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And now, the exciting conclusion to BMW’s “Wherever You Want To Go” series:

(Autoblog via Translogic)

Jalopnik reports that Italdesign-Giugiaro has just semi-purposefully unveiled the next generation of Volkswagen’s hatchback offerings.  Thew new Golf  concept is certainly striking:

Almost makes a guy not feel so bad about the absence of the Scirocco on our shores.  Almost.  What are your thougts?

Phantogram – “When I’m Small” from Isaac Ravishankara on Vimeo.

“Buying a car is not a rational experience, it is an emotional experience.” – Professor Wai Cheng, MIT

(Autoblog via Translogic)

I guarantee you most 15 or 16 year olds would be so much more interested in The Great Gatsby and its endless droning on about the corruption of the East Coast if they could play it as a sidescroller.  And now they can!

(Engadget)

LOVE this.  Featuring the vocals of Romy Madley Croft (of The xx, if you couldn’t have guessed immediately).  Gorgeous.

Well, we now know how one might translate some of Danielewski‘s zanier ideas into a tangible paper book.

What you are seeing here is an amazing, handmade German art book called Thoughts on Dreams that has been threaded with hyperlinks to direct readers from one important section to another.  It is sublime.  I also love how it really illustrates the idea of interconnected content in a way that does, actually, look like a sinewy spider’s web or neural network.

(Engadget)

“We’re rehearsing for our own future – why not do it as pleasantly as possible?” – Syd Mead, futurist

The second installment of BMW’s films on the future of mobility has just been released and it combines a plethora of things I like including: retrofuturism, cars (obvious) and visionary artist, Syd Mead (who is awesome).

From “Are we taking evolution into our own hands?“:

Today we continue to live the same process, but in an enormously accelerated fashion. For better and worse we are transforming ourselves from a Homo sapiens, a species aware of its environment, into a Homo evolutis, a species that directly and deliberately begins to control its own evolution, as well as that of many other species.

I’d add that we are now a species that can directly and indirectly alter the evolution and survival of the entire planet – and have been for decades.

(CNN)