Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Featured on Google as the unofficial Hayao Miyazaki fan club president?! Martin Hsu… the title, the man, the artist, our friend. No, he’s not really a president just yet, but this is great to see. His art is already something you should know about, but the rest? Google dug him out and pushed him forward. Now a bay area resident, Martin Hsu is no stranger to fun things. We caught up with him at the Little Tokyo Design Week capsule below, and witnessed him doing some crazy Step during the DJ set. He’ll be showing at GR2 quite soon, October! Read more about Martin Hsu at (Google Geek Out – Martin Hsu)
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Want $30 million dollars from Google? It’s easy, land your moon rover and have it do some research over 500 meters and take a bunch of HD pics (yes, iPhone 4 can work – maybe) and you have it. First how to get the vehicle on the moon? Rent space on a rocket that’s already going there, via China? Maybe the Chinese team who years to walk the moon will just do this manually. It has to be a rover, so why not push a cardboard box across the sand of the moon, take pics, grab some samples and bask in the riches. You have a until New Years Eve 2015. (Daily Mainichi – Lunar X)
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The Calder Google Doodle. Yes, the “mid century modern” sculptor would be 113 today. People who don’t know him already, should. He’s the greatest designer of mobiles and stabiles. All the cool ones you see are ripping him off. We like the shading below. You can play with this, make it turn, and more. Naturally it works best on Chrome. Duh. (PCWorld – Calder)
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“In honor of the summer solstice – the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere – Google has tapped a guest Doodler, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, to create a special anime flavored kawaii logo for Google’s home page.” (Search Engine Watch)
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