Cinemacity App

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The idea to merge old cinema with real urban navigation is not new. Few years ago a Briton called it Augmented Reality Cinema but never completed it and today we found that French Art TV channel gone further with this idea and released CINEMACITY web and mobile application. Cinemacity geolocates film excerpts throughout Paris, exactly where they were shot. Different cinewalks are available to users, enabling them to discover the city through the lens of cinema. I am wondering when Foursquare will do something similar http://vimeo.com/66319660

Cinemacity App

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The idea to merge old cinema with real urban navigation is not new. Few years ago a Briton called it Augmented Reality Cinema but never completed it and today we found that French Art TV channel gone further with this idea and released CINEMACITY web and mobile application. Cinemacity geolocates film excerpts throughout Paris, exactly where they were shot. Different cinewalks are available to users, enabling them to discover the city through the lens of cinema. I am wondering when Foursquare will do something similar http://vimeo.com/66319660

Smart Billboards by Ogilvy France

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While Russians (Voskhod) gained 4 Golden Lions in Cannes for their social anti-advertisement of road potholes, guys from Ogilvy France did smart billboards that enhance the urban environment. The intriguing billboards incorporate flat design in a 3-Dimensional capacity, building benches, awnings and helpful ramps to make the urban landscape a little bit “smarter.” By rethinking this simple medium, their message links the tech giant with innovation, intelligence and ingenuity in the physical world—a major feat of creative strategy.

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http://vimeo.com/67570047

5m80 by Nicolas Deveaux

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Have you ever seen high diving giraffes? Now don't tell me you have not.

This extremely talented writer and director of animation films (3D and relief) finds his inspiration within his two passions, image and the animal world. In 2003, fresh out of school he directed 7Tonnes3, a short-film of a champion elephant trampoline jumper. He is with Paris-based Cube Creative, and this film is in celebration of their 10th anniversary.

Watch their Demo Reel on https://vimeo.com/42686714

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ME.WE Green Car

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ME.WE is the car, designed by French architect and designer Jean-Marie Massaud in collaboration with Toyota, is billed as an "anti-excess" vehicle. It’s completely electric, with a lightweight tubular aluminum frame and 100% recyclable polypropylene panels, each of which only weigh 14 kilograms. The target weight for the entire ride is 750 kilograms, around 20% less than a traditional car of the same size. The ME.WE is designed to be built with as little environmental impact as possible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W18Hxuox6u0

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Darkened Cities by Thierry Cohen

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Thierry Cohen is seen as one of the pioneers of digital photography. Since 2010 he has devoted himself to a single project – “Villes Eteintes” (Darkened Cities) – which depicts the major cities of the world as they would appear at night without light pollution, or in more poetic terms: how they would look if we could see the stars. (via BD)

To make the work he combines two photographs, one with the retouched night city and second with the sky in a same angle of the cityscape and latitude just where it is possible to see the stars like the Mojave, the Sahara, and the Atacama Desert.

Anamorphic Paintings by Felice Varini

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No digital pixels were harmed while Felice created this huge anamorphic installations using only the paint and eye tricks. He has been creating these massive pieces since 1979; starting small with room based installations, but later growing to pieces that cover entire villages and require a hike up a mountain to properly appreciate. http://www.varini.org/

Philippe Starck's PIBAL an Urban Hybrid Bike/Scooter

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Philippe Starck unveils the bike-scooter hybrid PIBAL for Bordeaux citizens. 3000 of the bikes are expected to be manufactured by Peugeot by the end of this year, and will be added to Bordeaux’s bicycle sharing program. The City PIBAL Streamer is basically a scooter and a bike compacted into one though the Bordelais (citizens of Bordeaux) are happy to have their very own custom-created public bike and no longer need to feel snubbed by metropolises like Paris and Copenhagen who got their own custom-created public bicycles a while ago.

Read more on http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.ru/2013/02/philippe-starcks-pibal-urban-bike.html

The Street Art of IEMZA

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IEMZA is the alias of an artist living and working in Reims, France. He is fascinated by chaotic settings, reinforced concrete and abandoned building – basically, rubble. Which forms the mainspring for most of his output. He views these disregarded spaces as fertile ground in which his creations can be born – germinated paradoxically by what appears to have sunk into oblivion and desertion.

"The rendering of my wall compositions is close to a sketch, integrating a vast hierarchy of lines."

https://www.facebook.com/IEMZA