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from Dentsu’s Making Future Magic blog the project looks “to make creative work that is contributory and sensible to its culture and environment; to be exploratory and sensitive with regard to materials and media; to wonder what magical visions (as opposed to the familiar dystopias) of the future of media might look like.”

they’ve also taken images from the project and created a book that you can buy here

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on saturday 4th september, artist Ian Cook aka popbang colour will be painting a ford kuga using his trademark radio controlled cars. the event will be live-streamed on stickam.com throughout the day and Ian will also be answering questions via facebook and twitter (hashtag: #kugapop). if you live in london feel free to pop by (pun intended) @ ford wimbledon, 67 plough lane, wimbledon, sw17 obw

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i think this video has been doing the rounds for a while, but if you haven’t seen it yet here’s an amazing time lapse of him at work:

followed by a fantastic slide-show interview of David Hockney, revealing his love of ‘brushes’ on the iphone and some of his drawings – as the interviewer Lawrence Weschler says ’it’s not an issue of drawing on a telephone, it’s an issue of talking on an easel’:

“amidst a landscape of vapid strip malls and sterile signage, hand-painted lettering retains a soulful aesthetic to be treasured. like other crafts dissolving in the digital age, sign painting is a fading occupation. today it’s easy for any layman with minimal computer knowledge to produce a sign within minutes, but the skill acquired to artfully produce hand lettering took years of apprenticeships, dedication and true talent.” - RD Granados

here’s a couple from london that i’ve submitted to the site:

Christian Borku

Raul Gomez

Alkaline Samurai

Andrea Joseph

Maykel Nunes

via trendd

+ (also part of the deck project) are these phil hope black and white boards. smooth.

+ (not part of the project but mighty fine all the same) an oil painted deck i came across a while ago on etsy (via boleas) but that’s unfortunately no longer up there. sweet:

at sxswi the debate was mainly over whether content will be broadcast or internet based, and even those like Mark Cuban, who argue that the production and marketing cots are too great for internet based a la carte tv, admit that only google could really revolutionise what is an industry with far too much vested in the status quo.

with last week’s announcement of google tv it doesn’t look like the battle is necessarily going to be over distribution (or content creation) but rather in being the home entertainment operating system – with google looking to sit on top of any content you can access through your tv whether from the web, games console, hard-drive or broadcast network.

then i guess if google can replace the epg with search then they can serve keyword ads against the results, to both brands and publishers of content. but with broadcast still very much part of the mix will this mean google just layering more (but contextual) ads on top? i guess we’ll see - either way it’s clear that the battle for your tv is really only just beginning.

i’m also still convinced that ipad is going to become the ultimate 2nd screen device, however with google tv integrating with android then perhaps this paves the way for android tablet devices that will rival ipad?