[Cool DOPE] Archive

Have you ever heard the city is a living organism with distinct character, taste, smell, sound. Its thriving music scene offers a special kind of storytelling about the city’s personality quirks and cultural passions — an auditory window into the soul of the city. CitySounds.fm opens a dozen such fascinating windows by delivering the latest music from all the world’s most interesting cities, from Sydney to Stockholm even to New York.

Seems hardly graffiti on the city? YrWall provide you a new experience form the latest technology. It’s an interactive drawing art tool where users create virtual digital graffiti on a large wall using a modified spray paint can. The basically graffiti with a can that contains no paint, only a button and IR light source which is tracked using a computer vision system! Enjoy the free interaction graffiti device, however that shit never ever could replace the real graffiti on the wall place!

The solar eclipse of 22 July 2009 was the longest total solar eclipse during the 21st century, not to be surpassed until June 2132. In Chinese traditional views, solar eclipse would bring out some huge catastrophes on the world. Don’t be so serious at that saying; just enjoy the world biggest diamond!

If you want to know more about the solar eclipse, take your free to the jump!

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Look at that genius film work!!! Pierre, Damien and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt), they decided to collaborate for developing a design a font with a car. All the car movements were tracked using custom software which designed by interactive artist Zachary. You could download the new font form Toyota!

Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center a.k.a CPDRC is a maximum security prison in Cebu, Philippines. The official security advisor, Byron Garcia who was assigned as head of the prison by Gwendolyn Garcia, is credited for starting a program of choreographed exercise routines for the inmates. I just think that it so amazing what they do, it’s a great idea for discipline and recreation for the prisoners. Following Jackson's death in 2009, they performed a tribute to Jackson in front of hundreds of spectators at the prison(But they also do as well in 2007). 1500 CPDRC inmates performed an entire show of choreographed dance moves to various Michael Jackson songs on Saturday, June 27th, as a loving tribute to the singer.

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Taiwanese student at the Savannah College of Art and Design had a conceptual take on time limits. For his senior project, Bang-yao Liu created a stop-motion film from different color Post-Its, a tool that most people use for memorization soothing important or make a to-do list. However, Liu uses to sticky notes to travel from his computer through a rainstorm, the ocean, and a world of monsters to finish his project on time.

But his is not the first one on this concept for post-it shorts, let’s show you some amazing post-it films from other one’s idea at the jump.

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People always like to take picture on chilly or cuty. Simply smile on photo just be all the same, so every girl wants to show up the most catching picture for the focus. Asianposes is a website to document and classify all girls’ poses, try to make people understand for how many poses would girls like to square off! If you are a man, just check the website right now!

Pix and Source form : Asianposes

Gundam is the most great influence anime series for Japanese. Started form 1979, it has been for 30 years. For the Commemorate the 30^th anniversary, Japanese tried to bult on a life-size RX-78-2 Gundam that appeared in the very first Gundam series in Tokyo. It will be 59 feet tall and weigh 35 tons, and emit light from 50 different places and jet of mist from 14. That’s awesome!

If you want to see more picture and video, keep on reading!

Pix source form: Pinktentacle

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This magazine called Koakuma Ageha (Koakuma means little devil), launched in October 2006, it covers hairstyle, makeup, and fashion that focused on young Japanese women .It’s young as compared to many of the other magazines out there but it is making exaggerated hair style with the type like “Lolita” of fashion it is covering for the young Japanese women who love designer-brand goods and seek fashions that attract men. Why LDope want to talk about this one, because of its very interesting content and high number of shining color pictures in each issue (bling bling!), and the great item for those who want to follow Japan's fashion, models and advertisements like CanCam or ViVi. Well, it’s really definitely to our eyes candy magazine that measures up in substance!

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KFC Japan showed a combination ice crusher-drink mixer appliance:”Krushers”, which serves either as an ice crusher or as a drink mixer or as a combination of the two whereby to provide crushed ice to a drink as it is being mixed. There are four favors (Cookie & cream, Caramel crunch, Strawberry banana, Orange sorb) that you can choose to buy in only three limited KFC store. Collecting stamps in a lottery,  you would have a chance to win for a campaign in photographed T-shirt (50 people) that take by Yone Yonehara and a new free Krushers drink (200 people). In addition to enjoy eating ice mixed crusher with fruit and crisp that makes you refreshing, also could bring a daily life renew by the Tees!

Yone let us know that fastfood could be so alluring!!!

Source: KFC JP

We never forget the movie “Minority Report”; the touch-display screen will be the most impressive to us. Now, Microsoft has developed a really interesting video with Seattle-based studio Oh, Hello that gives you a glimpse into the future of the digital world. In the not-too-distant utopian future (2019?), technology will be aided by the concerted efforts of many people rooting, stabilizing, tracking, painting, animating, and coming at breakneck pace to make everything look like it’s working flawlessly in real-time.

"Little Red Riding Hood" is a famous fairy tale about a young girl's encounter with a wolf, but Tomas Nilsson gave us another ways to re-telling the story. It’s dope!

I've never really thought my computer would become softer, but Silke Hilsing's new squishy touch interface has been making it's way around the internet the last few days!

Source: silkehilsing.de/impress

That’s awesome! It’s a giant cardboard Nintendo Gameboy with Tetris on the screen from last week’s Ohayocon 2009 in Columbus, Ohio. Now the costume itself would be no big deal if it weren’t for the fact that "You can actually play TETRIS on it!"Besides, it looks like he’s having just a little too much fun with people manipulating his joypad and pressing his buttons.

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