Open_Sailing was featured on the independent Chinese news channel NTV. You can watch the segment below, or here.
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Author: Ollie Palmer
Open_Sailing & ARS Electronica
Open_Sailing ARS proposal, 2009
Open_Sailing is proud to announce that it is the winner of the 2009 ARS Electronica Next Big Idea prize, with a three-month residency in Linz, Austria and a place at the ARS Electronica show in September. We’re hoping to float the Open_Sailing prototype on the Danube (where we’ll be living on-board), so that visitors will be able to board, explore and imagine their own life on the ocean.
Open_Sailing on WMMNA
Open_Sailing crew recently took part in an interview with Regine Debatty of We Make Money Not Art.
Read the interview here.
iPod cardboard casing
People keep asking which designer boutique my iPod case came from. You wouldm’t believe it, but I made this myself.
Custom sound system
This “sweet” stereo has all the kids dancing to the latest “pop tunes”. Materials: speakers, circuitry, cardboard, red electrical tape. Built February 2009.
Home-made iMac
If you don’t have an iMac, you can always make one. I did the other day. Here it is.
Dayvan Cowboy
I love this video. It uses archive footage from Project Excelsior, an early-60s experiment by the USAF that fed directly into space programmes. Joseph Kittinger (seen below) conducted all of the jumps – from a height of up to 31km. He was also the first man to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon.
iMac ant farm
I built this ant farm out of an old iMac last summer. Scoop out the insides, get some sealant stuff, acrylic and soil, and hey presto.
Norm
I just found this cartoon folded up in an old book. It’s about one of the first design teachers I had when I was 13-14. Despite my obvious resentment, something must have sunk in…
Open_Sailing & ARS Electronica
Open_Sailing ARS proposal, 2009
Open_Sailing is proud to announce that it is the winner of the 2009 ARS Electronica Next Big Idea prize, with a three-month residency in Linz, Austria and a place at the ARS Electronica show in September. We’re hoping to float the Open_Sailing prototype on the Danube (where we’ll be living on-board), so that visitors will be able to board, explore and imagine their own life on the ocean.
Open_Sailing on WMMNA
Open_Sailing crew recently took part in an interview with Regine Debatty of We Make Money Not Art.
Read the interview here.
iPod cardboard casing
People keep asking which designer boutique my iPod case came from. You wouldm’t believe it, but I made this myself.
Custom sound system
This “sweet” stereo has all the kids dancing to the latest “pop tunes”. Materials: speakers, circuitry, cardboard, red electrical tape. Built February 2009.
Home-made iMac
If you don’t have an iMac, you can always make one. I did the other day. Here it is.
Dayvan Cowboy
I love this video. It uses archive footage from Project Excelsior, an early-60s experiment by the USAF that fed directly into space programmes. Joseph Kittinger (seen below) conducted all of the jumps – from a height of up to 31km. He was also the first man to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon.
iMac ant farm
I built this ant farm out of an old iMac last summer. Scoop out the insides, get some sealant stuff, acrylic and soil, and hey presto.
Norm
I just found this cartoon folded up in an old book. It’s about one of the first design teachers I had when I was 13-14. Despite my obvious resentment, something must have sunk in…
