Biomimicry 3.8–Something BIG is coming…

A new leap forward from the makers of the #Biomimicry Revolution

The cool guys over at the “Biomimicry Guild” + “Biomimicry Institute” + “AskNature” + “Biomimicry Professional Pathways” have united forces to create Biomimicry 3.8 a new revolution that will integrate and spread Biomimicry through an interconnected network like nature would do. First step is www.biomimicry.net where you can get a glimpse of what is about to come in the following months. So stay tuned for more upcoming news.

And also, for the ones in design disciplines demanding a deep introduction in the matter, look over at the pages in www.fastcompany.com/biomimicry for specific articles created as part of a partnership by FastCompany and Earthsky.org

Landscapes: Volume 2

An spectacular time-lapse video from Dustin Farrell showing how astonishing #Earth & #Nature can be

Watching in Full Screen and Top Volume highly recommended

And for the ones that have not seen yet the First Volume, here it goes:

The Secret Life of Buildings

A new show that measures the impact of #architecture in human life

We spend 85% of our lives inside but rarely, if ever, consider what impact the design and architecture of these spaces have on us. Yet the design of our living space can connect and silently shape our identity, self-esteem, relationships, chances at school, and even our weight and immune system.

Architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff looks at how architecture affects us at home, work and play, and discovers the secret ways that buildings profoundly affect our behaviour, feelings and identity.

In “The Secret Life of Buildings”, Thomas addresses the point from the real consumer perspective, as inhabitants of a human designed space, and breaks into pieces the nonsense of starchitects with big egos. Tom Dyckhoff challenges the works of architects like Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Bjarke Ingels, and Sir Norman Foster, putting them face to face with the people living/working/playing in the place they designed. The 3 episodes are centered around the building use typologies: Home, Work, Leisure, and some very questionable experiments on physical health or psychology are presented to fundament the findings.

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Beauty flourishes at night

 

#architecture #losangeles #LA Light from Colin Rich

Moving Architecture. Video Projections on Buildings.

Buildings are leaving behind their characteristics as permanent still volumes and changing into interactive elements. Human perception shifts to perceive them now more like a TV than a squared sleek facade. That gives them the special effect "in motion" that we didn´t have before, opening the possibilities to a broad spectrum of typologies.

 It seems large scale video projections are becoming lately very popular as an instrument of marketing and a way of attracting attention in cultural events and art hubs. Here is a video projection from URBANSCREEN, a german company dedicated to the production of this special unique pieces of architecture in motion.

You can see one of the videos about their great creations here:

 

555 KUBIK | facade projection from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

New York Invasion by 8 bits creatures!

 

[VIDEO] New York invasion by 8-bits creatures!
PIXELS is Patrick Jean' latest short film. It shows the invasion of the city of New York by digital creatures taken from games we played when we were children... (I know some people still do).
This video is the best piece of work I have ever seen in years! In terms of creativity, production, details, effects,...
It is just a-w-e-s-o-o-o-o-o-m-e !

Tokyo Glow

 

[VIDEO] Great video written and directed by Jonathan Bensimon with effects related originally to digital photocameras. It tells the story of an illuminated man from a crosswalk sign, wandering around the streets of Tokyo.

Official Opening

'The Child'. New York in Typographics. Video created by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet for DJ Alex Gopher

[VIDEO] Serve this comment as the official beginning of  'City Slickr' , and first post of many to come...

And what better to inaugurate, than this great piece of design work I recently came across, hope you like it!