Ben Roberts takes us inside Amazon’s insanely humungous warehouse
Ever wondered where Amazon keep their huge inventory? Well thanks to Ben Roberts and journalist Sarah O’Connor, you can indulge your curiosity in their project Amazon Unpacked. In 2011, Amazon occupied a warehouse the size of nine football pitches in the dilapidated town of Rugeley, Staffordshire.
There’s more to this story than just marvelling at the size of Amazon’s warehouse. Rugeley is a former coal mining town, and devastated by it’s closure in 1990, the residents were hopeful of Amazon moving in and revitalising the economy. Not only does Ben photograph the warehouse itself but also the community, he questions “the arrival of Amazon to occupy a huge warehouse in the town was originally seen as being a boost to the local economy, but has it turned out that way?”
If you ever consider that you can not do this or you can not do that. Picture this guys, burn him on your retina, and keep him there forever.
Thank you Tommy Carroll for opening my eyes.
Sidenote on the music, it’s totally amazing and I just want to share the tune with the rest of the world, you can buy it here.
Music: ”WHERE THE HEART IS” Written by: Marijn van der Meer and Jorrit Kleijnen Performed by:Marijn van der Meer
The team behind the production: Agency:The Odd shop Creative Directors: Niels de Wit, Robert van der Lans Production: Josefien Hofman
Olive is the first full length feature film shot completely on a smart phone. A 35 mm lens adapter was fabricated to fit the smart phone in order to achieve a shallow depth of field. The film stars two time Academy Award nominated actress Gena Rowlands (the Notebook, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria). The film simply put is about a little girl that goes into the lives of three people — an old lonely woman, a foreigner having a hard time acclimating in the United States, and an obese man — and transforms their lives without saying one word!
The financing of Olive was done independently of any corporation. The goal now is to be the first film to not only be shot on a cell phone but to also be the first independently financed feature film on 2,000+ theaters across the United States without the backing of a Major Studio.
The Film also stars John Scurti, Chris Maher, and Ruby Alexander. Other names affiliated with the project include Ben Lear, Randi Zuckerberg, and Skywalker Sound did the sound design.
So this is not my last post and not my first. this blog, column, magazine have seen many different shades of white. When I started back in 2006 i was not sure if I even where able to make it thru 1 week. But here I’am 5 years later, 1000 articles plus.
There are so many things that i’ve missed during the years but there are also so many things that i covered. So where do I want this little baby to go in the future? Frankly I don’t know. There are still a good bunch of you readers comming back every week, and there are still no new posts…
A couple of months ago Me and a friend started http://copygr.am a great service that lets you enjoy Instagram on your computer or iPad. My friend also runs the blog http://www.thecubetheory.com – and we also started http://danjan.se
So what are we doing right now? Well we are planning our move on version 2 of Copygram, it’s going to be awesome. We are also working some state of the art concepts for new online services.
Bare with me… I don’t know where we are going but I know one thing, I’ll always love design, architecture, music, videos, photography and cultural awareness.
What Is Dribbble? Dribbble is show and tell for creatives. Designers, developers and other creatives shareshots — small screenshots of the designs and applications they are working on.
How?
We got 1 Dribbble invitation. If you are a passionate graphics/web/UI/UX designer, you can earn this invitation by submitting your best shot ( 400px X 300px ) to me via mail or in the comments and I will post it on Dribbble to get some feedbacks from the pro(s). The community will decide whether you deserve a place on dribbble.
Ya, it sounds crazy to get through all this madness just to get an invitation. But the thing is, we respect what we do as a designer and we hope that dribbble only for people who have the same passion.
If you know a great designer friend, kindly let him/her know or RT about this and we really love to see some great talents to join this community.
When?!
This will be open until this Friday – 12 August 2011.
We have to admit it, on WASF, we love skate. And since we also love motion, we can’t resist what the video editor Juan Rayos have been doing for a couple of months and years now. He just released Frozen Wave. A video where a couple of longboarders & skateboarders enjoy a sunny day in a ditch near Madrid. It’s pretty much about Sun, Good Music and a Skating arena.
Fergus Purcell aka Fergadelic is has been a very hard working man as of late. The artist known for his rock/street influenced style has recently been announced as Stussy’s latest ‘guest artist’ in a series that has seen contributions from other artists such as JJ Villard and Daniel Clowes. In the video above we get an insight into Fergadelic’s work ethic and the origins of his name. Below you can check out the tees.
