May 15
garden unique design contest : Dining Outdoors
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A new great opportunity for designers, newcomers or big names alike: following the overwhelming success of last year’s garden unique design cont..
May 15
British Bikemaking Circa 1945
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This video on how a bicycles are made—or at least on how they were made in 1945 in the UK—is a lot more interesting than you’d think it’d be, particularly if you’re British and recall your country’s former prominence as a manufacturing giant. It’s presented by Raleigh’s chief designer of the time, and you catch a glimpse of the army of workers he presides over in the “Drawing Office,” noted as one of the more important departments. And on the factory floor, it’s fascinating to see how, for instance, a circular piece of steel like this…
…is transformed, step by step, into a joint like this:
As with previous “manufacturing in the past” videos we’ve shown, you’ll note the manpower required, the division of sexes by task, and at least one poor bastard breathing in the steam from a caustic cleaning bath in those pre-OSHA days:
May 15
Launch Fubiz V5
Posted in: fubiz tv, nouvelle, nspiration, versionFubiz fait peau neuve et lance son premier programme vidéo : Fubiz TV. Après 7 ans d’existence, l’équipe de Fubiz est fière de vous annoncer une nouvelle version entièrement repensée ainsi qu’un programme vidéo inédit hebdomadaire en partenariat avec Orange. Découvrez les changements dans cet article.
Le site propose des optimisations ergonomiques, renforce l’aspect communautaire, avec une charte sobre et une navigation mettant davantage en avant les créations des artistes.
L’espace membre a été revu complètement avec un espace qui permet aux membres de proposer leurs contenus (liens et articles) et d’être « featured » en home. Une nouvelle navigation avec un menu toujours présent sur la page, ainsi qu’un moteur de recherche avec filtres (contenus et membres). Une version anglaise avec un switch de langue disponible sur chaque article, et un nouveau serveur pour des pages plus fluides.
La nouvelle version en détail :
/ Articles
Une évolution des pages d’articles : le share, les votes, des nouvelles galeries d’images. De nouvelle mises en avant des articles les plus votés seront effectuée sur le module Most Popular dans le header. Un système de tags et de nouvelles catégories voit le jour.
/ Mosaic
La page Mosaic dans une nouvelle navigation interactive dans le contenu et les articles. Une grille d’images miniatures pour retrouver tout le site de manière visuelle, tout en utilisant les filtres de contenus.
/ Player Video
Un nouveau player HTML5 customisé Fubiz pour diffuser les différents contenus vidéo en HD.
/ Membres
Un annuaire de membres a été intégré avec des nouveaux filtres de recherches, et des tris par noms, derniers actifs ou date d’inscription des membres. Chaque membre possède une page « /member/username » avec une bio, une URL associé, un flux d’activité composé de ses likes, commentaires, et articles soumis.
/ Galleries
Une nouvelle charte graphique pour les pages des galleries. Plus de 120 000 images triés et sélectionnés par notre équipe dans 8 catégories principales : Photography – Advertising – Print – Typography – Street Art etc.
/ Fubiz TV
Fubiz TV, le meilleur de la création en une vidéo. Fubiz offre désormais un programme court vidéo HD chaque vendredi, reprenant le meilleur des projets exposés durant la semaine. Le premier épisode de Fubiz TV est diffusé exceptionnellement aujourd’hui. Ce programme fait l’objet d’un partenariat exclusif avec Orange.
/ Fubiz Ball
Apparition d’une nouvelle fonction lors que vous êtes membre et loggué sur le site. Son nom de code : la Fubiz Ball, qui vous permettra de naviguer sur le site. Elle est composée de votre avatar, des principales fonctions sociales, et des derniers articles likés sur Fubiz.
/ Quick Links
Une nouvelle version de l’espace de soumission des liens par les membres avec un roll-over pour plus d’interaction. Soumettez facilement vos projets.
/ Ajout Contacts – Feed Activity
Une nouvelle fonction pour ajouter ses contacts, et avoir un flux d’activité sur Fubiz (sur son profil et sur celui des autres membres).
/ Archives
Un nouveau système d’archives pour réunir les milliers d’articles Fubiz, une navigation possible à travers les dates : années et mois depuis 2005.
/ Application iPhone
L’application iPhone de Fubiz est disponible sur l’App Store. Une mise à jour avec de nouvelle fonctionnalités est prévue dans les prochaines semaines. Disponibilité de la future application iPad le mois prochain.
/ Press
Une revue de presse complète avec la couverture médiatique de Fubiz, et un bloc « Testimonials ».
/ Advertise
La page Advertise présente l’offre publicitaire, des détails sur l’audience de Fubiz et sur ses principaux annonceurs et marques.
/ Social
Des nouveaux blocs avec les réseaux Twitter et Facebook pour suivre les contenus diffusés sur Fubiz.
/ Credits
Basé à Paris, le site est édité et produit par Fubiz. Conçu et réalisé en collaboration par l’agence Colorz.
N’hésitez pas à nous contacter pour vos retours, suggestions et bugs techniques. De nouvelles pages et fonctionnalités vont également arriver dans les prochains jours. Merci pour votre attention et soutien.
May 15
NOT TOO LATE by Dima Loginoff
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Designed by Dima Loginoff, sofa collections will be presented on Florence Design Week in Lungarno Collection by Salvatore Ferragamo.
May 15
Marina Abramović Teams with Koolhaas’ OMA to Convert Old Theater into Performance Art Institute
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Marina Abramović and OMA’s Shohei Shigematsu with a model of the Marina Abramović Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art (Photo: OMA / Loren Wohl)
Artist Marina Abramović began her Met Gala Monday in Queens, inside MoMA PS1′s geodesic Performance Dome, where she detailed her plans to transform a crumbling old theater in Hudson, New York into the Marina Abramović Institute for the Preservation for Performance Art (MAI for short). Hours later, having sharpened up her all-black ensemble, she was striding up the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of the Art on the arm of James Franco. “Today is a big day for me,” she told the morning assembly of press, curators, critics, and friends after a warm introduction by PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach. “In the life of an artist, it’s very important to think of the future. When you die, you can’t leave anything physical—that doesn’t make any sense—but a good idea can last a long, long time.”
Her good idea is to channel 40 years worth of pioneering performance art into a living archive-cum-laboratory that will explore “time-based and immaterial art,” including performance, dance, theater, film, video, opera, and music. The focus will be on “long-duration” performances, those lasting for between six hours and…forever. “Only long-duration works of art have a serious potential to change the viewer looking at it and also the performer in doing it, because the performance that is long becomes more and more like life itself,” she said. “There’s no division between normal daily activity and the performance. This is what I experienced especially at my [2010] performance at MoMA, which was three months long. That really changed me mentally, physically, in many other ways.”
(Rendering: OMA)
Abramović commissioned OMA to transform the crumbling theater that she acquired in 2007 into a space for training artists and audiences alike. “It has an interesting level of decay,” said OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu, pointing out a rotted column and ghostly baselines from the building’s post-theater incarnation as an indoor tennis court. “The project has to house a very specific program of long-duration performance, so the first thing we decided to do was insert a very monastic box inside that can house many things. It’s actually slightly bigger than the tennis court, so you can still play tennis if you wanted to.”
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May 14
Dutch firm DUS Architects have created a pavilion made of bubbles.
Visitors to a Rotterdam square had to construct the soapy walls themselves by lifting metal frames from five-sided steel pools.
Anyone standing in one of these pools became enclosed inside one of sixteen massive bubbles.
The pavilion was open to the public for less than three weeks and was completed as part of the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam, which continues until August.
We recently rounded up all our projects featuring bubbles, including a lamp that blows its own temporary shades. See them all here.
Here’s some more explanation from DUS Architects:
Announcing: The Bubble Building!
The World’s most temporary pavilion entirely made out of soap bubbles, in Rotterdam, NL
At the very centre of breezy Rotterdam, lies the world’s most fragile and temporary pavilion: The Bubble Building. The temporary pavilion does justice to its name, as it is entirely made of soap bubbles.
On invitation by the IABR (International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam) and the ZigZagCity Festival, DUS architects designed a pavilion that instigates interaction, as the pavilion only appears when visitors build it themselves. The Bubble Building opened to the public on April 20th and can still be visited until Sunday May 6th, at the Karel Doormanhof in Rotterdam, NL.
The Bubble Building is made from 16 hexagonal shaped mirroring ponds; a shape derived from the natural shape of connected foam bubbles. Positioned in a square plan, the steel ponds create a 35 m2 reflective soap surface, strong enough to carry human weight. This creates a surreal scene, as visitors wearing rubber boots seem to stand on a reflective water surface. No sign of a pavilion, just a few handlebars that hint at what needs to be done.. What happens next, is an instant spectacle: When visitors pull up the handlebars, massive soap walls emerge in a split second. The soap walls appear as super slim glass, wavy, curvaceous, and always different; A multitude of soap walls and a rainbow of colours. Old and young join in to make the pavilion appear, over and over again.
Economic bubble
While the building is temporary, it refers to monumental architectural themes such as the re-building of Rotterdam. In order to make the building appear, you must erect it yourself, until it pops again. This way, the Bubble Building also is a reference to the current bursting of the economic bubble. Moreover, the Bubble Building is about collective building, as it takes at least two people to erect one cell of the pavilion. The more people join in, the larger the pavilion becomes.
Mental Monument
Visitors are invited to eternalize their own momentary version of the pavilion in a bubble snapshot, and upload these images to the ZigZagCity website. Online, a multitude of different bubble buildings appear. In these pictures lies the true beauty of the pavilion: the remembrance. As ultimately, the Bubble Building is about beauty.
It is said that temporary experiences are perceived as more beautiful, because they only last for a short time. Rotterdam philosopher Erasmus said ‘Homo Bulla Est’ – ‘man is a soap Bubble’. Life is momentary. So go build the Bubble Building, because it will only be there for an instant!
May 14
Love chaiselongue
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Chaiselongue with 2 places for lovers and table in the middle.
May 14
Combining Industrial Design & Cinematography, Syrp Rocks Kickstarter with the Genie
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The latest Kickstarter success story comes from industrial designer Chris Thomson and cinematographer Ben Ryan, who have created a simple, portable, and clever device to help shooters regulate motion control. Called the Genie, it doesn’t take up much more space than the SLR body it’s meant to be attached to, and it allows the user to program in both rotating and panning features.
What most impresses us is the inherent hackability of the device: Because it can propel itself along by a provided rope, the camera can go anywhere you’re willing to string that rope, either using an optional track or something you whip up yourself, like a few pieces of wood nailed together or even a skateboard.
What’s also neat is that in the video below, you can see that they’ve prototyped it with the help of a MakerBot Cupcake:
May 14
Hand-Eye Supply Announces its Maker Overlords for 2012!
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Once again Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply is participating in Portland, Oregon’s Starlight Parade, this year defending its title of Best Illumination! As a part of this extravaganza we held an open call to find a group of “Portland’s Most Inspirational Makers” who will literally be paraded through the streets on our float “The Brain Storm”. After receiving 52 nominees and over 1200 votes we have our winners! Reflecting Portland, Oregon’s diverse maker culture our winners this year hail from a variety of fields.
Our official Maker Overlords who will be gracing the float:
– Film Maker and Teacher Courtney Hermann
– Designer David Stoops of Blackstar Bags
– Robot Builder Amy Wiegand of Team Pandamonium
– Tinkerer and Teacher Steve Davee
We are very honored to have this team for our float and encourage all Portland readers to turn out to cheer them on at the Starlight Parade on the evening of June 2nd. The parade offers an eclectic mix of parade floats, marching bands, and people representing local businesses and organizations. It draws more than 250,000 spectators to downtown Portland and is broadcast live on KPTV (Channel 12 on your TV dial.)
We really appreciate the enthusiasm displayed by all our nominees and their posses!
Here are some pics from our announcement party, where in addition to celebrating our Maker Overlords we invited party-goers to create designs that will be compiled and illuminated in our float – “The Brain Storm”
Photo Courtesy of Lindsie Reitz // Suite
Overlords Steve Davee and Courtney Hermann with Kerri Beth Elliot
Photo Courtesy of Lindsie Reitz // Suite
May 14
Michael Bauer
Posted in: soloshowsA mad tea party of paintings
Initially catching our eye at the recent NADA NYC fair, Michael Bauer has made an impression in the European art market for years with his energetically moody compositions. The German artist recently set up shop in New York, and in celebration of his move from Berlin to NYC he is holding his first solo show at Lisa Cooley Gallery, dubbed “H.S.O.P. – 1973“.
Bauer spent much of 2012 experimenting with collage and drawing, a practice that has invigorated his new paintings with what the gallery calls an “openness, dynamism, lightness and mischievous humor” not seen in his previous work. Still, certain elements from his early career remain, most notably his small, meticulous markings and his predilection for highlighting and obscuring physical deformity. According to the Saatchi Gallery, “Bauer uses the qualities of abstract painting as a deviation of representational portraiture, allowing the media to replicate the characteristics of physical matter.”
Even as his compositions become tighter and more centralized, Bauer seems consumed with making figurative elements from the marking of his medium. He describes the work in “H.S.O.P – 1973” as “portraits of gangs, families, music bands, collectives, or mobs—a grouping of characters revealed through the occasional eye or profile emerging from shadowy abstraction. Flat, crisp, bright, patterns usually provide the structure from which these organic nebulas originate.”
The title for the exhibition is a little obscure, and Bauer calls “H.S.O.P.” an “arbitrary reference” to the Hudson River School of painting, and because there’s a foot or foot-like shape in each painting, the accompanying numbers indicate European shoe sizes. The other elements aren’t quite so random. Bauer adds circular shapes to the corners to make them more like playing cards, with each painting like a “character in an unfolding cast, a mad tea party of sorts.”
”H.S.O.P. – 1973” is on view at Lisa Cooley Gallery through 17 June 2012.
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