Oct 06
Oct 06
Crazy Skydivers Swing on Giant Swing From Hot Air Balloon
Posted in: UncategorizedThe members of the Red Bull skydiving team, Marco Waltenspiel, Georg Lettner, Marco Fürst, and Dominic Roithmair made the ultimate mega swing using 400 feet of rope and two hot air balloons 600 feet off the ground…(Read…)
Oct 06
Slow Motion Close-Up Video of a Tattoo Being Inked
Posted in: UncategorizedTattooing Close Up (In Slow Motion)..(Read…)
Oct 06
Nice Pictures of a Boy with a Tamed Magpie
Posted in: UncategorizedCameron Bloom vit sur l’île de Norfolk, petit territoire australien très loin au large de la côte Est du pays. Lors d’une balade en famille, il a recueilli une pie blessée. L’oiseau, qui répond au nom ironique de Penguin, a fini par se remettre sur pied et par s’habituer à la présence humaine au point de devenir un animal de compagnie, que Cameron ne cesse de photographier en compagnie de son fils Noah. Rendez-vous sur le site Penguin the Magpie pour connaitre l’histoire dans son intégralité.
Oct 06
Abandoned Amusement Park Photography
Posted in: UncategorizedRomain Veillon, que nous connaissons pour ses escapades au sein de lieux abandonnés, nous dévoile aujourd’hui une série de clichés réalisée dans un ancien parc d’attraction, celui de Nara Dreamland, situé à Nara, dans la banlieue d’Osaka. Parmi les trains fantômes et montagnes russes désertées, la nature a repris ses droits. Dans un lieu en principe bruyant et toujours très mouvementé, c’est aujourd’hui une atmosphère extrêmement silencieuse qui semble régner.
Oct 06
Amanda Levete's undulating MAAT museum opens on Lisbon waterfront
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology by Amanda Levete’s firm AL_A has opened to the public, coinciding with the start of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (+ slideshow).
A photo posted by Américo Leitão (@americo.leitao) on Oct 4, 2016 at 1:45pm PDT
Called MAAT for short, the contemporary art museum opened to the press on 2 October 2016 but had its public opening on 5 October – the starting date of the city-wide Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
London-based AL_A designed the building for a site on the edge of the Tagus River in Lisbon’s Belém district.
A photo posted by Renato Leitão (@renatoleitao84) on Oct 5, 2016 at 10:39am PDT
Covered in 15,000 white, three-dimensional ceramic tiles, the building boasts an undulating form that connects its grand rooftop terrace with the waterside promenade.
From the cantilevered terrace, visitors can take in views of the Moorish São Jorge Castle on the hillside above and the waterfront below.
A photo posted by PARQ MAGAZINE (@parqmag) on Oct 5, 2016 at 9:38am PDT
“Our inspiration comes from the rippling of the water,” AL_A director Maximiliano Arrocet told Dezeen during a tour of the building.
“The idea is that is mimics the colours,” he added. “If we see the building at different times of the day it has a different colour.”
The MAAT’s four galleries are sunken below ground level to keep the height of the building low, in keeping with the surrounding architecture, Arrocet explained.
A photo posted by Pedro Sabino (@pedrombsabino) on Oct 6, 2016 at 1:38am PDT
The building’s opening marks the end of the first phase of construction, for which plans were first unveiled in 2011.
Phase two is set to launch in March 2017 with the opening of a pedestrian bridge linking the roof with the street behind the gallery and a restaurant. A park by Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture will also open.
The gallery spaces and finishing of the building will not be fully complete until 2017. But MAAT director Pedro Gadanho said he felt it was important that the public parts of the museum opened as quickly as possible.
The building has already been a hit with visitors and journalists, with hundreds turning out for the public opening yesterday and taking to Instagram to post pictures of the roof.
A photo posted by @d8elessar on Oct 6, 2016 at 1:02am PDT
Gadanho, who was formerly a curator at MoMA in New York, said MAAT would host a range of art and architecture shows at a “semi-intellectual level”.
To mark the opening, an installation by artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has been installed in the Oval Gallery – a sunken oval-shaped pit surrounded by a ramped walkway.
It is the first part of a wider exhibition named Utopia/Dystopia, which will continue in March 2017, when MAAT officially completes.
The three other galleries will be filled with over 60 works by artists and architects from the 1970s to present day, including OMA, Aldo Rossi and Yona Friedman.
“MAAT will be a cultural space of discovery, critical thinking and global dialogue,” said Gadanho.
“It will not only support the work of Portuguese artists and curators, but will also offer them a platform to connect with the international art community,” he added.
The MAAT also occupies the recently renovated Central Tejo power station next door.
The red brick former thermoelectric plant closed its doors in 1975, but has now been converted into gallery space.
It’s first exhibition is The World of Charles and Ray Eames, which was first shown at the Barbican Centre in London last year.
The power station’s courtyard is also being used as one of the main exhibition sites for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016, which opened yesterday and continues until 11 December 2016.
A photo posted by Bjm Dgt (@bjm_dgt) on Oct 6, 2016 at 1:19am PDT
AL_A was commissioned for the project by not-for-profit organisation EDP Foundation as the centrepiece of a 3.8-hectare waterside art campus.
The London firm was set up in 2009 by architects Amanda Levete, Ho-Yin Ng, Alice Dietsch and Maximiliano Arrocet.
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Oct 06
Tom Dixon launches first range of office furniture
Posted in: UncategorizedBritish designer Tom Dixon has launched his first collection of office furniture, which includes a minimalist lamp and a workstation based on archetypical Victorian school desks.
Dixon designed the range to accommodate the ever-blurring boundaries between the workplace and the home.
Pieces are intended to provide function and flexibility while being attractive enough to be on show in living spaces.
“Distinctions have now become blurred and even vanish altogether as people now work in hybrid ways – partly on the bus, sometimes in communal areas, sometimes even in bed,” said Dixon.
“But what unifies these products is a refusal to make a distinction between the quality of life that people aspire to at home and what they seek from a workspace.”
New pieces in the collection are the Boom desk light and the Slab School Desk. Cube, Dixon’s existing range of desk accessories, has also been updated in an alloy material.
The Boom desk light, described by the designer as a “minimalist sculptural composition”, is based on lamps used by draughtsmen.
The lamp features a round head and two slim stems that each pivot and move through three circle-shaped joints.
Victorian school tables informed the simple design of the Slab School desk, which is made from solid oak that has been softly rounded at the edges.
An inkwell is repurposed as a cable management hole, while grooves are designed to hold pens and other accessories.
A series of marble top and metal bases will also be included in the range, which will be on show at this year’s Orgatec workplace design fair in Cologne, Germany from 25 to 29 October 2016.
The collection is completed by the Cube stationery collection, made up of a tape dispenser, a stapler, a desk tidy and pens – all available in zinc alloy.
Pieces from the office collection were prototyped at Dixon’s Interchange co-working space in north London, which opened earlier this year.
Since then, the British designer has created his second co-working space inside a church in London’s Clerkenwell, using his geometric Curve lights and Y chairs to furnish the main congregation area.
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Oct 06
Apartment in São Paulo transformed to create home and studio for an illustrator
Posted in: UncategorizedA translucent fold-up doorway separates a studio from a living room in this apartment created for a São Paulo-based illustrator who works from home (+ slideshow).
Architects Claudia Bresciani and Júlia Risi reconfigured the Oscar Freire apartment to create a more light and open space suited to both living and working.
Previously occupied by a family, the flat had become run-down, with many partitions that blocked light. The architects restored its features, like herringbone parquet flooring, and removed walls to create an open-plan space containing a kitchen, lounge and studio.
Between the studio and the living room, a see-through folding door offers the illustrator privacy when needed, without obstructing light.
“The apartment was in very bad condition before the renovation,” Bresciani told Dezeen. “The rooms were dark and it looked as if the place was abandoned.
“We decided to demolished some closing walls to integrate the spaces and to bring light in,” she continued.
“We connected the kitchen with the living room, and created an opening in the wall between the living room and the atelier, where a translucent fanfold gate unites or separates the spaces, as the client wishes.”
White-painted walls complement the wooden flooring in the the studio and the living area. The spaces are decorated with the illustrator’s designs, as well as an eclectic mix of furniture and plants.
“On the proposal, simple and usual materials were adopted,” said the architect. “The idea was to develop a neutral environment so the artist’s works and her belongings would be highlighted.”
In the living area, a concrete bench runs the full width of the room at one end, while a long dining table acts as a division between this space and the kitchen.
The kitchen features pinewood cabinets with white and pink doorways, as well a blackboard that covers one wall. There is also a small open pantry that is painted turquoise.
The master bedroom and a walk-in closet, which was formerly a maid’s bedroom, sit at the other end of the apartment. These are also connected to the two bathrooms and a laundry room.
The Oscar Freire apartment follows a series of recent flat renovations in São Paulo.
Other examples include an apartment by Alan Chu that features partitions and furniture made from ceramic ventilation bricks and a 1960s flat updated by Vitra Arquitecta with exposed structural concrete pillars.
Photography is by Pedro Vannucchi.
Project credits:
Architects: Claudia Bresciani, Júlia Risi
Work coordinator: Marcelo José de Souza
Work team: Esmeraldo José de Souza and Epaminodas Antonio de Souza
Concrete benches and stands: Casa Franceza
Woodwork: Sandro Régio and Carlos Zuim
Locksmiths: DCS Hydraulic
Hydraulic tiles: Ornatos
Hexagonal tablets: Atlas
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Oct 06
Endorsement Made Easy
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You’re busy! Too busy to apply your signature all day… so give your hand a rest with this signature stamp inspired by Audi’s lux design. Its elegant form mimics that of the German automaker’s own design language and even suits your business attire when carried in your shirt pocket. Anytime it’s needed, add your consistent signature with one simple press in seconds!
Designer: Younggyu Kwon
Oct 06
Get Out Official Trailer, A Horror Film About an Interracial Couple Visiting a Cursed Family Estate
Posted in: UncategorizedUniversal Pictures has released the official trailer for Get Out, an upcoming horror film produced by Blumhouse and both written and directed by Jordan Peele (Key and Peele). When a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation. Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, Girls), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) and Dean (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods).At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.In theaters on February 27th, 2017…(Read…)
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