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Mesmerizing video of Kuroshio Sea

Matthew Rodriguez — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:29:04 +0000

Jon Rawlinson captured this beautiful high def recording of the Kuroshio Sea tank, one of the largest in the world, located at Okinawa’s Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. This impressive environment contains eighty different aquatic species including four whale shark (the largest living fish species) in a tank that is “ten metres deep, 35 metres wide [...]

Chic hotel packaging

Matthew Rodriguez — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:45:09 +0000

Barcelona’s Chic and Basic Born Hotel provides guests with amenities that jumps on the typeface design bandwagon with some bold and straightforward messaging.

Blu in Barcelona

Matthew Rodriguez — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:16:10 +0000

Earlier this year, street artist Blu, whose must watch short film starring an animated creature painstakingly painted on public walls virally caught fire last year on the Internet, created this shark mural earlier this year in Barcelona for the 2009 Influencers festival.

Band To Watch: El Guincho

Sundance Channel — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:00:00 +0000

This past week we found ourself unable to stop listening to “Antillas,” a five-minute bundle of clattering loops and sunny harmonies, from Barcelona-via-Canary Islands one-man band El Guincho, aka Pablo Diaz-Reixa, and his entirely addictive self-released Alegranza, so we contacted the man himself and asked if we could post it. When he wrote back, he [...]