbr /
strongThere’s a Hole in the Bucket/strong/p

pem There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza,br /
There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole.br /
Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,br /
Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, fix it./p

p With what shall I fix it, dear Liza, dear Liza?br /
With what shall I fix it, dear Liza, with what?br /
With some straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,br /
With some straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, some straw./em/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/videos/bucketfail_creative_mornings_with_allan_chochinov_16215.asp”(more…)/a
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pIxDA has done a phenomenal job documenting all of a href=”http://interaction.ixda.org/videos-slides/”last month’s presentations/a from the a href=”http://interaction.ixda.org/”Interaction Design 2010/a conference in Savannah, GA. There are so many gems here, but we’ve picked out a few favorites, The first is a href=”http://www.benfullerton.com/”Ben Fullerton’s/a talk on Designing for Solitude. Alone timemdash; or the “ability to switch off and contemplate”mdash;is becoming harder and harder to find as our media is increasingly socialized; Ben discusses why this is not a good thing. Solitude is important and we now find ourselves with a particular need to create it. What does an off state look like? /p

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pa href=”http://www.elasticspace.com/”Timo Arnall/a, who works with near field communications and emerging RFID technology, delivered a talk entitled “Designing for the Web in the World.” A nice contrast to Fullerton’s main points, Timo discusses the ‘on’ state in depthmdash;we can move off the screen and into the world by embodying our digital services in real, tactile, networked objects. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/videos/ixd10_all_talks_on_video_16164.asp”(more…)/a
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pa href=”http://www.innovationlab.eastman.com/InnovationLab/index.htm”Eastman Innovation Lab/a brings us a video from Peter Booth, the managing partner and director of a href=”http://www.tinhorse.com/”Tin Horse/a. Peter engages in “practice-based innovation” and looks to what people actually do with the stuff they have for insights into design. He says that “the remit of the designer has to be beyond just designing things, it has to be involved in looking at the practices that the people who are using them are involved in.” /p

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pAs an example, he points out that a bag of chips (or as he says, crisps) was never meant to be designed for sharing, but that people tear it down the middle to serve that function anyway. /p

pClick a href=”http://www.innovationlab.eastman.com/InnovationLab/Insights/Example/Peter_Booth.htm”here/a to watch./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/videos/peter_booth_on_observing_the_consumer__16093.asp”(more…)/a
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