Brilliant. Artist Bruce Yan remixes the logos of famous brands by inserting the cartoon characters we grew up with. So the Playboy bunny becomes a profile view of Bugs Bunny, the mermaid in the Starbucks Logo becomes Ariel, Charlie Brown is the BIC guy and so on. The twists are super clever and fun.
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About 1.5 miles southwest of the Downtown Project’s cluster of development in Las Vegas is another creative neighborhood going through changes. It’s named 18b.
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There’s no shortage of vacant real estate
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SoftBank SELECTION will start selling iPhone 5 cases on February 8th, specially designed by 5 well-known Japanese artists. Those artists are Shigeru Izumiya (Musician, Actor), Naoki Urasawa (Manga artist), Satoshi Yoshida (Manga artist), Katsuya Terada (Manga illustrator), and Nizo Yamamoto (Art director for animated films).
A part of the sales will be donated to “Manaberu Kikin”, a scholarship fund to help high school students who reside in the Tohoku area with scholarships. …
Being a DJ at radio station can be an embarrassment of riches. And really, who’s going to listen to you complain about having too much music to listen to? Santa Monica’s terrifically wonderful public radio station KCRW is looking to take a little bit of the pain of finding new music for its DJs, with the launch of MALCOLM, a site that lets artists submit their music for consideration — a nice attempt at continued outreach in a medium so dominated by charts and major label interference. Bands can create profiles with images, bios and social media links, alongside up to three tracks. MALCOLM serves as a bit of a social network for the station’s DJs, letting them share tracks and interact with profiles, alerting artists via email when someone has commented on or rated their listing. More information on the service, which borrows its name from KCRW’s old internal record filing system, can be found in the press release after the break. Interested bands can submit songs in the source link below.
Continue reading KCRW launches MALCOLM music service to help indie bands in need
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KCRW launches MALCOLM music service to help indie bands in need originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Oh, to sit in a darkened room all day and get paid to do art. No phone calls, no stress, and no technology except for a PC and a brand new $1,999 Wacom Cintiq 22HD tablet display (and maybe also a pair of equally well-engineered Beyerdynamics). Alas, only our Distro magazine crew get to live like that — the rest of the Engadget team must make do with spec sheets and quick hands-on impressions, which are precisely what you’ll find after the break.
Gallery: Wacom Cintiq 22HD hands-on
Gallery: Wacom Cintiq 22HD publicity photos
Continue reading Wacom announces Cintiq 22HD pen display, we go hands-on (video)
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Wacom announces Cintiq 22HD pen display, we go hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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