Author: Ty Dunitz

We see the avant-garde every day, in every discipline; across visual art, industrial design, music, architecture, hell, even cooking, creatives are making content and structure of every conceivable variety, style and flavor. True masters of these crafts routinely take their chosen medium to the cutting edge, doing everything that can be done with their tools. The diversity is staggering. So what’s up with the web, man? Seriously, what are we doing? Where is the innovation? Where is the artistry? Where is the experience? It would not at all be incorrect to say that the internet is an artistic…

Netherlandic designers Edhv truly know everything’s been done before. Through the use of in-house software, Edhv has tracked the movement of insects to create artworks speaking to the concept of reactive identities. Seriously. That image above? Painted by insects. I know. Totally rad. Different patterns are the result of differences in species of insect, lighting and environmental conditions, environment structure, and even insect gender and size. But it doesn’t even stop there: they’ve even taken the concept to industrial design by getting ants to walk around inside a model of a chair,…

If it hasn’t already become apparent over the last several years, bamboo is totally the go-to green material of the future. It has a trillion uses: building material, food, weapon, kung fu fight scenery, torture device, death trap. The list just don’t stop. Hipster contemporary artists the Starn Brothers have erected ‘Big Bambú’ on top of the MOMA. Looking like a giant panda took a crap on building’s roof, Big Bambú is a deceptively-intricate interlace of stalks that resembles nothing if not an Amon Tobin album cover. “We’re also talking about Western civilization, the interconnected…

Warning: Don’t click ‘More’ if you’re unable to handle images a tad on the morbid side. Seriously. This is nothing if not controversial. That aside, this is possibly the most eye-opening ‘don’t talk and drive’ anti-cellphone campaigns I’ve ever seen, and I’m sure you’ll agree. The idea of this campaign, by the Bangalore Traffic Police, is that if you dare call a friend or relative while he/she is driving, their peril is just as much your fault as it is theirs. Talk about a guilt trip. Personally, I tend to disagree with the message this campaign is sending: If I order a hamburger at McDonald’s, I’m…

Today I’m revealing an awful lot of secrets, but I figure you readers and I are BFF enough at this point that I can confide in you, right? Of course I can. International readers: I’m Canadian. Before you go ragging on my obvious love of curling and maple-flavored things, let me tell you as an authority on snow and snow-like phenomena, it gets pretty stormy up here sometimes. My American friends are sissies for complaining about Stateside weather. But Saturn is currently making even us Canucks look weak. Much larger than any Earth storm, Saturn’s currently experiencing a blizzard so epic, it’s visible…

People of Techi, I have a confession: I’ve been keeping something from you. I’ve been hiding something wonderful, and the guilt is simply too much to bear any longer. I’ve got to get this off my chest, and into your hands. That sounds kind of gross. Anyway, Super Mario Bros is inarguably the most famous videogame of all time (actually, maybe it’s Pac-Man. I’m totally just guessing). Nevertheless, SMB has been the subject of countless tributes over the years, and this thing what I done been hiding from you is possibly the greatest of them all. Enter Super Mario Crossover, a complete recreation of the…

Well, that was quick. Apple has announced that it sold it’s millionth iPad this past Friday, after only 28 days on the market. Said Stevie “Wonder” Jobs: “One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone. Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.” Magical, huh? So you mean, like, necromancy, right Steve? Perhaps hypnotism? In addition, users have already syphoned their money into Apple’s hands to the tune of 12 million iPad apps. One million…

I’ll be honest – I don’t really have any witty remark for this right out of the gate. Hey, it’s early, alright? Give me a few minutes. I don’t wake up to a knife like this every morning. Flickr user and readily-apparent Lego enthusiast Robiwan Kenobi (oh, clever) has cannibalized his Bionicle collection to make this prorotype Swiss Army knife, featuring some of the most badassed accessories an aspiring woodsman could hope for. Of course, I say ‘prototype’ under the assumption Mr. Kenobi has every intention of lobbying this concept for actual production. You’re sitting on a gold mine, Robi. Don’t…

See my name, above this post? Click it, and you’ll see no shortage of posts about wicked awesome bikes. I love wicked awesome bikes. But first, check out this wicked awesome bike. Liron Bobrov’s Soopa Scoota is a total death sentence of a device – not truly a ‘bike’, the Tron-inspired Scoota is a downhill sled on two wheels, looks like it fell out of Extreme-G, and if it isn’t the most badass mode of transportation you’re going to see today, just… just, leave your computer and go sit in a parking lot for awhile, man. Ironically, I’m not a cyclist. I’m also so, so sorry I don’t have a video for you. [Via Yanko]…

Hold your horses, guys – I don’t mean ‘as a company’. Apple is wonderful, we all love Apple. But where Apple is ‘sliding downhill’, truly, is in their interaction design. I used to be a guy who liked to use his iPod from his pocket. Ever since the Touch/iPhone, I can no longer do that due to lack of tactile feedback, and now Apple has filed a patent application to bring this non-tactile experience to the Macbook Pro’s aluminum casing, of all things, in the form of ‘invisible buttons’. …GHOST BUTTONS! Spooky. Yeah, it’s still really cool (especially what appears to be a phantom Click Wheel build into…