Platform 5 architects created this Shoffice (shed + office).  It's a garden pavilion containing a small office alongside garden storage space. Located to the rear of a 1950's terraced house in St John’s Wood, the brief required the shoffice to be conceived of as a sculptural organically object that flowed into the garden space.

So what do you think of the Shoffice?  Would you use it for a home office, extra guest bedroom or an art studio?

Roku's new device will offer access to 1,000 channels and 31,000 movies and it allows users to cast from Netflix and YouTube to their televisions. The device works with free Android and iOS apps. Unlike Chromecast, it does comes with a Wi-Fi remote control.

You can currently pre-order via Amazon, BestBuy, WalMart and Staples and its scheduled to be on the shelves in April. Are you going to get one?

Source: Mashable.com

Welcome to TCL Playlist-59.  In this installment we have a spring like mix that brings in a little bit of more hype but at the same time transitions from the end of winter to the beginning of spring. The new playlist has some new music by Tycho, Kid Cudi and a new artist EMBRZ who seems to be blowing up and more...

Click Play and have at it! If you want to check out any of the other Playlist then click on Archived Playlist in this post or on the right hand side of this blog or in the menu.


Cover art by: Damion Schweizer

Tracklist

For those of us that use multiple machines and devices this application is a godsend. PushBullet, the app for Android allows you to quickly transfer links, pictures, and notes between your smart  devices, tablets and desktop Chrome Browsers.  It is one of those insanely useful tools that is what FREE!

The PushBullet team introduced full notification mirroring, a feature that syncs all of your phone and tablet notifications to Chrome on PC. Viewable in Chrome’s notification tray (the bell-shaped icon in the system tray on Windows and the menu bar on Mac), they aren't actionable – you can’t respond to a text from desktop, for example – but they can be dismissed.  Check out the video below to see how it works.





Source: Droid Life

Artist Qi Wei Fong in his last series called Time is a Dimension depicted layered collages of landscapes and cityscapes photographed over 2-4 hour period. Now he has taken this collage type photography to a new project called Time in Motion. The new photos, shot in locations around China, Indonesia, and Bali show the change in light at sunrise or sunset through angular rays and concentric circles that shimmer as time passes. You can see more from the series on his website.


Tanah Lot Sunset, 2013


Shanghai Freeway, 2014

Source: ThisisColossal

Guardians of the Galaxy which is due out in August 2014 has just released the official trailer. From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team--the Guardians of the Galaxy.

An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits--Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon; Groot, a tree-like humanoid; the deadly and enigmatic Gamora; and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand--with the galaxy's fate in the balance."

I'm looking forward to seeing if this movie can live up to the other cinematic Marvel movies, but after watching the trailer I'm sure it will do just fine in bringing the story to life.

It has been a while since I have written about branding but Branch Creative caught my attention. Their solid color choices with minimal lines and typography kept me focused and interested in what they were displaying.

Here is a little bit about Branch Creative:

Branch Creative is an executive production and advertising house that represents a pool of photographers, illustrators and commercial directors from around the world. We created a sophisticated identity system with a playful typography treatment.

See more of their branding material on Behance.

How many speakers do you have around your house that you wished were wireless with your phone? With Beep ($149) you now do not need to go and replace all the speakers you've accumulated around your house. Beep is a small Wi-Fi enabled devices that connects to any stereo or speaker system with  an RCA jacks, auxiliary input, or optical input. You will now be able to play music to any connected speaker or group of speakers from your iOS or Android phone. Beep also gives you the ability to synchronize music across a range of Beeps, you can play your music throughout your place, or choose different music for different beeps.  It currently at this time only supports Pandora but they are working to add other app's. Check out the site to get more information.

Google recently launched “Google Play Newsstand”, a new application for Android enabled devices ( also knows as Google  Currents for IOs devices) that allows you to read all your favorite news sources in one experience. Newsstand puts the news you care about most front and center and presents stories that interest you based on your tastes.

With this news application users can subscribe to magazines, newspapers, blogs and news sites and the newsstand will  format and optimize them all for an enhanced reading experience on their tablet or phone.

In that being said I would like to let you all know that "The Collective Loop" is now on Google Currents and Google Newsstands.  It took a little bit of work but it's so worth it.

Please click the link below to Subscribe to: The Collective Loop.  

Now take TCL wherever you go!

If you are a website/blog owner and you want to add your content to Google Newsstand you can via Google Producer tool.

UPDATE 07/20/18: Google Current and Google Newsstand has been replaced by Google News now.