Interactive Advertising

Created by Marcus Wallander at Hyper Island, this interactive window display for streetwear company WeSC proceeds through a pre-rendered loop as people walk by. Walking slower will play the loop slower, walking backwards will rewind the loop and so on. Really cool technology and a great advertisement.

Don't Call It A Comeback

For $230, Euro company Lekki will send you an Unlocked and even color-customizable StarTAC circa 1998. Support for any SIM card carrier, 100 contact maximum, monophonic ringtones & a retractable antenna. Suck it BBM & Facebook, this is all a player needs to seal the deal.

http://www.lekki.fr/

The Ruins of Detroit

French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre capture some of Detroit's defunct landmark's in their "Ruins of Detroit" collection. Click here for their official website. A quote from their statement:

The state of ruin is essentially a temporary situation that happens at some point, the volatile result of change of era and the fall of empires. This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running fast, lead us to watch them one very last time : being dismayed, or admire, making us wondering about the permanence of things. 

Jay-Z Decoded Excerpt

Somewhere between the infamous Marcy Projects and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytical practices lies Jay-Z's "Decoded." Hov offers up explications of some of his most noteworthy songs, tying in personal experiences to great effect and giving readers a better understanding of the self-proclaimed God MC's rhetoric. Aesthetically pleasing and surprisingly well written, Decoded will appeal to diehard fans and newcomers alike. In accordance with the cover Rorschach, the book maintains unbiased and (sometimes) painfully honest narrative from Jay, leaving interpretation of events transpired to the reader. 

One excerpt I particularly enjoyed involved the late, great Biggie Smalls and his favorite means of self-medication:

I hadn't been on vacation since I'd gotten serious about music, so I was happy to go to Miami to shoot the video for "Ain't No Nigga" with Foxy. Big was touring, but he took time out to fly down and make a cameo. Big loved to smoke, but I could count the number of times I'd smoked trees. Champagne and the occasional Malibu rum were my thing back then, but mostly I liked to stay sober, the better to stay focused on making money. I come from that class of hustlers who looked at smoking as counterproductive. We used to judge niggas who smoked as slackers, or workers. When I did smoke it was on vacation, in the islands.

But when Big asked me to smoke with him, I told my self "Relax, you're not on the streets anymore." It was happening and I had to admit it. I was out of the Life. So I smoked with Big--and he smoked blunts. The last time I smoked, whenever that was, I'm sure I was hitting a joint. A couple hits later and I was high as shit, sitting there, feeling outside of time, slightly stuck, and laughing uncontrollably.

Big leans in so only I can hear him.  

"I got ya."

Scoreboard: Biggie - 1, Jay - 0