This evolving wall animation was created as part of the 2011 You Are Here Festival in Canberra. Georgina Edwards and some friends put their sweat, time and passion to create this piece. Nice work guys!

Following on from her multi-award winning, critically acclaimed, self-titled debut album, Ladyhawke (aka Pip Brown) is set to release her second album, ‘Anxiety’ on March 16 via Modular Recordings. Brown again paired up with Sarah Larnach for the album artwork and design. The first single to be taken from Ladyhawkes second album is ‘Black White & Blue’.

The new album was recorded in New Zealand and France earlier this year by producer and long-time collaborator Pascal Gabriel and features ten new songs. Check out the animated album teaser below!

One film that got some good buzz for its emotional honesty at the Sundance Film Festival is I Am Not a Hipster. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Dominic Bogart, it tells the story of a San Diego musician who has to deal with himself and his family during not entirely welcome visits from his father and sister. The teaser trailer doesn’t give much away, but the aesthetic looks and sounds pretty awesome. This may be one of those indie zeitgeist-y films that captures the hearts of auidences. Or, like, not. Watch this space.

I’ve posted some of the luscious Phantom ocean footage of Chris Bryan before – and here’s his latest. It was 27 August 2011 during the Billabong Pro at Teahupoo. Bryan was fortunate enough to be there working for Billabong on a day that will go down in the history of big wave surfing. The French Navy labeled the day a double code red – prohibiting and threatening to arrest anyone that entered the water. Kelly Slater described the day by saying, “witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified for other people’s lives all day long, it’s life or death. Letting go of that rope one time can change your life and not many people will ever experience that in their life.” All images where shot by Chris Bryan using the Phantom HD Gold camera. Phenomenal. And the track, in case you’re wondering, is “Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun” by M83.

Influence and reputation will be the online currency of the future – if they aren’t already. Holly Finn had a nice piece in The Wall Street Journal on how your online interactions will impact your reputation and your offline life:

Reputation was once a qualitative measure of our behavior, vital but vague. Now it’s getting quantitative. Soon there is likely to be an actual numerical reputation score for each of us, like a FICO credit score but for our whole lives.

We’ve got the precursors now, whether or not we’re aware of them. Companies such as PeerIndex, Twitalyzer, Talentag and PostRank (bought by Google) already apply online analytics to establish the heft of an individual’s or business’s “social capital.” This means, broadly, your influence online. How many people do you reach and how many of them take action based on what you say? Are you a preacher or a wallflower?

Even if you’re not online much, your reputation there could still affect you elsewhere. Future reputation scoring will take this into account—not always for the worst. Take a woman of 45, just divorced. She didn’t buy her home, hasn’t worked in years and seems a bad bet for a loan. She’s also a mother, a volunteer, trustworthy. From alternative online data—maybe a church-group blog—a reputation score might build a composite that’s a truer gauge of her risk-worthiness. Some scenarios could be more dastardly, of course. Either way, keeping the right company online, as off, is a good idea. What others say about you matters more and more.

Read the full article at The Wall Street Journal.

Hair colouring brand Koleston used a great outdoor strategy to promote its range of natural hair dyes. The company erected a billboard by the sea-side coast of Beirut, Lebanon that created an interactive user experience by utilising the natural environment. The billboard had a die-cut stencil figure of a woman with long flowing hair. The colour of the hair changes throughout the day depending on the time and weather. The billboard cleverly conveys the brand proposition: Koleston Naturals uses natural ingredients in its products.

[via PSFK]

In a series of Tweets, Kanye West has revelaled plans for a new collective of creatives and developers called DONDA.

DONDA is a design company which will galvanize amazing thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce there dreams and ideas

I am assembling a team of architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist, social media experts, app guys, managers, car designers, clothing designers, DJs, video game designers, publishers, tech guys, lawyers, bankers, nutritionist, doctors, scientist,teachers…

DONDA will be comprised of over 22 divisions with a goal to make products and experiences that people want and can afford. I want to put creatives in a room together with like minds that are all waaaay doper than me. We want to help simplify and aesthetically improve everything we see hear, touch, taste and feel.

We can collectively effect the world through design. We need to pick up where steve jobs left off…

You’ll recall that last April Jay-Z dipped his toe in the editorial field with Life + Times, a lifestyle site which focuses on music, style, art & design and gadgetry. Back then I wrote, “you can see this as a half-veiled attempt by Jay’s publicist to associate him with all things ”hip” and “relevant”. Or you can see it as a natural brand extension for a guy that already permeates so much of our popular culture.”

With the benefit of hindsight, Life + Times was a very half-arsed attempt at brand extension. But, perhaps that’s an unfair comparison, becasue Life + Times never claimed to be changing the world.

DONDA on the other hand?

Even though the announcement was infused with Kanye’s trademark cocky bravado (and can be seen as a brand extension of the rapper/designer), DONDA has a real whiff of entrepreneurial excitement. One thing is certain: doubters will doubt. Haters will hate. Kanye will just keep pushing boundaries. We’ll have to watch this space.

Feel like you fit the bill to help out DONDA? Interested parties can email contactDONDA@gmail.com.

The 2012 Sundance Film Festival is only two weeks away. Having its world premiere screening on opening night at the Festival,  in the prestigious ‘World Cinema Dramatic Competition’ category, is Australian film Wish You Were Here - a psychological drama starring Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price and Antony Starr. Four friends lose themselves in the fun of a carefree South East Asian holiday. But when only three return home, things start to unravel. Shot on location in Sydney and Cambodia, Wish You Were Here looks to be a topical drama about Aussies abroad. Check out the trailer below:

Two compositions created by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke for the clothing company Rag & Bone have hit the web. Entitled “Stuck Together” and “Twist”, the tracks soundtracked the company’s New York Fashion Week events last fall. Stream the recordings below.

[via Vulture]

If you’re in to photography you may remember the excitement we all felt when the Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR was released. Now soon to be released is the new Nikon D4. But, one guy that’s not that excited is Trey Ratcliff.

Ratcliff runs the excellent travel photography blog, Stuck in Customs. He recently ran a thoughtful piece on the new wave of 3rd Gen cameras on their way to market. 3rd Gen cameras, as Ratcliff defines them, are “the new line of cameras that don’t use the 20th century technology of a mechanical mirror inside that flips up and down between photos.”

Ratcliff’s article, titled DSLRs are a dying breed – 3rd Gen cameras are the future, reads like well-measured 3rd Gen enthusiasts manifesto and is enough to make you question whether you need that new lens you were shopping for:

I’m not going to buy any more DLSR bodies or lenses. I’m waiting on the descendants of this first phase of 3rd Gen Cameras. Even though you can make a good case for great cameras like the Sony A77, the new lines of Nikons, Panasonics, etc etc — I want to wait for a few more iterations — but I won’t be waiting long.

3rd Gen Cameras are the clear future category for digital photography. Objectively, these cameras have more advantages than disadvantages.

While I’m certainly not going to be throwing out my DSLR anytime soon, this is food for thought and, moreover, indicative of the wave of technological change coming our way.