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Unique Ways To Charge Your Batteries

1. Dance Charger: an armband which contains the technology necessary to harness kinetic energy and use it to power gadgets. This basically means the owner can wear the armband whilst dancing all day at a festival, get back to the tent and plug a mobile phone into the now-charged unit.

2. The Powermat is a thing of beauty: a thin, sleek mat upon which you just need to place your gadget of choice for it to begin recharging. Apart from the mat itself, there’s no need to plug anything in, plus you can place multiple devices on the Powermat concurrently as long as there’s ample space. At present, the mat is compatible with ‘iPhones, BlackBerrys, MP3 players, cell phones, headsets, hand held electronic games, digital cameras, and GPS units’ and will set you back approximately $160, receiver included.

3. Why use a charging device when the battery itself has a USB connection? USBCELL batteries have exactly that. Simply flip open the end of the battery, plug it into a USB port and it’ll begin to charge. The major downside is the price – a pack of 2 AAs will currently set you back $18– but still, it’s a good start. At the moment only the AA batteries you see above are available to buy, but many more products are apparently in development.

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“Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it... Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is” – Jean Dubuffet

This quote from the founder of Art Brut must surely be Ange Leccia’s motto. Leccia is an acclaimed artist and the director of the Palais de Tokyo’s residency programme, Le Pavillon, and each year he and his team handpick the ten most promising artists of tomorrow, often from unlikely backgrounds (this year’s selection includes an engineer, some curators, a bunch of architects, and an ex-inmate). “Being an artist, used to be a lot less transversal," explains Leccia. “Today, artists shift from one discipline to another. When coming from an unrelated background, art becomes a way of re-reading one’s past.” After all, who can discuss the relationship between police and state better than someone who was actually arrested and jailed (Russian artist David Ter-Oganian), and who better than an engineer who helped develop the GPS can talk of nature and technology (American artist Patrick Bock).

Challenging the frontiers between art and curation is another important aspect of this year’s selection. A couple of curators were chosen to be part of Leccia's gang of ten, and their presence at the Pavillon allows them to leave their role as a mediator and think of themselves as artists in their own right. For example, French, London-based curator Florence Ostende borrows mediatic techniques, from print magazine, to online format, to create a unique artistic dialogue between the two countries.

And what is the Pavillon’s artistic barometer predicting? There are definite shifts in the arts, for example, one can see an environmental consciousness, which didn’t exist before, and artists are increasingly aware of the footprint of their work and turn to alternative energy. "This never used to be much of an issue," says Leccia. An interest in architecture and urban planning also seems to be a recurring factor. For example Ramiro Guerreiro, who comes from an architecture background, now works on incorporating performances into existing monuments and highways. "The interest urban landscape makes sense," says Leccia. "In a world where art is often ephemeral, architecture is the only artwork that stays."

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dreams come true.....

Here's a fairy tale that could only happen in the movies. Man makes YouTube video. Goes to Hollywood. Gets pots of money and a movie deal. Except this story is true.

An unknown producer from Uruguay, Fede Alvarez, shelled out about $300 to create a cool video of a robot invasion in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The four-minute short, "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack) features ginormous (but slow-moving) weapon-wielding robots that blow stuff up.
We have to admit, it has pretty amazing production values. The Playlist gushed that the director may be the next Neill Blomkamp, who made the South African-based alien flick "District 9." With the blog abuzz, the South American short went viral, and has already been viewed on YouTube 1.5 million times.
Well, apparently nothing gets by Hollywood these days. The lucky duck told the BBC, "I uploaded 'Ataque de Panico!' on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of emails from Hollywood studios." Long story short, a bidding war ensued. The offer he pocketed: A $30 million deal with Sam "Spiderman" Raimi's Ghost House Pictures. That's a nice return on investment.
The picture will be a sci-fi thriller set in Argentina and Uruguay. In case you're hoping to see the feature-length version of "Panic Attack!" in a movie theater, it won't be from this deal. The newly minted "it" guy says he will start from scratch.
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Living Magazine Cover & Spread

Photographer Alexx Henry and his team show you how a magazine might look in the not-so-distant future with the October cover and spread for Outside Magazine. The living portrait of the triathlete Chris Lieto is photographed using the revolutionary Red One cinema camera and the 5d Mark II, for a moving magazine that looks right out of a Harry Potter movie.

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who is...Douglas Kirkland

"I can only say this: it was extremely intimate. It was just myself, the camera and Marilyn.... Frank Sinatra filled the room with his seductive beautiful ballads. That was the atmosphere of the evening: quiet, soft and enticing..."- Douglas Kirkland

A Conversation with Douglas Kirkland

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