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These are territorial outfits - Anouk Wipprecht

Anouk Wipprecht is an Dutch  Designer and Innovator working in the emerging field of "FashionTech" - a rare combination of fashion design combined with engineering, robotics, science and interaction/user experience design to make fashion an experience that transcends mere appearances. She wants her garments to facilitate and augment the interactions we have with ourselves and our surroundings. Her Spider Dress is a perfect example of this aesthetic, where sensors and moveable arms on the dress help to create a more defined boundary of personal space while employing a fierce style. 

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Markerless vs. Marker Based Augmented Reality - AppReal

New advances in the mobile hardware and software technologies led to the recent introduction of markerless augmented reality. This approach eliminated the need for 3D object tracking systems, overcoming the interactivity limitations marker-based augmented reality placed on the range of images encapsulated within the markers.

All this after watching the first episode of Planet of the Apps. I know so little of the industry but this proves to be quite the episode long education. Plus, how can you not listen to the wit of the man himself Gary Vee. Read more about Markerless VR in the link below. 

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The Hunt for the Squircle – Apply Pixels

The superellipse or, more precisely (and way cuter), the Squircle. Since the reveal there’s already been a dozen templates or so that have tried their hand at the new form and I have yet to see an exact representation. This is one of those things that seem very simple, but is actually quite hard to get exact.

 

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Apple’s Icons Have That Shape for a Very Good Reason – Medium

On the right you see what curvature continuity looks like. The curvature comb transition is a curve itself, starting from zero curvature. There’s no sudden break in curvature and, as a result, the highlight is smoother. This difference in curvature is harder to spot in an icon, but the important thing is that now the icons and the hardware are part of the same design language.

 

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Most bizarrely photographed architecture projects

Juergen Teller got everyone's attention when he posed naked on a donkey, but he isn't the only one presenting unconventionally shot architectural photography. We put a spotlight on 10 of the most bizarrely shot projects. While restrained compositions often make for beautiful architectural photography, it's the touch of playfulness that made these project so memorable. Concrete

Source: 10 of the most bizarrely photographed architecture projects

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The Lloyd's Building

The large clear floor plates, uncluttered by services, are each connected by escalators to facilitate easy internal communication, one of the essentials of the brief.  Natural light comes through from all directions and from an atrium (showing influence from Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace), which dominates the interior.

Source: Lloyd's Building

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Northlane - Singularity

Singularity Lyrics: "We have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and

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DEEP WEB - kinetic audiovisual installation and performance

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Deep Web is a monumental immersive audiovisual installation and live performance created by light artist Christopher Bauder and composer and musician Robert Henke. Presented in enormous pitch dark indoor spaces, Deep Web plunges the audience into a ballet of iridescent kinetic light and surround sound.

 

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Video: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016 by Bjarke Ingels

In this exclusive video, Bjarke Ingels explains how he used stacks of fibreglass boxes to create the undulating form of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016

Mountainous landscape on the inside and cavernous canyon on the inside. Combining two mutually incompatible elements in architecture into a hybrid. Simplest element of architecture, a wall...pulled apart to create space on the inside

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul 

Immerse yourself in this powerful multi-screen video installation by the award-winning Thai filmmaker

Inspired in part by surrealism, Weerasethakul’s films present a world that is distinctly mutable and elusive, evoking the artist’s interest in the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse, whereby players add words or images sequentially to a sentence or diagram without knowing what came before, so as to construct a fanciful, multi-layered scenario.

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