September 2012
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Three Transitions by Peter Campus
Introspective self-portraits that incorporate the artist’s dry humor
In Three Transitions, Peter Campus presents three introspective self-portraits that incorporate his dry humor. He begins with an image created by two cameras facing opposite sides of a paper wall and filming simultaneously. His back to one camera, Campus cuts through the paper. In the...
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Face the future
A film by Gordon Von Steiner for Vogue Italia
Gordon von Steiner is one of the new upcoming talents in photography and filmmaking. The New York-based fashionista envisions and portrays his ideas in original ways, while high caliber clients become more and more aware of him.
Vogue Italia is one of those clients and asked Steiner to direct a film for their...
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Marine Snow by Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters
A continuous shower of organic matter
‘Marine Snow’ is a series of medium and large porcelain plates based on the natural phenomenon that is found in the deep ocean. It’s a continuous shower of mostly organic matter including dead and dying plants and animals feeding organisms in the layers of the ocean that never see the daylight.
Maarten Kolk...
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“Because I know that time is always time, and place is always and only place, and...”
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Egelsee by Thomas Albdorf
“Egelsee” is a body of work that Albdorf developed during “Part - 1”, the first part of Vienna-based Men In Space’s ongoing collaborative series “Part” that brings together various artists working with different media. All shown...
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Aesop | Morphē
Morphē
A short film by Lucy McRae for Aesop
Aesop’s collaboration with Lucy McRae, Morphē playfully presages a new juncture for science and beauty in a speculative tale that embodies thematic aspects of Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein and Charles Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty.
However, the film departs from these classics by emphasising an adroit marriage of science and nature – an allusion to...
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February 2012
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“There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You think the dreamers...”
– Modern Family (via vineetkaur)
January 2012
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“I hate design,” Mr. Biesenbach will tell you emphatically. When he travels, he has a habit of stripping his hotel room of anything that moves (furniture, colored pillows, desktop accessories) and stuffing it all into the closet. “It’s a little bit of curatorial disease,” he said. “I like to reduce everything to its original surface.” - Klaus Biesenbach, director of PS1 for the...
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Watch The Making of a Blueware Vase by Glithero
London based designers Glithero are masters at documenting their creation process. Although I have seen their Blueware Vases before I hadn’t seen this beautiful ‘making of’ film. The process used is called cyanotypes, where direct impressions of botanical specimens are captured on earthenware, using photosensitive chemicals.
The vases are coated with...
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Watch HK HONEY ‘HK Honey’ is a short documentary narrated by Michael Leung, HK Honey Founder, Designer and Beekeeper. HK Honey is an organisation of Hong Kong beekeepers, artists and designers that aim to communicate the value of bees and the benefits of locally produced honey within busy urban society. For more information about this unique organisation, please visit their...
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BLOOM - Une Vision Végétale
“A new romantic yet also realistic view of living in the country has emerged.The current financial crisis and our concerns about ecology have contributed to the rethinking of our existence in the challenging and stressful city, while advances in information technology have participated in setting humans free from a fixed location within the urban environment.” ~ Li Edelkoort Bloom...
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Chair Design
“Chairs are the staple of design, one of the first categories of objects (together with cars) that people all over the world think of when confronted with the “D” word. In a designer’s life, the chair is also a ritual of initiation, the first truly mature challenge that involves the responsibilities that come with the design profession. In chairs, more than in any other...
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Watch Yoko Ono - Cut Piece Ono’s work related destruction to interpersonal, often intimate, human relations. This element was particularly thought-provoking in ‹Cut Piece›, one of many actions she did as DIAS [Destruction in Art Symposium]. Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan, and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965. Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience...
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Ways Of Seeing
“In the cities in which we live, all of us see hundreds of publicity images every day of our lives. No other kind of image confronts us so frequently. In no other form of society in history has there been such a concentration of images, such a density of visual messages.
One may remember or forget these messages but briefly one takes them in, and for a moment they stimulate the...
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