Science of the Time, formally known as Signs of the Time

The traditional music charts are dead. Welcome to www.wearehunted.com. This website brings you a top 99 of songs based on how often the specific songs are talked about on sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and various message boards and p2p forums. So it’s not about sales or downloads, it’s about the music people talk about with their friends.

LifeGem Company is specialized in creating diamonds from the ashes of your dear deceased ones. This is done by extracting carbon during the cremation process. The ashes from composer Ludwig van Beethoven have already been immortalized. The small diamond of 0.56 carats will be auctioned on eBay to raise funds for charities all over the world.

London Undercover is run by designer Jamie Milestone. His umbrellas  have a convincing touch of “Martin Parr” Britishness. They are bold, eccentric and colorful, but never loud. Essentially British.

The Yes Men is a collective of performers and media guerilla specialists who deliberately enact fake news launches and other staged performances to trigger public opinion on sensitive issue. Like climate change, for instance: the Yes-Men fed Reuters with a fake press conference announcing a historical turning point in the US adoption of carbon footprint reduction measures. Also: their newest movie ’The Yes Men Fix the World‘ is definitely worth to watch. 

It is arguably the most creative, futuristic-looking and safest electric “fan” on the planet at the moment. This highly innovative product has no blades, and was developed by roughly 650 experts on design engineering, electrical engineering, hydrodynamics, motor engineering and so on. Moreover, its engine draws on aeronautical technology, and its 10mm wide, round and patented projector is scientifically designed to maximize wind velocity and the amount of wind coming out of it. It comes in the colours white and blue.

On a regular Sunday morning in São Paulo, one of the most aggressive concrete expressways in the city, commonly known as the “minhocão” or “big worm”, was invaded by 22 people and transformed into a huge canvas. In order to stay within the law and keep the city graffiti-free, whitewash was used to paint a variety of flowers on the asphalt, creating a truly beautiful work of art when seen from above. The author of the masterpiece is artist and photographer Felipe Morozini (along with 21 friends), who lives on the top floor of a building that faces the Elevado Presidente Costa e Silva (the official name of the minhocão).

Mark Ronson, music producer, cover designer and cofounder of Allido Records, has designed a set of trainers for Gucci. The sneakers started to be sold at pop-up boutiques around the world beginning from the late months of 2009 on. 

Yolande Dominguez is a Spanish artist who always expresses here art in a polemic and provocative way. One of her last artistic interference was a “post debate”. She stuck orange posters all over Madrid downtown, where people could read: “Young and good looking girl offers herself to”. Then comes a list of traditional “female obligations”, like getting pregnant, taking care of the child, being elegant and nice at social events or pretending not to see the husband infidelities. So this is the offer of the young and good looking girl. However, please, also have a look what she asks in return. That makes also a long list: a pair of Loewe purses every year, 3 pairs of Prada shoes, a Chanel dress, a Dior coat, a Cartier ring, a Mercedes SLK car etcetera.

The latest habit for British models is cake sniffing. To maintain their slim silhouette they sit at bars and restaurants, order their favorite cakes but simply smell it. The person who reveals this phenomenon prefers to stay anonymous but says it is more “sick yet fascinating” than the more ‘normal’ anorexia.

The http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ blog has transformed the obscure side of human beings into a business, creating an opportunity for exposing what cannot be confessed. The posts are submitted by readers using post cards for making an anonymous intimate confession. There are secrets that are plain, poetic, sad, sexy, as well as some spicy ones. The blog has paved the way for several books, lectures and events. It makes sense: what we are really interested in are other human beings. Even more so if they expose themselves…

The 30 feet high and 1,5 mile long High Line was build in 1930 for transport by freight trains between warehouses and factories in the New York Meat Packing district of Manhattan. Not being used since 1980 property owner lobbied for its demolition, but neighborhood residents advocated for the High Line’s preservation and reuse as public open space. In 2003 an open ideas competition, ”Designing the High Line”, solicited proposals for the High Line’s reuse. 720 teams from 36 countries entered. In June 2009 Section 1 (Gansevoort Street to 20th Street) opened to the public. 

Yang Maolin, Taiwanese artist, transforms himself and superheroes like King Kong, Godzilla and Peter Pan into Buddhist deities, assigning each of them a position in his new pantheon. The new superheroes play their roles as door-guardians, for instance. Or they protect us all while standing on ferocious beasts. Or they take a more harmonious position within lotus flowers like bodhisattvas –while there is a manga look and feel over it all as well.