"""""Happy Cloud"""""

"I just wanted to make a piece of work that would cheer people up a bit. I've had enough of the doom and gloom in the air and I wanted to show something completely positive floating up to the sky. This was the most straight forward way I could think of to literally contribute something happy to the atmosphere. I'm hoping it might put a smile on a few people's faces as they go through their day. I'm also keen to help people remember that the success of British cultural industries is relatively new, the Tate itself wasn't there a decade ago. I believe these cultural industries have been hugely important in the re-juvination of parts of the city, and a very wholesome and important contributor to the economy. I know at times like this it's easy to make creativity a low priority but I want to show that on a very human level an artistic idea might be able to do something important even for a fleeting moment."

-Stuart Semple, 2009

Place: London, UK

Date: 25/02/2009

Technology: Helium and vegetable dye

AirPiano... Touchless Instrument

The AirPiano an innovative upgrade of the classic piano. Allows users to play it and controlling it by simply moving their hands in the air. Notes are played when sensors are triggered by the movement of the hands. The length of the notes correspond to the time the hand is over that sensor. Although this piano is still in its prototype phase it allows the user to configure it up to 24 keys.

Design: Omar Yosha

Year: 2007

Gwon O-Sang.... Living Sculptures

This contemporary Korean artist creates "living" sculptures made up of hundreds of photographic images for the surface appearance. Gwon O-Sang skills for sculpturing and photography are the perfect combination for crafting his beautiful dramatic models. His collection called Deodorant Type: Sculptures is composed of various life-size sculptures often with unusual poses. His work tries to explore a way to express the human figure throughout surrealism gestures.

O-Sang works in Korea and has previously exhibited in England, France, Italy, Japan China, and The Netherlands. Click for more +

PRADA-TRANSFORMER (art+architecture+fashion+cinema)

Prada in its history has impressed the fashion crowd in many occasions with various innovations around its field. Today Prada continues shocking its public, it's the latest collaborative project with Rem Koolhaas's OMA architecture firm, they have created the Prada-Transformer. The concept of this project was to create a metamorphic shape that can change its form depending on the needs of the fashion firm. The structure has four different configurations which can be switched by rotating the structure. This means floors can be use as walls and walls can be use as ceilings. The Prada-Transformer can be switch into spaces for a fashion exhibition, an art exhibition, a cinema and a special event.

Architect: OMA, Rem Koolhaas together with associates Kunle Adeyemi and Chris van Duijn, and design architect Alexander Reichert.

Location: Seoul, South Korea
Opens: 25 April 2009
Building type: Exhibition, pavilion

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TENORI-ON a composition of light and sound....

Media artist Toshio Iwai and YAMAHA had joint together to create a new path for music with TENORI-ON. As how the Spanish vihuela (viola da mano) was for the modern guitar, TENORI-ON is the genesis for what's to come in the 21st Century. This electric music instrument, consists of a screen (16x16) of Led sensors that are activated be the user to create music. click here for +

Top 5 "1st week of may"

1. Un Dia - Juana Molina myspace

2. Island - Whitest Boy Alive myspace

3. Farewell To The Fairground (Rory Phillips White Horse Mix) - White Lies myspace

4. Paris - Friendly Fires myspace

5. Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat House Mix) - Nina Simone myspace

VOID WATCHES... an architectural manifestation

Void Watches is a new brand created in 2008 as a vision of David Ericsson (Swedish Designer). Which tries to express a unique design throughout an "architectural" language. These V01El models are made of stainless steel and fine leather with water resistance depth of 30 M. € 129 available at Void Watches online store. click here for +

Sliding House, by dRMM

Architect: dRMM - Alex de Rijke, Joana Pestana Lages Goncalves

Client: Private client

Contractors: Self-build with extensive use of local and specialist contractors

Engineer: Michael Hadi Associates, Rutger Snoek, David Williams, Rob Hart

Location: Suffolk, England

Completed: January 2009

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May album releases...