The luxurious Ocean Nebula Hotel concept is located in New Zealand, and is situated on shallow waters a few miles from the main city. The isolated location requires individuals to travel by boat, making the hotel more than just a place to stay but also a spectacular and unique destination. Exotic in both locale and form, it’s a fantastic and enchanting place for a getaway down under!
Designer: Victoria Litvin
Au cours des dernières années, de nombreux projets photographiques ayant recours à la technique de l’infrarouge ont vu le jour. Une tendance qui a très certainement influencé Francesco et Andrea Padovani lors de leur excursion dans les montagnes italiennes des Dolomites, en août dernier. Le rendu, photographié au 35mm, est aussi surréaliste qu’apaisant.
La saison lyrique de l’Opéra national de Paris s’ouvre avec Eliogabalo de Francesco Cavalli mis en scène par Thomas Jolly. Cet opéra écrit en 1667 est présenté pour la première fois à Paris. Après s’être mesuré au théâtre à Henry VI et à Richard III de Shakespeare, le jeune metteur en scène s’attaque à la figure ambiguë et subversive de l’Empereur Eliogabalo et réalise sa première production d’opéra. Spécialiste du répertoire baroque, Leonardo García Alarcón, à la tête de son orchestre Cappella Mediterranea, dirige une distribution de prestige emmenée par Franco Fagioli.
Pour s’emparer de cette œuvre sulfureuse, le metteur en scène collabore avec le styliste britannique Gareth Pugh qui imagine pour la première fois des costumes pour un opéra. Il a notamment travaillé avec Beyonce, Lady Gaga ou encore Rihanna. Pour Eliogabalo, ses créations reprennent les lignes des costumes de l’époque à laquelle se déroule l’histoire. Des pièces pourtant dotées d’une incroyable modernité dans les tissus, les matières et les teintes utilisées. Habitué des défilés il a ainsi pu explorer une autre facette de la création et de son talent.
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Order a copy today of Never Too Busy to Cure Clutter by Unclutterer’s Editor-in-Chief Erin Rooney Doland.
It’s been over a year since I last encouraged you to have a computer backup strategy in place, and some recent news made me want to emphasize this once again. More than ever, many of us store precious photos and documents on our computers, so taking the time to back them up properly is vital. The following stories illustrate just some of the reasons for having those backups.
The following story by Matt Sledge in The New Orleans Advocate had a happy ending, but it could have ended tragically:
Gideon Hodge, 35, describes himself as a playwright, novelist and actor. When his fiancée told him that their apartment was on fire, he left work in Mid-City and rushed to the scene. That’s when he realized that his only copies of two completed novels were on a laptop inside. …
Hodge dashed into the building. He ran past the smoke and the firefighters yelling at him to stop and managed to grab the precious laptop.
“Anybody that’s ever created art, there’s no replacing that,” Hodge said. “It’s got pretty much my life’s work.”
Hodge could have been seriously hurt, and his laptop could have been unsalvageable. Fortunately, everything worked out fine. But if he just had an offsite backup, he wouldn’t have felt compelled to take such a risk.
The Advocate has an eye-catching photo of Hodge running into his home to get his computer. But as Dinah Sanders wrote on Twitter:
No one is going to take dramatic photos of “Writer frowns quizzically as hard drive just up and catastrophically fails one day.”
Such failures are an ongoing risk computer users face every day, and backups mean we’re protected when they happen.
Another situation where backups come in very handy is when a computer update goes wrong. Josh Marshall wrote in great detail about his recent experience using a new feature of Apple’s latest operating system for the Mac. He has both a home computer and a work computer, and when he tried using the new feature, things went very wrong. Without going into all the details (some of which are specific to his set-up), the following is one excerpt from his narrative:
In a flash all the files on my desktop disappeared and were replaced by the files from my work desktop.
Arghghgghhgghgh!
Anyone who has had an update go wrong can imagine how this would feel. Fortunately, Marshall had a good up-to-date backup and was able to restore all his files.
Michael Zhang wrote about one sad story on the PetaPixel website, where the lack of offsite backups was devastating:
Oakland-based photographer Jennifer Little had her home broken into last week, and her loss was devastating. In addition to stealing 8 of her cameras, the burglars also took 21 hard drives containing Little’s life’s work as a professional photographer.
Our precious computer files are the opposite of clutter. I would hate for any Unclutterer readers to lose any such files, so please take the time to create and implement a thoughtful backup strategy (if you haven’t already) that includes files on your computer and any files you’ve offloaded from your computer to external hard drives, thumb drives, CDs, or DVDs.
Post written by Jeri Dansky
As a small group of James Dean and Porsche aficionados takes part today in the annual James Dean Last Drive, which retraces the fateful route the actor took from Hollywood to central California, there are several recent media items worth noting on the 61st anniversary of the actor’s death.
In August, Peter L. Winkler released his well-researched book The Real James Dean: Intimate Memories From Those Who Knew Him Best. We wrote about Winkler five years ago, in connection with the author’s debut tome about Dennis Hopper. Here’s how he framed one aspect of his new book, just ahead of publication, for Frontiers Media:
In The Real James Dean, I have excerpted the portions of Ronald Martinetti’s groundbreaking biography, The James Dean Story, that contain [advertising account executive Rogers] Brackett’s revelations about his one-time protégé. “My primary interest in Jimmy was as an actor—his talent was so obvious,” Brackett told Martinetti. “Secondarily, I loved him, and Jimmy loved me. If it was a father-son relationship, it was also somewhat incestuous.”
It’s possible to discount Brackett’s story as proof that Dean was gay. Their relationship looks like a classic quid pro quo. “Rogers Brackett was the key to Dean’s career,” Val Holley writes in his insightful biography of Dean. “He took him in when almost no one else believed in him; fed, clothed, and employed him; and planned and financed his move to New York. Eventually he introduced Dean to the producer who would put him on Broadway for the first time.” Although Brackett believed that his sexual relationship with Dean was mutually satisfying, Dean later called himself Brackett’s “whore.”
Winkler lives in a portion of the San Fernando Valley known as Valley Village. As Stephen Sachs, a playwright and theater company owner just recently discovered and details today on LAObserved, the gas station nearby at Ventura and Beverly Glen Blvd., where Dean filled up for his Sept. 30, 1955 journey, is being torn down.
Sachs’ piece is wistful, tying in what Dean meant to him as a kid growing up in L.A., how one of his sons is now the same age as Dean was when the actor died. He also details how he was allowed by construction workers to take a keepsake from the gas station.
Previously on FishbowlNY:
A Celebration of Roy Schatt and James Dean
California Newspaper Gifts James Dean Fans With East of Eden Photos
Jacket cover courtesy: Chicago Review Press
According to a new report from the Pew Research Center, Democrats and Republicans disagree on the strengths and weaknesses of the media.
Dems and Republicans not seeing eye-to-eye isn’t surprising, but the Pew study was interesting.
While 38 percent of liberal Democrats said the media’s strength was “providing a public service,” 41 percent of conservative Republicans said the most positive thing the press did was “reporting the news.”
On the flip side, 25 percent of Dems said the most negative thing the media did was “make poor choice or what or how to report.” Right wingers, meanwhile, said the worst aspect of the media was that it “reports biased news.”
Time Inc. staffers have a new contract for the first time since 2014. The company’s NewsGuild-repped employees have voted to accept Time Inc.’s offer and enter into a collective bargaining agreement.
NewsGuild reps roughly 200 staffers at Time, Fortune, Money, Sports Illustrated and People.
“We are very pleased that the Guild members have ratified this contract, which we believe to be in the best interest of all Time Inc. stakeholders,” said Time Inc. exec vp and chief HR officer Greg Giangrande, in a statement. “The contract provides Time Inc. with the operational flexibility necessary to succeed in today’s transformative media environment.”
Kim Kardashian West is Billboard’s latest cover star. Here she is posing with a jean jacket from her husband’s Pablo collection. Just a quick aside: People are selling that jacket on eBay for roughly $500. It’s a wild world.
In the accompanying interview, Kardashian West said kids’ souls choose their parents. “I believe their [her children] souls choose us to be their parents — that they choose this life. That’s my belief.”
Hey, whatever works for you.
As one of the oldest craft techniques, ceramics nevertheless endures as [an area] for design experimentation. During this year’s London Design Festival, a pair of independent design studios joined forces to stage Particle Particular at Studio 1.1 in Shoreditch. While Prin London and Studio Furthermore share a mutual interest in pushing clay to its limits, they achieve wildly disparate yet equally beautiful results.
Ariane Prin celebrated the one-year anniversary of her eponymous brand with several new additions to the “Rust” collection. Launched during LDF last September, the collection is characterized by their highly variable, one-of-a-kind appearance, which Prin creates by mixing gypsum and metal dust — i.e. waste materials from other craft processes — into plaster. Born and raised in France but based in London since she completed her masters at the Royal College of Art in 2011, the product designer introduced her latest experiments with copper dust at “Particle Particular”, presenting the verdigris-inflected vessels alongside earlier works.
From the “Rust” collection by Ariane Prin, including the new copper series (center), and “Tektites” by Studio Furthermore (right)
Studio Furthermore, on the other hand, exhibited their ongoing investigation into ceramic foams. Marina Dragomirova and Iain Howlett set out to develop the porous, lightweight material — used in aerospace applications such as space telescopes and insulation — at craft scale. They arrived at a process of impregnating foams and sponges of varying densities with parian, a highly viscous bisque porcelain, and firing the pieces to burn off the substrate.
In contrast to the visible mineral composition of Prin’s “Rust” pieces, Studio Furthermore’s “Tektites” readily evoke meteorites. Alluding to the “particle scale” of the material research, the exhibition presented various pieces by each studio in dialogue. But if the two bodies of work seem to speak a different language, the exhibition was compelling precisely because the vessels and tabletop objects are both composed of earth itself.
Arguably the most minimal booth in the entirety of designjunction was tucked away in an unassuming corner of the Cubitt House exhibition hall. A shelf, mounted on a wall at eye-level to emphasize its drawing-like simplicity; another beside it, and a darker variation on the floor below. Upon closer inspection: Diamond profiles of squared the crossbeams that form a simple, ladder-like frame; each of the twin-plank shelves punctuated by a subtle brass tile at the joints. Flush like an inlay, the hardware holds the pieces together like a keystone, fastened by hidden bolts below.
Designed by COMP, the “Parquet” system debuted during London Design Festival with the three prototypes: a wall-mounted shelf, a freestanding shelf, and a sideboard. The elegant interlocking structure may not explicitly resemble its namesake flooring pattern, but it certainly mark a strong showing from the London-based studio. Founders Cemal Okten and Martin Price have been collaborating on various projects for nearly a decade now, since they first met at Central Saint Martins, and we wish them luck with “Parquet.”
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