CONCEPT DESIGN | STOY

This year STOY competition's central theme was jurbaning: playing in the streets. The point was to make people play in the street and to design a game or a toy that will help to do so. The idea had to be presented in a big poster that was going to be hung in the bus stop marquees.

Our approach was to try to open some people eyes. We spend so much time in front of screens that sometimes it is good to remember that there were times without screens, and were fun times too. We chose some mayor companies, very influential ones, that made us stay in from of screen for decades and made a kind of anti-publicity of them. Facebook becomes Fakebook, anyone that uses the platform understands what we mean with that. Apple's logo becomes an Apple core, the part you throw away, and finally Super Mario becomes Super Mareo (Super dizziness in Spanish), referencing how you fell after long hours immersed playing in 3D worlds.

We think the streets are already cool and many things can be done in them. It's just great when people of all ages starts using urban furniture in a way no designer has thought before. And specially children, they don't really need complex rules or big name architects and designers to tell them how to play, people are smart enough to find their way. The thing is that parents must be proactive and let children explore and encourage them to: 'PLAY REAL, switch off screens and meet your friends'.

Redes #94 - Vlatko Vedral

Redes is an Spanish TV program about Science directed by Eduard Punset. In this Episode Vlatko Vedral from Ofxord University dialogues about how the universe is not made of matter or energy but information.

NEWS | Introducing Laino.me

We have always loved comics in AA&NN, and we would love to read them in Euskara, the language in which we have grown. Sadly, few comics have been published to it, just some European classics such as Asterix and Obelix and The Adventures of Tintin were available in the nineties and most of them are nowadays discontinued by their publishers. We thought it would be great to create a platform to translate and publish in Euskara the comics we most enjoyed when we were kids. That is how LAINO.ME was born.

LAINO.ME comes from LAINO MEHE meaning "thin cloud" in Euskara. It seems that everything is going to be cloud based in the future, digital archives, digital music... so do the comics. The digital tools and Internet give us the opportunity to create something that in paper would be too expensive and too difficult to create and distribute. We would love to see those comics translated to Euskara printed in paper, but we believe the way to go, for now, is digital.

Our strategy over the time may change, but just to start with something, we decided to translate a couple of chapters of our all-time favorite comic works. We will work on dealing with the editors and authors and to publish as diverse works as possible. We want to transform the landscape of comics in Basque and see our thin cloud grow. If you know Basque or you are learning it, we hope you can enjoy our project as much as we do. 

The logo designed by Ian Nose makes use of our favorite cloud, Kinton, from our beloved comic series Dragon Ball by the Japanese author Akira Toriyama.

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Update: The new website of the project is: http://lainomehe.aaandnn.com

DOCUMENTARY FILM | Ihauteriak

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Basque Country | 2011 | 34 min | Color | 16:9

Organized by Oñatz Dantza Taldea

Music by Oñatiko Trikitxaranga

Photographed & edited by

Ioannes Busca

Shot in Oñati in March 2011

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The traditional ‘Ihauteriak’ or carnival dances are performed in Basque Country since time immemorial. Celebrated once a year and organized by the ‘Oñatz Dance Group’ in the Oñati village, the event reunites a great amount of villagers that perform the dances through the streets and plazas of the village from early in the morning to midnight.

Music is an essential part of this performance, in which several traditional instruments merge in harmony like the txistu, a kind of a flute that is played with a single hand while the other hand plays the danbolina a kind of drum. Pandereta or tambouine and trikitixa, a variation of the accordion, are the other instruments that set the rhythm of the dancers.

Visit the website: https://aaandnn.com/video/ihauteriak/

Motorola Defy

After a long period of disputes to change phone company, it has finally shipped my first smart phone. A Motorola Defy. It's supposed to be tough and water resistant. Let's see how long lasts. About the official Commercial by Motorola, well...thanks for showing us, the customers, ways to be cool without an iPhone. 

;-)

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