Category Archives: Zeitgeist

Design, Motherhaus, Zeitgeist

Rabbit Rabbit

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Happy First of the Month
01
Apr

Trixie Belden awoke slowly, with the sound of a summer rain beating against her window. She half-opened her eyes, stretched her arms above her head, and then, catching sight of a large sign tied to the foot of her bed, yelled out, “Rabbit! Rabbit!” She bounced out of bed and ran out of her room and down the hall. “I’ve finally done it!” she cried […] “Well, ever since I was Bobby’s age I’ve been trying to remember to say ‘Rabbit! Rabbit!’ and make a wish just before going to sleep on the last night of the month. If you say it again in the morning, before you’ve said another word, your wish comes true.”

Kathryn Kenny, The Mystery of the Emeralds (1962), p. 1. [2]

Hausblog, Propaganda, Words, Zeitgeist

10 Copywriting Tips You Can Use Right Now To Boost Conversion Rates

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03
Mar

Great digital marketing efforts rely on solid copywriting skills. Here are 10 copywriting tips that you can use right now to boost your conversion rates.

Source: 10 Copywriting Tips You Can Use Right Now To Boost Conversion Rates – Marketing Blog for Conversion Rate Optimization Experts | PageWiz

Culture, Design, Hausblog, Representing, Style, Technology, Video, Wow, Zeitgeist

Lego Pop-Up House Construction

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15
Feb

If you’ve ever fantasized about living in a real-life Lego home, your dream could finally come true.

French architecture firm Multipod Studio recently unveiled a prototype for the PopUp House, a customizable home made from stackable blocks. It can be designed, ordered, and built in about a month.

Check out the design for the first homes, located in the pine valleys of Southern France.

And you thought building Ikea furniture was daunting.

 

Source: Lego Pop-Up House construction – Tech Insider

Deep Thought, Hausblog, Video, Wow, Zeitgeist

Gorgeous Planet Earth

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30
Jan

This is one day’s observations from Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, animated in a loop. It shows the western Pacific, Australia, and parts of Asia, Antarctica, and Alaska as they looked on one day in mid-2015. It covers 24 hours in 12 seconds – a time lapse factor of 7,200×.

 

To see this spectacular video in super-high resolution, go to: Glittering Blue

Learn more at: About Glittering Blue

Culture, Design, Hausblog, Representing, Zeitgeist

The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Alphabet Book for the Morbid

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03
Feb

The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a quaintly morbid alphabet book written by Edward Gorey in 1963. The book recounts the unsettling deaths of 26 children, each representing a letter of the alphabet, in rhyming dactylic couplets.

 

Source: The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Alphabet Book for the Morbid – disinformation

Design, Hausblog, Motion, Technology, Video, Zeitgeist

Le Petit Chef – YouTube

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28
Jan

In this video projection mapping project, a miniature chef turns your plate into a projected grill. Bon appétit!
By Antoon Verbeeck and Filip Sterckx. Contact us if you would like to have this projection or a customized version of this project at your event: skullmapping@gmail.com
www.skullmapping.com / www.facebook.com/skullmapping

Source: Le Petit Chef – YouTube

Culture, Deep Thought, Hausblog, Representing, Video, Zeitgeist

Dr. Masaru Emoto’s Water Experiment

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05
Jan

you are water
I’m water
we’re all water in different containers
that’s why it’s so easy to meet
someday we’ll evaporate together

but even after the water’s gone
we’ll probably point out to the containers
and say, “that’s me there, that one.”
we’re container minders

– Yoko Ono, 1967

 

Dr. Masaru Emoto’s Water Experiment reminds me of Yoko Ono’s “We’re all Water,” except this adds a fascinating metaphysical element. If words, music, and environment can alter water in such profound ways, imagine how we are all affected, considering humans are 60% water.

 

Through the 1990’s, Dr. Masaru Emoto performed a series of experiments observing the physical effect of words, prayers, music and environment on the crystalline structure of water. Emoto hired photographers to take pictures of water after being exposed to the different variables and subsequently frozen so that they would form crystalline structures. The results were nothing short of remarkable.

Read more here: http://highexistence.com/water-experiment/
Dr. Emoto’s site: http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/water-crystal.html

Below is a documentary on Dr. Emoto’s work:

Culture, Design, Hausblog, Representing, Video, Zeitgeist

Turn on a Different Kind of Yule Log This Year

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17
Dec

This is fantastic. Artist Dan Savage has partnered with Wondersauce and over 100 filmmakers to create streaming yule log-inspired short films. Here’s a taste:

Check out all 52 Yule Logs at watchyulelog.com (scroll down to get to the videos).

They’ve really thought this through: once you select a video, you can choose to loop it, or just let the site serve up one video after another.

Read more at Cool Hunting.