Paintaway

While washing dried paint out of his sink from a different project, Michael Chase was inspired by the colors and textures that the combination of water and paint created, and set out to make his own psychedelic patterns armed with only his iPhone, his sink, and different types of paint. He states that the series, entitled Paintaway, “revolves around the central theme of impermanence. The flowing water represents the erosion of time and the paint is symbolic of the physical world we live in.”

Photos via his website.

Fox Business Recommends Brooklyn Bakery for Father’s Day!

Father’s Day is quickly approaching, and Brooklyn Bakery was just featured in this Fox Business article about Father’s Day gifts! You can check out the rest of our iPhone sleeves here, along with our iPhone backs, laptop sleeves, wallets, and Steel Cake watches, all of which would make excellent gifts for Dad! And remember, everything is made of high quality leather and handmade in the USA. Happy Father’s Day, and happy shopping!

Reach for the Clouds

“Lying down on a hill with your pupils filled with the endless blue sky, perspective of your eyesight suddenly gets distorted and clouds drift at the top of your nose. You stretch your arms up to the sky to touch the clouds but can’t reach. Another world right above your head, clouds. Today I visualize my colorful cloud of words right in front of your eyes. Touch the pink clouds drifting on a giant fabric screen, reminisce your favorite childhood clouds of dreams. I spent countless sleepless nights just to realize my unproductive and only romantic cloud of words. But, isn’t it nice if we could feel the clouds at our fingertips?”

So begins Everyware’s description of their interactive installation, Cloud Pink. The installation, located in Seoul, was created by projecting an image onto a large, suspended fabric screen that responds to touch, allowing viewers to achieve a childhood (and current) dream: to touch the clouds. Everyware is a Korean computing group comprised of Hyunwoo Bang, assistant professor at Seoul National University, and Yunsil Heo, who has an MFA degree from UCLA. For all you tech geeks, Cloud Pink was produced using Processing, Kinects, GLSL, and projectors. Be sure to check out the videos below as well.

Photos/videos via Everyware’s website, here, and here.

Vintage Glam: The Brooklyn Bakery launches the “Williamsburg Collection”, Leather iPhone covers

Press Release:

The Brooklyn Bakery is excited to debut it’s latest collection of leather accessories: iPhone covers. Great for those that don’t like the use a case, but would still like some stylish protection.

There are 25 designs to choose from The Brooklyn Bakery’s “Williamsburg Collection”, a collection is inspired by Williamsburg, Brooklyn: a hub of vintage revival, art, music, indie rock, and hipster culture. The phone backs go on with an adhesive which can be easily removed without residue and leaves sufficient space for the iPhone camera flash to shine through.

Designed and produced in NYC, The Brooklyn Bakery’s phone backs sell through their online shop with prices ranging from $25 – $30. Keep an eye on the online shop as it is updated with new releases frequently.