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Gold iPod Touch 64GB

Pinewood Design — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:03:48 +0000

Goldgenie Bobby Moore Signature Range Gold iPod Touch 64GB:
£599.99 (U can buy it here)

This special edition 64GB Ipod Touch features Bobby Moore’s signature on the reverse and has been embellished with 24ct gold by Goldgenie. This stunning piece will make listening to music and surfing the web a truly luxurious experience, and would also be an exceptional memento for football fans.
Goldgenie will donate 10% of the profits from each Bobby Moore iPod Touch to the life saving work of the Bobby Moore Fund. The donations will be spent on cutting-edge bowel cancer research, carried out by leading scientists.

Goldgenie Frank Lampard Signature Range Gold iPod Touch 64GB

£559.99 (U can buy this here)

This special edition 64GB Ipod Touch features Frank Lampard’s signature on the reverse and has been embellished with 24ct gold by Goldgenie. This stunning piece will make listening to music and surfing the web a truly luxurious experience, and would also be an exceptional memento for football fans.
Goldgenie will donate a portion of the profits from each Frank Lampard iPod Touch to the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Carnovsky’s RGB wallpaper

Pinewood Design — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:41:40 +0000

For the Milan Design Week, Italian studio Carnovsky created a series of wallpapers that react to different coloured lights

The designs were created for the Milan shop of Janelli & Volpi, a noted Italian wallpaper brand. Each features overlapping illustrations, different elements of which are revealed depending on whether a blue, green or red light is shone upon them.

Under red light:

blue light:

green light:

This one features the animal kingdom:

Color est e pluribus unus

RGB is a collection of wallpapers that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus.

RGB consists in the overlapping of three different patterns that results in unexpected and disorienting images.
The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear.
Through a filter (a colored light or transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. Each one of the red, green and blue filters serve to reveal just one of the three patterns, hiding the other two.

We wanted to represent the antique theme of the metamorphosis intended as an unceasing transformation of shapes from a “primigenial chaos”.
For this purpose we have created a sort of catalogue of natural motifs starting with the engravings from natural history’s
great European texts, between the XVI and the XVIII Century, from Aldrovandi to Ruysch, from Linneus to Bonnaterre.
A catalogue – it naturally includes also human – that does not have a taxonomic or scientific aim in the modern sense, but that wants to explore both the real and the fantastic, the true and the verisimilar in the way medieval bestiaries did.

In each image three layers live together, three worlds that could belong to a specific animal kingdom or to an anatomical part, but at the same time connect to a different psychological or emotional status that passes from the clear to the hidden, from the light to the darkness, from the awakeness to the dream in something that could be a sort of exploration of the surface’s deepness.

RGB has been shown during Milan Design Week at Jannelli & Volpi store

Photos By Luca Volpe

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A Low Fi Lenticular On The Streets Of Berlin

Pinewood Design — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:51:21 +0000

‘Lost’ Possibly Still Airing In Parallel Dimension, Desperate Fans Report

Pinewood Design — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:06:35 +0000

NEW YORK—Desperate fans of the recently concluded television series Lost are speculating that the program is continuing on in a parallel dimension somewhere, and that alternate versions of showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are currently writing new episodes of the series. “It’s very possible that a sideways world running concurrent to our own exists, and that a facsimile of myself is happy, fulfilled, and already gearing up for the season seven premiere of Lost,” said 36-year-old Kevin Molinaro, who, along with more than 20 million other hopeless fans, has recently booked multiple roundtrip tickets from Los Angeles to Australia in hopes of traveling through a vortex in the space-time continuum. “I just have to find a way to get there. We all do.” According to data from Google analytics, searches for “How to build/detonate/use a hydrogen bomb to open up a multidimensional wormhole” have increased 10 millionfold since the episode aired.

LOST

Pinewood Design — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:12:57 +0000

Damon Lindelof wrote,

“Remember. Let go. Move on. I will miss it more than I can ever say.”

Bruno Catalano – In Search of Missing Pieces

Pinewood Design — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:57:53 +0000

‘In Search of Missing Pieces’ is a series of original sculptures by French artist Bruno Catalono.

Beach Art

Pinewood Design — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:10:46 +0000

Artist Jim Denevan makes large scale art in the sand.

Top ten April Fools hoaxes

Pinewood Design — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:15:46 +0000

IT’S no joke that we have all fallen for some pretty stupid jokes over the years.

From the turn of the century, wise-guys have been making up stories that have spread quicker than butter on a hot cross bun – and all in aid of April Fool’s Day.

To celebrate April Fool’s Day, we’ve collected our ten favourite hoaxes.

1) The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

In 1957 BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop.

Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.

The pranksters suggested putting a strip of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hoping for the best.

2) Instant colour TV

This might not sound that strange, as you flick your Sky remote to countless channels in full colour.

But back in Sweden 1962, there was only one channel – broadcast in black and white.

But things were set to change! The station’s technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display colour reception.

All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their TV screen. Viewers jumped to test the theory… and were left red-faced.

3) Planetary alignment decreases gravity

THE words mind over matter have never rang so true after this April Fool’s farce.

In 1976, astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur.

The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, lessening the Earth’s own gravity.

Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation.

By mid morning, BBC2 received hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt it.

One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.

4) Virgin aliens land

WHO would have thought London would be the place aliens land first?

On March 31 1989, thousands of motorists driving on the highway outside London looked up in the air to see a flying saucer descending on to a field.

The police arrived at the scene and one brave officer approached the craft with his truncheon in hand.

When a door in the craft popped open and a small, silver-suited figure emerged, the policeman ran in the opposite direction – from Sir Richard Branson.

The saucer was actually a hot-air balloon that had been specially built by the tycoon to look like a UFO.

His plan was to land the craft in London’s Hyde Park on April 1st, but the wind blew him off course and he was forced to land a day early in the wrong location.

5) Flying penguins

A few years ago in 2008, the BBC made an amazing wildlife discovery – penguins could FLY!

They announced that camera crews filming near the Antarctic for its natural history series Miracles of Evolution had captured footage of Adélie penguins.

It even offered a video clip of these flying penguins, which became one of the most viewed videos on the internet.

Presenter Terry Jones explained that, instead of huddling together to endure the Antarctic winter, these penguins took to the air and flew thousands of miles to the rainforests of South America where they “spend the winter basking in the tropical sun.”

6) Bra-vellous hoax

IN 1982, a newspaper reported that a local manufacturer had sold 10,000 “rogue bras” that were causing sparks to fly.

The ‘sparks’ were not hypothetical thanks to the raunchy appearance of the underwear, no – they were real electric sparks.

They suggested the support wire in these bras had been made out of a kind of copper originally designed for use in fire alarms.

When this copper came into contact with nylon and body heat, it produced static electricity which interfered with local television and radio broadcasts.

The chief engineer of British Telecom, upon reading the article, immediately ordered that all his female laboratory employees disclose what type of bra they were wearing.

7) The dogs are all white

In 1965, a Copenhagen newspaper reported that the Danish parliament had passed a new law requiring all dogs to be painted white.

The purpose of this, it explained, was to increase road safety by allowing dogs to be seen more easily at night.

Apocalypse now?

The world ending? In 1940, it almost did…

The Franklin Institute issued a press release stating that the world would end the next day.

The release was picked up by a radio station which broadcast the following message:

“Your worst fears that the world will end are confirmed by astronomers of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3pm tomorrow.

“This is no April Fool joke. Confirmation can be obtained from Wagner Schlesinger, director of the Fels Planetarium of this city.”

Local authorities were flooded with frantic phone calls. The panic only subsided after the Franklin Institute assured people that it had made no such prediction.

The prankster responsible for the press release turned out to be William Castellini – the Institute’s press agent.

He had intended to use the fake release to publicise a lecture at the institute on April 1 entitled “How Will the World End?”

9) Life discovered on Jupiter

IN the good old days of 1996, AOL subscribers got more than they bargained for from April 1 online news updates.

Those who logged onto the service were greeted by a news flash announcing that a “Government source reveals signs of life on Jupiter.”

The claim was backed up by planetary biologist Ted Leonsis, AOL’s president.

The story quickly generated over 1,300 messages on AOL. A spokesman for the company later explained that the hoax had been intended as a tribute to Orson Welles’s 1938 Halloween broadcast of the War of the Worlds.

10) Smellovision

BECAUSE it was in 1965, when TV was a new-fangled device, we can forgive people for believing in Smellovision.

A professor told the BBC how this miraculous technology allowed viewers to smell the aromas produced in the television studio in their own home.

The professor offered a demonstration by cutting some onions and brewing coffee.

A number of viewers called in to say they could smell it through the TV sets.

Google offer translation service for animals…

Pinewood Design — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:40:47 +0000

I note Google is offering “translation services between species”……. a touch of the Dr. Doolittles, it seems…….

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/

“Making the world’s information universally accessible is a key goal for Google. Language is one of our biggest challenges so we have targeted our efforts on removing language barriers between the species. We are excited to introduce Translate for Animals, an Android application which we hope will allow us to better understand our animal friends. We’ve always been a pet-friendly company at Google, and we hope that Translate for Animals encourages greater interaction and understanding between animal and human.”

This revolutionary technology will allow you to communicate with your pets and bridge the gap of cross-breed-communication.

To get the app on your Android phone, use a barcode scanning application to download directly from this QR code.

Or simply search for Translate for Animals on Android Market.

…Happy April 1st

Ricky Martin comes out as gay: Twitter happy he’s ‘livin’ la vida open’

Pinewood Design — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:52:10 +0000

Ricky Martin’s confirmation via Twitter that he is “a fortunate homosexual man” has the microblogging site’s users buzzing with the news about the singer’s coming-out as gay.

Ricky Martin and his twin sons Matteo, left, and Valentino in Miami last year. Photograph: Pablo Alfaro/AP

After years of batting away rumours about his sexuality, the general consensus in the social networking sphere is summed up by a post from user Krissy_Recodo: “Ricky Martin has the courage to admit that he’s gay.. yeah!.. for those men hiding their true identity.. shame!!!”

“What an unnecessary fuss over Ricky Martin,” tweets an underwhelmed pforpapa. “Really why does it matter to anyone other than him?!”

“Ricky Martin is livin’ la vida open,” chips in ClaudiaOnIce about Puerto Rican Ricky, who had women swooning with his performances of Livin’ la Vida Loca at the height of his fame in the 90s.

He revealed on Twitter – in a message posted in both English and Spanish – that writing his autobiography had showed him the importance of being true to himself.

“I was sure the book was the tool that was going to help me free myself from things I was carrying within me for a long time. Things that were too heavy for me to keep inside,” he explained.

Martin, who became the father of twin boys born via a surrogate mother in 2008, stayed in the closet because he thought coming out would damage his career.