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  • WTF Is Street Art? Poster Boy Hacks NYC Sign by High Line

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    If you have spent any time along the High Line Park in Chelsea, you will recognize this extremely prominent billboard that one artist had the audacity to climb and hack.

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    The original message (WTF is alternate side of the street parking anyway?) was selectively deleted to make way for a replacement question.

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    Working at night, Poster Boy risked discovery by people parking and picking up their cars in the directly adjacent lot, not to mention being highly visible from the street.

    high line amphitheater view

    During the day, visitors sitting in the over-street theater seats within the elevated park have a direct view of this huge black-on-yellow poster. It is doubtful the change will survive long, so check it out while it lasts!

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    Known for his creative edits of local signage and hacked infrastructure, Poster Boy has a huge collection of photos you can browse of his work, ranging from small stickers added in unusual contexts to whole-billboard transformations.

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    Zaha Hadid’s Apartment Block Overlooking NYC High Line

    A glittering glass apartment block with volumes flowing into each other in dynamic stacked arrangements will be architect Zaha Hadid’s first building in …
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    15 High-Dollar Hacks: Steampunk Home Hacks & Vehicle Mods

    Steampunk is moving closer to mainstream. Some people drop buckets of money on steampunk hacks. Here are 15 high-dollar hacks to thoroughly steampunk cars and …
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    Urban Nest: New Round Amphitheater Section for High Line

    New York’s elevated park is expanding in new directions both physically and proverbially, its new addition a stark circular shift from the overall linear …
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  • Canon and Microsoft sign patent agreement

    It appears we can expect an increased interchange of technologies between imaging giant Canon and software maker Microsoft in the near future, thanks to to a patent agreement that was signed by the two parties on Wednesday. Though the brief statement issued by Microsoft doesn’t reveal much, it appears that Canon imaging technology may be used in future Lumia smartphones made by Nokia. Learn more

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  • Canon and Microsoft sign patent agreement

    It appears we can expect an increased interchange of technologies between imaging giant Canon and software maker Microsoft in the near future, thanks to to a patent agreement that was signed by the two parties on Wednesday. Though the brief statement issued by Microsoft doesn’t reveal much, it appears that Canon imaging technology may be used in future Lumia smartphones made by Nokia. Learn more

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  • Park & Slide: 100,000 Sign Up to Slip 300 Feet Down a Street

    [ By WebUrbanist in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

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    For one day only, residents of Bristol were offered just 360 ‘tickets to slide’ (out of nearly 100,000 applicants) down a main city street at over 10 miles an hour, surrounded by thousands of jealous onlookers.

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    Inspired by the previous year’s heat wave and created by Luke Jerram, this participatory crowdfunded project was an inclusive, all-ages community endeavor, with sliders ranging from 5 to 73 years old.

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    The slide was installed on Park Street in Bristol as part of Make Sunday Special and the Bristol Art Weekender, drawing a mix of participants from within and beyond the city.

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    urban slide in action

    Plastic sheets over padded mats were shaped and held in place by hay bales – this simple canyon was then supplied with continuous water to ensure a smooth ride from top to bottom.

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    urban public water slide

    While he has no plan to tour his own creation, Luke is going to make the plans freely available for other people who want to follow suit, making public water slides in their own towns or cities around the world.

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    Tentacle-Like Tubular Slide Swirls Through NYC Penthouse

    An incredible tentacle-like mirrored steel slide swirls and twists through four stories of a bright white, modern penthouse in Manhattan.
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    Social Signage: Digital Street Sign Gives Dynamic Directions

    This evolved version of a familiar and classic form of all-points signage replaces static locations and fixed directions with interactive ones available to …
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    Open-Source Street Store Offers Free Clothes for Homeless

    Donated boxes of right-sized clothing can be a boon for those who cannot afford another choice, but this clever approach empowers people in need to choose …
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  • Real-Time Billboard: Sign Points at Actual Planes Flying By

    [ By WebUrbanist in Design & Guerilla Ads & Marketing. ]

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    The ability to track planes in mid-flight has produced many apps and websites for following jets through friendly skies, but this ad campaign applies this same data in a fun new way.

    The interactive display even tells you the route, from takeoff to destination, of the plane you are seeing, and quotes you rates for future flights along that path.

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    The Look Up campaign by British Airways blends dynamic video billboards and airplane data to show a child pointing at actual planes in midair overhead.

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    From the company: “This is a first, not just for British Airways but for U.K. advertising. We all know from conversations with friends and family that we wonder where the planes are going and dream of an amazing holiday or warm destination. The clever technology allows this advert to engage people there and then and answer that question for them.”

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    15 Clever & Creative Billboard Advertising Campaigns

    Some advertisers think outside the box – literally – with billboards that step outside their own boundaries and interact with the world at large.
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    From Abstract to Actual: Unrealistic Art Models Made Real

    Some of the world’s greatest abstract artists have created portraits of humans that, while inspired by the human form, have completely dispensed with any …
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    Billboard Trailers Turned into Tiny Parasite Apartments

    Advertising is so ubiquitous that billboards aren’t even restricted to fixed positions anymore; they’re often found moving from one spot to another …
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  • Social Signage: Digital Street Sign Gives Dynamic Directions

    [ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ]

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    The shape is a familiar classic – a central post pointing toward different destinations, sometimes near and other times a world away. This evolved version, however, replaces static locations and fixed directions with interactive ones.

    Designed by Breakfast of Brooklyn, Points lets you input a query and receive both a written response and an orientation to go with it, giving distance and location along with other information.

    digital all points sign

    The device is programmed with API data from real-time sources including regional public transit and, more broadly,Twitter, FourSquare and RSS feeds.

    digital street sign design

    The resulting database gives passers by up-to-the-minute info as requested, displayed on 16,000 LED lights. It can also potentially display default local information automatically – about current news, events, performances or venues – when not otherwise (manually) engaged.

    digital interactive local directions

    The intention here is to go beyond a simple touch screen, creating something recognizable at a distance, familiar to pedestrians and interactive both digitally and physically.

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    Aside from the creative challenges, fitting the required mechanisms for a smoothly-rotating effect into such a small space proved difficult but the designers are close to a finished product.

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  • Nikon and Microsoft sign an Android-based camera patent deal

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    Nikon has signed a licensing deal with Microsoft to cover the use of patented technologies in its Android-based cameras. The deal is the latest instance of Microsoft pursuing makers of Android devices, claiming patent infringement. Despite free access being one of the founding ideas of Google’s Android operating system, Microsoft has been increasingly successful in convincing manufacturers of Android devices that they need to strike licensing deals for some of its technologies.

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