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Leather, bifold, these terms are relatively old-school in the wallet world, while the words minimalist, and RFID-blocking are considered contemporary. Combine them all together and you get what the SERMAN BRANDS 1.0 wallet is trying to achieve. Designed to please quite literally everyone, the new SERMAN BRANDS 1.0 wallets are both classic and modern, both familiar and refreshingly novel.

The SERMAN BRANDS 1.0 (already a hot favorite on Amazon) is back with its loved-format, in a variety of new color combinations to fit more style-profiles. With color schemes like Melted Chocolate, Salted Green, Atlantic Blue, and Ruby Red (along with a special stamped variant too), the SERMAN BRANDS 1.0 is just mouth-wateringly beautiful to look at, while maintaining its sleek profile, thanks to the wallet’s inherent design.

As far as the wallet’s design goes, it’s a bifold, but not in the traditional sense. Instead of being a centrally-folding leather or fabric pocket, the SERMAN BRANDS 1.0 is a leather flap with a money-clip in the center. This removes an entire layer (or more) of leather, giving you the feel of a bifold in a wallet that’s half as thin. Your money slides right into the clip, making it not just easy to access, but easy to view as well.

In keeping with its old-meets-new ethos, the 1.0 wallet holds both cash as well as your cards. The cash sits in the money-clip, while the cards have dedicated slots, including one window-slot for an ID card, one pull-tab slot for easily deploying your card, and an additional set of sleeves on the inside that hold as many as 6-8 cards. It secures your cards with a layer of RFID-blocking material too, preventing people from wirelessly tapping your cards while they’re in the wallet to access and steal your money.

SERMAN BRANDS’ wallets are crafted from leather to retain the wallet’s traditional appeal. Made with the highest-quality full-grain cowhide, the wallets aren’t just beautiful to look at but are significantly more durable too, thanks to the inherent toughness of full-grain leather. Tanned in a variety of colors, with a design that is both legacy and contemporary, feature-filled yet minimalist, the new SERMAN BRANDS 1.0 wallets are proof that you can teach an old bifold new tricks!

Designer: SERMAN BRANDS

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About NEW SERMAN BRANDS 1.0

RFID blocking minmalist wallet that will deliver a comfortable and secure way to store your important cards and bills. Made for travel, business and leisure.

Features

Pull on the smart strap to access your 3-4 cards stored in the hidden pocket.

On average, 1-2 cards are used through out the day, making the front pocket the perfect necessity for quick and easy access to those cards.

Secure and adjustable money clip. Allows for the carry of up to 10-15 bills while maintaining its minimalistic profile.

RFID protected. In 2019, data theft is at an all time high and continues to grow with the expansion of technology. Each of their wallets are lined with RFID protection to prevent unwanted capture of data, giving you the piece of mind whether you are traveling abroad or running errands at the grocery store.

Securely protect your:

– Debit or Credit Cards
– Enhanced Drivers License
– Protects against access by NFC-equipped Smartphones

Minimalistic size. Prefect for travel! Size: 10 cm x 7.1 cm (3.8 inches x 2.75 inches).

The SERMAN BRANDS 1.0 is constructed from full grain leather. This is the leather industry’s highest quality leather and guarantees a cow hide that is in its natural form and has all of its layers intact. Since the grain layer is pure and very tight, the leather is very durable. Additionally, depth and character are effortlessly achieved which contribute to the richness of the colors!

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Basketball is one of those rare sports that is bound to the court. Unless you’ve got two hoop poles cemented into the ground, or mounted on a wall, you’re not really playing basketball, you’re just dribbling away… which is quite a limitation, given how popular basketball is. You can play soccer, cricket, or even volleyball anywhere with just the right equipment, but basketball doesn’t have that freedom of movement. You’re restricted to wherever the hoops are. Tim Shields and his invention, the Uball, are hoping to break that shackle that’s holding basketball back. Much like being able to set up a volleyball net anywhere and begin playing, Uball lets you carry around and set up an 8.5 foot pole and hoop anywhere, giving you the ability to engage in a game of basketball anywhere you go, in the fields, at the beach, or even in your backyard.

What Uball does for basketball is similar to what ice did for hockey. It dramatically changes the way the game is played, while also catering to your obsession for the sport. The 8.5 foot hoop comes with Tim’s new version of being able to play basketball on sand or even on grass, where you can’t really dribble or bounce the ball (much like how you can’t roll an ice-hockey puck the way you’d roll a hockey ball). With Uball, there’s no dribbling and no out-of-bound areas. You can hold the ball for the duration of two steps, before passing it to a teammate, who can literally dunk or shoot from anywhere on the field… even behind the hoop! Uball’s hoop, however, conforms to the design of a standard basketball hoop, so as to not drastically change the gameplay. The only difference is that this eight and a half foot hoop folds up into a backpack-sized package that you can carry on your shoulders, along with the basketball.

The Uball’s design is optimized for portability, with a simple multiple-part assembly that weighs roughly 30 pounds. Its base firmly screws into the ground like a beach umbrella does, allowing the hoop to take the strains of the game without collapsing. Assembly takes minutes too, as you put the poles together, fix the hoop and backboard in place, and prop it all up on the firmly secured base. The poles can be height-adjusted too, if you’ve got children playing, and Uball conveniently comes with not one, but two basketballs that you can carry along with you. You can easily play a game with just one Uball hoop (Tim’s modified version accommodates for it too), or if you’d like something that’s more on the traditional side of the spectrum, you can have two people carry their own respective Uball kits for a more conventional game of basketball. Designed to finally make basketball as nomadic a game as soccer, Uball represents a dream where people can shoot hoops at the beach too!

Designer: Timothy Shields

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Uball: World’s First Backpackable Hoop Set

Uball is a new version of basketball that you can play on a beach or at a field. The basketball hoop set can be packed up, carried on your back, and secured into the ground like a beach umbrella. Its reduced height of 8.5 ft. (adjustable down to 5.5 ft.) and smaller basketball allows everyone to experience one of the greatest plays in basketball: the slam dunk.

Uball is a movement that is reinventing the way people play and think about basketball. Check out the basic rules of Uball above. They also have an in-depth rule book you can view here.

Below: How It Works

Step 1: Similar to a beach umbrella, secure ground screw into ground by turning it.

Step 2: Attach rim to pole and backboard with two knobs.

Step 3: Join poles together with two pins at your desired height.

Step 4: Lift backboard, rim, and pole and place it on the ground screw.

Step 5: Tighten three knobs on ground screw to pole.

Uball basketballs are at a slightly reduced size (25.5″ circumference instead of 29.5″ circumference), so the average person can now palm the ball. The basketballs are still large enough where you can shoot it normally.

Uball Engineering

No detail was too small for their engineering experts. Through multiple rounds of development, testing and redesign, they are bringing to the world a product built for optimal portability and durability.

Portability: Your Uball set is converted into a backpack so that everything can be carried on your back on any adventure.

1. The ground screw, the rim, and the balls are easily attached to the backboard.
2. The backboard can be converted into a backpack with adjustable straps.
3. The pole and its pad come with a strap that you can sling over your shoulder for easy transport.

Durability: A high-quality product created to keep up with you.

Rim: custom-designed to withstand the force of slam dunks through its steel-faceted curve. We have developed a rim that can handle powerful dunks from athletes in the NFL, NBA, and elite college basketball programs, as well as the hundreds of students from 12-23 years old that have tested the strength of the rim over the past six months.

Backboard: structured with a steel frame so that it will maintain its integrity and rigidity in travel and play.

Pole: made of steel in order to handle the strength and stress of any type of shot.

Ground Screw: screws into the ground 12-15 inches deep, and is what makes the system stable.

Uball Story

Tim Shields, CEO, and Molly Shields, Vice President, are co-founders of Uball. Tim left the University of Virginia to pursue Uball full-time, while Molly is entering her senior year at UVA. Their love of sports and their entrepreneurial spirit helped them see an opportunity to create something completely new – revolutionizing the way people play basketball.

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Élevée à Téhéran, en Iran, Arghavan Khosravi est peintre. Son travail est profondément lié à sa propre expérience personnelle de la culture et de la politique de sa patrie iranienne, qui intègre des motifs historiques à des images issues de la culture populaire et des médias contemporains. Une alliance intélligente et bien réalisée, que nous pouvons facilement constater en regardant ses différentes pièces. Le travail d’Arghavan offre aux spectateurs un rôle d’interprète : face à ses peintures, ils sont les seuls à pouvoir fournir le récit de ce qu’elle représente.

Digital art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast marks the opening of the Kengo Kuma-designed Odunpazari Modern Museum with two virtual reality installations that comment on humanity’s dependency on nature.

Titled Treehugger and In The Eyes of the Animal, the two immersive exhibitions combine virtual reality with aerial 360-degree drone filming to take visitors through a digital forest.

While In The Eyes of the Animal allows viewers to embody various creatures as they fly above the trees, Treehugger acts as a “digital fossil”, documenting rare and endangered trees.

Marshmallow Laser Feast hopes that the installations will aid conservation efforts by encouraging people to connect with the natural world and in turn feel compelled to protect it.

The opening installations will run from 8 September until 7 December 2019 at the Odunpazari Modern Museum (OMM), which officially opened its doors today.

Designed by renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the architect behind the V&A Dundee museum, OMM is a modern art museum housed in a cluster of stacked-timber blocks.

“Museums act like cultural lighthouses, positively impacting social life,” said Ersin Han Ersin, one of three creative directors of Marshmallow Laser Feast.

“Eskisehir has one of the youngest demographics in Turkey and stimulating this young audience with great architecture, beautifully curated collections and diverse programming gives all of us hope for our collective futures in Turkey,” he added.

Marshmallow Laser Feast aims to convey an “important environmental message” with its installations – this being that the protection and restoration of the environment is crucial to the future of humanity.

“Humanity’s dependence on the natural world is absolute, from the food we eat to the water we drink and the air we breathe, and the protection and regeneration of ecosystems is fundamental to our collective futures,” said OMM.

“In an age where technology is said to disconnect people from the natural environment, Marshmallow Laser Feast uses cutting-edge technology to highlight the invisible but fundamental connections and dependence between humans and the natural world,” the institution added.

Originally set in Grizedale Forest in the UK’s Lake District, In the Eyes of the Animal uses virtual reality, aerial 360-degree drone filming, LiDAR and CT scanning to take viewers above the forest canopy.

Visitors will come face-to-face with various insects and animals in high definition, as well as embodying four different woodland species to try to understand how they view the world and their environment – particularly the challenges our planet faces in the twenty-first century.

The Treehugger installation was created as the first step in Marshmallow Laser Feast’s plans to develop a virtual archive of rare and endangered trees, starting with the Giant Sequoia tree.

The studio collaborated with researchers at London’s Natural History Museum and Salford University to create the video, using LiDAR, white light and CT scanning to create highly detailed textures that “distort our sense of space and time and make the invisible visible.”

The tree’s vascular system is presented through a soundscape. Sounds were generated by capturing bio-signals and sonifying them using hardware and software custom-made by sonic artist Mileece I’Anson.

The studio also created a soundscape for the tree’s external environment, designed to creatively represent the Sequoia National Park’s bioacoustics.

Audio layers of birds, insects, amphibians, rain and wind were weaved together to create an immersive sound field, with certain sounds being mapped to movement.

“It’s great working with institutions like OMM that take environmental issues seriously and use art to address our fundamental dependency on nature,” said Ersin.

“Both installations on display at OMM challenge the idea of our current ‘age of distraction’, where technology is accused of disconnecting people from society and the environment,” he continued.

“Instead, Treehugger and In the eyes of the Animal use sensors, virtual reality headsets and multi-modal stimuli to catalyse a group experience that embeds us in planetary cycles and shared natural rhythms,” the designer added.

Marshmallow Laser Feast’s works will form part of OMM’s inaugural exhibition, opening on 8 September. The museum will also host a large-scale installation by Japanese bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV made from woven bamboo.

Marshmallow Laser Feast first debuted its In the Eyes of an Animal installation back in 2015, where visitors to an English forest were able to experience the landscape via virtual reality as if through the eyes of one of three woodland creatures: a dragonfly, a frog and an owl.

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The Odunpazari Modern Museum, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, has opened its doors in Eskisehir, northwest Turkey.

Built to house the modern art collection of architect and chairperson of Turkish contractor Polimeks, Erol Tabanca, the museum in the Odunpazari district of Eskisehir is formed of a cluster of boxes made from stacked, interlocking timber beams.

Odunpazari, which means firewood market in Turkish, used to be a centre for timber trading and Kengo Kuma and Associates took this history as the basis for the design.

The building consists of a group of square-shaped blocks that are surrounded by laminated-timber beams stacked on top of each other. These have been arranged to continue the streetscape of the surrounding Ottoman houses.

“Cantilevers and rotation makes the streetscape and walkthrough experience very special and unexpected,” explained Ikeguchi.

“It was my intention to make a link to the unique character of the Ottoman houses adjacent to the site by stacking and rotating the boxes that offer the opportunity to house exhibitions and activities in various scales,” she continued.

“Not just in the formalist manner, but to continue the streetscape and recreate the non-linear journey of visiting the inside of the museum.”

The museum will display items from Tabanca’s 1,000-piece collection of modern and contemporary art, alongside temporary exhibitions.

The building is designed so that there are smaller, more intimate spaces on the lower floors, with larger, open galleries for events and exhibitions on the upper floors. It also contains a cafe and a shop.

At the centre of the building, where four of the stacked blocks meet, there is a skylit atrium that stretches the full height of the three-storey building.

This timber-lined square skylight twists gently as it rises through the building.

The museum opens out onto a large plaza with steps that run up alongside the building, which connects an area of older housing with a new development.

“The idea for OMM was to use architecture to create a link between people and art,” said Ikeguchi.

“We were deeply inspired by the history, culture, people and streetscape of Odunpazari, and we wanted the building to resonate on many levels. We hope that the museum will breathe new life into Eskisehir and become a central and inviting meeting point for the city,” she continued

“I hope visitors will feel excited and comfortable and that the museum will be a more than just a place to enjoy the art. I hope they will sense the connection to the history and the memory of the place that links to the future.”

Kuma founded Kengo Kuma and Associates, which has offices in Tokyo and Paris, in 1990. The studio has completed numerous cultural projects around the world, the most recent being the V&A in Dundee.

Kuma is currently designing the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Denmark and a cultural centre in a former slaughterhouse in Porto.

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