LUCID DREAMING IS IN YOUR HANDS

A Japanese smartphone app, the Yumemiru, lets you maximize the time you spend every night just sleeping. Yumemiru takes the self-help craze of the nineties to new scientific heights by leveraging the bundle of sensors in your smartphone. The app utilizes microphones to detect when the user is in REM sleep, the point in the night when you begin dreaming and also the moment when you are most susceptible to suggestion. 

The free app has 8 different scenarios to choose from including a walk in the forest, getting rich, flying and for those romantically disposed, a scenario that stimulates dreams of love tailored for both men and women. After selecting the type of dream you want to drift off into the app runs in the background and detects the time passed before you go into REM sleep.

Once you’ve entered REM sleep the soundtrack begins to stimulate your dreams.

via PSFK

FRESH TAKE ON CAN LIGHTS

Originally conceived for the interior space of a Miami gallery, the Stormy Weather lamp collection is made entirely from recycled tin vegetable cans collected from local eateries.

via MOCO

I LOVE CUBE

Today, a luminescent cube of love landed in Times Square. Let's all go bask in it.

"More people = more love. A BIG red heart pulses with glowing light in a grove of glass rods. A single person can activate the beating heart, but joining hands with others will make the heart beat even faster to create a brightly burning heart.

BIG♥NYC by BIG  (Bjarke Ingels Group) with FLATCUT and Local Projects conducts the flow of people, air and touch to bring its heart to life. The 10-foot tall glowing sculpture consists of 400 transparent, LED lit, acrylic tubes that form a cube around a suspended red heart. The transparent tubes refract the lights of Times Square, creating a cluster of condensed city lights around the heart. The hovering heart will pulsate faster reflecting the chain of human energy in the heart of Times Square."

- Via Times Square Alliance

THE DAY OF THE GROUNDHOG

On this cross-quarter day, halfway beteen the Winter Solstice and Vernal Equinox, we pay homage to an 8-pound subterranean rodent and the ceremonial turning of the seasons. Here are some ways to make Ground Hog Day a little more special...

Brown it out

Do you have an old brown sweater? Pair it with some brown courderoys and your favorite loafer and hit the streets! 

Perform your own shadow show

Today is a great day to embrace the fact that humans have been dancing with their own shadows since the cave days.

Enjoy a Groundhog Day Cocktail, you deserve it

"The Groundhog Day" Sweet Vermouth on the Rocks: Pour sweet vermouth over ice in a Double Old-Fashion cocktail glass. Stir and twist lemon peel over the glass. Serve with a cocktail straw and lemon twist as garnish.

"The West Virginia Groundhog" Combine 1 ounce each of vodka, gin, rum, Southern Comfort, sloe gin, amaretto, Yukon Jack Canadian liqueur and triple sec with 2 splashes each orange and cranberry juice. Fill a tumbler with ice; shake. Serve as shots.

Go out dressed as your seasonal prediction 

Are you an optimist who believes spring has sprung? Or, like Puxatawney Phil, do you think "winter" will linger on? Your look can say it all. Perhaps you'll even hang out at an underground bar until the sun comes up.

MOON SAFARIS NOW ON SALE

Today the first ticket for a flyby slingshot tour of the moon was purchased by a civilian, courtesy of off-world vacation purveyor, Space Adventures. Price: $150 million.

Read more here.

OUR 2011 TIME CAPSULE

 

DINNER AT THE LVMH TOWER

We started the year with a larger-than life installation for a private dinner party hosted by LVMH, celebrating the creative process by draping hundreds of yards of blank white paper across their ballroom with skyline views.

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CARRERA BAND VAN

A 1989 band van was reincarnated as a live-streaming mobile media outpost and swagged-out artist hangout at SXSW this year, offering bands a ride to their gigs and a chance to create unique, on-the-go content and loads of peace and love.

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CREATIVE TIME "AFTERHOURS" DIORAMAS

For Creative Time's annual fundraising gala, priceless art was auctioned alongside two life-sized dioramas filled with nightlife denizens, bring theme of "Afterhours" to life. This project won us the "Best Staging and Set Design" award at the 2011 BizBash Event Style Awards.

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NIKE OLYMPIAN LOCKERS

A custom built showroom for the upcoming Spring/Summer Women's collection, interpreted through a series of fully-merchandised fantasy locker room environments, dedicated to seven Olympic hopefuls.

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DELL CREATE. WORK. INSPIRE. SPACE

To introduce the creative nomads of NYC to their new line of thin and powerful laptops, Dell popped up an interactive creative workspace built from a system of transforming wall units that served as workspaces by day and projection surfaces for nighttime events.

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PAINTING ART BASEL BY NUMBERS

Big Magazine deployed WCIP to canvas the rich cultural waters of Miami Beach's 10th Art Basel, culminating in a photo-driven recap of a week's worth of artsy bacchanalian exploits.

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BIZBASH HOLIDAY TRENDING

BizBash, the Vogue of the event industry, challenged three firms nationwide to craft a concept for a holiday party unlike anything seen before. Noel Noir was our answer, mixing 20th-century mystery films and dark holiday themes to create an environment that oozes sophistication and mystery.

MASSIMALS

Yep, its a polar bear made from thousands of interlocked zip ties.

Massimals is a set of 1:1 design objects that serve as prototypes to examine how physical form can engage the public realm. These constructs are abstractions of animal forms built in the manner of massing studies produced in an architectural design practice. Like massing models, they are volumetric, devoid of details, and fabricated from one material such as chipboard, polystyrene foam, and foam core. The suggestive forms and their specific arrangement imply docile behavior similar to animals in a petting zoo augmenting the way visitors approach and engage built form. 

Discover more here.

CLOUD CITIES

CLOUD CITIES by Tomás Saraceno

IS IT ORGANIC

Plant a seed, let it grow.

Wrap it up (just hold the pickles and onions please)!

A delicious alternative to boring holiday wrapping paper from Gift Couture. Check out the kickstarter page here!