La photographe russe Evgenia Arbugaeva a visité 22 stations météorologiques à travers l’Arctique pour documenter sa série « The Weather Man ». Elle a rencontré dans la station Hodovarikha, en Russie, Slava Korotkiy, qui est la silhouette et le visage qu’on peut voir apparaitre dans ses photos. Son métier consiste à estimer le temps qu’il fera demain, toutes les trois heures, au milieu de ses livres, son oiseau et quelques clémentines.
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No, this isn’t clickbait: If you’ve never seen one of these before, I guarantee it’ll surprise you. As a Fourth-of-July-celebrating American I thought I’d seen it all in fireworks, but this is the most unexpected type I’ve ever seen:
Depending on who you ask, the circular, UFO-like contraption is called a Girandola (Italian) or Girandole (French). The wheel-based structure is ringed with skyrockets, and both lightweight enough and well-balanced enough to take flight and leave that crazy helical smoke trail.
Or fire trail, as you’ll see below. The Girandola we saw above was shot in Thailand, and as you saw they conserved their structure with a parachute. We Americans prefer to blow ours up when it reaches its apex, because that’s how we do:
There’s a slightly more impressive one here, but whomever posted it has disabled embedding.
In case you missed it, the only major critic lacing up at press time a decent review of The Cobbler is the normally acid-tongued New York Observer critic.
How is that possible? Nostalgia, most likely. Reaction to any given film has a lot to do with the mood the viewer was in at the time of consumption. Evidently, RR wandered to his seat (or screener) by way of memory lane. Check out the opening sentence of his write-up:
The Cobbler is the kind of fanciful New York fable Ben Hecht and Damon Runyon used to tell in books and syndicated newspaper columns back in the day.
That sound you hear in the ether-distance is the rumble of a combined Hecht-Runyon WTF!? Dustin Hoffman appears briefly in the movie as Sandler’s dad. FishbowlNY would have preferred a montage cameo shot of Jon Voight, triggered when cobbler Max Simkin tries on a pair of well-worn cowboy boots.
Previously on FishbowlNY:
Liam Neeson Goes the Extra Mile for NYC Cobbler
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From nazars to horseshoes and the Eye of Horus, almost every culture has a symbol of luck and protection that is meant to ward off the negative vibes and welcome the good. While lucky charms can be tacky, they can also be a stunning accessory that……
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At this year’s Retail Design Expo in London, creative agency Dalziel + Pow is showcasing what they think may be the future of the shopping experience. The UK-based agency designed and built an interactive wall that animates screen-printed illustrations……
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Les experts du cinéma aérien Teton Gravity Research viennent de publier les premières images ultra HD jamais tournées de l’Himalaya. Capturée avec le système ESG C520, le système de caméra gyro-stabilisée le plus avancé dans le monde, l’équipe a filmé depuis un hélicoptère avec un équipage volant de 4 600 à 24 000 pieds. L’Everest comme vous ne l’avez jamais vu.
Alberto Alessi has paid tribute to Postmodernist architect and designer Michael Graves, who died yesterday, and revealed plans for a special edition of his best-selling 9093 kettle (pictured).
In a letter sent to the American architect’s studio in Princeton, Alessi revealed plans for a 30th anniversary edition of the kettle, adding that the news of Graves’ death was “difficult to believe”.
“The last time we met in Philadelphia, even in a wheelchair, Michael was so energetic,” said Alessi.
“Michael, as you well know, has been for Alessi one of the leading authors and design heroes, and for me, personally, one of my most important maestros. I’ll never forget his contribution to our history.”
Related story: Michael Graves dies aged 80
Graves, who died suddenly at home on Wednesday aged 80, had a long-standing relationship with Alessi’s Italian homeware brand. His 9093 kettle, first produced in 1985, was the brand’s bestseller for 15 years and remains in its top 10.
In September, Alessi will release a new edition of the kettle to mark its 30th year of production. Graves had been working on the design, which will be produced in limited numbers, before he died.
“We were thinking to organise something special for the events we are preparing around the Michael-Alessi collaboration for 2015 and the new project with Michael that we will unveil shortly: the Tea Rex Kettle!” said Alessi.
The original design featured a conical stainless-steel body with a plastic bird-shaped whistle at the end of the spout.
The new version will have an unspecified adaptation, but the name suggests that it may be dinosaur-related.
In an interview with Dezeen last year, Alessi revealed that Graves and Italian designer Aldo Rossi were originally among a group of architects invited to create a limited-edition silver tea set for the brand. The two went on to create mass-produced designs.
“In Italian tradition, design is a son of architecture,” said Alessi. “All good designers, almost without exception, are first architects in Italy. We invited these 11 architects, then selected Aldo Rossi and Michael Graves, understanding that they were extremely interested in trying real industrial design, meaning products made for the masses.”
“[Graves’] wish was to devote half of his career to do industrial design,” he said. “In the end it proved not to be right, he continued to be mostly an architect.”
Graves was born in 1934 in Indianapolis, and set up his architectural practice in Princeton in 1964. He was a member of the New York Five, a group of five prominent, Modernism-inspired architects working in the city in the late 1960s.
His best known projects include his kitchenware for Alessi, and the Portland Public Services Building in Portland, Oregon – a seminal piece of Postmodern architecture that was recently saved from demolition.
He became a member of the Postmodern Memphis movement in the 1980s. In 2013, Graves was appointed as an architecture advisor to the US government by president Barack Obama.
Graves died of natural causes at his home in Princeton on Wednesday.
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Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen has formed garments from a fine steel mesh burnished in swirls for her Autumn Winter 2015 ready-to-wear collection.
Iris van Herpen presented the gauze items along with delicate and 3D-printed shoes in her Hacking Infinity show at Palais de Tokyo on Tuesday during Paris Fashion Week.
Related story: Iris van Herpen uses 3D printing and magnets to form Spring Summer 2015 fashion collection
According to the designer, the colours and shapes used for the clothes were based on the notion of terraforming other planets to make them suitable for human inhabitance.
“The collection explores the possibilities of new geographies and our place within them,” said Van Herpen’s show notes.
Working with textile designer Aleksandra Gaca, she created a lightweight translucent mesh that was cut into circular shapes and pleated for texture.
“The central geometry is the circle, in both silhouette and cut,” said the designer, who’s previous shows featured dresses grown with magnets and models vacuum-packed between plastic sheeting.
“The spherical shape of planetary bodies and the symbol of a boundless ‘hackable’ infinity unfolds before us in a constant flow of mandala-like forms,” she added.
The metal was hand burnished to give a mottled effect with “nebula-like” colours across its surface.
On the front of a knee-length dress, a section of the plissé gauze creates a circular silhouette while still revealing the outline of the model’s body.
Another gown made entirely from the material features a round element that extends from the chest and covers the face.
Similarly, the mesh forms a circle on the front of a halter-neck top that reaches just below the eyes.
Van Herpen also continued her collaboration with Canadian architecture professor Philip Beesley to create a set of three digitally fabricated garments.
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These black designs were made from intricate three-dimensional tessellations of geometric shapes, formed into halter-neck dresses and a top.
Other items in the collection were created using shimmering fabrics coloured with earthy hues.
Van Herpen also introduced deep red and black textiles, as well as a dress that appeared to be covered in translucent jelly spikes.
The footwear accompanying the clothes was created with Japanese shoe designer Noritaka Tatehana, using 3D printing to produce the crystal-like shapes that formed the platform sole and cantilevered heel.
A web of laser-cut leather stretched over the foot and around the jagged bases to act as the upper.
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