DLD +1 Tabdump
January 23rd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
I’m back from Munich, ex-DLD, putting this final edit of Laura W’s test shoot online, deep in cunning plans, and preparing to cook the notable gourmand and fine food writer Graham Holliday dinner on Friday. This is obviously asking for trouble. I thusly offer you the finest of linkage this week, which in the spirit of my brand-dropping co-conferencee Tyler Brulé, are mostly culled from my new Gmund notebook. The new moleskines, I tell you.
All of DLD is on video here, which is awesome watching. Although, I’m not alone in thinking Martha Stewart was really bad, but, hey, at least it was funny. But perhaps not as funny as the no-show of Naomi Campbell, who was meant to be interviewing the President of Rwanda - no, I have no idea why either - and instead decided to lock herself in her hotel room and have a strop. At least this is according to one of the organisers, who proclaimed that “she iz scweeemink und scweeemink” and that they were going on without her.
Much better was Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter getting totally badass (and teaching Dawkins some new stuff) on the Monday morning. The one I’m waiting for - it’s not online yet - was Bjarne Ingels of the Bjarke Ingels Group architecture firm of Copenhagen. Utterly great.
Also lovely, at least by the underlining in my notebook, Neri Oxman, Patrik Schumacher, Greg Lynn coffee cups for Alessi, You Are Not Here. Battlefield Heroes, 19,20,21, Nine Million, and RMB City, by Cao Fei - China Tracy in Second Life - with whom I’ll be working later this year, as part of my ongoing projects at the Serpentine Gallery.
Not speaking, but mentioned in passing, www.addmagic.de puts adverts dynamically into the scenery of online video. Zero Punctuation - the best online video games reviews ever made, PP Live - a Chinese Joost, only 2 years and 20 million people earlier, and LiquidMac. Not to forget ZooZoom’s Blue Angel and John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity.
Most inspiring? Taryn Simon’s photography.

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Comment by nick s on 28 January 2008:
Ah, Gmund. Are they making actual consumer notebooks now, or are these the sample books they offer to artsy types?
Comment by Ben on 29 January 2008:
Nope, genuine notebooks. Very very nice ones too. I splonked €30 on an A4 one that makes me very happy to write in, but they were also giving away samples of very thin reporters notebooks just bigger than credit-card size. Also rather spiffy, if not that many pages. Those were four euros, I think.