The Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Video by The Scout
Posted by Bobby Solomon • July 27, 2010 • Food & Drinks + Video
The Scout is beginning to really piss me off. First they do two amazing videos, one with leather goods makers Billykirk and another with interior design impresarios Roman & William, and now they’re at it again with a feature on the Mast brothers and their craft chocolate enterprise.
The Mast Brothers have been making quite the rounds lately, you might remember the video I posted about them a bit ago that Cool Hunting did. The Scout video above differs from their approach, which focused more in the production side of things. In this video you get to hear more about their inspirations as well as their love of craft and sail boats.
The whole thing is amazingly shot as well. I was watching it on my iPad (yep, you read that right) and it’s comparable to food porn in some spots. An inspiring way to start your day.
Bobby
Meet Flipboard
Posted by Bobby Solomon • July 22, 2010 • Apple + Video
Last night I had the chance to download a brand new iPad app called Flipboard, which is sort of an aggregate feed made up of your social networks and websites. This description sounds like a lot of existing products out there but what makes this one different is the way the content is being presented. The way I see it it’s somewhere between a traditional magazine/newspaper but with the quickness and flexibility of a web page.
But finding that middle ground is quite difficult as I don’t think anything has really been able to reach that sweet spot. But Flipboard is honestly the closest thing I’ve ever seen to getting it right. The way the pages flip are smooth, the pagination at the bottom expands as you go and gives you a sense of time, the pictures expand as you click on them… basically they got the details very right on this program. I also can’t imagine trying to use a program like this on any device but the iPad, it is 100% made for a medium sized, touch screen device and nothing else.
Currently though the demand for their service has crippled their servers, obviously because they’re doing something very right. So you’ll have to wait a little while to use the social aspects (Facebook, Twitter) but you cans still dive in to the news, tech and style sections to get the idea of what they’ve dreamed up. I really think this is going to get some people’s attention and hopefully smart people will steal some of the great idea Flipboard has to offer.
P.S. The music in the video is a cover of the Aphex Twin song Flim by the jaz trio The Bad Plus.
Bobby
‘Seaweed’
Posted by Bobby Solomon • July 22, 2010 • Video
As I often say, the simplest ideas are often the best, and Luke White and Remi Weekes are full of ‘em. Take for example their video above called Seaweed, which features who I assume to be Luke, contorting his body in random positions but slowly layering himself… over himself. To try and describe exactly what’s happening in this video would be a tiny bit difficult but the end effect is totally rad. In the comments he says he “Cut out the arms and then just jiggled them about” but I have to imagine he did much more than that. Hopefully he starts to post more of these experiments as this one was posted over a month ago.
Bobby
Felix Thorn’s Increidble Music Sculptures
Posted by Bobby Solomon • July 22, 2010 • Music + Video
Felix Thorn is a British tinkerer who makes electronic music out of found objects with incredible results. Made from bits and pieces of old instruments, randomly found stuff and a mountain of LEDs these are less instruments and more sculptures, pieces of art that play music. Watching this video and seeing all the random things he creates I was totally baffled how you’d even begin to think of creations like this. I love that he leaves all of the sculptures in their somewhat natural state, so you can see bit of a piano, a clock, a metal cone or what have you. But the real excitement comes when he plays them all together, creating actual songs and melodies. As someone in the comments of the video wrote, in 20 years his home is going to look like something out of Wallace & Gromit.
Bobby
Johnny Kelly
Posted by Alex Dent • July 22, 2010 • Design + Video
Should you be doing something other than reading +KN right now? I certainly don’t think so, but I might be at odds with both your cold-hearted supervisor and the rational voice in your head. Maybe you’re procrastinating, in which case you should put your stolen borrowed time to good use and watch two delightful videos by Johnny Kelly. Only have time to watch one? I suggest procrastination.
Johnny Kelly is kind of brilliant. He graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Animation; Procrastination was his Graduation project. The other video above is The Seed, an imaginative representation of the life cycle of an apple seed. Johnny definitely gets bonus points for the pool of digestive acids in the stomach rendered in paper. That cake sinks like the Titanic.
Hopefully your boss has a thing for Kate Winslet.
Alex
Dear everyone: Please stop color coding your layers in Photoshop. Grouping and renaming them is plenty.
