24 Hours: The Starck Mix

Seems Wallpaper has a new creative team (good!), their ideas and activities lately are very likeable and engaging. They introduced different guest editors for wallpaper.com: Selectism (17-23 Sept), Coolhunting (24-30 Sept) and Archinect (1-7 October); appointed guest editors for printed editions and do some other interesting stuff as well. This printed edition's guest editors are Karl Lagerfeld and Philippe Starck. Couple of days ago we already shared with you an interview with Philippe Starck, and today we would like to share with you another cooperation by Starck & W.

As Wallpaper puts it: "Not content with pushing the boundaries of publishing, Philippe Starck has given us this unique soundtrack, exclusive to http://www.wallpaper.com/, www.starck.com and www.soundwalk.com, available for one month only.

24 Hours : The Starck Mix is a unique 24 hour soundtrack, selected, arranged, composed and mixed by Soundwalk for Philippe Starck. Whenever you press play, the mix will start from the exact time it is in his current time zone, no matter where in the world he is that day.
The mix can also be listened to through an iPhone application (works better on WiFi) specially created by Clicmobile available from the app store, or you can also stream the soundtrack here.

Enjoy!

New Urban Architects

Nope, is not the name of your latest favorite pop band, i mean architecture office; the New Urban Architects are people who are reshaping our cities faster than any urban plan has ever before:

Our cities today are relics from a time before the Internet. Services and infrastructure, created and operated by the government, are centrally managed, non-participatory and closed. And while this was once the best (and only) way for cities to operate, today it leads to a system that is inefficient, increasingly expensive to maintain, and slow to change.

Jack Dorsey, who came up with the initial idea for Twitter and co-founded the company often talks about his fascination with cities, mass transit, and bike messengers. He says it was this fascination that led to the inspiration for Twitter.

Dennis Crowley, the founder of Dodgeball and Foursquare, shares that fascination. When I first talked to him about Foursquare, he told me that he "tries to build things that make cities easier to use".

What is needed right now is a new type of city: a city that is like the Internet in its openness, participation, distributed nature and rapid, organic evolution - a city that is not centrally operated, but that is created, operated and improved upon by all - a DIY City.

Steven Johnson's co-founder of Outside.in is John Geraci. John is now running an incubator for entrepreneurs that want to reinvent how cities and urban governments work called DIYCity.

These and many others are our new urban architects. People who resembles me to parkour practicants, they make the city easier to navigate with new tools and based on the old expired structure we know as "cities". I must say unfortunately traditional roles of urban planning and architecture are still important to our cities. They are and will continue to be. But there is something new afoot in urban life. And it starts with the mobile phone, a computer in our pocket or purse, that is with us at all times.

Services like Twitter, Foursquare, DIYCity and Outside.in are changing the way we use cities.

And we are just at the very beginning. Think about what happens when we get true augmented reality services on our phones. Think about what happens when we get real social networking services on our phones. Think about what happens when we get new interfaces on our phones that don't require us to be looking down and typing when we we are out and about...

*images by Lluis Gerard, used under a CC license

Philippe Starck on Life and Design

Concluding this weekend of video posts, we cannot avoid sharing with you this short interview with Philippe Starck on life and design, by Wallpaper. It is amuzing, straight to the point and very true. We like it.

DIGITAL WALLPAPER

Another video for this weekend, this time a small visual intervention by the people of Strukt Design Studio:

Hirzberger Events - Digital Wallpaper from Gregor Hofbauer on Vimeo.

We've been lately fascinated by the great low budget visual installations coming from the Austria/Germany area (realities:united included of course), seems Vienna is becoming also an epicenter of the animated/illuminated facades and interiors...

hope you guys enjoy this as much as we do.

check the rest of Strukt works, here

TOKYOYKOT

"Reality is the contrast between what we have inside, and what exists out there."

A beautiful visual trip of Tokyo by Joan Jimenez that we could not avoid sharing it... enjoy.



check also Joan's website social branding