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?”

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

Drop it like it’s 1992, ich r u.

I want snow now, and this makes me feel so HYPED.

We all have dreams of flying… Wingsuit World Champion Espen Fadnes does it for a living. The biggest setback is the knowledge that everyone that ever cared for him always worries. But he says he don’t take unnecessary risks and when he leaps into the free air, the past doesn’t exists and neither the future, it’s only NOW that matters.

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Witness the flight of the quadrotors; dancing before us in a light-beam drenched ballet choreographed to the heavenly arpeggios of OneOhtrix point never. Event concept created by Marshmallow Laser Feast and Saatchi & Saatchi creatives Jonathan Santana & Xander Smith

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.

Check out the kickstarter project.

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.

see you soon / Linus

This is so so so amazing, we hope to see more from these guys. Euclideon

“Marlowe” is a short film about Marlowe Boyd and his pristine Dodge Charger muscle car, which he bought new in 1971. The film was produced by ALCHEMYcreative, a San Francisco video production company.

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.

All-Time Record Revenue and Earnings
iPhone Sales Grow 142% iPad Sales Grow 183%…

Apple just released last quater numbers. 20.34 millions iPhones, 9.25 million iPads and 3.95 million Macs, (2.8 Million laptops).

The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share.

“We’re thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent and profits up 125 percent,” “Right now, we’re very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall.” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

Download Q3 2011 Unaudited Summary Data

From Birdabroad.

“The Western news media is replete with pithy descriptions of the rapid changes taking place in China: China has the world’s fastest growing economy. China is undergoing remarkable and rapid change. This represents a unique moment for a society changing as quickly as China.

So when we strolled down a street a few blocks from our house a couple weeks ago, I was only sort of surprised to see this new place, one that any American of my generation can probably recognize instantaneously:”

It’s an Apple store!

RP and I went inside and poked around. They looked like Apple products. It looked like an Apple store. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area. The employees were even wearing those blue t-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks.

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.

Guilhem Machenaud and Studio Ores have put together an exciting video showcasing a sport that you wouldn’t readily see on the streets of India. Beautifully shot and wonderfully worked into the surrounding sites and sounds of Bangalore, Jaipur, Delhi and Agra, skating different areas of the cities and thrilling many local residents.

Well it’s nothing to deny I’ve been in love with Mumford & Sons ever since I heard, “little lion man” long before they got this famous. So here is one of their new tunes (with video and one new song that I found on Sound Cloud). Enjoy. I did.

Mumford & Sons new song – “Home/Untitled” (Live on KBCO)

So we just launched an awesome site for the iPhone App Instagram, we call it Copygram. The service lets you download all your Instagram photos to your local hardrive and then makes it really easy for you to order analog prints. What many haven’t noticed is that Copygram also provides an view over the entire public network of Instagram, just type any username after the http://copygr.am and you can view his or hers photos, just try out mine copygr.am/linusekenstam now try your own.

In the first 6 days a total of 106.000 photos have been downloaded. And way over 28.000 pageviews. We are so happy for making this project into reality. In an attempt to give everyone a chance and glimps of the Instagram community we wanted to build a way for everyone to be able to see what users on the instagram network are doing. So now you can share your copygram link to anyone, and anyone will be able to view your photos, with our without an Instagram account. To be able to find stuff, we built a search, you can search for users and tags.

We hope you’ll enjoy the service, its me ( Linus Ekenstam ) and TheCubeTheory ( Magnus Janson ) that is behind the project.

Here is an awesome interview on Jack Dorsey co-founder of Twitter and now the iPhone payment App Square. Interviewed by Kevin Rose, co-founder of Milk Inc and Digg.com

Some nice tunes, i’m listening to a great interview with NAS and I thought I share some sweet tunes with you guys.

stonesthrow.com/​madvillain
itunes.com/​madvillain

After the jump see whats in the collectors box…

CD Madvillainy “2” The Madlib Remix. 25 tracks. Read more below.
7-INCH “One Beer (Drunk Version)” Madlib’s original 2004 version, lost until recently on the floor of his Bomb Shelter studio. If you saw the studio you’d understand.
CASSETTE The Madvillainy Demo Tape. 12 tracks, 36 minutes. This is the first and only official release of the infamous Madvillain demo that “leaked into cyberspace,” while the album was still in progress, as DOOM alludes to in the lyrics of “Rhinestone Cowboy.”
T-SHIRT Nominated. Best Rolled L’s. Madvillain shirt.
COMIC BOOK Meanwhile… the continuation of the All Caps video, included with the CD.
THE BOX 12x13x3 inches.

OUR THOUGHTS
Wow, i’m not really good at playing any instrument, I guess if I where any good I would love to play the piano. So I’m not the guy judge. I love “For Emma, Forever Ago”. It’s warmth and pureness, the new album has the same soul, way better sound ( can’t say if its better or worse when it comes the the overall feeling ). The songs are very Bon Iverish… And that I love, all respect to artists that tries to evolve and do new stuff, over and over, but sometimes, the audience just want more in the same genre. And that’s something thats been accomplished here, same wonderful sound with some new and unexpected melodies and shapes. So the verdict… Buy, listen and enjoy.

TRACK LIST
Bon Iver – Bon Iver

1. “Perth” 4:22
2. “Minnesota, WI” 3:52
3. “Holocene” 5:37
4. “Towers” 3:08
5. “Michicant” 3:42
6. “Hinnom, TX” 2:45
7. “Wash.” 4:59
8. “Calgary” 4:10
9. “Lisbon, OH” 1:33
10. “Beth/Rest” 5:17

GET THE ALBUM
If you have Spotify you can find the album here, if you don’t have Spotify you can buy the Album at iTunes here.

This is easily the best invention i’ve read about this year in the cluster of horsepower gadgets. Right now all I can think of is the film The 5th Element with Bruce Willis and the chunky indian style flying cars.

www.hover-bike.com

This song is something that right now fits the mood of this space.

James Blake – Wilhelm Scream

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