Voici le 1er trailer du prochain film du réalisateur Danny Boyle après l’énorme succès de Slumdog MIllionaire. Une adaptation du calvaire qu’a vécu Aron Ralston, alpiniste de haut vol durant 6 jours (127 heures précisément). Le film est prévu dans les salles pour le 5 novembre 2010.
Now that Michael Boodro has officially taken over as editor-in-chief of Elle Decor, the magazine has launched its search for a new managing editor. If hired, you’ll oversee all aspects of production for the magazine and website. You’ll be working with the editorial, art, photo, and advertising departments, managing budgets, approving contracts, and enforcing deadlines—nothing beyond the experience level of the ideal candidate.
With five or more years in a managerial role for a national magazine, proficiency in InDesign and InCopy, and a true love of interior decoration, you have every chance of landing this gig. Are you detail-oriented and a self-starter? Even better. If you’re up for the challenge, apply here.
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Now that Michael Boodro has officially taken over as editor-in-chief of Elle Decor, the magazine has launched its search for a new managing editor.
Do you have a passion for home decorating? Well, this just may be your dream job.
If hired, you’ll oversee all aspects of production for the magazine and website. You’ll be working with the editorial, art, photo and advertising departments, managing budgets, approving contracts and enforcing deadlines — nothing beyond the experience level of the ideal candidate.
With five or more years in a managerial role for a national magazine, proficiency in InDesign and InCopy and a true love of interior decoration, you have every chance of landing this gig. Are you detail-oriented and a self-starter? Even better. If you’re up for the challenge, apply here.
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French designer Paul Coudamy has created this red-gloss sliding wall unit combining a desk, bed and wardrobe for an apartment in Paris.
Red Nest has a bookshelf that slides along the wall to reveal or conceal the sleeping area, workspace and dressing room.
As part of the renovation of the 23 square-metre apartment the designer has also introduced a bathroom that sits behind a two-way mirror and has a WC concealed behind wardrobe doors.
All photographs are by Benjamin Boccas.
More about Paul Coudamy on Dezeen:
Swollen Wall by Paul Coudamy (February 2010)
My Caravan Studio (February 2010)
Clamp desk (December 2009)
Woodwalk, training shoes carved from wood (December 2008)
Cardboard Office (November 2008)
Here’s some more from the designer:
Red Nest
The challenge was to provide a 23m2 space with a bedroom, a bathroom, a dressing and a working space. The design is based on a work on the porosity of spaces.
The booshelf is a mobile block that enables to control the opening of the bed. Its U-shape covers the bed and shapes the room by closing the dressing, the bed or the working space.
This mobile system provides a closed sheltered bed as wished by the client without completely shutting the space. A red carmine gloss paint reinforces the graphical dimension of the space and its delimitation by contrasting with the matt white walls.
The disappearance of the spatial limits is reinforced bu the use of two-way mirrors that control the hidden and visible spaces according to the light.
The bathroom is covered with resinated concrete and the restroom is hidden behind the doors of a fake vintage wardrobe.
You can set the degree of intimacy between the bathtub and the rest of the room thanks to the two-way mirror above the basin.
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Red Nest
Design : Paul Coudamy
Project : appartment fitting
Location : rue Rollin, 75005 Paris
Date : 08/2010
Surface : 23m²
Project Director : Pierre Brochot
Photo courtesy Benjamin Boccas
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| My Caravan Studio by Paul Coudamy | Swollen Wall by Paul Coudamy | More interior stories |
A few days ago I picked up a copy of No Better Than This, the new Rounder Records debut album from John Mellencamp (AKA “Johnny Cougar,” “John Cougar,” “John Cougar Mellencamp”). I definitely wouldn’t describe myself as a fan of the Coug, but this particular collection of recordings was produced by T-Bone Burnett.
I would buy a $300 box set of audio test patterns if it was produced by T-Bone Burnett.
What’s intriguing about No Better Than This is that all the tracks on the album were recorded at historic locations with a single microphone on a 1955 Ampex portable recording machine (with no overdubs).
We’ve written before about the benefits that self-imposed limitations can bring to creative work. In the particular case, the low-tech (and deceptively simple) approach to the audio production lends many of the songs on the album a raw and honest quality that you don’t usually hear on modern recordings.
Over the years I’ve actually noticed that quite a few of my favorite studio recordings were produced this way, direct to tape with only one or two microphones:
The Trinity Session by Cowboy Junkies (1988)It’s mind-numbing to think that this whole album was recorded (under false-pretenses) at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Ontario in just over a day with a budget of $250.
They even ended up with so much good material that not everything from the session ended up on the original Latent Records release.
A Meeting by the River by Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (1993)This impromptu recording actually won the the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album in 1994. All the tracks on the album were entirely improvised by the four musicians involved in project. If you have any affinity for acoustic slide-guitar recordings, this Water Lily Acoustics release is a must-have. It’s also possibly the “warmest” sounding recording that I’ve ever heard.
How to Grow a Woman from the Ground by Chris Thile & the How to Grow a Band (2006)Single-mic recordings aren’t all that uncommon for bluegrass bands trying to capture the same sound that’s present on early Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs recordings. It is, however, quite rare to hear that kind of unvarnished production on bluegrass covers of angst-ridden songs by The Strokes and The White Stripes.
If anything, these recordings should definitively prove that you don’t need the newest or most-technologically advanced tools to produce great music.
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This sloping Corten steel footbridge by Spanish civil engineers Alfa Polaris straddles a main road to connect two parts of Granollers, Spain.
The Can Gili Footbridge provides a direct route between the densely populated area of can Gilli and the greener Terra Alta, which were previously only connected by a bridge on their outskirts.
Terra Alta on the north side sits 4.3 metres higher than can Gili on the south with the bridge sloping between the two.
The asymmetric bridge is finished in weathered steel, illuminated by LEDs and has a treated timber decking.
The steel structure took four days to assemble from components manufactured off-site.
Here’s some more from the architects:
CAN GILI FOOTBRIDGE OVER THE BV-1432 HIGHWAY IN GRANOLLERS
Introduction
The construction of this footbridge is an old claim of the inhabitants of the two neighbourhoods separated from one another by the trench of the BV-1432 road. These two residential areas, Terra Alta on the south bank and can Gili on the north one, have a different nature: can Gili is a dense zone with shops and community services, but no green areas, and Terra Alta is a low density urban area, with a community park, but with no services.
So far, people from one neighbourhood wanting to go to the other one had to make a detour, crossing the road through a highway bridge, placed at the east border of these urban areas, with a single narrow footway in one of the sides of its deck.
For these reasons, at the beginning of 2001 the Granollers Borough Council commissioned Alfa Polaris (http://bierot.net) to carry out the concept design and the detailing document of a new link between these two urban areas.
Concept design
The design of the proposed link, a footbridge next to the junction of the Sant Ferran St. with Verge de la Mercè St. and Sant Marc St. at the Terra Alta side, was strongly conditioned by the asymmetric shape of the cross section of the road trench. The team, led by structural engineer Xavier Font, looked for a design that highlighted this asymmetry marked by the different level of the two banks —Terra Alta’s bank is 4.3 metres higher than can Gili’s one— and the presence of a small platform in the middle of the south cutting of the trench.
The client and the designers looked for a solution with reduced whole life cost and environmental burdens. This is the reason why we chose Corten steel —whose rusted skin protects itself from further corrosion— for the structure, LED lamps —with long life span and energy efficiency— for the street lighting over the deck, and polymeric timber —with almost no maintenance— for the decking over the structure.
The client was also very interested in reducing the possessions of the road to the minimum. This was another reason why we chose steel as a material for the deck. Steel components can be manufactured offsite, easily transported and put into place very fast by a small number of skilled personnel, reducing disruption and disturbance around the site. Four one-day possessions —two to erect the structure, one to dismantle a temporary tower and the forth one to carry out the static load test of the deck—, with traffic diverted through alternative routes, were necessary to built the footbridge.
We proposed a cranked shape beam, varying in width and in depth, spanning 32.7 metres, formed by two Corten steel longitudinal hollow box girders. Over the main span the footpath is channelled by this two box girders which are linked together at bottom flanges by transversal beams. The latter, in turn, give support to the two metre wide polymeric timber decking through longitudinal joists.
Over the north foundation, placed on the mentioned platform, the main cranked beam takes a V shape, the top ends of which give support to a small deck. This, linked to the main structure by means of two sets of steel hinges, spans 13.9 metres. Doing this way, we avoided to build a foundation on the top of the south cutting of the trench, which had very bad ground conditions. At this V shape section, the two girders that form the main beam are linked together through transversal diaphragms hidden by external plates, so that the beam seems to be a single bow girder.
In this project, steel also allowed us to easily achieve the sculptural forms the proposed design required. Moreover, its high strength-to-weight ratio resulted in a very light structure and the consequent savings for the foundations. Using steel for the deck permitted us to manufacture the deck in the controlled environment of the fabrication workshop, so that, meanwhile the foundations, the piers and the abutments of the footbridge were made on site, the steel structure was being fabricated. This helped us to increase the quality of the product and speed up the construction process.
Taking into account future needs, below the timber decking, seven pipes were provided for utility services to be installed. For this reason, the webs of the transversal beams that link the two main girders and the transversal diaphragms of the south side deck, have seven holes to allow pipes to pass through them.
On the deck the street lighting is provided by means of twelve LED lamps, supported and protected from vandalism by means of Corten steel shelters fixed to the inner webs of the main structure. Additional lamp columns, with stainless steel stems, were installed on both approaches.
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Construction
In 2009 the Granollers Borough Council got the necessary funds to build the scheme, and subsequently Alfa Polaris was commissioned to carry out the site supervision.
The construction of this footbridge started in June 2009. The upgrading of the south approach, at the Terra Alta’s side, as well the micropiled foundations of the abutments were first made. Next, the stems were built. Meanwhile the steel deck was being fabricated in Ripollet, 20 kilometres away from the site.
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When the abutments were finished and the bearings put into place, the steel structure was transported to site and lifted. Eventually, meanwhile the north approach was built, the polymeric timber paving was placed and the street lighting as well as the street furniture installed in order for the footbridge to be open to the public at the beginning of 2010.
Client: Granollers Borough Council
Ricard Ros Puig
Daniel Barrachina Rodríguez
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Architectural design firm: Alfa Polaris S.L.
Xavier Font Solà
Structural engineering firm: Alfa Polaris S.L.
Xavier Font Solà
Ernesto A. Williams
Joan Julià Riera
Street lighting engineering: GESA Gestió d’enginyeria, serveis i arquitectura
Jordi Rodríguez Martí
Daniel Ruano Rubia
Josep Barberillo
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Site supervision: Alfa Polaris, S.L., Xavier Font Solà
Main contractor: ACSA, Obras e Infraestructuras, S.A
Albert Font Palomera
Francisco Javier Castilla Marañón
Andreu Iglesias Navarro
Steel contractor Talleres Plain, S.A.
Simón Fernández
Cost: 574,400 €
Location: Borough of Granollers
Typology: 40 metre long continuous cranked structure with a main span of 32.7 metres
Main materials:
Deck: Corten steel
Abutments: reinforced concrete
LED lamp supports on the deck: Corten steel
Lamp columns on the approaches: Stainless steel
Handrails: Stainless steel and painted steel
Litter bins (street furniture): Galvanized steel and painted steel
Deck paving: polymeric timber
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| Trestles Beach footbridge by Dan Brill Architects | Nanhe River Landscape Bridge by WXY Architecture | Pearl River Necklace by NL Architects |
Exploring Dalek’s work on Hurley fixed-gears, workspaces, surfboards and more
With surfing at another high fashion moment (see the artful film our own Greg Mitnick recently shot for Proenza Schouler on the topic), Hurley’s invitation to check out the U.S. Open of Surfing (of which the brand is the main sponsor) earlier this month seemed like a good idea. Other than swarms of teens crowding Huntington Beach, BMX events, skaters and performances by Weezer and Hot Hot Heat—not to mention the actual surfing itself—checking out the Hurley “campus” was a revealing look at the brand that most Southern California surfer kids have grown up wearing since Hurley introduced clothing in 1999.
Other than the California feel—Hurley’s corporate HQ is actually a handful of single-story buildings in Costa Mesa, CA—the most notable and persistent theme of the offices are the geometric shapes and bright hues of Dalek’s (aka James Marshall’s) artwork throughout, so we decided to take a closer look at the collaboration.
While the formal collaboration started more recently, Marshall’s connection to the company dates back to when Hurley evolved from shaping surfboards into a lifestyle brand for the “modern surfer [who] also loved fashion, skate, snow, music and art.” The first project official project bringing the two together came in the form of a large-scale painting for the retail concept 225 Forest that Hurley opened in Laguna, CA in July of last year.
While those familiar with Marshall’s trademark cosmic mouse will notice the little creature’s absence in the work he’s done for the label, the new direction for the artist sees him keeping with a recognizable use of colorful kaleidoscopic shapes. For Hurley, who call print and color “a pillar of the brand’s foundation,” these playful combinations work well for applications that include a floor-to-ceiling treatment of their cafeteria (including the fridge, pictured above), as well as patterns on their Phantom board shorts.
To see these images and more representing the partnership, including my pics of Hurley’s workspace, Dalek fixies, a gallery show, check out the gallery below.
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If you’re reading this, you may well consider yourself an artist, an innovator, or a journalist, and, on your good days, maybe all of those things at once. Well, then listen up, because AOL would like to give you a grant for $25,000. Part of the company’s Project on Creativity, launched earlier this year with the help of artist Chuck Close and an epic 25th-anniversary bash at the New Museum, AOL’s “25 for 25” Grant Program will award 25 $25,000 grants to “tomorrow’s groundbreakers and visionaries—individuals with a creative spark to ignite.” Spark your chance to win by going here to request an application no later than Wednesday, September 1 (it probably wouldn’t hurt to use your old AOL e-mail address). You’ll then receive more information and a special 25-for-25-branded envelope in which to return the requested work and documents by September 20. An advisory board including Close, Andy Spade, AOL chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong, and experts from an array of creative fields will select the grant recipients.
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