Dan Flavin (1933-1996), American artist famous for flourescent light installations on display at München’s Pinakothek der Moderne modern art museum.

Over the next while I’ll be featuring photos from my trip to Germany like the past few posts. Enjoy!

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Olafur Eliasson’s BMW Art Car, titled "Your Mobile Expectations" is an ice-covered BMW H2R racing car, one of BMW’s official ‘art cars’.

Eliasson replaced the chassis of the car with an inter-woven skin of metal and then covered that in ice. The result can be viewed by visitors in a -10 degree Celcius room at the Pinakothek der Moderne modern art museum in München (Munich), Germany.
This was easily one of the highlights of my trip to Germany a few weeks ago - I was just in awe being alone in the room with this thing!

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BMW’s Headquarters Tower in Munich, Germany. Designed by Karl Schwanzer, inaugurated in 1973.

I caught this video TED video while on vacation in Germany and it really blew me away. Watch as neurologist Jill Bolte describes her experience studying the brain and how we think while she’s having a stroke. If you’re anything like me, it’ll give you a beautiful bit of insight about how we think and make decisions. It’s also a really revealing description of how it might be to have a stroke.

This weekend I’ll be putting a ton of photos up on Flickr and Facebook from my trip to Germany last week.

Keep an eye out there if you’re interested. I’ll probably put together a post here with a collection of them all once I’m finished. Cheers!

I’m wrapping up my trip to Germany, and stopped by the the BMW Museum in München today. The Kinetic Sculpture consists of 740 metallic orbs that dance around and form shapes (like cars, as seen here) in mid-air. This was pretty amazing! Click above to see my video of the sculpture on Flickr.

Weezer’s new album, the Red Album is out today. The group’s past few albums haven’t been met with much critical praise, but there’s a lot of great stuff on this new one. Besides their first single, Pork & Beans (shown above with a delicious assortments of Internet memes), The Greatest Man that Ever Lived and The Angel and The One are both some great tracks.

I’ll be the first to admit that Twitter has somehow made its way into my daily browsing routine. The simplicity of it compared to Facebook is what appeals to me, but it’s the really cool applications that people are thinking up that I’ve been really drawn to.

Case in point, someone over NASA’s Phoenix Mars Mission have started Twittering, reporting the current status and location of the Phoenix scout. It’s not automated, which I think is an advantage - the updates are written by a human in a personified voice of the scout, and as a result, readable by humans. Very cool.

So by some fluke of nature (we’re still not sure how - maybe human intervention), the latest episode of Dear Toronto (a video podcast I co-producer with Ryan and Rebecca), Toronto Green Roof and Tree Tour ended up climbing to the #1 featured video on YouTube this week.

As a result we’ve been flooded with subscriber requests, comments (mostly inane, but hey) and we’re pretty damn surprised. It wasn’t until I checked out the featured videos tonight where I had a bit of a fanboy moment - as you can see on the left above next to our video - that’s freakin’ WEEZER with a video for a song off their new Red Album, Pork and Beans. Nice!

The funniest part about all of this is that we don’t even post our videos directly to YouTube - when we upload our stuff to Blip, it gets syndicated to a dozen or so other video services, one of which is YouTube. It’s really interesting to see certain channels getting more traction than others like this.