Street Seats

Six Point Resin, Dollar Shave Club, Literary Book Madness and more in our look at the web this week

Developed by Bade Stageberg Cox for the Pier 94 Coffee Bar at The Armory Show this weekend, Street Seats is an assortment of 50 chairs collected from the streets of New York. Painted taxi cab yellow, each one is stamped with the date and location of where it was found.

History of the GIF

Six Point Resin, Dollar Shave Club, Literary Book Madness and more in our look at the web this week

This mini documentary about the love-it-or-hate-it GIF file format surveys everything from the early years of video games to the file’s recent revival in internet memes.

Invisible Mercedes-Benz

Six Point Resin, Dollar Shave Club, Literary Book Madness and more in our look at the web this week

Demonstrating the invisible carbon footprint of Mercedes’ F-CELL hydrogen fuel cell technology, the car maker sought to render one of their autos truly invisible. A side-mounted 5D Mark II recorded video was projected onto a panel of LEDs on the opposing side, giving the car the appearance of transparency.