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The Olympics 08.08.08
BBC Sport's marketing campaign and titles for the forthcoming Olympic Games are based upon the traditional Chinese folklore 'Journey to the West'. The animation and music were specially produced by Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn.

Click here for Monkey Olympics



MONKEY MAGIC!!! without the fluffy pink cloud.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Phone. A high-flying martial artist demonstrates the features of Nokia's limited edition N96.

To promote the limited-edition release of Nokia's N96 mobile device, Swedish agency Farfar launched "Face the Task," a site which employs a martial artist who, under a full moon, bends the laws of gravity to highlight N96 features. Please bear in mind you can use it to call family and friends...

Go to the website and get all Hong Kong Phooey for the weekend!!!

Theres been plenty to talk regarding China hosting the Olympics, their politics, the protests, their treatment of fellow citizens and the list goes on... That aside but by all means not ignoring the subject if however their main objective was to impress the world with the 2008 Olympics, the stadium and its attendant buildings - the Aquatics Centre and Digital Beijing (the Olympics "command post") - they have set a heady precedent. The 2008 olympics has become a grand platform to show off the talents of the best architects around at present. Watch out 2012, we've got a lot to live up too...



Here are just a few of the inspiring structures that we'll be seeing in the coming months.





For a more detailed insight click here

Dropclock is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy helvetica dropping into the water in super slow-motion.

WARNING: I loaded this on for a few days and found myself staring at the screen mesmerized, when to be honest I should've been doing something else...



Available for Windows & Mac here

This is a public preview for an opensource project which will be available in June.
You can go to NUI Group Community to get involved and learn more.



Music: Celestial Annihilation by UNKLE

An event celebrating The Hayward's 40th anniversary. The discussion brings together a distinguished group of artists and architects including Zaha Hadid, Antony Gormley, Ricky Burdett and Dennis Crompton, one of the group of architects who designed The Hayward.

Taking the The Hayward and its surrounding environment as a point of reference, the panel discuss and debate different, but often concurrent, approaches to designing gallery architecture: the great modernist tradition of building-as-machine and idea of gallery as sculptural icon.

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Image: Poster image for Pop Art at The Hayward, 9 July – 3 September 1969, designed by Claes Oldenburg.