Somebody App

Somebody App

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The Somebody App
is a messaging service by Miranda July, It’s created with the support of Miu Miu, and launched August 28, 2014. Send your friend a message…a stranger will deliver it verbally! Or you can deliver someone else’s message! Somebody works when lots of people in the same area download it so invite your friends! Or bring a friend to one of our official hotspots (or… make your own Somebody hotspot!)


Somebody movie, by Miranda July. Notice the clothing it’s all Miu Miu for Fall 2014. (somebody – Miu Miu- women’s tales #8)

“Test my soil. Deeper.” Have you ever found it impossible to say something, face to face, to someone you know, someone you love? The words just won’t come out? A new messaging service, SOMEBODY, by Miranda July could help. It’s the star of her film for Miu Miu Womens’ Tales, the eighth commission in the acclaimed short-film series by women directors who critically celebrate femininity in the 21st century. Jessica wants to tell Caleb she can’t be his girlfriend anymore. She opens up SOMEBODY, types in the heartbreaking message, and selects Paul from a list. Paul is in the park. Paul’s phone dings. He eyes Caleb having a picnic. Paul delivers the bad news—as Jessica. Eyes bawling. Arms flapping. Caleb is, devastated. The SOMEBODY app then totally saves Yolanda and Blanca’s friendship, makes Jeffy’s marriage proposal to lonely Victoria, and initiates a curious ménage-a-trois between two prison workers and a parched potted plant named Anthony. This latest addition to Womens’ Tales showcases Miranda July’s unique ability to capture the strange tenderness of contemporary relationships. Somebody takes our endless hunger for communication, technology, avatars and outsourcing, and blends it into what seems to be a surreal near-future — but it’s not. It’s right now. In close collaboration with Miu Miu, July worked with a team of developers to create this radical and complex app; when the movie ends we’re invited to visit somebodyapp.com to send or deliver our first message. (via Miu Miu)

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Smilesfilm

Smilesfilm

“My ultimate goal in film-making is to make a film which includes a smiling face snap of every single human being in the world”
Yoko Ono 1967.
And here you have it: Smilesfilm 2012.

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Yoko Ono in 2012. We wouldn’t crop the cleavage….
“In August 1968, Yoko Ono directed two films, shot in the same afternoon in the garden of John Lennon’s house ‘Kenwood’ in Weybridge. The first film was called Number 5, but it has also been known as SMILE. It premiered at the Chicago Film Festival in 1968.”

Nowadays #smilesfilm
 is a worldwide online participatory artwork by Yoko Ono that reflects her pioneering vision of the power of mass participation.  Originally conceived in 1967 as a way of connecting people across the world, this 21st century project invites people to upload images of their smiles to Instagram & Twitter, accompanied by the hashtag #smilesfilm.
 
Using the hashtag, all the smiles are collated by the #smilesfilm website & app, and are then viewable globally and locally on a world map and together as a film.
Come on, dear friends, for the sake of our Sunday activities, let’s all smile!
You can download the smilesfilm app for your Iphone here.
(photo’s and text via smilesfilm.com/)

The Panda Show

Got some time to spare? Pandafy yourself!
The Panda Show is a webcam application which enables you to make pictures of yourself with a panda mask. We custom-tailored this playful application for Nicolas Formichetti, to make his Panda Family grow. Yes! We can never have enough pandas! Works only on a Mac. Made by
pinar-viola.com; According to themselves;  Ecstatic Surface Design. From the streets of The Internet. Totalitarian, decadent, monstrous and sexy.