Hasta La Ideas

I wonder if these folks wear white loafers and drink coffee out of Wally World Moose Mugs? Awesome name. Awesome work. Via The Strange Attractor

Neither live concert nor art exhibit, Transverse Temporal Gyrus is a site-specific sonic installation featuring Baltimore-hailing band Animal Collective and experimental artist Danny Perez as part of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th anniversary celebration.

Through sound and video projection, the environment of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building becomes psychedelic, distorted and luminous, all designed to pique the senses. Band members and performers will use props and costumes to add to the ambiance of the looping pre-recorded music. “The core elements and colors are worked into the piece in order to unite this room of sound with the inside of your brain,” asserts Animal Collective.

Building off the raw space provided by Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, the collaboration will transform the museum’s open environment with constant motion at the core of the concept.

The night of immersive performance art will be held 4 March 2010 from 9pm to 12am. Tickets are currently sold out.

El Bistro at the Philippe Starck-designed Faena Hotel+Universe in Buenos Aires. Reader, there are unicorns.

It was many years ago, in a post-ICFF fever dream, that we imagined a young Philippe Starck taking Buenos Aires by storm, embracing the city’s heat, noise, and dirt while warning residents of his “star quality.” Back then, we chalked it up to a bad mix of colorful cocktails and the Evita soundtrack, but it turns out, we were seeing the future. While Starck hasn’t taken to the Casa Rosada balcony (yet), he’s flying high and adored in Buenos Aires, where he designed the Faena Hotel+Universe, which opened in 2004. Part of former fashion designer Alan Faena‘s renaissance vision for the Puerto Madero neighborhood, the hotel began its life as a dockside warehouse. For Starck, the project is “the child of two very very good friends, who dreamed together on the beach, some years ago, about a good place for our friends,” he told Tablet Hotels in a recent interview. “And we dreamed about this idea of Universe—the name comes from Alan. Alan loves the name Universe, and that’s all. That means it’s just a dream. It’s just a dream of two persons.”

Dreamy, got it! So what does it look like? Think Gramercy Park Hotel through the lens of Ruven Afanador. “It’s purely the incarnation, the crystallization, of the spirit of Argentina,” said Starck. “That means it’s red like passion, there is gold, there is black, it’s very passionate, there is life and death, there is poetry everywhere, there is a lot of surrealistic things, it’s—you cannot even define a style, because Argentina is made of so many civilizations, so many cultures, so many languages.” Meanwhile, Starck reiterated his lack of interest in the design world (“It’s so boring”) and offered a slightly confusing take on trends. “I don’t care about design architecture and trends,” he said, after emphasizing his focus on how people will experience places. “If you see what I do it is never in a trend. If there is a trend, we are at the end of minimalism, but it’s still minimalism. I don’t make minimalism. I make always—my only style is freedom.”

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pSpeaking of A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/news/boston_getting_a_pop-up_design_museum_founded_by_designers_16033.asp” Massachusettes design news/A, Bay State local paper A HREF=”http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/business/x1135182547/East-Somerville-shop-builds-bike-for-city-life” IThe Somerville Journal’s/I got a piece up/A on the A HREF=”http://www.dutchbikes.us/” Dutch Bicycle Company/A, a Mass’-based operation founded by Dan Sorger and Maria Salve in 2001 (originally in Florida). Starting out as bicycle importers, Sorger and Salve moved to Massachusetts in 2008 to expand into bicycle design and production after concluding that Dutch bikes were great for Holland, but American cities required a design all their own./p

pThe duo hired industrial designer Brian Piper to work on their Swift bike:/p

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pBicycle geeks and anyone lucky enough to have purchased one of A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/store/dutchmaster/” Core77’s Dutch Masters/A will already know this stuff, but for the uninitiated, here’s Piper explaining design-relevant bicycle geometry:/p

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Voici le travail et le portfolio de Jimmy Backius, un photographe de mode suédois. Une belle mise en scène des mannequins féminins et un univers intéressant. A noter les nombreuses collaborations avec H&M, Glamour et Elle. Plus d’exemples dans la suite de l’article.

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