Dazed & Confused Live weekend... On Saturday we rolled out for some fun times courtesy of Dazed and my now penniless pocket, that's right the event wasn't free. ...and 'we', being a youthful group of wannabe somethings out for some creative inspiration. The day was jam-packed full of screenings, talks, gigs and galleries. Out of the whole day two things really stood out for me, Aaron Koblin, the digital/artistic mastermind Creative Director of the Data Arts team at Google Creative Lab. Now that's a bit of a mouthful and of course, that's not all on his business card.
Aaron's well known for his geek developer team - vs - artistic music video innovation such as: The Johnny Cash Project, Arcade Fire - Wilderness Downtown & Radiohead - House of Cards ...He also has some fantastic projects that you may not have heard of such as: The Sheep Market & Ten Thousand Cents.
The second was a talk by Magnus Larsson, which without selling him short talked about the future of our urban landscape and defining a new way of living through sand architecture, using microbacteria to speed up the process of turning sand into sandstone. Now, the thought of living in sand bunkers aside, one of the more interesting points for me was the fact that none of his ideas were patented. He made it clear that the concept of a Sand future has great aspirations but from what I could gather has no funding as of right now, and therefore Magnus just wants someone to fund him in his project. If you have a few million laying around I'm sure he'd be grateful.
That's what stood out for me, so I'll leave you with some nice photos, if you're looking for a more rounded write up you can find them here & here
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