Poccuo Latest http://www.poccuo.com/ Design related what-not and soforth from Poccuo. EN All content copyright Poccuo. All rights reserved. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:42:24 PST <![CDATA[Floppy Art]]> Floppy Art

Artist Nick Gentry uses discarded floppy disks as a basis for his portraits. Each disk represents the increasing pace of the modern life cycle, where objects are quickly created, used, and discarded, and by using them to create art, he gives them a new life.

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]]> 2010-03-10 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST <![CDATA[White Lakes]]> White Lakes

Photographer Jan von Holleben and painter Michelle Jezierski teamed up to blend the mediums into a series of works that depict the blindingly white yet colorful landscapes of Norway.

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]]> 2010-03-09 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST <![CDATA[Your Favorite Letter]]> Your Favorite Letter

Poccuo-ers Phil and Kim started another side project called Your Favorite Letter through which visitors can build a word together by voting for their favorite letter of the round.

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]]> 2010-03-08 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST <![CDATA[Upside Downy Face]]> Upside Downy Face

St. Louis-based photography studio Bruton Stroube has an interesting side project: a collection of portraits taken upside down but presented as right-side up. Some people’s features give away the secret more than others’.

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]]> 2010-03-05 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST <![CDATA[Strangers]]> Strangers

Benoit Paille, a 24-year-old Canadian photographer, has a great eye for composition and lighting. Through his Stranger project on Flickr, he approaches random people on the street with the intent “to question the modern world and to try to break the individualism and the anonymity of the big city.”

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]]> 2010-03-04 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST <![CDATA[Notologist]]> Notologist

Poccuo founders Phil and Kim started a side project called Notologist where they leave notes around and see who responds. Check out some of the responses they’ve gotten so far.

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]]> 2010-03-03 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST <![CDATA[Self-Publishing Pros and Cons]]> Self-Publishing Pros and Cons

Novelist and essayist Steve Almond explains why he dove into the world of self-publishing and goes on a rant about what a boon this is to the world of writers (and readers).

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]]> 2010-03-02 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST <![CDATA[Updating the 5]]> Updating the 5

Artist Richard Ankrom was fed up with the signage on Highway 5 in Los Angeles, so he took matters into his own hands by installing the necessary signage. Guess what—it worked.

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]]> 2010-03-01 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST <![CDATA[Hvass&Hannibal]]> Hvass&Hannibal

Hvass&Hannibal is a multi-disciplinary arts and design studio based in Copenhagen. Its founders, Nan Na Hvass and Sofie Hannibal, try to maintain a balance between non-commercial and commercial projects, and keep their minds and hands challenged.

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]]> 2010-02-26 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST <![CDATA[Crayon Chronology]]> Crayon Chronology

This is a great analysis (and chart) of how Crayola’s colors have evolved over the past 100 years.

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