Or, to paraphrase another Fab Four hit single: All you need is a ticket.
The 2015 New York Metro edition of Beatles Fest! wraps up today at the Hilton Westchester with all sorts of intriguing events. Among the speakers are game show host Bob Eubanks, who helped bring the group to the Hollywood Bowl and Dodger Stadium in the mid-1960s, and musician Gary Wright, who along with “Dreamweaver” collaborated with both George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
– Photo exhibits by Starr’s personal photographer Rob Shanahan and the drummer’s one-time girlfriend Nancy Lee Andrews, who has a new book titled Ringo Starr Photographs.
– Performances of Beatles songs by students from Montclair, New Jersey’s School of Rock and string quartet Cellophane Flowers featuring NYC violinist Claudia Chopek.
The Beatles Fest! will hit Chicago this summer, August 14-16.
An intriguing project from NYC-based photographer Erica Simone is closing in on the $10,000 needed for publication.
Simone, who moved here from Paris 12 years ago, has put herself in the middle of Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen. The experimental project showcases what happens when someone frees themselves from the “segregation” of fashion. Or, if you prefer, walks around naked in Manhattan.
Tell me about the design of the book The 14″ x 11″ (approximately) book will be a high-quality hard cover fine art photography book, containing at least 45 original images, taken over a five-year span.
Will the book make me want to take my clothes off? Yes!
Simone’s freelance work has appeared in New York magazine, the New York Daily News, Le Parisien and other outlets. Put us down for one copy. Or, if you prefer, “Vive la buff-erence!”
Xavier Veilhan est un artiste sculpteur français basé à Paris. Reconnu internationalement, l’homme réalise d’immenses sculptures grandeur nature. Les statues anthropomorphes de Veilhan sont des archétypes réduits à l’essentiel qui, tour à tour, prennent une forme animale ou humaine. Une exposition lui est consacrée actuellement à la galerie Perrotin.
Jean-Pierre Roy est un peintre américain né à Santa Monica en Californie. Internationalement reconnu, l’artiste réalise de magnifiques peintures dont les traits hyper-réalistes permettent de mettre en exergue un fond totalement surréaliste. Voici une sélection d’une partie de ses oeuvres.
New York design agency Sagmeister & Walsh has created an animated visual identity for cloud software management brand Fugue that responds to touch and sound (+ movie).
Sagmeister & Walsh designed a suite of interactive graphic elements for Fugue, aiming to create a brand identity that is different from its competitors.
Fugue’s brief was for the logo to represent the ephemeral nature of its automatically regenerating cloud software products.
“When learning about the software, what stood out to us was the importance of ephemerality,” said studio co-founder Jessica Walsh. “Fugue wanted us to design a brand that visualised this ephemerality and embodied their core attributes of lineage and elegance.”
In response, the studio created a logo from a constantly moving series of inky lines and dots in the form of contemporary serif typeface GT Sectra, which “pays homage to the calligraphy of a broad-nib pen”.
It alters the pace of its movement in response to the beat of music, and reacts to interaction with a touch screen.
Sagmeister & Walsh is a New York-based design studio that creates brand identities, adverts, websites, apps, films, books and objects. Its Fugue system helps to automatically manage operations and maintenance of cloud infrastructure running on Amazon Web Services.
“Our logo works like the software does: it constantly regenerates itself while data moves from one point to another,” said Walsh.
The design studio also produced an app that allows users to import a line drawing, which is automatically regenerated in the same style as the logo.
The app includes a drawing function that enables users to create abstract visuals in the Fugue logo style on a tablet device.
The designers also developed software that loads music from a user’s digital library, and changes the speed of the movement of the logo to reflect the beat of the music playing.
“The name Fugue, references music composition made famous by composers like Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven,” said the designers.
“The creators of the software are former musicians, and functionalities in the software reference terminology from music. We wanted to pay homage to this in the branding,” they added.
The logo can be played with sound at trade shows, where it is designed to stand out against the more masculine branding of Fugue’s competitors.
Kendrick Lamar’s new album has been hotly anticipated ever since he closed out the final episode of the Colbert Report with the anthemic line, “We don’t die, we multiply.” The wait is over a week earlier than……
La marque emblématique LEGO vient de dévoiler sa nouvelle pièce réalisée en collaboration avec Les Simpsons. Il s’agit du Kwik-E-Mart, la fameuse épicerie de Springfield. Le set est extrêmement détaillé et comprend six personnages : Homer, Bart, Marge, Apu, Cheff Wiggum et Snake sous forme de mini-figurines.
A steel framework covered in white mesh provides shading and privacy to the street frontage of this office building in Deinze, Belgium by CAAN Architects (+ slideshow).
The headquarters for steel fabrication firm Lootens Line is located by a canal on the outskirts of the city, and was designed to accommodate offices, meeting rooms and a showroom.
The new structure adjoins existing warehouses that CAAN Architects renovated and extended to house the client’s own manufacturing machinery.
A small office between the warehouses and a road that runs alongside the canal were both removed to make way for the new building, which extends the roofline of the existing structure towards the street and is fronted by the mesh screen.
“The three-storey office building is integrated in the volumetry of the existing warehouse and is completed with new white isolated front panels,” said the architects in a statement.
The screen rises to the roofline of the office block at one end and the reception area at the other, helping to control levels of privacy and direct sunlight inside the building.
“This rhombic-shaped carbon grill gives an extra texture to the volume but is mainly used to give the office an optimal sun shading,” the architects added.
The mesh also forms a boundary fence along the edge of the site, which drops down one metre from the road to the floor level of the existing buildings. An entrance from the street leads to a reception and stairs that descend to the workshops.
Tall narrow windows facing the street and three small patios enclosed in glass allow natural light to reach this lower-ground floor. Trees planted in the patios project above the structure’s roof height and can be seen from the street.
The lower-ground floor extends along the full length of the site, providing space for meeting rooms, a showroom and auditorium, and the company’s archive and storage area.
A gap between the workshops and the new building enables daylight to reach the offices through glazed north-facing surfaces, with elevated glass-walled walkways connecting an office and lunch room at either end of the site with the workshops.
The street-facing walls of the workshops and the new building are finished in a rough white render and punctuated by an irregular pattern of square windows.
“These square windows have many functions,” said the architects. “They provide the warehouse and the office with sunlight, they give a wonderful view over the canal, they make sure there is a correlation between the offices and the workplace and there is also a filtered visibility between the public road and the entire company.”
The roof of the lower-ground floor is covered with plants, and is overlooked by the offices and a roof terrace on top of the lunch room. A separate roof terrace next to the manager’s office at the other end of the building looks onto the canal and is similarly concealed behind the mesh surface.
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