I suspect that this celebrity endorsement is probably just a fan impersonating Jason Schwartzman, but I like to think that if he did pick up a copy of UPPERCASE that he’d rather enjoy it! We certainly think he’s a creative and curious fellow.
For the release of one his records, Schwartzman sent original polaroid pictures to those who ordered the cd.
pI experienced an extraordinary triplet of events this past week: It started out at the Bellagio Center, the Rockefeller Foundation’s beyond-scenic lake-and-hilltop estate, then onto the annual Salone Del Mobile Furniture Fair in Milan, then through the bizarre machinations of being stuck in Europe (yes, I know, there are “worse places to be stuck than Milan”), hostage to the whims of the volcano, its ashes, and the various European airspace agencies. But for me, events happened in a different order. In what I can only describe as a bizarre bookending of things, the furniture fair was on one end, the volcano one the other, and in the middle, the Bellagio Design Symposium. Let me try to explain./p
pIt’s already been remarked that if Eyjafjallajokull didn’t exactly co-opt the fair, it at least provided its leitmotif (see Craig Berman’s picture perfect cartoons a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/milan10/milan_design_week_2010_dont_blame_the_icelandic_designers_16407.asp”here/a and a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/cartoons/milan_design_week_2010_the_eyjafjallajokull_chair_16418.asp”here/a). Certainly by Salone’s last couple of days, the expression on people’s faces (well, of the North Americans’ and northern Europeans’ anyway) was one of distress and fatigue; many wondered when, or if, they would be able to get home. I met several people with family back home, and even a married couple emboth/em marooned in Italy with two kids “back in the U.S. with the grandparents.” Everyone tried to keep a positive outlook (there’s the emfirst/em “moderation” from my title), but rumors of a “second eruption” and the infamous larger “sister volcano”#151;which has allegedly erupted every single time Eyja’s gone up#151;peppered every conversation. It was fascinating (and disheartening) to see the size of the story shrinking in the newspapers day by day, starting out as a huge, paper-spanning headline, then two column widths, then one, then a large box, then a small one. And it was humbling to see that this story, like all others, ran its news cycle, then faded./p
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pThe reason things flipped in my mind, I think, stems from the theme of the Bellagio event: a href=”http://winterhouse.com/bellagio/””Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the ‘Museum’.”/a The event was produced by Winterhouse, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, and here we were to discuss the notion of design for social change, its various forms and manifestations, and how best to exhibit, acquire, and preserve its artifacts in museum and non-museum contexts. And we certainly tried to cover all that, but the concentrated discussions on design and social change#151;all the amazing examples of life-affirming, impact-making, ementerprises/em of design#151;provided the beating heart of the event, pumping oxygen (and belief) through the discursive circulatory system of the attendees and into our collective thoughts. We were immersed in the proactive, good-intensions of design (some called them “do-goody”), and by the end of the conference, we were walking around in the positive, world-changing glow of design and its seemingly-limitless powers./p
pLeaving the two-and-a-half day Bellagio event then and driving down into the Milan Furniture Fair was like walking through Platform 9frac34;’s brick wall in a Harry Potter novel. The Fair is not without its “critical design” provocations of course, but traveling out to the Fiera fairgrounds#151;as I did my first afternoon#151;shoved me through the most extraordinary shift in design matter. There was just so…much…stuff. Beautiful, well-designed, witty, often rich in content, spectacularly lit, and again, abundant, stuff. I felt an urgent necessity to reorient my compass; to try to be in the present, to switch gears from design-for-social-change to some of the other vectors of design endeavor#151;to form, to materiality, to commentary, to aesthetics and wonder and just plain silliness. But I have to say that for those first few hours, it just seemed so over-the-top. So emim/emmoderate./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/everything_in_moderation_reflections_on_furniture_volcanoes_design_social_change_and_the_museum_16443.asp”(more…)/a
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Here are some images of a visitors centre with walkways built through and around a castle in Fundão, Portugal, by Portuguese studio Comoco Architects. (more…)
UK-based Luke Wyman’s Whitevinyl recently released Solar Beat a music box looped using the orbital frequencies of our own solar system. It’s one of those simple concepts where astrophysics is translated into a pleasing ambient loop soundtrack that’s more profound than your average web diversion.
Still relatively obscure, the multi-talented illustrator, photographer, web developer, musician behind the band Neverest continues to fly beneath the radar despite some rave reviews.
Oh, and while it may take 248 earth years for Pluto to chime in, it’s totally worth it
-> Play with it
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A ten year retrospective on skateboarding in Miami, “The MIA Program” looks at the city’s stirring subculture through the lenses of photographers Ian O’Connor and Frankie Galland, as well as with skate-inspired paintings by artist Taylor Kienholz.
The MIA Program returns for a month-long showcase at local hangout Kill Your Idol after debuting to a packed house in a 24-hour-long exhibition of the same name at the beginning of 2010. The exhibit aptly portrays its host city with images spanning all neighborhoods—from the gutters in seedy Liberty City to half pipes inside the clubs of South Beach, The MIA Program is as much about the culture and backdrop surrounding the Miami skate scene as it is about the medium or the sport itself.
Miami natives, O’Connor and England-born Galland are clearly acquainted with the local lifestyle. O’Connor has shot for Sports Illustrated and Skateboarder magazines as well as an array of skateboard brands and Galland worked as photo editor at Strength Magazine as well as shooting for various publications. The two are joined by Santa Cruz-born, Miami transplant Taylor Kienholz and Floridian filmmaker Rob Hoovis, who will show his skate-fueled film “Paradise.”
The MIA Program opens tomorrow, 23 April 2010 and runs through 24 May 2010.
Pick Me Up, the exhibition of illustration and graphic art at London’s Somerset House, opened tonight. Beware, a visit could prove expensive
Pick Me Up is part exhibition, part craft fair, part workshop. Alongside displays of work from a selection of established and up-and-coming illustrators such as Hellovon
Siggi Eggertsson
Andy Gilmore
Chrissie Macdonald and Peep Show
James Joyce
and Lorenzo Petrantoni
are stalls from collectives and studios selling all kinds of graphic produce.
In addition, Rob Ryan has transplanted his studio to the venue for the duration of the show
While Print Club is producing posters on-site
Downstairs, prints from 24 illustrators are available to buy in the Take Me Home gallery
Note the signage design using modular plastic fixed onto pin board – Anthony Burrill and No Days Off did all the graphics for the show
A host of activities are planned for the duration of the show including an Anorak magazine workshop in which kids can have a go at becoming a magazine art director or editor, Publish and be Damned is running a special edition of its magazine fair and networking event Glug is hosting an evening of talks by illustrators.
At The Print Club workshop, various designers and illustrators will be making prints – including Scott King, Frith Kerr, Marion Deuchars and Angus Hyland, and Morag Myerscough.
Pick Me Up promises to be a fresh, fun attempt to bring graphic art to new audiences as well as catering to those already familair with many of the people showing work. There’s loads to do, and loads to buy.We’ll be posting again over the coming days with more on what’s going on at the show.
Pick Me Up is at Somerset House, Embankment Galleries, London WC2 until May 3. Details here
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.
This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. This is an HD transfer from the 16mm original. Even more excellent footage is available on our DVDs at our website at spacecraftfilms.com
The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time. Narration is provided by Mark Gray (me), Executive Producer for Spacecraft Films.
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Is Juicy Couture looking to replace its brash rock n’ royalty aesthetic with a more whimsical take on girlish glamour? The Liz Claiborne-owned brand, which racked up $540 million in sales last year, has brought on Erin Fetherston for a stint as guest designer and creative consultant, reports WWD. Fetherston will design women’s apparel for Juicy Couture through 2011, taking the reins from founders Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, who stepped away from their day-to-day responsibilities with the brand earlier this year. “I plan to stay true to the Juicy Couture DNA,” said Fetherston, who will continue to design for her namesake label. Stay tuned to see how she approaches Juicy’s signature item. “Something I find very exciting is the Juicy Couture [velour] track suit is coming on its 10-year anniversary,” Fetherston told WWD. “It’s such an iconic piece in fashion, and I’m so excited to work on the track suit.”
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UK-based Luke Twyman’s Whitevinyl recently released Solar Beat—a music box looped using the orbital frequencies of our own solar system. It’s one of those simple concepts where astrophysics is translated into a pleasing ambient loop soundtrack more profound than your average web diversion.
Still relatively obscure, the multi-talented illustrator, photographer, web developer, musician behind the band Neverest Songs continues to fly beneath the radar despite some rave reviews.
Oh, and while it may take 248 “earth years” for Pluto to chime in, it’s totally worth it.
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