Polaroid Instant Film Camera Re-launched
Following the widely publicized death of Polaroid film, it appears as the brand (alongside the recent appointing of Lady Gaga as creative director) will re-visit its iconic range of instant film cameras. With a ressurgence in film as of late, perhaps Polaroid will once again re-create the realm of instant film photography. The cameras will take on a retro aesthetic with a reliance on Polaroid 1000 film. A release date is slated for later this year with cameras set below the $100 USD mark.
Source:
hypbeast.com
Grand New!
It’s up and running! Check out Grand New, McJawn’s new arts and culture video magazine! Huzzah!
Currently, it’s only Safari & Google Chrome safe. Firefox friendly version coming later today!
The internet is amazing.
A man, a song, a video game collection. What could be better?
(oh, watch out for some man-ass around 2 min in, not sure why but he moons the camera twice, in sync with the song.)
happy saturday
We Make Magazines
An explosion of independent magazines, not quite zine-like, has hit home in Philly. If you’ve walked into any local coffee shop, these magazines are usually stacked pile-high in the corner next to those dying plants. Indie mags are still experimenting and cultivating the future trends in the magazine game, yet not risking all of the traditional mag approach. McJAWN is an independent magazine, but because we have no money, we don’t do print. However, we still deliver the same quality you can find in print media. Our staff spends the same amount of time researching and developing their articles. It’s inspiring to see other magazines doing the same. I just got this book and I think it’s worth looking at if you’re interested in starting up your own indie mag.
We Make Magazines explores magazine culture and celebrates the energy and visual dynamite that can be found outside the publishing mainstream. Edited by passionate magazine connoisseurs, it features exclusive interviews with international experts and illustrates the diverse topics that are fundamental to magazine publishing. While showcasing more than 100 independent magazines from 30 countries around the globe with stunning spreads and layouts, it also includes a directory to over 700 of the most cutting-edge independent magazines. We Make Magazines is an essential read for everyone with a passion for print.
Urban Trying to Bring it Back with the Polaroids
A while ago, McJAWN staff photographers were lamenting about the death of Polaroids. Well… don’t cry, dry your eye, because here’s Urban Outfitters bringing back those fuzzy-instant-photo cameras. UO will offer 700 Polaroid kits that will include a pack of instant film and a Polaroid ONE600 camera the last instant film camera the company produced. They’ll be available for sale online on August 28th, so mark your calendars. I’m sure some of us here at McJAWN, will be happy to know that Polaroids are no longer a thing of the past.
Apple selling new Original iPods in their store for $130
Hungry for some retro 2001 throwback, or want to finally buy the iPod your parents wouldn’t buy for you? Well, it appears that the Apple Store is selling a number of those, brand new for $129. Seems a lot to pay, but I’m sure some nerd somewhere is saying “well there’s nothing like the original mechanical scrollwheel iPod”. Ignore the picture featured, it’s wrong.
If you’re interested, click here to go to the page.
[via gizmodo]
Olympic Cyclist Chris Boardman Designs Theft and Puncture Proof Future Bike
Chris Boardman, an Olympic cyclist, reveals his design for a carbon, theft, and puncture proof bicycle that looks like it’s straight out of the future. Apparently you could build one today, if you had a bajillion dollars.
If you ask me, it looks pretty awesome in this ‘this is what the future looks like’ way. Not sure if I’d actually not feel like a huge douche while riding it.
At least it comes with sweet deep v rims. Totally gotta keep up my messenger image brand.
Read about it more on Gizmodo here
Videographers Needed For The Mad Decent Block Party
McJAWN has their hands full, but perhaps you would want to take a stab at it. Mad Decent are looking for some nifty videographers to work with Duey / System D12 for their block party this Saturday. You need to have your own equipment, though: Panasonic HVX or HPX w/ 35mm adapter w/lenses, your own P2 cards, Sony EX-3 w/ 35 lens adapter or Canon 5D mark II camera w/35mm lenses.
E-mail dueyfm@maddecent.com, if you’re interested.
The FREE Houdini
Discover new music, especially free ones.
Anticon is proud to present the newest addition to the Themselves catalog, a 39-minute-long free album of sorts, theFREEhoudini. Featuring guest appearances from Buck 65, Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Lionesque, Slug of Atmosphere, D-Styles, DJ Baku, Pedestrian, Sole, Serengeti, and Yoni Wolf and Odd Nosdam as cLOUDDEAD (not to mention the whole entire mixtape being mixed down by Nosdam as well), theFREEhoudini serves as Doseone and Jel’s return, posse record that never was, and contribution to the mixtape medium circuit so tied to hip hop’s history.
In the meantime, check out Jel’s bedroom live mix of sweetcreaminit…
Get Windows 7 Before It Comes Out!
Hello fellow avid PC-users, download Windows 7 for free before it comes out. The free download is only available until August 20th.
Some of the great new features of Windows 7 are…
- Improved task-bar: Similar to Mac’s desktop, there’s a task-bar located on the bottom on the screen, that visually display thumbnails when you hover over the icons. You can organize and rearrange your icons by dragging and dropping.
- Jump List feature: You can quickly reach the files you’ve been working with by right-clicking on any icon located on the desktop or task bar. For example, if you right-click on a Word icon, they will show you the most recent Word documents.
- Desktop Enhancements: There are now more intuitive ways to open, close, re-size and arrange your windows.
- And many other new features.
To get the new Windows 7, click here.
BLOWING MY MIND
If your going to put that much effort into virtual (is this the proper term?) skateboarding I think you might as well just skate IN REALITY. I never imagined any of this could ever exist when I was a wee young-in playing the 8-bit Mario and wondering why the princess was always getting “kidnapped” by Bowser. I think what went down was she was in cahoots with the king of the koopas and when Mario got suspicious she cried “Princess Napping”. I hope they make a Turok for this I am definitely trying to kick some virtual dinosaur butt.
Monkey Electric Bike Wheel LEDs Make Your Wheels Pretty While You Ride
For just $60, you can turn your bike wheel into a custom, spoke mounted, dazzling 256 color all-weather LED display. With a little programming savvy, users can create custom images and even videoesque clip to add a little zazz (and perhaps even save your life) with its super bright LEDs. Probably great for acid as well.
Bored? Stalk the President on the White House Flickr!
Well in case you haven’t heard the news, The White House officially has a Flickr account, complete with professional photographs of the Prez and various staffers working hard and hardly working. It’s like C-SPAN minus the boring.
This also means that there’s a government job to update the flickr. Go Economic Stimulus!!!
Cops Gone Wild (Again)
Philebrity covered this but I think it’s worth giving the vid a wider circulation
It’s sort of creepy how freaked out cops get when you videotape them, like, when they realized they might be held accountable for what they’re doing. (Right?).
Gameboyz in the Hood
Being the in-the-closet nerd that I am, I hate to admit that I have an annual subscription to Wired magazine. When I’m hanging out with my friends, who are pretty much into hiphop and being cool, it’s hard bringing up conversations like Japan’s latest robotic whores without getting the “WTF” stares. Anywho, in the latest Wired there’s an article by Steven Leckart who says there’s always love for technology in the hiphop world. So, who said computers aren’t hood?
Test your street cred by filling in the blanks to these lyrics.
1. “The ‘S’ in __________ really stands for sex / Beeper’s goin off like Don Trump gets checks”
“Skypager,” A Tribe Called Quest (1991)
2. “Only way to roll, Jigga and two ladies / I’m too cold, __________ two-way page me, c’mon”
“I Just Wanna Love U (Give It To Me),” Jay-Z (2000)
3. “Last month I spent two weeks on a vacation / I had a dream that I was inside of my __________”
“Rap 2k1,” Masta Ace (2001)
4. “Meth Man’s left hand __________ / Def Jam’s employee of the month, now let’s dance”
“Let’s Do It,” Method Man feat. Redman (2004)
5. “Put away change for Ibiza / And check your credit on your new __________”
Untitled, M.I.A. (2005)
Answers: 1. Skypager, 2. Motorola, 3. Playstation, 4. Gameboy Advance, 5. Nokia
Contrail
Combining bicycle safety and a sense of whimsy, Contrail is a tool that sends a colorful message to the mobile community. The small apparatus attaches to any bike’s seat tube and applies a thin layer of chalk powder in one of several colors to the rear tire.
The result is an eye-catching streak that traces wherever you ride. In addition to visually enhancing the street, it serves as a directional guide for subsequent cyclists and a constant reminder to motorists that they should share the road.
Developed by Brooklyn-based Studio Gelardi, Contrail was created as part of last year’s Design21 “Power to the Pedal” Design Competition, where it was a finalist.
Find out more about Contrail and Studio Gelardi’s other designs on their website.
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/03/contrail_biking.php
Gmail Writes Back!
Check it out! Gmail just came out with a new update called Autopilot which can automatically respond to recieved emails! Hate having to make small talk with that guy you met at the art show? Let Gmail do it for you! Just by scanning sent messages and with a few neat slider bars to finely tune the messages, Gmail is now your personal assistant! Check it out here.
April Fools haha.
YourFonts Turns Your Handwriting Into a Free TrueType Font
Now that spring break has begun, I find myself not knowing what to do with all my newfound free time. Luckily I found YourFonts, a company that will take your handwriting and turn it into a free font for you to use on your computer. Just download and print the .pdf, print it, write on it, upload it, and download your font. Then inform all of your friends that hand-lettering anything is for chumps.
Virtual Reality Headset “Titilliates” All Five Senses, Makes You Look Like A Douche
(chances are this is the only time you’ll see a chick [?] wearing this)British scientists have designed a helmet that immerses you in a virtual reality that allegedly stimulates all five senses, eliminating essentially any reason you would have to leave your couch
What makes this device so unique is that in addition to the sight and sound experience other, lesser helmets could provide, this one also features hot and cold air fans and a “smell tube” (What a name!). It also features a device to “squirt flavors” into the wearer’s mouth.
The developers argue that the helmet will change the way students experience history, immersing children into rich historical experiences. It seems more likely it will just allow dudes to live in basements longer and enhance their porn and WoW experiences (via aforementioned smell tubes and squirting flavors).
On the other hand, like past virtual reality devices, the user will still look like a tool. Wearing this well definitely still get you beat up and your lunch money stolen.
Read more about it here
Holy Shit! Did I Just Break The Internet?!
(this is either some abstract expressionist, or the internet is tripping balls)Usually, the internet makes sense. Today it did not. Through the mysterious guidance of a complete stranger, I found myself at this oddly unique web address that seems to defy all logic and, quite frankly, freak me out a bit.
The web address has nine Ws, Jodi sounds like some secret government operative name, and the .org extension on this guy doesn’t make sense. Beyond that, the visuals are absolutely insane; like a very dyslexic version of one of Radiohead’s more eclectic sites date raped the defense computer in the Matthew Broderick classic Wargames. If that’s not enough, there are about fourteen billion places to click, nothing ever really seems to be the same, and you can’t go back unless you want to start over.
I half expect the FBI to break down my door and arrest me for stumbling upon their secret strategic plans. At least I know my chances of going to gitmo are slim.
http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org if you dare. Host and post the crazy stuff you find.
Update: Well, my postulation was a bit off, and going there won’t actually get you arrested. The site is actually the work of artists Joan Heemskerkn and Dirk Paesmans. A lot of the html is actually detailed diagrams of bombs (view source). Hell if I know how they got a site with so many Ws. Read about on wikipedia (duh). Thanks for the tip Brosé.
Google Map Hits a deer
I thought this was pretty tight. Apparently the google maps truck hit a baby deer somewhere in New York and it captured the whole thing for everyone to see on their “street views” section.
-I got a 5$ starbucks gift card on whoever finds the funniest thing that the google maps truck has captured. Some possible examples may include (but aren’t limited to) people having sex, crimes being committed, people flipping off the truck, etc.
Courtesy of: Mora Mosley-Duffy
Food Truck Vendors With No Internet Access Or Widely Available Phone Numbers, Finally, There Is A Video Podcast For You
Daniel Delaney was once the Twitter personality Ritenhouse Square, that social-media experiment that Philebrity covered months ago. Already quite tired of impersonating parks, Delaney has moved on to a new adventure — a web-based video series called VendyTV. “VendyTV runs parallel with the Rittenhouse project,” he says. “It uses technology to develop community around things don’t have that much community. They are small businesses and can do so well by getting some love. I think street vendors are an important niche to shed some light upon”.
And so became VendyTV. Vendy TV sets out to cover the best curbside cuisine the world has to offer. That’s right, the world. “If you take my love of food and mix of love of entrepreneurship you get VendyTV,” says Delaney. “I have been cooking for many years and dine out at the drop of a hat. I like to try as many foods as I can get my hands on. I also want to break the stigma around street food. It is not dirty food, it is great food made by hard working people.”
The VendyTV crew has over a handful of upcoming shoots — some in Philly as well as NYC — which they are encouraging their Facebook followers to show up for. Vendy TV launches this Sunday with its very first video podcast and the debut of the finished site, something that Delaney is not taking lightly, “The launch is the scary thing because we made a commitment to put out a podcast every week. Now we have to follow through with great content on a regular basis. We are very pleased and very nervous, it’s like going in for the first kiss.” Vendy may be heartbroken, however, when they find out that the Salt Pepper Ketchup guys already got there first.
Wii Spray: Virtual Vandalism
Virtual vandalism? Yes, please. Check out this prototype for a new toy from Wii, the Wii Spray. The spraypaint can-styled casing holds a hacked up Wii controller that is used to manipulate virtual graffiti on a monitor.
The use of WiiSpray is similar of using a real spray can – sans the color and the toxic smells. All you techie heads out there can make your own by simply combining Adobe Flash, a WiiFlashServer and the Nintendo Wii® device.
The idea is that it can provide some sort of social media or public tagging spectacle to allow users all over the globe to work on the same piece of art. Best of all, you can bet there are a wide variety of colors, spray caps, and tagging techniques included.
Now if you’re either too scared to actually hit up the streets or just don’t want to harm public property, you can still get a bit of the thrill of spraypaint (almost).
More Info: http://www.juxtapoz.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=5358
