Tom Dixon on Sustainable Design

Not being a conscious green designer, Tom Dixon brought a few new perspectives on sustainable design esp. the second cycle idea.
Source: Inhabitat

Remind Me

Another infographical MTV found on YouTube of Röyksopp's song Remind Me. Those animated 3D diagrams and sections illustrate infinite hidden circulations and connections within our daily life at different scales, very interesting. They also seem perfect as architectural presentations.

Manufactured Landscape

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky takes beautiful large-scale photographs of landscapes that have been industrially altered by mankind to the very extreme. The documentary Manufactured Landscapes by Toronto-based filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal now visits, along with the photographer, places in China and Bangladesh and shows how these amazing pictures are taken. It gives you with a weird as well as surreal experience of the grotesque and grim consequences of mass production. For example, fifty percent of all world‘s computers end up in China, amongst many other used materials… You don’t have to be too ecologically minded, but this documentary will leave you thinking, no doubt.

Source: Pingmag

Click here to watch Edward Burtynsky's TED talk about his works and vision on sustainability. It's very thought-provoking, esp. those disturbing images revealing the huge scale factories filled with cheap labors working like non-stop machines in China.

Architorture

Architorture is a documentary that captures five diverse students in a single studio at one university throughout the entirety of their thesis project. The film will convey a mere sliver of time, wholly representative of the experience to create a student’s paramount work. The footage will illustrate the range of emotions and process of this extremely intense period at the conclusion of an academic career. It is our goal for the documentary to possess educational, entertaining, realistic and inspiring qualities in response to the dynamic world these students cross.

more info: http://www.architorturefilm.com

Architorture, I'm going thru. it right now from working intensely on a competition...

Eye For an Eye

Amazing animation for UNKLE's song Eye For an Eye -

The voiceovers come from the movie The Thin Red Line :

Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed to this night? ...

This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it steal into the world? Who's doin' this? Who's killin' us? Mockin' us with the sight of what we might've known...

What The World Eats

Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book Hungry Planet - illustrating the weekly food consumption of 15 homes from around the world. These photos tell so much: lifestyle, culture, climate, economic condition...

Click here to see all.

Kunek

Enjoy the hypnotically beautiful music from Kunek, a fabulous emerging band of six multi-instrumentalists. The animation just blew me away!