N.Y. Adorned “Tradition”

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Director: Evan Dennis
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Producer: Evan Dennis
DOP: Zak Mulligan
Editor: Nathan Caswell
Narration Lori Leven
Colorist: Tom Poole @ Company 3
Music: Grails "Canyon Hymn"
Audio Engineer: Jeremy Griffith @ Singing Serpent
Audio Mixing: John Black @ CypherAudio




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Louise Despont Esoteric Geometry

Brooklyn-based artist Louise Despont draws highly complex patterns and symmetrical forms rendered largely in graphite on antique ledger paper and yellowed Indian parchment. Influenced by the vibrant sights and sounds of South Asia, Despont demonstrate her skillful use of architectural stencils and compasses on those amazing pieces of art.

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Inventor Portrait: Steven Sasson

One of the most ubiquitous forms of technology in existence today is the digital camera. From cell phones to chunky DSLRs, a camera is never all that far away. David Friedman’s Inventor Portrait had the opportunity to sit down with the inventor of the digital camera, Steven Sasson. Through the short interaction, Sasson shows off his original prototype as well as his philosophy on how to make a product adaptable based on culture.

Source: Laughing Squid

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Rodarte: States of Matter by MOCA

Rodarte: States of Matter is the first West Coast solo exhibition of the work of fashion and costume designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte. In this video, Kate and Laura talk about the stories that have inspired their collections and the physical processes their materials go through.

This intimate look at more than 20 pieces from Rodarte’s Spring 2010, Fall 2010, and Fall 2008 runway collections, as well as original ballet costumes designed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy from Rodarte for the feature film Black Swan, was directed by Felipe Lima, with original music by No Age.




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Bill Cunningham New York Trailer

The "Bill" in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours." Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

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Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House

The Guardian's Jonathan Glancey explores the Zaha Hadid's latest creation - the Guangzhou Opera house.

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KITARA TOUCHSCREEN GUITAR

Most of us by now have played a few rounds of Guitar Hero or Rock Band, so this shouldn’t come as any surprise. Kitara Touchscreen Guitar ($849-$2499) is string-free and doubles as a MIDI controller.






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David O'Reilly: The External World

Mr. O’Reilly is an Irish born animator working in Berlin.The External World is his newest work; released in late 2010, it has just made its way to Vimeo and the blogosphere this week. I think it is a good example of the good things that happen when person gets an idea in their head and works hard to bring that idea to life.

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Adios LA

Adios LA is a visual goodbye to the city Jon Jackson has called home for years as the artist heads east making New York his new home. Not wanting to string LA along, he has decided to firmly break it off through a graphic billboard series posted on the famous streets of his first love.

Adios LA: adiosla.com
Jon Jackson: cargocollective.com/​lagraphica

This is not a suit

A tongue-in-cheek and very funny black and white film starring Adrien Sauvage and called "The Art Of DE" or "Dressing Easy".




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Salvador Dali Museum

On January, 11, 2011 at 11:11am the Salvador Dali Museum opened its doors to the public in St. Petersburg, Florida. The amazing looking structure is 68,000 square feet and holds the largest collection of the legendary surrealist painters works. The works are held on the 3rd floor with the massive concrete structure surrounded by two glass atriums that will let in some amazing natural light from the Sunshine State. Architectural design firm HOK did an amazing job, to say the least.

THE NEW W HOTEL: ISLAND OF VIENQUES BY PATRICIA URQUIOLA

Treading through New York City in the cold and snow makes us yearn for warmth. Looking at the new W hotel makes us think we’ve found the perfect place for it. We have all been witness to the explosion of the W Hotels around the world, we’re just glad the glam hospitality company is still putting design first. for the second time, W has hired on famed designer Patricia Urquiola to stylize their latest retreat on the Puerto Rican Island of Vieques. Urquilo dressed the resort in various species of woods all planked together juxtaposed with explosions of feel good colors. Though much of the resort is styled in the designers famous furniture collections, there are new design elements such as lighting made from ropes, mesh screens, and massive decor reaching out from walls.

The Who - Tattoo (Live At Leeds)

Mmmmmm Tasty.

Music video by The Who performing Tattoo. (C) 2010 Polydor Ltd. (UK)

MERCEDES-BENZ AESTHETICS

from Not Cot

The process and creative imagery that is produced along the path to great products are often quite a work of art… It’s so inspiring to see Mercedes-Benz embracing the process by formalizing sculptures in their process of exploration and discovery. There’s something almost magical when seeing the design process itself shared through these sculptural experiments, especially when they share the sketches and organic inspiration that leads them there. Works of art being displayed along side concept cars and current cars fill you with curiosity and open ended inspiration of what the future may hold. Mercedes Aesthetics No. 2 just debuted at Detroit Auto Show.

I love this quote from Mercedes Head of Design, Gorden Wagener, “Inspiration is the pre-condition for the calm, coherent yet passionately emotional design of our cars. In the interior sculpture Aesthetics No. 2 we have allowed creative fantasy to develop freely without constraints.” Regarding sculpture details, “On a scale of 1.5 to 1 the sculpture measures 18.3 x 6 x 8.5 feet. The finely wrought frame painted in alubeam Liquid Metal is light and strong; the white seating landscapes look like ivory.” Take a look at the inspiration behind and the design process that went into it… as well as the very cool final sculpture!

I think we all need a powerwall, when i first saw this image (in tiny thumbnail form, to be fair!), i thought they were at an aquarium.