Yesterday I visited lil Jim, who was born on Saturday…
He is the cutest baby I’ve ever seen!!! Indeed!
Well, so it isn’t that surprising that I get kinda feelings like fear of being left on the shelf?
Yes?
No?
Whatever…
One thing I know for sure: to love is beautiful, to be able to love also and to have someone to share with is the best at all!!!
Maybe I am a dreamer but I have this idea that he is near…
Supermandoliniâ„¢ are two graphic designers from Thessaloniki, Greece whose love and passion for design resulted in the creation and launch of Supermandoliniâ„¢ - Online Boutique in 2007.
Starting only with a range of t-shirt designs in mind they ended up producing and designing more than just apparel.
At the moment their boutique has a range of handmade accessories like earrings, bracelets, necklaces, rings and pins and a limited number of high quality posters and canvases which all have been designed with the same energy and eye for detail that describes their work…
Steve Aoki.
He is the big star of the Indie Rock Scene in L.A.
Remember? The guy who owns the Hollywood Label Dim Mak Records (means as much as “Death Touch”, based on Chinese Martial Arts). He also creates fashion collections and not to forget his status of a Celebrity he reached as DJ.
Is God a DJ?
Steve began with djing when he was a small boy. Later at the age of 20 he created the label Dim Mak, including releases of the Klaxons, Whitey and Bloc Party so far.
“I’m fucking disco” fits in such a way quite well on Aoki, maybe this is the reason he probably has designed Shirts with statements like this.
Here and there you can see a small selection of the Shirts from the Dim Mak’s.
designer’s own words:
The product turns two plastic bottles into a clothes hanger by screwing the bottles into the hook. By the concept that reuses empty plastic bottles, I try to present to consumers a realistic idea to address environmental realities and encourage the reuse of already “consumed†items to form a new functional product. The design incorporates the following features that make it practical and appealing to both producers and consumers: • Low cost, realistic commodity • The shape of the bottle provides more fit support for the shoulder of clothes than traditional ones • Inspire the interest of users: the concept will attract consumers and inspire a rethinking of consumption habits
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name of design : hanger
design by : xuan yu from usa
interesting:
the winner of the competition:
name of design : watering can
design by : nicolas le moigne from switzerland
designer’s own words:
The idea consists in reusing PET and glass bottles. A PET closing piece is able to fit different shapes of bottles and to change it into a watering can.
more:
name of design : my little sister’s tea party
design by : mydesign ronen&mikulsky + MYDesign- + Yaron Ronen + MIchael Mikulsky from israel
designer’s own words:
Large quantities of disposable plastic cups are common site after any party. This is a modular structured system made of used disposable plastic cups and paper clips. In day time it functions as natural light source lighting and at night time it functions as light fixture with 220 volt light bulb situated inside the system. Similar to bee-hives structure this system can grow to any size and it is much stronger then its component.
and:
name of design : medusa
design by : anette kithier from netherlands
designer’s own words:
an industrial product of our days as a material source, imitating ancient roman and crystal glassware
MAP mag is the latest online magazine based in Miami. It was created because music and art bring people together. Think of Map as a gathering place where you can all get together and follow up path to great music, art and fascinating people.
MAP is a refreshing publication with the perfect blend of art, music and unique design brought together in a cool, classy way with a flair for the artists.
As an exciting, new energy is emerging around in the arts, music and culture as Miami and South Florida continue to grow. Opportunities abound for enrichment, education and entertainment with great symphonies, dance, opera, art and every conceivable art form in between. MAP als showcases fascinating people with captivating life experiences.
So we wanna hype his latest Zoo York collab decks and feel this edition (above) that he did for 20×200.
Michael Perry works in Brooklyn, NY making books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, and drawings. He is currently curating two new books. He also recently started a magazine called Untitled a… That explores his current interests. Doodling away night and day, Perry creates new typefaces and sundry graphics that inevitably evolve into his new work, exercising the great belief that the generating of piles is the sincerest form of creative process…
If you’re out and about tomorrow, stop by Jen Bekman’s gallery, where he’s giving a talk and signing his Hand Job book from 3-5pm.
Usually only lonely men buy the “anatomically correct” and life-large dolls of the US companyRealDoll. But now the large silicone toys become cinema celebrities…
In the new cinema comedy “Lars and The Real Girl” the life-genuine plastic dolls of the California company RealDoll play besides actor Ryan Gosling the main role.
Noted in the margin: Allegedly the film is amazing “prudish”, as the picture agency writes.
Story:
When Lars Lindstrom introduces his brother Gus and sister-in-law Karin to his new friend Bianca, who he met on the internet, their immediate response is shock and disbelief. Has Lars, the sweet, socially challenged introvert gone completely mad - they meet Bianca and see a doll, but Lars sees a friend.
Bianca isn’t a real woman at all but a Real Doll, how will they explain this to the residents of the sleepy Midwestern town they’ve grown up in and currently reside?
Karin and Gus consult the town’s family physician, Dr. Dagmar Berman, who advises them to go along with it. Lars is experiencing a delusion and in order to help him through this crisis, they and the townsfolk need to get onboard.
After some persuasion and appeal to their love and concern for Lars, Gus and Karin enlist their cooperation. Soon Bianca is attending church, modeling at the local dress shop, volunteering at the hospital and accompanying Lars to his first ever social events. Surprisingly to those around her, Bianca weaves her way into the hearts of everyone she meets, filling voids they didn’t know they had.
What follows is a transformative journey for Lars and the people around him.
Release Dates:
October 25th and
on 2008 January 17th in german theaters:
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Well, if you are not interested in watching this movie than maybe you’ll like to make your life a comedy and order yourself a life-large doll…
Since the early 1970’s Duane Hanson has been making startlingly lifelike sculptures of middle America accomplished through a complex process of casting from live models, recreated in bronze or fibreglass resin.
Duane Hanson concentrated on the naked fact of the subject, an astonishingly persuasive counterfeit of another human being as a fully realised physical presence.
The insistence on the irreplaceability of each person, and on the dignity to be accorded to those who are usually overlooked or spurned as ordinary are central to Duane Hanson’s art and humanitarian vision.
Duane Hanson’s sculptures of people are just too believable. Creating vignettes of real American life, he doesn’t forget a single detail. Casting his figures from live models in his studio, Duane Hanson then adorned them with every attribute of life-likeness from tiny body hairs, varicose viens, bruises, and hangnails. He hand picked their clothes from second hand shops, and accessorised them accordingly.
Upon encountering one of these extraordinarily realistic sculptures, the typical reaction of a museum visitor unfamiliar with Duane Hanson’s work can be among the most interesting and amusing events one might witness in a museum or gallery.
Hanson’s sculptures, especially those that are appropriate in a gallery setting such as Seated Artist, Museum Guard, Janitor or Old Couple on a Bench, are often dismissed as people at rest-sitting or standing like any other visitor. Many visitors may never know that those people they passed were actually artworks. On other occasions a visitor might try to engage the sculptures in conversation. Of course, after a few moments they discover that these are not real people after all!
Duane Hanson was an extraordinary craftsman and an observer of life. In creating an artwork, he first determined the proper pose for the sculpture. Working with a model, the artist took photos until he was satisfied with the figure’s position. Then the artist formed rubber and plaster molds of each part of the subject’s body-arms, legs, torso and head molds were each created separately. When the molds dried, they were cut off the model and filled with flesh-colored polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass.
NOT SURE IF YOU’RE GOING TO FIT ONE OF THESE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM, SO CHECK THEM OUT AT THESaatchi Gallery.
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.
Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.
Since Learning To Love You More is also an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant’s documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. Past presentations have taken place at venues that include The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
Since LTLYM inception in 2002 over 5000 people have participated in the project.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you might as well start at #1 (make a child’s outfit in an adult size) and wear it to the next event…
JB Classics continue to go from strength to strength with their newest collab, the Sneaker Pimps Version 2 shoe. You may remember the original for its stark black upper with its white Chain-Link fence graphic heel and crazy skittle fuelled sole. Also available is the matching New Era cap, featuring a dope silk lined print of the Australian map to compliment the shoes.
available on november 17th among others at sneakology
And their concept seems to work: no VIP rooms, no guest lists, no bad music, no crummy parties and no sleazy style. The club is poppin’ like always crowded and the Boheme is apart itself:
Well, if a hipster, a celebrity, and a Side Car had a child, the Beatrice Inn would be it. Nestled in the heart of the West Village, the Beatrice mixes old-world charm with West Chelsea exclusivity. Don’t believe us? Try showing up on a whim and getting through the door. If, by some chance, you get into the cozy confines, make sure to nab a seat by the building’s original fireplace for your perfect-martini sip-fest.
All in all, Beatrice is living proof that quiet is the new loud in New York…just don’t tell anybody!
Beatrice Inn
285 W. 12th St.
(8th Ave. & W. 4th St.)
West Village
I’ve ever been a big fan of Justin Timberlake.. Yes, you heard right… But which girl is not? and… who actually cares??
So even if the following tie-clip is quite old, I cannot withhold it from you: Justin Timberlake in its best role as Chav Player. Instead of diamonds to give away, there is somewhat completely special for the Ladies, avowedly in three steps:
1. Cut a whole in that box
2. Put your junk in that box
3. Make her open the box
And that’s the way you Do it: That’s my dick in a box!
Here is the uncut version, understands itself: Performed for the Saturday Night Live Show in collaboration with Andy Samberg.
The girl band from Brighton has me since today as a new fan above all, because they prove a fine feeling for music and videos.
The spooky bicycle tour in their video to “What’s A Girl to Do” was shot by Dougal Wilson after inspiration of Donnie Darko (source: Spex).
Oh and their homepage is also worth seeing, because contentful with works of art and photos enriched. I like! That is beside RóisÃn Murphy’s new album today my absolute music highlight:
rotterdam designer susan bijl’s colorful tote bags make the trip to the supermarket or department store (or wherever) more eco-friendly and more fashionable!!
weighing in at less than thirty bucks, the rain-resistant nylon bags are available in assorted colors (some more nu-rave than others) and two sizes. either one conveniently packs down to stow away inside of other bags for on-the-go use.
dan funderburgh is ill! he’s part of the “though ninjas†and he makes this cool wallpaper, y’heard!
he’s designed for ecko unlimited, 5 boro nyc, the truth anti-smoking campaign and other dudes.
