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Swiss Legacy is in the 17th position in the Top 50 graphic design blogs of David Airey —-
determined by Google PageRank (PR).
Better Known as Brooklyn @ LAZYDOG in Paris, originally uploaded by Xavier aka Rumbero Design.
“We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.
Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine’s Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles’ properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside, and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains. The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes, expressing various pictures of human emotion. We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.
At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what’s on our blogs, what’s in our hearts, what’s in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.
- Jonathan Harris & Sepandar Kamvar”
Check out their News page to read what other people are saying about We Feel Fine.
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ByeBye Balloon is a quarry of thoughts. A series of seconds. Drawings are served up fast, like noodles and fish mezes.
Most of all ByeBye Balloon is dedicated to Ms.Abatzis walking through Heathrow Airport with a red balloon tied to her wrist. Customs said byebye to the balloon. Balloons these days create terror alerts.
“An old Portuguese man considers a cup of coffee. I watched him watch it for what seemed like ages, weighing it up, contemplating when or whether to lift it. When he did lift it to his lips, he really savoured it.”
“This is the image and sketch blog of Nick Abadzis. It’s not a detailed diary, more a collection of thoughts and observations. I live and work in London in the UK and it is upon this fair city’s public transport system and in its parks and pubs that many of the drawings here are done. I’ll also be posting various other doodles and news of my graphic novel and cartooning projects, among other things.”
large editions + low prices × the internet = art for everyone
“As WE see it, there are a lot of people out there who want to sell their art and a lot of people who’d like to buy it. They just have a hard time finding each other. The internet is the perfect place to bring those people together, and we’re exactly the right people to make it happen. We’re passionate about art and the internet at 20×200. We’re really excited about creating a place where almost any art lover can be an art collector.
We introduce two new pieces a week: one photo and one work on paper. Each image is available in three sizes.* The smallest size is reprinted in the largest batch – an edition of 200 – and sold at the lowest price – $20. Hence the name 20×200. (200×20 just didn’t sound as good.) We also offer bigger prints for bolder collectors - medium-sized editions of 20 for $200, and large-sized editions of 2 generally for $2000 (some of the large sized editions will actually be original pieces of art and prices will vary a bit). Every single print is delivered with a certificate of authenticity numbered by the artist.
That’s what we’re all about. Read on for some background on how we got started.
20×200 is a big idea built of a lot of little pieces.
Jen Bekman opened her pocket-sized gallery on the Lower East Side nearly 5 years ago with the mission of supporting emerging artists and collectors, and she’s made a name for herself doing just that. 20×200 takes the mission one step further, making art available for everyone.
On a Sunday night back in January, Jen came up with a formula:
large editions + low prices x the internet = art for everyone
It was the big idea, but she couldn’t make it all add up on her own. All fired up, she managed to convince some of the greatest people ever to help complete the equation.
20×200 has received a lot of attention since Jen first mentioned it in GOOD Magazine back in April. There have been online write-ups and there’s some good old traditional print press too: both STEP and Dwell Magazines have done features on us so far, and there’s more to come.”
Rough Trade “began trading in 1976 at 202 Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill.
Originally specialising in US and Jamaican imports, it soon became one of the leading outlets for the burgeoning punk scene, and subsequently a pilgrimage point for anyone buying or selling new DIY new wave music and fanzines.
In 1978, Rough Trade Records was born. The first release was Paris Marquis by Metal Urbain, soon to be followed with releases by Stiff Little Fingers, Swell Maps, The Raincoats, Cabaret Voltaire…
Old SignAfter a period of rapid growth, the shop and label businesses separated 1982. As a result, the shop moved round the corner to 130 Talbot Road and the label went on to sign some band called The Smiths.
In 1988, we opened a second store, together with Slam City Skates, at 16 Neal’s Yard, Covent Garden.
In 2001 we celebrated our 25th Anniversary with a series of gigs and the release of a commemorative CD compilation. The same year, we also received an award from Music Week in recognition of our unique contribution to the British Music Industry (following the likes of Richard Branson).
In 2004 we launched The Album Club, a premium music recommendation service aimed at those people without the time or opportunity to visit a store like ours, therefore in need of honest recommendation of exciting new music.
In 2006 we celebrated our 30th Anniversary, commemorated with the release of The Record Shop - 30 Years of Rough Trade Shops double-album, launched our digital store and updated our mail order website.
And now in 2007 alongside a refurbished Talbot Road store (just the racks, not the historic walls), you see a our biggest project yet, the new 5,000 sq. ft. East End shop just off Brick Lane complete with coffee shop, performance stage, exhibition space, and ’snug’ internet/workshop corner. It replaces the Neals Yard basement which is being taken over by the Slam City skateshop, although the ceiling signed by scores of visiting bands, starting with Sonic Youth, remains.
A revised and more ambitious Album Club (complete with digital subscription) follows soon…..”
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