Google´s mighty Nexus One has only been officially launched in the US, and while we wait for Vodafone & other carriers to bring it overseas we´ve bought one from Google’s shop for testing it here in the UK. One of the few lucky countries (with Singapoure & HK) where the Nexus 1 is shipping, basically these 3 countries are considered as “test countries” (and therefore those of us who bought it…. “test users”).
the packaging is also part of the Google experience
We’ve had no problem at all using our European SIM cards & setting up our APNs to get our Nexus 1 on UK’s Orange, T-Mobile & O2 3G networks (yep, we’ve missed out Vodafone … the preferred carrier by Google to bring it here).
Last December Sincerely Yours unveiled the latest clip from Avner’s album “Lyssna”, a video directed by Annika Aschberg & Jenny Palén which may have not become an instant hit (none of SY artists have) but raises the Swedish music scene prestige even higher.
Avner’s debut album is like gliding, or even better… like any of those floating experiences from the retro-futuristic 80s sci-fi films filled with existentialist Nexus-6 androids, moon miners & big brothers. Classic yet modern music from a past time which comes to demonstrate & claim (once again) how prolific & creative the Vikings have gotten lately. Those Jens Lekmans, Nordoplens or Tough Alliances caress melodies with very particular arrangements that seem to have defined the instantly recognisable melodies northern Europe (especially Sweden) keeps releasing.
Atractivoquenobello saw the light 8 months ago just when the year of the Ox begun (yes, we’re not even a year old), and now that it’s over we’re really looking forward to 2010, the year of the (metal) Tiger.
The Ox moved us away from that “ugh-but-simple-to-use” blog platform called Blogger (our 3-week test laboratory) to this flexible standard called Wordpress; we initiated 2009 reviewing rocky-experimental albums, watching the Watchmen, or warning about our friendly but scary pal Google.
We’ve written about so many ideas, topics, artists, designers, animators, curators their thoughts, conceptions, products & creations we’ve lost count. But each time we see one of their works or simply talking, performing or acting aqnb feels honored for having portrayed, referenced or even talked about them.
Lads & ladies, rock & roll. The latest invention from the music industry, the “music evolution revolution”, the newest portal to kill MTV or the “Hulu for music vids” just saw the light yesterday night… and there is so much to tell…
Vevo hasn’t generated as much buzz as Hulu did (barely 5000 facebook followers vs 300.000 for Hulu) during its public launch because the music industry is not what it used to be 10 years ago (probably since the MTV stopped being “music” and became a “reality show”); studios are struggling to find their way into the digital business model and users now prefer to use social networks & applications like last.fm, deezer, lala & so on rather than dedicated portals or tv channels. Once again the Internet swallows TV’s natural environment.
After the launch of the Hulu bomb, a desperate but successful move, the next logical sector was music. No more illegal video downloads? Maybe no more illegal mp3s?
Ian Worrel just posted this work a week ago, and we’re too positively impressed… straight pencil and paper for the man and cat line animation then coloured in photoshop, composited in after effects onto backgrounds constructed in photoshop out of various pieces of media..
An Hangselm is made to hang on to something or someone and hang out at all kind of places…. the latest idea from NeverCrew collective (Pablo Togni and Christian Rebecchi) which has no particular objective but to amuse your boring daily life…
“Rinse, fold and stack….” your paper, bottles & packs. But a time will come when doing so with your candidates will be possible, wait and see! Great campaign by Bates United.
Poor Mickey, if Disney only knew what Jiri Geller wants to do with their beloved famous character…. (and others like Donald…). This Finnish visual artist is quite an important figure in contemporary art in his home country …
Now don’t Nordics love to create complete surreal videos in paranoiac & mystery auras! This deja-vu reality probably belongs to the Swedish Jonna Lee and her iamamiwhoami…
