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I’d still prefer the Switchbike but this RoadRecumbent with two seats does have a tough, ‘less is more’ look that I like.

Buying a new t-shirt every time a new trend is introduced has a negative effect on the ‘ecological backpack’. This little graphic novel by Kristian Labusga explains why. Watch the video.

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Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the Tiananmen Square protests on 5 June 1989.

Born in Brazil and based in Barcelona street artist Tom14 fights against authorities that don’t listen to the people. He does this by creating street art, music and other creative outbursts. Watch this interesting video by SubmarineChannel.

Volume One is the musical debut album from Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, who named themselves She & Him. Their music sounds like it was made a long time ago. But it isn’t. Enjoy!

Acclaimed sportswriter Frank Deford addresses political issues surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and argues that the Olympic Games have become outdated as a cultural concept.

The facade of this building seems to be a mix of this mirror installation, this reactive wall and this digital sculpture. I wonder what it would look like if they would put mirrors on the building instead of the metal flake bodies that they used.

Business can be done in many ways. Zappos, the online shoe store, turns it into something that everyone enjoys. Both customers and employees. If you want to work for them and you finished their training course, you receive 2000 US dollars if you quit. The reason they do this is to make sure that the new employees are people that are really motivated about working at Zappos.

In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t.

Lizz Wright is an impressive blues/jazz singer who is also great at making famous songs sound like she wrote them.

Just so you know: The next 5 or 6 weeks I’ll switch to summer mode. This means that the Fresh Creation post frequency will not be as high as normal. Could be that I’ll even skip a day now and then. But don’t worry, I’ll keep the inspiration coming. ;-) Enjoy the summer!

Skip the first minute and then see what happens to these steel balls on strings. An impressive kinetic sculpture. Beautiful.

Current.com writes: “Thousands of UK residents have signed a petition against a law preventing photography and filming in certain public places. Yet this all turned out to be a misunderstanding, and no such law was proposed. Rajesh investigates the way we view the lens and the way it views us.” Interesting to see that what can and can’t be filmed isn’t even clear to the authorities.

Sensors inside this faucet detect your hands’ presence and position, and the water follows your hands as they move from side to side.

This Dynamic Architecture building by David Fisher will be constantly in motion changing its shape. It will also generate electric energy for itself. The presentation of the building is really over the top but that doesn’t stop this building from being a pretty interesting concept.

Talking about Phantom Punch, his latest album, Sondre Lerche says: “It’s an Orange Juice meets Fleetwood Mac & My Bloody Valentine meets Gilberto Gil & Os Mutantes meets early Elvis Costello & Prefab Sprout & XTC meets Thomas Dolby meets Steely Dan circa Katy Lied, kind of thing.” Watch the music videos and enjoy!

The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards. Skip the first minute of the clip.

This robotic horse is crazy. It looks like someone found loads of stuff at the car graveyard and put it together in the shape of a horse. The horse blows fire through his nose and seems to be better at scaring kids than at entertaining them. Have a good weekend!

Philips Design examined the growing trend of extreme body adornment like tattoos, piercing, implants and scarring. The Electronic Tattoo film expresses the visual power of sensitive technology applied to the human body.

As a graphic designer, music video and film director, Mike Mills continues to innovate himself, churning out new and inspired stuff all the time, no matter what medium he works in. So enjoy the interview in which Mike reveals his ‘recipe’ for creating an interesting music video.

Here’s a new ‘splatter free’ Paint Pod roller system. The paint doesn’t drip so there’s no need to put plastic covers all over the place before you start painting. On top of that: the system cleans itself.

Here’s a dancefloor that generates electricity by using the energy that comes from the people dancing on it. The electricity will be used for the LED lighting in the club. The dancefloor is part of the Sustainable Dance Club which produces sustainable products for clubs that show the crowd sustainability can be fun.

Ancient Egyptians built the 480-foot-high (146-meter-high) Great Pyramid of Giza from the inside out, according to a French architect. Based on eight years of study, Jean-Pierre Houdin has created a novel three-dimensional computer simulation to present his hypothesis.

The next generation of high-end mobile phones have a few things in common: camera, GPS, fast processor, fast internet connection. Robert Winters and some of his colleagues discussed this and came up with AUGNAV. Augmented Reality Navigation. The clip shows what this will look like.

Giuliano Palma and the Bluebeaters are a rising cover band in Italy and perform a mix of reggae, ska and rocksteady. I really enjoy their version of the song ‘Wonderful Life’ by Black. I added the music video of the original too so you can listen to both versions.

Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter? The narrator of The Danish Poet considers these questions as we follow Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet the famous writer, Sigrid Undset.

This Friday: a funny view on the advertising industry. In the clip you see the several stages of a to be launched marketing campaign, but all the members of the advertising agency speak the truth instead of what they would normally say. Very amusing. Have a good weekend!

Here’s an innovative concept: a train that doesn’t stop to pick people up at a station. I do wonder what happens when a lot of people want to leave the train at a certain station or what happens when a lot of people want to get on the train at once. Still, an interesting concept.

Here’s a couple of bedroom concepts that show the integration of technology and design. I like the design of the ‘Mobi’ but without all the media.

This 50 minutes documentary gives an in-depth look in the world of Google and search. Google is divulging ever more information, in the process hiring the smartest people in the industry. But is the company aware of the responsibility it has, being the guard to all the world’s information, including personal information about its users?

What happens when you film yourself while making a drawing and then play it backwards? Jon Philips knows. He made a bunch of ‘Backwards Comics’ using this recipe. I posted three of his episodes here.

Lena Gieseke made a stunning 3D version of Picasso’s Guernica. It really gives you the feeling that you’re diving into the painting. Beautiful.