Sky Orchestra : Synchronised hot-air balloon flight

Synchronised hot-air balloon flight, broadcasting music over the London sky, interested? This just great enjoy every second of this post and please check out some of the links they really are something to see well done everyone involved. The official Sky Orchestra website states.

"Sky Orchestra delivers music to sleeping people from out of the sky. Created by artist Luke Jerram with composition from Dan Jones, the balloons will take off at dawn and dusk with speakers attached, creating a massive audio landscape."

"The latest Sky Orchestra performance took place in London to herald a year to go to the 2012 Games.The Mayor of London Boris Johnson teamed up with London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) to bring the project to the city between 22 - 27 July 2011."

To check out the Sky Orchestras online presence visit www.skyorchestra.co.uk



This video came from the Guardian Online, to see the original article visit the Guardian Online

The Peugeot EX1

The Peugeot EX1, The official Peugeot website states " The project is to create an exceptional vehicle to celebrate Peugeot's 200th anniversary quickly allied itself to another goal: mobilizing itself to all the historic skills devoted to electric motors" visit the Official Peugeot site. On top of looking stunning this car also won a number of awards, check out the video of it in action or click the jump for some more images of the car, Enjoy.

The BHPC : The British Human Power Club

Not to be confused with the Beverly Hills Polo Club The BHPC (The British Human Power Club) is a community in Britain devoted to the humble recumbent. The online site of this publication headlines all racing and also some design processes that are going on. To visit their web-page got to www.bhpc.org.uk. Also for more images some of the construction continue reading after the jump.



Their online statement says "There is a wealth of Human Power related information on the Internet. Much of this information is produced by the BHPC and on these pages we will attempt to bring together as much of that as possible in one place."

"The BHPC organise a series of races each year, and in turn with other members of the IHPVA, organise a world championship event. Links to the results of these can be found in the panel on the right."

"The BHPC Magazine is a quarterly publication and available either by joining the club, or individually using the shop. Thanks to Dave Larrington, we have been able to make available scanned copies of many of the older issues for download."

Substitute

In the spirit of this weeks Movie of the week, this great little short was spotted by and found by Mr David Cotton. The comic originally came from www.xkcd.com

Jeff de Boer : Armor for Cats and Mice

"15th Century Maximilian Rat"

A few years ago i stumbled across Jeffs' work, both technically amazing and fascinating. Jeff's farther was a professional tin smith and many of his skills stem form that relationship. His works are both amusing an incredibly beautiful. Showing what a little idea with astonishing implementation can create a fantastic series of works.

Jeff's website Bio states "Jeff de Boer was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1963, the fourth child of Dutch immigrants Andy and Maria de Boer. Being that his father was a professional tin smith, Jeff grew up exposed to the endless possibilities of metal. From the age of five, he knew that he wanted to be an artist. He spent his growing years painting and drawing, but just as importantly, he made objects. During his last years of high school, he started to take a serious interest in metal work and during this time built his first suit of armour. After graduating, he spent the next few years independently developing his craft, as well as learning techniques from a blacksmith. In 1984, he enrolled at the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD), where he majored in jewellery design. In the fall of 1986, while a student at ACAD, he combined his new skills in jewellery construction with his knowledge of armour-making to produce the world's first and only suit of armour for a mouse."


"Gladiator Cat Helmet"

To read more of Jeff's Bio or to check out Jeff's website click the link, or to get some more images follow the jump to some more content, Enjoy!

Matt Kohr : Ctrl + Paint, Digital painting Simplified

This website provides digital tutorials to any one using Adobe Photoshop. The site, run by Matt Kohr and is updated with a new video weekly and has an impressive downloads section. The tutorials are easy to follow and cover advance techniques like the Automate function. To anyone using Adobe Photoshop these free online tutorials really are invaluable.


Digital Painting - Painting With Two Windows from matt kohr on Vimeo.


Photoshop Painting - Pen Tool Selection Pt. 1 from matt kohr on Vimeo.

To see the rest of the site check out Ctrl + Paint, Digital painting Simplified,also see Matt Kohr's concept art website www.mattkohr.com, or if you like go to see Matt Kohr's Vimeo Channel

To see some of Matts Concept Art hit the jump, Enjoy!

This post was researched by Nathan Jones

Interactive Music : Music Composed out of Dance and Movement : Palindrome

Palindrome are a group who use motion tracking and technology within performances, this technology triggers musical elements. Its a form of interactive, generative music.

You can fine their website at www.palindrome.de, I would link specific pages and videos, but its a website that uses frames so its a bit more complicated than that.

Their videos are well worth a look and they have explanations of the technology they use and how they use it.

If you have any interest in generative music or interactive music, then this website is a must to check out. It really helped me with my work in the final year of my degree.

Enjoy

Matthew Shlian's paper sculptures

"Warped Stellation"

Too continue a theme of artists who construct paper works, for your pleasure, Matthew Shlian.

Matt Shilan's statement initially reads "As a paper engineer my work is rooted in print media, book arts and commercial design. Beginning with an initial fold, a single action causes a transfer of energy to subsequent folds, which ultimately manifest in drawings and three dimensional forms. I use my engineering skills to create kinetic sculpture which have lead to collaborations with scientists at the University of Michigan. We work on the nanoscale, translating paper structures to micro origami. Our investigations extend to visualizing cellular division and solar cell development. Researchers see paper engineering as a metaphor for scientific principals; I see their inquiry as basis for artistic inspiration. In my studio I am a collaborator, explorer and inventor. I begin with a system of folding and at a particular moment the material takes over. Guided by wonder, my work is made because I cannot visualize its final
"Thesis"

realization; in this way I come to understanding through curiosity.". To continue reading nip onto his websites statement page, HERE. Or for that matter to visit his whole website visit www.mattshlian.com.

Matts works combine colours, composition and form together in a aesthetically wonderfully way. On his website he is selling the book which is advertised in this video below, whilst you may not buy one you should defiantly have a look at the one below as it is awesome.



If you like Matthew Shlian's work see some more work after the jump or check out his website www.mattshlian.com.

If you missed our other paper sculpture posts catch them here, Jen Stark and Richard Sweeney, Enjoy

Threadless Tees : Nude No More

Ever had a really good idea for a T-Shirt. A slogan that just stick's in your head or an image that would just work. Threadless is an online voting and posting site for your designs, upload your concepts or rate other peoples. If you like the below image by Aled Lewis, The Horde check it out HERE


"Aled Lewis's : The Horde"

This model, this concept of a community based T-Shirt design business then take time to check out Threadless, Enjoy!

Firefox Sync may be the answer to your problems

Love Firefox, use more than one computer? This fantastic little Add-on lets you sync you Internet browsers across multiple computers. I for example have a dual boot desktop computer, [Windows & Ubuntu] and a laptop [Ubuntu] all sync'ed together, as Joanna Lumley would say "lovely".

The Add-on gives you a code and then all your browser history and favorites are stored in an online cloud and changes happen across all your computers when you alter a favourite. Even if you don't have more than one PC and are just formatting and reinstalling, this will backup all of your favorites and you will not need to put them all in a again, or export the master file [although this is always a good idea to keep backed up].

If your interested install Firefox syncFirefox sync and give it a go. The only piece of advice for you is when it says don't loose this code, write the code down.

Cracking bit of freeware and yet another reason why Firefox is quite so good. Hope its useful.

David OReilly's animations

"Autoportrait"

David OReilly's animations are colourful and entertaining, however they do posses a slightly dark element. The animations feed from a mixture of global pop culture and perhaps David's own twisted sense of humour. These videos posses a slightly cynical out look by embracing some of the darker elements of this pop culture, quite similarly to the works of Chris Ware in "The Acme Novelty Library" Just as a fore warning some of the videos contain material some viewers may find offensive. To Check out more of the Video's from David OReilly either follow the jump or click the link to David's Vimeo page, or check out his personal website at www.davidoreilly.com.

This Video is named "The External World" my favourite moment in this one is at 2:25 Enjoy!



"The External World"

Art in Design

For those who are not familiar to HTML it is not normal for a page source to look like this:




The more HTML savvy might want to look at the source code of this page. It's the website of Fujinon Binoculars. What you'll see is bound to surprise and confuse you.

SalubriousHUB vs facebook

If we said we had joined up with facebook in some kind of corporate union, we would be lying. Rather this is just another way you can join up to SalubriousHUB and talk and socialise with its other members or the SalubriousHUB team about anything you've found on the net or feel may be appropriate for a post on the HUB. If you find something worth posting about we will credit you.

Don't know if we will get a twitter or something like that as well yet but for the moment this is just another way you can interact with the HUB, Enjoy the Group and feel free to post.

New Spotify Playlist : Film of the Week Soundtracks

Our new Spotify Playlist should collect all of the Film of the Week Soundtracks in one place for you to subscribe and listen to, this playlist will be regularly updated with each new Film of the Week post provided Spotify has the music. For more free playlists to subscribe to from SalubriousHUB visit the Downloads page.

To try out the new playlist click the link,
SH Film of the Week Soundtracks.

We should soon be bringing you a few more new playlists on top of this one and SH Electronica Playlist. If any of our readers have requests for either of these playlists or a playlist of your own drop a comment below and we will do our best to keep the music going for you. Or more importantly if you don't yet have Spotify and would like to try it out visit the download Spotify page to access a world of music for free.

Once again enjoy the music and thanks for listening.

Get Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun and Firestorm for FREE

Like many people these games were my childhood and very memorable, Red Alert particularity. Also because Red Alert, due to overuse exploded in the family CD drive killing the computer. But there’s no danger of that this time as these versions are digital.

I must stress that this is not piracy and is completely legitimate, and came from the official Command and Conquer website which is visit able from HERE. If you'd like to download all 4 games the link to the site is HERE. Unfortunately this is not a mac friendly download but if you do want to play any game on mac or for that matter use any windows software on mac try running the open source software Darwine. Darwine is not a windows emulator it just sets the file structure so that windows programs will work without having to use anything like bootcamp. There's a little more info after the jump.

Richard Sweeny's Paper Sculpture's

Icosahedron II

UK Based Richard Sweeny's paper sculptures combine the beauty of precision and the delicate aspects of paper. The Majesty of Sweeny's work mirrors architecture and works on a basis of simplistic sculptural form. The Engineering like precision which goes into Sweeny's work is fantastic, this precision is only emphasised by the use of reductionism within the pieces. Whilst they may be extremely complex and elaborate their structure and grounding is in the simplistic nature of their design. Each component is balanced by the next creating a structural unity which is endearing to say the least about the work.

Floral Corsage

Enjoy the images of the work, If you are a fan of this post check out Jen Stark's Paper Sculpture's or to go to Richard Sweeney's web-page, click the link HERE. Catch more images after the jump.

The Freesound Project

In this wonderful internet filled world that we all now live in open source or free community things are great to come by. Offering all the chance to use the internet to share and share alike. The Free Sound Project is one such opportunity. The Freesound Project describe them selves as "a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter".


If your interested in contributing to the site or using the sounds on there catch the link to the The Freesound Project

Colour Scheme Designer

http://colorschemedesigner.com/#

Choosing on a colour scheme for a website or any graphic work can be a difficult decision, what colours work with other colours and compliment and contrast?!

Color Scheme Designer, is an online interactive colour scheme maker, you choose the hues, saturation, contrast and brightness and it gives you a bunch of hex codes ready to use in what ever graphic or web design program you use. I am currently using it to help me colour my website which ill post on here at a later date when its finished!

Oooh and you can find the website here.

Hubble Wallpaper

Space

The Crab Nebula

Get your very own Hubble telescope....wallpaper for you computer.

These are genuine images taken by the Hubble telescope and are available in a range of definitions depending on your computer capabilities.

Daft Punk Firefox Skins

 

 

Tart up your Firefox. The link below takes you to get your own Tron Legacy Daft Punk Firefox Skins.

Click here


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