Hustler of Culture

Hermès Flagship Store Launch

Signal | Noise worked with the Swiss design agency Unit, a multi-creative platform, on two interactive experiences for Hermès's flagship store in Geneva. The result: a sexy, Daft Punkish-table I'd like to work at. Hoteliers! I'm pretty sure people would linger at this bar a long while or even better, clients would enjoy flirting with one another from across the lightstreams.

More about the project from Signal:

The event was held at the Musee D'Art et D'Histoire, Geneva, in two of it's main exhibition halls.

The theme for the evening was the meeting of handcraft and technology, in the first room we created an iPad application which invited guests to leave their hand print on the evening. When they placed their hand on the iPad a stylised animated sequence 'scanned' their hand and projected it as part of a composite Hermès logo on the end wall of the space.

For the second room, we designed and built a six metre interactive monolith interwoven with "digital stitches" - arrays of infra-red sensors and LEDs, which allowed guests to create and control strips of light in the minimal, high-gloss surface. In turn users' gestures also controlled large projections of iconic Hermès images projected in the space.

SM - Lomography Store Opening (10.06.11)

Greetings from the brand-spanking-new Lomography Gallery Store Santa Monica!
 
That’s right, we’re adding a younger sibling to the Lomographic family in Los Angeles County… due date of Thursday, October 6, 2011.  We would love if you were able to attend, as well as help spread this newsflash within the Los Angeles and Santa Monica community.  We hope to create a dwelling for California residents to come together, learn about photography and participate in fabulous meet-ups!
 
We’re kicking things off with a party which is open to the public and will include some seriously awesome musical and visual entertainment!  We'll also serve California champagne, wine and local artisanal beers, with food catered by our neighbors at Le Pain Quotidien and Mini Cupcakes from Sprinkles!
 
Thursday, October 6, 2011; 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
312 Santa Monica Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90401
 
RSVP shopla@lomography.com

9th Annual Post E3 MMF BBQ

I can't believe we've been hosting our summer kick off barbecue for nine years now! But there you have it. Nine years of post-E3 fun. The crowd has changed from electronic entertainment industry folks-only to a big ass party for our creative cabal.

Thanks to Toby and Michael for hosting our party for the third year in a row. Thanks to Kiino and Matt for hooking us up with tunes. And thanks to all our friends that made the day fun and special. We are looking forward to the 10 year anniversary party, next year! See you then.

Pasadena - JPL Open House (05.14.11 - 05.15.11)

JPL Open House

Dates: Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15, 2011
Time: 9am-5pm both days
Admission and parking are free

This popular event celebrates JPL's accomplishments with exhibits and demonstrations about the Laboratory's ongoing research and space exploration. Many of the Lab's scientists and engineers are on hand to answer questions about how spacecraft are sent to other planets, how scientists utilize space technologies to explore Earth and how researchers are searching for planets beyond the solar system.

The Open House is a fun and educational experience for children too, with special hands-on activities designed for kids. Admission and parking are free.

The following items are not permitted at this NASA/JPL Event: weapons, explosives, incendiary devices, dangerous instruments, alcohol, illegal drugs, pets, segways, and all types of skates including skateboards. No bags, backpacks or ice chests are allowed, with the exception of small purses and diaper bags.

Your entry on NASA/JPL property constitutes your agreement that you, your vehicles and your personal belongings are subject to inspection.

JPL is located at 4800 Oak Grove Drive in Pasadena, off the 210 (Foothill) Freeway at the Berkshire Avenue/Oak Grove Drive exit. Parking is available near the Oak Grove main gate and the eastern boundary of JPL, accessible from Windsor Avenue via the Arroyo Boulevard exit off the 210 Freeway.

Snooky and the Metronome aka This Cat Is Tripping!

Goodness, this cat is tripping... you don't even realize how badly until the other cat waltzes into the video -- all normal. Hah.

Once Upon A Time... The Technology Of The Past.

About 15 years ago, a young cousin ran into our room and described how he had seen a television where you had to get up and turn a knob to turn the channel. He was freaking out describing the old monster. And I felt old. Then.

Watching the video above, I feel ancient. And why shouldn't I? At 39, nearly 40, when I was the age of the kids in the video, I thought 40 was old!

Technology moves fast, however coupled with being a new parent, everything now seems to move at warp speed! With a husband who works in video games, a career in new media, and a community rooted in technology across all formats, it's going to be funny to see what Lulu thinks of our relics in  the years to come (as of course, everything tech will probably be implanted on her person in the future)!

I want to do this experiment with all the kids I know today. It would be great to show them copies of Star Wars on Betamax, VHS, Super VHS, and Laserdisc too (we have them all, somewhere)! Anyone local want to help me update this experiment?!

NYC - Cars into Bicycles: Workshop with Folke Köbberling (01.08.11)

Cars into Bicycles
Workshop with Folke Köbberling
January 8th, 4-6pm

Supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department

As part of the exhibition, Postautomobilzeitalter, Folke Köbberling will host a workshop today Saturday, January 8th from 4 to 6pm at the Jack Hanley Gallery to discuss a post car production future.

What alternatives do we have, could we imagine a continent without individual motorized transportation?

The artist will speak from her year long experience living with her family in Los Angeles without a car. Participants will be encouraged to join the discussion by drawing their ideas on the gallery walls. The result will be a collaborative work that proposes what a future without individual motorized transportation might look like and how it might affect our urban landscape.

This Is A Prius!

I was fortunate to be invited to the 10 Years of Prius party in Malibu and before I recap the memorable day, I wanted to share a few photos of a Prius prototype with you. This beautiful machine was designed by the C&A Development Department. Um, hello?! I'm blown away. I wonder if you would even hear it roaring up behind you?! What a lean, green, kick ass machine!

Seinfeld Comments on Blackberries and iPhones

Best takeaway quotes, summing it all up:

"Do we even know what rudeness is anymore?"

"All my pretentious show business friends have the iPhone." 

Tempt1: SE2 EP2

Tempt1: SE2 EP2 from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

Insane. In the membrane. I know James is in town. Now I know what he's tinkering on.

Look at what FAT/GRL/OF and TEMPT1 are cooking up in the hood... check out the EyeWriter, a "low-cost eye-tracking apparatus + custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes."

Are you feeling how big this might become? For more information, follow the crew on Twitter @eyewriter.

Arduino the Cat, Breadboard the Mouse and Cutter the Elephant

Arduino the Cat, Breadboard the Mouse and Cutter the Elephant from hmt on Vimeo.

Tweenbots

Stylish New Yorkers, college kids, and good residents of Manhattan help this wee robot navigate its way through the park. How can something so simple (a wind-up cardboard box on wheels) make people want to help it out?! More about Kacie Kinzer's Tweenbots project here. [Thanks danah]

LA - Nintendo DSi Event (04.04.09)

Hitachi Wooo Phone

March 19, 2009 - 1:39 p.m. - Burbank, CA

Eye Spy 2008

(almost) a photo a day by hustler of culture and silviothemilvio.

RELATED: Eye Spy 2007, Eye Spy 2006

Entertainment Gathering 2008 Recap

Entertainment Gathering 2008 was incredibly inspirational and moving. I was at times, welling up witnessing what was on stage. But mostly, I was in awe of the human spirit and all the exciting projects and things people were up to. The company was top notch! So many creatives. So much talent. So nice people! I am grateful to have seen and heard what had transpired over a few days in Monterey, California and I look forward to attending the event again in the near future. Thanks EG 2008 for all the story-worthy memories.

Marvin Minsky... Just Think About It

December 12, 2008 - 6:37 p.m. - Monterey, CA

With the help of Emotiv's co-founder Tan Le, Marvin Minksy demonstrated how a new headset for human computer interaction worked at Entertainment Gathering 2008. The Artificial Intelligence godfather and co-founder of MIT'S AI Laboratory wowed the audience by rotating a cube and making it disappear simply by thinking about it. Just, so future... now. Emotiv hopes to develop this technology for future game play. I can imagine so much more. Want!

Save the Videogame

Richard Lemarchand from gamecity on Vimeo.

There's no question, videogames have influenced my life. I fondly remember spending many hours with friends and family hovering over the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and the Commodore 64 growing up. Many allowances and after school hours were spent at the arcade. I often took ideas from the computer to the real world -- completing virtual adventures, outside. I married a game developer over 10 years ago and we've since hosted hundreds of game nights together. We have nearly every major game console launched in the past 30 years gathering dust in our garage. I was once a games journalist. Our cat's name is Atari. Videogame royalties bought our home. We have been hosting an annual post E3 barbecue for the past six years. Some of our best buddies, like Richard (above) we met through the interactive entertainment industry. Without games I'd be without a lot.

Tell people about the National Videogame Archive and register to help save the videogame today. Please spread the word. Thanks!

Feel Good Film Festival Ticket Giveaway!

Hey Hustlers,

What do you feel good about? Leave a comment and you'll be entered to win one pair (two tickets) of All Access Sunflower passes to the Feel Good Film Festival in Los Angeles. The program will honor comedian Jonathan Winters and will be hosted by the always entertaining and funny Rainn Wilson!

About the Feel Good Film Festival:

The Feel Good Film Festival is a non-profit film showcase encouraging the development, production, and distribution of short or feature length films with happy endings, that make audiences laugh, and that capture the beauty of our world. Live-action or animation, comedies or romantic comedies, fiction or non-fiction and films with happy endings are submitted to the Feel Good Film Festival. The winning projects will be entertaining, optimistic, humorous, or heartwarming and leave the audience feeling good.

The festival runs from August 22 - 24, 2008, so if you want to be sure to go, buy your tickets now! Otherwise, drop us a line to enter the contest. Comments/entries must be submitted by Friday at 12:00 p.m. PST. Good luck to you all!

Sigma

August 1, 2008 - 1:34 p.m. - Venice, CA