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Ian Stevenson was invited by Dutch visual communications studio Trapped in Suburbia to put on a solo show at its Ship of Fools gallery in The Hague in The Netherlands. The show, entitled Really Shit, runs until August 26 and features painted canvases, sculptural pieces and a selection of prints and original drawings. Here are some photos of the show and some of the works therein:
A personal favourite, Eat Crap is painted on canvas, 101 x 76 cm, €700
Original drawings, €200 each. Frame size: 30 x 40 cm
Celebrity is Dead, original drawing, €200
Really Shit, €700. Canvas size 101 x 76 cm
Original drawing, €200. Frame size: 30 x 40 cm
Original drawings, €200 each. Frame size: 30 x 40 cm
Original drawings, €200 each. Frame size: 30 x 40 cm
Signed Riso print, €20. Frame size 30 x40 cm
Pointless Shit, original drawing, €200. Frame size 30 x 40 cm
Really Shit runs until August 26 at the Ship of Fools Gallery, Korte Voorhout 20, The Hague, The Netherlands
Record your next hit at Converse’s top-of-the-line studio in Brooklyn
With Chucks on the feet of countless lead singers, Converse’s roots in rock ‘n’ roll go almost as far back as the genre itself, a tradition the brand is keeping alive with this week’s opening of Rubber Tracks, a world-class recording studio open to musicians of all genres at no cost.
The community-driven space, located in one of Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s last remaining industrial pockets, is purely democratic, organized to enable serious musicians who might otherwise struggle with the high price of studio time. As Chief Marketing Officer Geoff Cottrill explained on our visit, this is an altruistic endeavor and all musicians recording at Rubber Tracks will retain all rights to their tunes. Converse is simply the facilitator in helping them achieve their best possible sound.
Much like Levi’s recent creative workshops, anyone can use the space if there is an available time slot. How it differs is its long-term approach, accepting applicants in cycles to spend a thorough amount of time in the studio and encouraging bands to reapply if not accepted the first time around. The North Andover, MA-based shoemaker considers this an investment in the future of music and a way to give back.
Exteriors feature murals by Mr. Ewokone and Shepard Fairey (whose works were both already there), with artist Jeremyville‘s “Crystal Mountain, Williamsburg” gracing the inside stage area—which Converse says will not become a venue but will serve mostly as another area for bands to practice or experiment. Equipment supplied by Guitar Center fills the building, a lineup including guitars and amps by Fender, Marshall and Schecter, as well as NYC’s only Ocean Way HR2 large-format monitor system.
The rest of the space is wholly focused on recording, even soundproofed to prevent “flat” uncolored sound. Persian rugs and worn floorboards keep a relaxed vibe in the studio, which is kitted out with all the essential gear for shredding and a retro-styled isolation booth.
Helmed by seasoned musician and facility manager Brad Worrell, alongside a team of top-notch engineers, the control room has digital and analog mixing consoles with enough buttons to rival a spaceship. There’s a space for the synth set too. Rubber Tracks also has a workroom dedicated to digital editing, offering a complete range of tools for mixing both music and video.
While ready for a jam session in terms of audio equipment and decor, this summer they’re kicking things off by hosting a week-long Grammy Camp for students, who will learn the creative process of making a track from start to finish. Rubber Tracks will open as a recording studio tomorrow, 13 July 2011, with five emerging NYC bands christening the space and a slew of musicians to follow.
Dirigé par Rémy Cayuela, voici le video-clip officiel de Wat pour le morceau “Kill Kill”. Prenant l’idée d’un restaurant perdu au milieu des USA, il permet de suivre un touriste qui va se retrouver dans une situation délicate. Une création réussie à découvrir dans la suite.
SomeOne has created a suitably aquatic-based identity system for the National Maritime Museum group in Greenwich, London
The new identity, the launch of which coincides with the opening of a new wing at the National Maritime Museum encompasses not just the Museum itself but also the Royal Observatory, Peter Harrison’s Planetarium and The Queen’s House.
The central element of the system is a 3D splash of CGI-generated water that is employed in different colours according to the venue. Its shape suggests perhaps a crown (in a nod to Greenwich’s royal connections, we presume).
This sits alongside restrained and elegant wordmarks set in Farnham (a typeface designed by Christian Schwartz which has previously been mainly used in magazines, including CR).
The splash device is then employed on signage
website (designed by BVA, designers of CR’s own site)
and advertising
while merchandise and other collateral take cropped versions
It’s another of SomeOne’s ‘brand world’ approaches – flexible, but based around a single visual motif. Compared to the Eurostar work, this one feels better resolved and classic enough to work with the venues’ architecture and historical significance.
The Maritime museum is also about to unveil High Arctic an amazing-looking interactive installation by United Visual Artists which launches its new Sammy Ofer Wing and which we will post about tomorrow once we have visited it.
Postscript: Regular readers will remember that as part of our series of graduate show round-ups we posted Norwich student Jamin Galea‘s own proposal for an identity system for the Museum. (UPDATE: Galea, as he says in the comments below, is currently interning at SomeOne).
So, cheeky question but which do readers prefer?
Credits: SomeOne – strategy, naming, branding and advertising United Visual Artists – exhibition design Clear – signage and wayfinding Real Studios – gallery design Plant – digital signage BVA – digital and website
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We posted about SomeOne’s Eurostar identity system here A system for PR agency Resonate here And Olympic pictograms here
CR in Print
Thanks for reading the CR Blog but, if you’re not also getting the printed magazine, we think you are missing out. This month’s bumper July issue contains 60 pages of great images in our Illustration Annual plus features on Chris Milk, Friends With You and the Coca-Cola archive.
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Visiting Petit Collage and Lorena Siminovich was a highlight for Finley since I bought him “I like vegetables”—a nice board book with touchy-feeling textures. Finley’s baby book library is full of Lorena’s artwork! “In My Den” has been well-loved and well-travelled and though it is patched together now with packing tape, it has come with Finley on his travels to be a friendly reminder of home.
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Plants adapted to thrive in rocky crevices will take over the facade of this tower for Nantes by French architect Edouard François.
Plants will grow inside stainless steel tubes on the Tour Végétale de Nantes.
The tubes will take up little space on each host balcony but will provide leafy surroundings for inhabitants while showcasing species collected by the local botanical gardens.
The building will comprise a plinth containing retail and parking, offices enclosed in a black rubber cube and the residential tower with shifting, elliptical balconies.
François is renowned for architecture that incorporates plants, including the Parisian Eden Bio social housing development completed in 2009. More details in our earlier story.
This operation situated in the future eco-neighborhoods, Prairie-au-Duc, in Nantes, is unique in particular because of its height. Its main challenge is to (re) create the desire to live in tall buildings, in a remarkable setting in the heart of the town.
This mixed project consists of a base of shops and parking, on which is placed in a black rubber cube of offices and a housing tower of 17 storey (60m).
The tower consists of a main body ringed by elliptic balconies. The balconies vary from floor to floor to form a giant organic silhouette.
The tower is the support for a collection of chasmophites plants coming from the collections of the botanical gardens of Nantes. These plants have been collected by scientists from the whole world and frozen. The building will show the plant collection of the city.
The originality of the plantation is to grow in long stainless steel tubes (diameter: 12cm/length: 4meters ). These tubes recreate the natural conditions of the chasmpophite plants that grow in rocky mountain flaws. A scientific experiment is currently underway for over a year in the botanical gardens of Nantes, to test the viability of the plantation process. The result of this experimentation shows that the growth of plants is exceptional for a very low water consumption.
The impact of the tubes on the balconies is minimal. On the other hand on the facades, they form vertical dynamic lines.
Tour végétale de Nantes Architect : Edouard François – int. FRIBA Botanist : Claude Figureau BET : AIA-SERA Client : Groupe Giboire Ilot A2 – Prairie aux Ducs – Ile de Nantes – Nantes Planning : Concours Déc. 2009 – Livraison 2012 Program 9150 m² : 7500 m2 – appartments 6 240 m² (85 à 90 units) 2000 m2 – office, 350 m² – activity 91 parking places Phase PC
As much as I dislike going to see my dentist and doctors, I go for all of my preventative care appointments (every six months or once a year or whenever is recommended) to keep my medical costs low. I know from experience that regular checkups are less expensive than emergency care, which sincerely plays the largest part in all of it. These regular appointments are also there for early detection, so small problems don’t become large ones (also saving me money).
The easiest way to stay on top of these appointments is to schedule your next visit before you leave your dentist or doctor’s office. The same is true for hair appointments, car maintenance, and your pet’s veterinarian visits. Along similar lines, appointments for annual servicing of your heater, chimney, and other house work can be scheduled for the next year before the technician leaves your home (assuming you liked the work that was done). If your family enjoys going skiing every winter and you have a favorite place to stay, make your reservation for next year when you settle up your account for this year’s trip. Even though you have no idea what you’ll be doing 12 months in the future, it’s better to get an appointment on both of your schedules early. You may have to move the appointment, but you at least have one to move if you need to.
Regularly scheduling appointments will free up your time (you don’t have to call multiple times to try to get squeezed into someone’s schedule or call multiple providers hunting for someone who can help), alleviate stress (you don’t have to worry about your heater not turning on the first cold day of fall), and likely save you money over the long-term.
The excellent new Radio Soulwax app and website from 2manydjs is a radio station with a difference, placing visuals at the heart of the listening experience…
The app is available for use on the iPad and iPhone, and launched just over a week ago containing six hour-long mixes. Each is set to an individual theme and accompanied by bespoke visuals. 2manydjs will then add a new hour-long set to the app each week, until, in a few months’ time, users of the app will have a 24-hour musical extravaganza available for their listening and viewing pleasure.
The visual element of the hour-long shows is based largely around album covers, which are manipulated and animated in a variety of ways, by a number of different directors and animators. The resulting films are witty and eminently watchable. What is particularly interesting about the project is that the films seem integral to the music, rather than just an accompaniment. The film and music come together to create a particular experience, which separately they would not achieve.
Describing the project on the website and app, 2manydjs says “we’ve tried to come up with something different, a new way to share music we love with you. Music is everywhere and everyone has the tools to be a musician and be a DJ, but for us as music lovers, that hasn’t necessarily resulted in an equally massive explosion of mindblowing new music, so we have decided to go back to all the great little gems we have found over the years, basically a free trip through our ever-expanding record collection.”
“We grew up surrounded by our dad’s extensive record collection and many of our earliest memories are of record sleeves, so it only makes sense that we made this tribute to that forgotten art form, albeit in a very digital way.”
Many of the films feature a highly entertaining trip through some long-lost but truly wonderful record covers (see Chevy Chase cover shown above as just one example). Other mixes feature newly shot films alongside the album sleeves, and in the Jack In The Box mix, it’s the vinyl labels that take centrestage, with the words featured on the labels animated into dancing figures (see above).
There are some trailers for the Radio Soulwax app and site posted on YouTube (two are above), but for the true experience you’ll need to download the app (which is free), or visit the Radio Soulwax website, where the mixes are continually streamed. With the amount of work that’s clearly been put into this project, it would frankly be rude not to check it out.
CR in Print
Thanks for reading the CR Blog but, if you’re not also getting the printed magazine, we think you are missing out. This month’s bumper July issue contains 60 pages of great images in our Illustration Annual plus features on Chris Milk, Friends With You and the Coca-Cola archive.
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