Christmas is coming

Christmas season is coming soon.
The special and beautiful christmas tree is always grab people's eyes.
Many famous brand and department store all decorate their own tree.
Pleple like that a lot.

Here is a special tree that made by soda can.
It made by 400 cans and it took 4 months to make this.
The people who built this want to have a different tree then before.
So he discovered that soda can has nice color and it full of christmas atmosphere.

He made it by steel wire and glue and just overlap the can.

And it will become a nice and beautiful tree in the house.

Since the christmas season is coming.
Hey! Guys!
Build a nice tree by yourself.

Do you always think that the traffic sign around you is pretty boring?
You don't even want to pay attention to it.
But how if we turn those signs into interesting pictures.
Does it help people to notice the sign?

New York City Department of Transportation and Safe Streets Fund asked american artist John Morse to draw a serious of traffic safety sign and includes Curbside Haiku.
We can see the following pictures to know what he draws for new york citizens.

A interesting pictures with a funny words and also there is a QR code in the pictures.
People can search about it.

Turn those boring things into different world can make people pay attention again.

If I can see those funny pictures around San francisco,
I will be really excited and happy.
Days are the same but we can make it different.

Sharpie candy house

We know that sharpie can draw or write.
But have you ever imagine that sharpie can be part of decoration in the store?
You can draw what you want and you can change anytime.

This is a candy store in Australia.
It's designed by Red Design Group.
The owner want to give people pure feeling, simple and classic.
They painted white color on all the wall and use sharpie to draw it.
You can draw everything you like.
Table, clock, oven and even the chair.

Even it's really simple and clean.
It really grab people's attention.
Many people like it so much.
They want to let people think about their childhood.

The store owner Cristina Velardo and Leonie Schwetzer want to give people special experience.
Not only a candy but also a journey.

Think different, and do others won't do.
No matter it's simple or complicated, you will stand out.

Food can be artistic

What will you think when talking about FOOD?
Most people think it's just something that you can eat or things that can keep your life.
Even thought  there is so many expensive restaurants pay lots of attention to the dish decoration.
But food is still food.
Some artists try to change people's mind about food.
They think food can be part of art work.
Let's see their work.

Jean Francois De Witte is a photographer that combined two kinds of food to make it become different.

It's eggplant or wine glass?

Bill Durgin wants to make people like a food by clothes and angle.
It's magic that in some pictures you can't even see where is people hiding at.

Ted Sabarese cooperated with Ami Goodheart of SOTU Productions to shot a serious of fashion photos named 「Hunger Pains」.
The clothes that models wear is all  made by food.
It shows how much we should eat in a day.

Christopher Boffoli makes food become a big world and people is smaller.

It shows inside the food, there is like a adventure and fun.

Some artist would really like to use their creativity to create a new world.

He made a garlic house and strawberry balloon. 

Although it's just imagination, but it really appeals to people.

Social media is powerful

Social media like Facebook, twitter and Plurk are now being the most popular topic now.
There is a lot of problem and news come from social media.
More and more company pay attention to advertise on social media.
Also, social media is becoming more and more important for us to communicate with our friend and the world.
The american advertising and public agency Karsh/Hagan presented a book call social animals to their customers.
They collect all the data about social media like usage and page view.
Using the simplest word and chart to help their customer know more about social.

This page tells people what is social media and simply introduce social media.

How to use social media is also really important to people.
Why there is always someone having trouble on social media because they said something wrong.
Learning to share right and proper post on social media is significant to those social media users.

It also introduce some of the popular social media.
This page starts to talk about Twitter.

Also talks about how to use Blog.

This page talks about sharing.
It says there are 5 hundred million people use facebook once in an month.

Everyone should know what should they say and their right when using social media.
This book shows that how large the market is on social media.
Social media is a free space that we can share about our mood and information on it.
But it's also really important for us to know how to use social media properly since there are more and more people pay attention to it.
Know your own right and share proper news, you will be really comfortable when using social media.

To see the different Paris

Public art is always attractive to people.
The most successful art is to let people seeing the difference of the usual scene.
The artist Arnaud Lapierre create a new public art in paris.
If you came visit Place Vendome recently, you will see some giant decoration on in the square.

This is called Ring mirror installation.
The artist used the speciality of the mirror to create a special view of tParis.
He used different angle and piece of the mirror to let people see the strange view.

He cooperated with Audi and create the scene just like in the movie.
You can see the different view from outside and inside the mirror.
When you are standing in the Ring mirror, you are just like in the different world.

There are many places and ways to create a new project.
Use the existing object and give it a new face can make people really surprised.
The Ring mirror is now played in Paris.
But it will ended soon after the exhibition closed.
Take a chance to see it as soon as possible.

Go to see the opera on the lake

When we talked about going to the opera, we would just think about going to the theater.
But there is a different way and place to see the show.
Going to see the opera in an usual theater is not special anymore.

Can you imagine that going to see the opera on the lake? 
Those pictures you see is definitely on the real lake.
Austria's Bregenz Festival starts making special opera theater on the lake from 1946.
Since now, the special opera stage is already become the most important point of the festival.

Every two or three years, they will build a new stage according to the topic of the festival.
Not only the stage but also the light and some decorations will change with the topic.
So there are many people go there to see the opera show and admire the stage.

We can always change our ways about things like not going to see the opera in the ordinary theater.
In a creative way, we should always be curious about our world in order to think more.
Be different and be creative.