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Tim Burton @ MOMA – New York

[ 06/02/2010 to 07/02/2010. ] Tim Burton deserves one and a thousand retrospectives like the one starting next Sunday at the New York Museum of Modern Art. The rather surrealistic & dark American director who has had just as many cult successes as misunderstood failures (a great career of ups & downs) gets a major retrospective consisting of a gallery exhibition [...]

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Whim: Chat Plates

The MOMA store (like most stores from contemporary museums) is full of fetish & trendy things. Like these Chat Plates designed to resemble conversation bubbles from manga, or Japanese comics.

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Whim: World Time Clock

Charlotte van der Waals has designed it as a polygon with 12 sides, each with the name of two major cities. Altogether, the 24 cities represent the 24 Global Time Zones. To find the local time in another time zone, simply roll the clock so the city representing that time zone is on top.

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Whim: Pop Up Pencil Cup

This Pop-Up Pencil Cup is a solution to a basic problem with standard pencil cups – when filled with writing utensils the ones in the center cannot be easily accessed. Designed by Paul Koh.

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    • Video: Second Wind
      17/03/2010 | 8:23 pm

      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..

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    • Whim: Hangselm
      17/03/2010 | 8:13 pm

      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…

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    • Campaign: Green Dot Norway
      16/03/2010 | 5:52 pm

      “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.

    • Image: Do Not Touch The Artwork
      16/03/2010 | 5:35 pm

      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 …

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    • Music: b
      16/03/2010 | 4:32 pm

      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

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