Today Beat Takeshi Kitano, Paris- TV personality; film star; director; comedian; writer and artist � 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano is one of Japan�s most ambidextrous exports. See more of Kitano's 'Gosse de peintre' Famed for cult gameshow 'Takeshi�s Castle', alongside films including 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence' and 'Battle Royale', Kitano's paintings have caught the art world's attention in recent years. Despite……(more)
- Yesterday Contemporary Korean Design, NYC
- The first collaborative outing from New York's R 20th Century Gallery and the Gallery Seomi in Seoul, 'Contemporary Korean Design' opened earlier this week in the former. See more contemporary Korean design from the New York show Bringing to light work from a host of Korean artists, the exhibition features a range of one-off pieces, some never-before-seen in the West. Showcasing……(more)
- Yesterday World's first floating island, Seoul
- Seoul hasn�t rested on its laurels since winning the crown of World Design Capital 2010. This month it proved the scope of its architectural ambitions once again by launching the foundation for the world�s first artificial floating island on Hangang River. See more images of the floating island The steel-framed platform is the base of the first of three interconnecting……(more)
- 3 days Chanel A/W 2010 show
- Though calling anything �cool� nowadays is something of a death knell in the style stakes, there aren�t any other adjectives that fully do justice to Chanel�s A/W 2010 show. See more of Chanel's icescape The spectacle, which took place at the Grand Palais this morning, was housed in a hermetically sealed �glacier� box in subzero temperatures, constructed to resemble……(more)
- 3 days New Fornasetti vases by Bitossi Ceramiche
- Fresh characters have been added to the family of Fornasetti vases by Bitossi Ceramiche this month. As always, the designs give a witty twist to Piero Fornasetti's iconic prints, such as the face of his muse Lina Cavilieri. Each of the designs is produced in limited edition and once sold out, will be replaced by a new personality. See more pictures of the collection All……(more)
- 3 days Paris Fashion Week
- It's show time again. From New York to London, Milan to Paris, the women's A/W 2010 collections are being unveiled and from top to toe we've got them covered in all their glory. Photographer: Jason Lloyd-Evans Profile: Jason Lloyd Evans Paris News Chanel A/W 2010 show Read the article London Bloggers The Wallpaper* fashion team Read the blog London……(more)
- Apartment building in Carabanchel, Madrid
- It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to pull off a truly colourful building. One of the sorry legacies of modernism's largely sterile palette was the post-modernists' sudden lurch into jarring colour, splashed superficially over fa�ades with little sense of creative composition. Colour application is also the foremost strategy of regeneration - witness HawkinsBrown's scheme……(more)
- Tesla Roadster
- A lot has been written about the Tesla Roadster. Now in its 2.0 iteration (yes, in the future, cars will get upgraded just like software), the Roadster recently started rolling silently off the production line in right hand drive format, giving British - and Japanese - enthusiasts no excuse not to add one to their fleet. See more of the Tesla Roadster Since last Summer,……(more)
- Today Design Will Kill Us All, Horribly, Again & Again
- Hausu, La lampara asesina from seres on Vimeo.
2.31 minutes which set out in the clearest terms the deep seated antagonism at the heart of design. In the end, design will suck us in, tear us apart, spit us out, and spray us with blood. At least physiologically. (From the incredible 1977 film Hausu.)…(more)
- More Scenes In Cartoon Deserta
- When you find yourself in times of trouble, historically speaking, its quite likely you'll find yourself in a desert. For Satan in Paradise Lost, for the Israelites fleeing Egypt, for Mark Thatcher on the Paris Dakar rally, deserts are places we become lost in or are exiled to. Equally, they are places where beyond-normal things happen, things like nuclear tests, alien autopsies and what-goes-on-in-Vegas-stays-in-Vegas moralities. They are places beyond our normal conception of place, empty of t…(more)
- Eiffel X-Rays
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From the medical records of St George's Hospital Medical School:
"A 3 year old boy presented to our accident and emergency department with an obvious penetrating head injury. He had tripped and fallen onto a metal model of the Eiffel Tower which then became rigidly lodged into his skull.
On arrival he had a Glasgow coma score of 15 and was neurologically intact. He was then anesthetised for a computed tomography scan which showed the tip of the metallic model penetrating the skull and lying …(more)
- Beyond: Values and Symptoms
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Excited that Beyond issue 2 is out. Alongside luminaries both literary and architectural including Douglas Coupland and Francois Roche, I have contributed a short story titled "Everything Dale Myres Could And Couldn't See". The story chronicles a digital animators increasing obsession with the assassination of JFK which leads to ever more byzantine recreations of Dealey Plaza and other sites noted for their conspiritorial nature - kind of Dan Brown via Nikolaus Pevsner if you will.
Here is an…(more)
- Sub Plan
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Sub Plan is a research project developed by an AA summer school unit led by Finn Williams of Common Office, David Knight and graphic designers Europa. It's a guide to what's known in the UK as Permitted Development. Permitted development is a subset of planning legislation which attempts to define the point where you no longer require planning permission, defining the extent to which you can add and extend your home without engaging the planning process.
The book explores the narrow set …(more)
- Shenzhen: Window of the World
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Back from Shenzhen, where amongst the super-speed urbanism is the model village Window of the World. Along side the kinds of thing you might expect (Big Ben, a giant sized miniature Eiffel Tower and so on) are some less likely candidates: Brazilias National Congress, Lenins Mausoleum, Niagra Falls and Mont Blanc. Oh, and Gaudis Park Guelle surrounded by a golf green for some reason.…(more)
- White Power
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So Switzerland has banned minarets. In a sense, that is no real surprise coming from the home of architectural minimalism. There is something about the idea of 'purity' or 'essence' propagated by the cult of minimalism seems to echo other kinds of 'purity' which have far more sinister undertones.
Minimalism is more than anything the art of exclusion. Its effort is to edit out all that is somehow impure, to resist the presence of foreign bodies from its domain. This ruthless edit is the sourc…(more)
- Generic Powerpoint Template: Delivering Bad News
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- Today Signs of Daylife
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While my time at Daylife is almost up I thought I’d share a lighthearted look at some of the signs floating around the start–up. The above door sign was made by Roy who got tired of delivery people ringing the door bell. Did it help—not really, but it’s the thought that counts. All other signs were written by Stavo, office manager extraordinaire.
Bathroom:
Kitchen:
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- Yesterday No Undo Button for Transmitting Ideas
- OK Go’s new video made the interweb rounds pretty quickly. By any measure it was pretty cool to watch. But I also couldn’t really enjoy it because of something I read from them in an OP–Ed New York Times piece. How is it that one week the band is talking about the business of music [...]…(more)
- 3 days EVENT: PSFK Conference New York 2010
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Piers and PSFK have been pretty good supporters of the blog and helpful to me, so when he asked if I’d mention PSFK Conference New York 2010 on Friday, April 09, 2010 I said sure. Below are all the speakers—I’ve seen and heard a couple of them before and can attest to their smarts.
Colin Beavan - Green pioneer and journalist aka No Impact Man
John Dimatos - Lecturer concepting tech solutions for Unicef at NYU
Nick Felton - Designer and creator of the annual infographic Feltron Rep…(more)
- How do you write a post?
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Typically when I start writing a blog post I’ll open up Word Press to get things started. I’ll just use their editing window pushing my ideas out. I thought that was how most people published until I talked recently to another writer who mentioned that she uses text edit. She also mentioned that there’s other blogging tools like MarsEdit. Apparently it plugs into WordPress though I couldn’t get it to work with my old version of version. In any case I’ve been using …(more)
- Link Drop from 02.26.10 to 03.05.10
- The big news this week for me is that I did a quick announcement that I’m going to be leaving Daylife in a couple weeks. I’ve been given an awesome opportunity at Behavior that I’m pretty excited about. As that was being finalized below are the sites and posts that made me think this week [...]…(more)
- Link Drop Today Video Festival 005
- These are the latest videos posted from Link Drop Today……(more)
- REVIEW COPY: Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work By Br
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When Armin emailed me asking if I would be interested in reading the PDF version of Flaunt for review I said sure. I’ve only read a couple pdf books before but I was curious about the experience of something visual and how it would translate on screen. I did eventually print the whole thing out but in hindsight I probably didn’t need to, though I did accidentally delete my only PDF copy and had to get a second download sent to me. With all that said I think the book is incre…(more)
- Looking at My Design Process Today
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Taking a step back from my everyday work, I thought it would be interesting to break out my design process when the ideal conditions are available. While it is pretty rare to have everything work out perfectly in terms of conditions when I started writing down some of the steps I was surprised that the word “design” isn’t part of the first five steps. Sure everything building up to that point is design but to not see the word till the end was interesting to me. I’ve also experie…(more)
- Pleasure wear. Tokyo
- In Tokyo a day off work is a rare treat and whether you spend it walking in the park or working your way through your magazine stash, you'll need the perfect attire.…(more)
- ...And relax
- There’s no need to rush your Sabado in Madrid.…(more)
- Bang on
- This elegant, oval-shaped Suovo box (ideal for storage or laundry) is made by Villa, a third-generation family-run homeware firm based in Milan.…(more)
- Q&A Noriaki Okabe
- Noriaki Okabe, the Japanese architect who worked with Renzo Piano for 20 years and whose projects include the award-winning terminal at Kansai International Airport, has recently been putting the finishing touches to the new Belgian Embassy in the Nibanch…(more)
- Shelf help
- Vitsoe is expanding its reach with its first US shop, on Bond Street in New York.…(more)
- Happy place
- Residents in Keelung, Taipei's port city, now have more space to play thanks to a new plaza designed by Spanish architect Vicente Guallart.…(more)
- Shedding Light
- Brisbane-based architecture start-up Richards & Spence transformed a collection of run-down sheds (scheduled for demolition) into sleek new retail space for Brickworks South, a shopping collective in Southport, Queensland.…(more)
- Q&A. Mauro
- Mauro Bianucci trained as an architect in his native Argentina, before moving to New York to work as a retail architect in 2000.…(more)
- Today Lush Life 2 art show at Seattle's Roq La Rue
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Roq La Rue Gallery's "Lush Life 2" group show opens in Seattle this Friday and it's a tour-de-force of Pop Surrealism and contemporary painting and sculpture. The show includes new work by: Joe Sorren, Chris Berens, Marion Peck, Kris Kuksi, Travis Louie, Brian Despain, John Brophy, Martin Wittfooth, Ryan Heshka, Michael Brown, Charlie Immer, Mandy Greer, Gail Potocki, Laurie Hogin, Boomer, Madeline Von Foerster, Ryan Heshka, and Andrew Arconti. Above is Berens's "Stage One" (mixed media: ink, …(more)
- Today Deadstock rotary phones for sale
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Twine is selling these magnificent vintage rotary phones, retrieved from the British General Post Office where they were never used. They ain't cheap though: $210. Tellies (Thanks, Kelly Sparks!)
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- Today CNN "geek anthem" post is implausibly similar to scrappy blogger's earlier article
- Victor Pineiro put a lot of work into a funny, popular post about the "top ten geek anthems of all time." Shortly after, CNN ran an extremely similar article, which replicated many of Victor's picks and had extremely similar copy. But the CNN article didn't credit Victor with the inspiration.
Victor doesn't think that this is a copyright violation (I think he's right), but it does smack of plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty. It's possible that CNN was inspired to write the extremely similar…(more)
- Today Another earthquake, but not more earthquakes
- Haiti, Chile, Turkey, Chile (again). There've been a lot of earthquakes lately. But scientists say there haven't been more earthquakes lately. Tremors are, and have always been, common. On average, per year, you can expect one 8.0 or above quake, 17 quakes between 7 and 7.9, and 130-odd quakes between 6.0 and 6.9. One thing that has risen: Death tolls. But scientists say that increase has more to do with economic conditions that drive people to pack into mega-cities and live in cheaply built (an…(more)
- Today 200 free copies of my next YA novel, FOR THE WIN, for young reviewers
- Tor Books, the US/Canada publisher, has two hundred advance copies of my next young adult novel, For the Win, available for free to young (19 or younger) gamers who are interested in reviewing the book on their blog or school paper. The book is about gamer kids all over the world who use multiplayer games to organize and fight back against abusive employers:
In the virtual future, you must organize to survive
At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed …(more)
- Today Chile hit by 7.2 aftershock
- What the hell, planet earth! Chile was just slammed by a 7.2 aftershock, as inaugural ceremonies for right-wing billionaire president-elect Sebastián Piñera began in Valparaiso. Chile was devastated by an 8.8-magnitude quake on Feb. 27.
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- Today Leaked documents: UK record industry wrote web-censorship amendment
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Last week, the UK LibDem party was thrown into scandal when two of its Lords proposed an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill that would allow for national web-censorship, particularly aimed at "web-lockers" like Google Docs and YouSendIt. Now a leaked document from the British Phonographic Institute suggests that the amendment was basically written by the record industry lobby and entered into law on their behalf by representatives of the "party of liberty."
This weekend, LibDem members who…(more)
- Today Conan O'Brien will perform at Bonnaroo
- Recently-exiled latenight talk show host Conan O'Brien will be headlining the comedy stage at the annual Bonnaroo festival. Wonder if he'll pick a random person out of the crowd to befriend and bestow insta-stardom? The date is part of Conan's cross-country comedy tour, also just announced today.
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- Today Charlie Le Mindu in the LiveStudio- Day One
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Charlie Le Mindu's first day in the LiveStudio is now drawing to a close, as he and illustrator Stefan -who has been busy transforming the studio walls- begin to pack up. But fear not- Charlie will be back from 11:00 GMT tomorrow for another jam packed day, when he is... [more]
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- Today Charlie Le Mindu is LIVE now!
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Charlie is officially in the building! We are half an hour into day one of his residency in the LiveStudio, where he is set to create another fantastical headpiece today and tomorrow. Charlie, who is represented by Blow PR, will be incorporating crystals supplied by CRYSTALLIZED™ Swarovski Elements into... [more]
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- Today Charlie Le Mindu LIVE at 12pm today!
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The studio is being prepared and Charlie is en route. Tune in to the LiveStudio at 12pm to see Charlie and his team of assistants get set up, for what promises to be another exciting live event.
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- Today Light at the end of the tunnel!
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Here's my shot of that sci-fi sixties tunnel at the head of the Hermes catwalk - just before Lily Cole did her Emma Peel number to open Jean Paul Gaultier's latest collection of slick John Steed inspired mens-for-womens suiting. At the moment I am typing up my final report from... [more]
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- Yesterday Yves Saint Laurent Re-See
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The Tribute sandals were the tip of the iceberg (no Chanel reference implied): Stefano Pilati's latest collection for Yves Saint Laurent was an unequivocal ode to the house itself, complete with almost talismanic cut-out golden figures of iconic YSL silhouettes, and ripe for a re-see yesterday from a devout convert... [more]
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- Yesterday Charlie Le Mindu in the LiveStudio
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Already featured in the SHOWstudio SHOP exhibition headdress, this Thursday French-born coiffure enfant terrible Charlie Le Mindu will be joining us at Bruton Place for a two-day residency in our LiveStudio. Perhaps best known for his outrageous designs for Lady Gaga, Le Mindu is set to design and make... [more]
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- Yesterday Gently does it
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With Paris' collections aflutter with pussy-bow necklines, severe black suits and camel cashmere coats (in the audience and on the catwalks), the launch of a magazine titled 'The Gentlewoman' is well-timed. But, given that the magazine is the sister of Fantastic Man and helmed by our own former Editor in... [more]
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- Yesterday More thoughts on McQueen
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Further to my last post, and to my Collections report on the Alexander McQueen show, I thought it was worth sharing an excerpt from an email I just wrote to thank the McQueen team for inviting me to this evening's presentations:
Lots of people in fashion feel they are 'entitled' to... [more]
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- Today Horsetail Firefall
- This photo was made by Rob Kroenert on February 18th 2010 in the Yosemite National Park. Every year during the month of February, the Horsetall Falls turn golden around sunset. Amazing.
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- Today The Book Collection
- The Book Collection, a great project by Paul Octavious.
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- Today Donkey
- Donkey by Frederik Van Simaey.
found at pietmondriaan
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- Today bigassmessage.com
- bigassmessage.com is the online toy of the day! You can write simple messages and pick a style for it and send the link around. It’s simple as that. Of course I like this message much better. Made by Bjorn.
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- Grindin’
- This is the music video for Grindin’ by Nobody Beats The Drum. It’s a very impressive stop motion piece made with 4085 photos, yet very simple. The music is … well not my cup of tea and you might want to turn down the volume. The making of video is actually quite entertaining.
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- Sketch-a-Move
- Sketch-a-Move is a project by Anab Jain and Louise Klinker. They actually did this a few years ago. It’s a concept for a toy car that allows you to explore the unique relationships between small surface doodles and actual physical movements. If you draw a circle on the top of the toy car, it will move in a circle. If you draw a complicated spiral, the car will move in a spiral. They don’t explain how it actually works or could work, but it sure looks like fun.
via @sermad
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- New Overpainted Photographs
- Overpainted Photographs by Gerhard Richter is an ongoing series where he overpaints his own snapshots. I’ve posted some before, but I still like them. If you’re in Tokyo you can go and see some of them at the WAKO Works of Art till this Saturday.
found at Contemporary Art Daily
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- Page Texture
- Page Texture by Harm Van Den Dorpel. I know that it’s only a multi-directional motion blur applied to a screenshot of a Facebook page, but I like it.
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