From Diplo’s Mad Decent Worldwide Radio: “its crazy here in Rio.. guns go missing and police go to war with poor people and then i get kicked out of my apt and i got no internet access.. but heres a random mix.“
It was Diplo’s show with Brazilian acts, Cansei de Ser Sexy (who win the title of Dance Hit of the Summer with the brilliant “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above”) and Bonde do Role a few weeks ago at Celebrities here in Vancouver that first …

This video, found over on William Gibson’s blog this morning made me immediately nostalgic for my old Tokyo ‘hood.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, Greenland is melting!”
This was how Lorraine Gauthier and Alex Quinto introduced themselves at this year’s ICOGRADA in Seattle. It was early in the conference and the first statement that truly made us sit up and take notice. We would learn that the pair had worked on Bruce Mau’s exhibit Massive Change, a massive undertaking unto itself tackling the world’s most critical problems from a designer’s perspective. They then went on to create Work Worth Doing, a design studio “working at the …

The digital world gets pulled from the screen into our own in the work of artist Aram Bartholl.

The classic movie titles of legendary designer Saul Bass brought to you by my new favourite site, Not Coming to a Theatre Near You.
(Indirectly via Coudal.)

I always tend to venture beyond the local borders when it comes to searching for inspiration, looking to what is big in Japan, or germinating in the New York streets or rising out of Europe. So it was a pleasant surprise to find myself spending a good chunk of my afternoon pouring over the work of local designer Marian Bantjes.
With a whimsical and organic style that suggests that she spends more time with a pen and paper than in front of a computer screen, Marian has been described by …

“This interview began with an email exchange in which Soderbergh outlined the various topics he’d be most interested in talking about. The short list included pornography, Chris Rock, how the Olympics relates to the killer instinct, and the cost of panda bears as compared to the cost of getting off (in the legal sense).”
Scott Indrisek, the New York editor for Anthem interviews Steven Soderbergh for The Believer.

No one wants to play Sega with Harrison Ford.
Via IBC.

“On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the … Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was …