Cool Shit #11
Here’s an update on weird interesting innovative stuff we've found on the Internet.
Wikipedia T-Shirts — Produced by LA street-wear brand, Advisory Board Crystals, with Wikipedia’s collaboration, the shirt, which has now sold out, is emblazoned with the online encyclopedia’s iconic logo and a massive graphic print on the back which combines the Wikipedia globe icon with the proclamation that the wearer is an “Internet Master”. All profits raised from the shirt will go straight to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Vector — Anki launched a Kickstarter for Vector, a new ‘home robot’ that is always-on. It basically has the guts of a smartphone including a faster processor and Wi-Fi.
Daisie —Maisie Williams, who’s best-known for playing Arya Stark on Game of Thrones, announced earlier this year that she’s founding a startup called Daisie. Its app will offer a way for filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, writers and other creators to showcase their work and find collaborators. The startup has already picked an initial 100 creators to kick things off.
Oddball — It comes in two parts, the ball, and the app. The ball behaves as the percussion trigger. Every time you bounce it off a surface, sensors at the heart of the ball communicate with the app via Bluetooth to play a sound through your headphones, speakers, or just the internal speaker on your phone. Oddball is pressure sensitive — The harder you bounce it the more intense the sound, the lighter you bounce it the more delicate.
Rejoicer’s last videoclip — Rejoicer, a.k.a. Yuvi Havkin, is an Israeli musician and producer who splices together funk, hip-hop, breakbeats and jazz rhythms, and his latest record is set to arrive on beat-scene stalwarts Stones Throw Records later this month.
Icon — A construction technologies startup leading the way into the future of homebuilding by using 3D printing to make major advancements in affordability, building performance, sustainability and customizability.
Half Wet — An animated film about desperate love and tiny eyes by Sophie Koko Gate.
Bully’s latest videoclip —Creative duo Aleia Murawski and Sam Copeland hold onto an essential aspect of childhood — play. The miniatures the duo create are so intricate in detail that if it wasn’t for the mammoth snails that occupy them, you’d believe they were real.
Sorry to Bother You — A movie that encapsulates the fever-dream days that we’re living through. Set in present-day Oakland, the movie follows the career trajectory of Cassius Green from bottom-of-the-rung telemarketer to “power caller,” as his friends and lover attempt to organize the shop he’s working in and a company that basically enslaves people takes over the world. What’s specially interesting about it? The abundance of memes. Boots Riley, its director, focuses on the power and meaninglessness of memes.
