A l’occasion de la nouvelle année, la marque Coca-Cola présente sa nouvelle vidéo d’animation autour de l’univers des ours polaires. Ce film d’animation de 6 minutes, produit par Ridley Scott, est un véritable petit bijou dans lequel une famille d’ours polaire cherche sa place. A découvrir dans la suite.
Two updated tablets focused on content consumption
Announced today, Barnes & Noble has updated the popular Nook tablet with HD and HD+ versions. Unlike competitors like the Kindle Fire or iPad, the new generation of Nooks are offered strictly as content consumption devices; while users can peruse books, music, magazines and movies, you won’t find a…
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Le créatif Ulric Collette revient avec la seconde partie de sa série de portraits sur les ressemblances génétiques sur les membres de sa famille. Tout aussi réussi que la première série « Split Family Portrait », le travail impressionnant de cet artiste est à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
One graphic designer’s ode to his newborn daughter
When graphic designer Brent Holloman was about to welcome his first child into the world, he had learned enough from friends that those formative years can fly by. In order to enjoy and remember the early stages of his daughter’s development he decided to draw her silhouette once a…
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California artists get inspired by family weekend retreat at the Ace
For one weekend every spring, several dozen families gather at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs for a weekend of crafting. This is no ordinary organized school event with well-meaning preschool teachers sharing cute art projects to keep the kids busy while parents lounge by the pool. The brain-child of Karen Kimmel, Crafting Community brings together artists, kids, and creative parents looking for a meaningful weekend sharing their mutual love of hand-crafted arts. This year Undefeated, Splendid, and Kid Concierge joined the artists to develop projects using fabric, wood, leather, rope, paint, shaving cream, plants, and even cookie dough.
The first crafting community weekend that began in 2008 with a few participants has grown to include more than 70 families. “I have always wanted the event to feel like a party in a friend’s backyard,” says Kimmel. “The programming came from my fascination with traditional crafts and my desire to collaborate with innovative artists and artisans, but the workshops are almost a means to the end of carving out unstructured, creative time for our busy families. We want our families to set their own pace at the weekend – to really savor the vacation time, be present with their families, and indulge their artistic minds.”
The heart and soul of the project can be traced to Kimmel’s ability to attract charismatic artists. This year’s participants Cathy Callahan, Clare Vivier, Rene Holguin, and Tanya Aguiniga shared their expertise with the families and found inspiration to bring home to their own work in return.
Cathy Callahan was asked to base her workshops on projects from her book “Vintage Craft Workshop“. “The Macrame project just seemed like such a natural fit for Crafting Community,” says Callahan. “The parents had fond memories of doing it when they were young and it’s a great crafting skill for the kids to learn.” She loved finding two dads at her station making macramé plant hangers. Callahan searched down pieces of colorful vintage wallpaper for a mobile making workshop that kept the attention of both kids and parents cutting shapes and laying out the placement for balance.
Handbag designer Clare Vivier attended her first Crafting Community two years ago with her son Oscar. This year Vivier’s focus on recycling and material use led to the creation of a wrapped leather cuff project that captivated the attention of the kids and parents. “I knew I’d do something with my scrap leather,” says Vivier. “Bags require too much sewing so I thought this would be a great alternative.” Once back in LA, Vivier returned to the work left to ready her first store, opening soon in Silver Lake.
For RTH‘s Rene Holguin, this year was his first experience with Crafting Community. Holguin brought his leatherworking skills and piles of leather shapes and tools for a family crest project. “I feel it’s so beneficial, for kids and adults, to work with their hands,” says Holguin. “I’m a fan of family traditions. I thought, this being a family weekend, it was an opportunity to bond beyond a family’s everyday connection. It was great to see the dads with their kid on their lap, talking them through it, and working on their crest.” Holguin had such a positive experience at the event that he’s currently looking into opportunities to share his workshop with inner-city school kids.
Back for a second year, Tanya Aguiniga talked about finding time in her busy schedule to spend the weekend in the desert. “I participate because I love the idea of having local artists lead crafting projects with families,” she says. “I worked in Art Education years ago and have not had much of an opportunity to work with children until Crafting Community. Each year, as I work on my Crafting Community project ideas, I discover new methods of working more efficiently as I problem solve the steps for my workshop.”
For one of her projects Aguiniga ombre-dyed strips of Splendid fabric that hung dramatically from a rack for a necklace-making workshop. She also developed a series of modernist henna tattoos. “I was in India this past summer, and I was trying to get a henna artist in Jaipur to give me a minimalist tattoo. He didn’t understand, so I came home, bought some henna and did it myself. I told Karen the idea, she loved it and then I began dreaming up cool designs to tattoo on tiny tots. It was pretty amazing to tattoo babies, pregnant bellies and grandmas.”
Aguiniga is busy with June shows at the Architecture & Design Museum LA, the California African American Museum and Freehand Gallery, as well as one in July at Marine Contemporary. She can also be found staging Public Crafting: The Political Act of Weaving throughout LA as part of the KCET Artbound project.
Kimmel is set to collaborate with the Santa Monica Art Museum and local Southern California schools, and will launch a new Kimmelcolors stencil set this year. Her Crafting Community artists are back at work in their studios inspired to keep teaching and creating.
Family trees flung all over the world captured in photos at MoMA
Taryn Simon is part bloodhound, part photographer. For “A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I – XVIII,” she spent four years tracking down 18 families spread all over the world. Nine of those families, or chapters, as Simon calls them, are now on display at MoMA. Each chapter is made up of three segments, most notably a large group portrait shot yearbook-style with each family member photographed individually. “In each of the 18 chapters,” Simon explains, “you see the external forces of territory, governance, power and religion colliding with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance.” The sequence is arranged in order of the oldest living ascendants followed by their living descendants. This orderly family tree is accompanied by a short text and footnote images that add to the narrative.
This extremely organized coding system belies the complicated and, at times, even messy process of tracking down family members and getting them to agree to be photographed. Take the living descendants of Hans Frank, Hitler’s legal advisor and Governor-General of occupied Poland. In addition to his involvement in setting up Jewish extermination camps, Frank oversaw campaigns to destroy Polish culture by massacring thousands of Poles, all of which he denied when he was brought to trial at Nuremberg and subsequently executed. As you might imagine, his children and relatives aren’t exactly bragging about their family name, and most refused to participate in Simon’s project. Those who agreed to be photographed don’t exactly look thrilled to be there.
Not every bloodline is so full of holes. Joseph Nyamwanda Jura Ondijo’s polygamous Kenyan family is brimming with 32 children and 64 grandchildren, courtesy of his nine wives, most of whom he met through his practice, where he treats patients suffering from a wide range of ailments from evil spirits to HIV/AIDS. Ondijo is usually paid in cows and goats, but sometimes, when a family can’t afford that, they offer a daughter instead. Five of his wives came to him as patients; Three were plagued by evil spirits, one had asthma and two were suffering from infertility (they were cured and bore him children).
Reading about the Frank or Ondijo family, or about the stories in Simon’s other chapters—an over-crowded, underfunded Ukrainian orphanage, for example—is one thing, but seeing the faces of these people, and in one chapter, the animals, is something else altogether. In grid form, one right after the other, it becomes not so much about the similarities among relatives in each chapter, but how they’re so surprisingly unique—and depressing. Homi Bhanha notes in “Beyond Photography,” his essay about the exhibition, that “a precarious sense of survival holds together the case studies…It is the extremity of such precariousness that sets the stage upon which the human drama of survival unfolds…Survival here represents a life force that fails to be extinguished because it draws strength from identifying with the vulnerability of others (rather than their victories), and sees the precarious process of interdependency (rather than claims to sovereignty) as the groundwork of solidarity. We are neighbors not because we want to save the world, but because, before all else, we have to survive it.”
Simon’s subjects show that struggle for survival. Even the children look world-weary. With few exceptions, every slumped figure looks irrepressibly sad. Maybe it’s the bandaid-colored backdrop she used as what she calls “non-place, a neutral cream background that eliminates and erases any environment or context,” that renders the emotionless faces so flat. Collectively, Simon’s work sucks the energy right out of the room. Though it’s true that your DNA only determines part of who you are and that the rest is your own making, the subjects here look resigned to accept the fate of their forefathers. In fact, you can’t help but be touched by the overwhelming emptiness that pervades the room. Though the title refers specifically to one chapter in which a living man is declared dead on paper so that a distant relative can inherit his land, Simon hopes it acts as a metaphor for the entire show, noting that “We are all steadily heading toward death.”
“A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I – XVIII” is on display at MoMA until 3 September 2012.
Eight ways to show your appreciation this Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is just around the corner in the US, and while everyone’s relationship with their mom is completely unique, here are a handful of ideas culled from our Cool Hunting Gift Guide that are sure to brighten up any mother’s day, any time of year.
What is a woman’s worth? That was the question in street artist JR’s mind as he photographed women struggling in Sierra Leone, Sudan, Kenya, Brazil, India and Liberia, and then pasted murals of their images on buildings, trains and bridges in their own communities—a project that warranted him the 2011 TED prize. Inspire mom with this touching tome ($40).
If Goldilocks were to pick a robe, Skin’s Double Layer Wrap ($168) would be it. The weight and softness of the Peruvian Pima cotton make this just right for mom to relax in. What’s more, CH readers can get $50 off a Skin robe just by entering LUVMUM at checkout.
Sure to put a little sparkle in the life of someone special, Ankasa’s pyrite stone ($365) is perfect for the mother who appreciates texture and form—or simply the mom who already has everything.
Bring a little nature inside with this sweet bird-inspired bud vase. Made from porcelain, its design is inspired by a 1960s toothpick holder created by famed Japanese ceramic designer Masahiro Mori.
Make the functional fashionable in the kitchen with a little help from design studio Scholten & Baijings. Created by Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings for Hay Denmark, these cotton mix tea towels ($32) feature their signature grid patterns, layering and neon streak.
Help mom keep track of the very last word she’s read with a practical Fingerprint Bookmark ($9). Sold in a range of colors and easily fitting around any book, they make a great solution for bookworms and travelers alike.
Established in 1906, Germany’s Dovo pride themselves on creating quality steel products that are built to last. Comprised of nail scissors, clippers, a cuticle pusher, tweezers and a file—all made with forged, nickel-galvanized steel—this leather-bound manicure set ($125) seeks to uphold this reputation.
Looking good doesn’t always feel good. Give your favorite woman a break from heels with the clever Big City Sneakers ($128), guaranteed to inject any outfit with a heavy dose stylish comfort.
See these items and several more in our Mother’s Day Gift Guide.
Une belle vidéo produite par les équipes de Vans France avec cette “French Family Trip”. Un collectif de BMX composé de Matthias Dandois, Alex Valentino ou Nico Badet et un shooting durant une semaine de riding en déplacement à Biarritz, sous le soleil de la côte Basque.
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Une série de portraits et un travail de recherche photographique sur les ressemblances génétiques entre les membres de la même famille. Une idée du photographe Ulric Collette avec des moitiés de visages entre frères, soeurs, parents et enfants. A découvrir dans la suite.
Mother & daughter
Daughter & Mother
Sister & Brother
Father & Son
Brothers
Sisters
Father & Son
Twin Sisters
Cousin
Brothers
Son & Father
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“One is not like the other” est un projet de la photographe londonienne Jocelyn Allen. Dans ses clichés, elle capture ses proches prenant ensuite la même pose et situation. Elle cherche à explorer le rapport entre les traits de famille et la recherche de l’individualité.
Being Nan
Being Mum
Being Grandad
Being Caralyn
Being Rebecca
Being Jocelyn
Being Dad
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