“By giving our artists and designers control and not trying to fit their work into a preconceived idea of what Mood is we hope to produce genuine products that bring something new to skateboarding.” -Calvin Waterman When designers and lifelong skateboarders Calvin Waterman and Grandison Taber decided to launch…
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Take teenage sexuality and factor in violence and irony and you get Worm Carnevale. Originally from Florida and now based in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, Carnevale moved to New York in 2008. Whether for film, photography or installation, his provocative imagery combines the obvious with the abstract, comedy with drama…
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by Janine Stankus Pantyhose, nylons, stockings—whatever you call them, if you’re a woman you’ve worn them, and you may well scorn them. Artist Katya Usvitsky casts a long look on this classic undergarment for her upcoming exhibition, “Polymorph,” a tactile exploration of the female body. “Polymorph” began with the suggestive…
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Bridget Collins est une photographe américaine originaire de Minneapolis dans le Minnesota. Avec des clichés s’amusant à souligner des petits détails étranges et insolites, ses photographies permettent de se plonger dans un monde où les objets dialoguent avec l’environnement. Plus d’images ans la suite.
The free-spirited jewelry designer and her meticulous approach to craft
Jewelry designer Erin Considine embodies the patience that her handcrafted pieces reflect. From her Williamsburg studio the young Maryland native naturally dyes all of her own fibers before meticulously braiding or weaving them through various metal components, all soldered by her as well. Her wholesome approach is not only…
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News: Barclays Center, a 19,000-seat indoor sports arena designed by SHoP Architects and AECOM, opens to the public in Brooklyn this weekend.
The arena will provide the first Brooklyn home for basketball team The Brooklyn Nets and a venue for music concerts at the major intersection between Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues.
The completed building was delivered by design-and-build contractors The Hunt Construction Group, with a ribbon-like steel facade designed by New York studio SHoP Architects and a 19,000 seat arena planned by AECOM.
Frank Gehry was the first architect to work on the project, but developer Bruce Ratner dropped the original design in 2009 in favour of a cheaper alternative. Gehry’s masterplan also included sixteen residential towers, which are still proposed but not yet constructed.
Following the Barclays Center’s inauguration on Friday, journalists have had mixed reactions to the scheme. In the New Yorker, critic Alexandra Lange describes the building as an “alien presence” that is ”big, dark, and without scale,” while New York Times reporter Liz Robbins writes that “the arena stands as an island, a reminder of what is missing.”
Meanwhile, New York Magazine‘s Justin Davidson speaks favourably about the building, calling it ”a great, tough-hided beast of a building” that is “juiced, genial, and aggressive all at once.”
The Barclays Center will officially open on Friday with the first of eight sold-out concerts by rapper Jay-Z.
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Metamorphic rock and steel jewelry explores possibilities beyond precious
by Janine Stankus Chris Platt ‘s work is “edgy” in the most literal sense, pushing the boundary between jewelry and sculpture. With a collection of jagged, industrial pieces forged from metal and stone, Platt is trying to introduce new energy into the jewelry market. Platt’s conceptual accessories call to mind…
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Win two tickets to the Campfire Session in NYC
In “a quest for the taste of our times,” French output Le Fooding returns to New York for another culinary bash. This year’s festivities, which span five days of well designed events, pay homage to city peripherals around the world. From East London to l’Est Parisien, the Le Fooding…
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Touring and tasting at the NYC distillery’s new Brooklyn Navy Yard locale
“People are often expecting something more intense from the moonshine,” said Kings County Distillery co-owner Colin Spoelman as he passed out samples of the signature clear, unaged white corn whiskey made at his Brooklyn-based micro-distillery. The tasting took place at the end of a recent tour of the distillery’s…
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Three teasers from the upcoming documentary about Brooklyn’s biggest rooftop farm
Earlier this year the five core members of Brooklyn Grange, well known by now as the largest soil rooftop farm in the world, signed a 20-year lease for a 65,000-square-foot rooftop at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. In just two years they outgrew their 40,000-square-foot Queens location, which services a…
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