I was watching a very insightful programme called The Truth about Exercise by Horizon presented by acclaimed scientific BBC presenter Michael Mosley, he like many of us want to be healthier and fitter. The programme looks at new research into how intense short bursts of exercise combined with increasing activities throughout your day which many would not see as "exercise" such as walking, standing and fidgeting can make a dramatic difference to your health and the calories you burn; reducing the risk of many health problems such as type two diabetes and high blood pressure.

A few days after this rather revealing documentary, I stumbled across an ingenious piece of design and technology that could quite literally change the way you live and help you stay healthy. The device is called Up which is created by the exceptional forward thinking company Jawbone who are leading the way in personal mobile technology; "Up combines sophistated technology and sleek design to offer a durable, easy to wear, intelligent, motion-sensing band that lives on your wrist 24/7 and inspires you to live a healthier life." 

The device is designed to work with their IPhone App which collates all the information and presents it to the user in a very well crafted software interface to create an exceptional all round product to help promote an active lifestyle all for the price of £80. 

I found this brilliant product called little printer created by Berg which is a London-based design consultancy which works with the worlds top companies such as google and Intel to create new and innovative ways to interact with people through the use of technology. The company is a rising star and you should take note, one of their best projects to date is the Little Printer which creates bespoke instant information print outs from your favourite newspaper and web platforms, watch the video!. 

"We are deep believers in a kind of tech-enabled socializing that doesn’t exist yet," says Matt Webb, CEO of Berg.

All rights reserved Richard Mosse 

After the deaths in Syria of World renowned Journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28 the media took a pause and looked more closely at the under reported conflicts around the World. Colvin often spoke about the need for taking risk, and it was the reporting by her and other journalists like her who went into areas of conflict that helped influence the public and the political machine to sometimes take action, and gave the people in these areas much needed support.

Artists have for along time too been involved in this process of bringing a subject to the forefront of culture and society, Richard Mosse is one such individual. Mosse has for years have been photographing War zones and conflict areas such as Lebanon, the Middle East and most recently The Congo, the Infra Project is perhaps his most recognised work. Mosse is widley known having an exceptional back catalogue, having exhibited his work around the World. His work has aided in transforming often indescribable situations in the Congo into a profound visual perspective. He will be showing the Infra Project at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool from 30th March - 10th June 2012 

"Richard Mosse’s Infra project uses obsolete military surveillance technology, a type of infrared colour film called Kodak Aerochrome, to investigate ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Originally created to detect targets for aerial bombing, Kodak Aerochrome film registered a spectrum of light beyond what the human eye can see, rendering foliage in vivid hues of lavender, crimson and hot pink.

On his journeys in eastern Congo between 2010-11, Mosse photographed rebel groups constantly switching allegiances, fighting nomadically in a jungle war zone plagued by frequent ambushes, massacres, and systematic sexual violence. These narratives urgently need telling but cannot be easily described.

Infra offers a radical rethinking of how to depict a conflict as complex as that of the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The images initiate a dialogue with photography that begins as a meditation on a broken documentary genre, but ends as an elegy for a land touched by tragedy.

Richard Mosse was born in Ireland in 1980. He currently lives and works in New York.

He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York." 

The shop has a limited front facade though its street presence is optimized by floor to ceiling glazing. The unique interior and forward thinking brand of this bread shop is apparent to the public, attracting new customers to the premises. If this bread shop was in my area and not in Australia I would go there every day, firstly because of the bread and secondly because of the architecture.

baker d. chirico' by march studio in carlton, australia | all rights reserved march studio image © peter bennetts

baker d. chirico' by march studio in carlton, australia | all rights reserved march studio image © peter bennetts

All rights reserved fire drawing stills from studio glithero, 2012

The london-based design Studio Glithero made up of Tim Simpson and Sarah Van Gameren, have created a number of exciting projects one of my favourites is their 'fire drawings'. The work is created through a curious process of painting a concise pattern onto wood using highly flammable screen-print paint to cut a path through the wood once it has been set alight, leaving a natural and unique looking design scorched into the wood.  

'The protagonist in the fire drawings is a flame. It travels through time over a path of flammable screen-printed paint,multiplying or merging together, drawing, leaving a decorative charcoal trace as it goes along. Each piece in the series choreographs a different path of a flame, that starts burning from a single fuse and then branches and multiples towards a climax a burning circle of fire. The remaining charcoal pattern resonates a memory of a moment that has already been. literally and metaphorically it is the ashes of a process.' Studio Glithero

All rights reserved Jim Sanborn The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series

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I have like so many of my friends have been following Paddy Considines work since I saw him in Dead Mans Shoes and then saw him out do that performance in the brilliant Red Riding Trilogy by Channel Four. The trilogy is based on David Peace's cult noir novels about Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s exploring murder, greed and corruption. I stumbled across this brilliant Q&A by Rosanna Greenstreet from the Guardian so I thought I'd spread the word. 

Q&A: Paddy Considine | The Guardian

Paddy Considine, 38, was born in Staffordshire. In 1999, he made his screen debut when his friend, the British film-maker Shane Meadows, cast him in A Room For Romeo Brass. He went on to star in Dead Man's Shoes, which he co-wrote with Meadows. His other films include 24 Hour Party People, In America, Hot Fuzz and The Bourne Ultimatum. His directorial debut, Dog Altogether, won the 2008 Bafta for best short film. His first feature, Tyrannosaur, has won more than 20 awards and is out now on DVD and Blu-ray.

What is your earliest memory?
Hanging from a window dressed as Superman, looking at the 20ft drop and feeling anything but super. My big brother Chubby rescued me.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
 Self-doubt – it's like an illness.

What was your most embarrassing moment?
 My hairdo in a film called The Backwoods. I look like I've strolled out of a Confessions movie.

Property aside, what's the most expensive thing you've bought?
 A copy of Propeller by Guided By Voices. There were only 500 made.

Where would you like to live?
 In my dog's head.

What would your super power be?
 I'd like to master some of the basics before I move on to super powers. I can't even put up shelving.

If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?
 A Tyrannosaurus rex – I'd feed it people. I'd raise it to love only me, then, when it got too big, I'd flog it off to be experimented on. A bit like Project Nim.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Geordie Shore. The girls are really wonderful in it.

What is your favourite word?
"Marmalise" – it means to give somebody a good clip around the ear. My mum used to use it if I wound her up, although I never got a hiding. I heard Ozzy Osbourne use it a few years ago, and it immediately brought back memories of my mum.

What is the worst thing anyone's said to you?
A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

What does love feel like?
Like being hit in the face by a gigantic slice of humanity pie.

What was the best kiss of your life?
When I first kissed my wife. It lasted for ever. She got home two hours late and her dad (now my father-in-law) thought I was some dirty herbert corrupting his daughter, but we were in love. I didn't corrupt her until some months after.

If you could edit your past, what would you change?
I wouldn't smoke in my teens. I think it stunted my growth. I was potentially a six-footer.

If you could go back in time, where would you go?
The late 70s, to the punk era. I think punk was the most significant explosion of art and expression in the last 30 years. God, that sounds wanky. I'd just go back to the Victorian age and watch the Elephant Man live in some shop window in Stepney.

How do you relax?
I take my copy of Boxing News to the lavatory and lock the door.

What keeps you awake at night?
The thought that I'm being observed by aliens. I saw a UFO and I have this feeling they are coming back. To probe me. They tend to do that.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Just do your shit.

by Rosanna Greenstreet | Rosanna Greenstreet on Twitter

Press Release

"Sober Industries and Studio Rewind took the Tiger mapping project to another level. For the 'Rotterdamse Museumnacht2011' we built two large sculptures. Both sculptures were projected with mapped visuals. New in this project was the interactive part. The spectators were able to control the visuals projected by a custom made cubicle with motion sensors and buttons. By tilting the cubicle the color of the visuals changed and the buttons were used to skip through the visuals and to create other effects like blending and scratching. The sculptures are made entirely out of wood and can be disassembled to smaller pieces which are more easy to transport."

'Welcome into the future' Sober Industries x Studio Rewind from SOBER-INDUSTRIES on Vimeo.