G. Brad Lewis se fait aussi appelé Volcanoman, car ce dernier est mondialement reconnu pour ses clichés de volcans. Ayant été publié dans tous les grands magazines, du Time à National Geographic, voici une série d’images d’une grande beauté de l’artiste à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Focus sur le talent et les nouveaux travaux du photographe professionnel Tom Kualii passionné par la nature et qui nous propose une série de clichés absolument magnifique appelée « Lava meets Ocean ». Un rendu très réaliste de ce phénomène naturel, à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Coup de cœur pour le travail du réalisateur Dan Gutt qui a dirigé ce superbe clip pour le morceau « Sisters » d’Avan Lava. Produite par Weston Auburn, cette vidéo narre les aventures et les aléas de la relation fusionnelle entre deux soeurs. De très belles images à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
This young writers’ workshop in Sydney by architects LAVA is parading as an embassy for Martians on earth (+ slideshow).
LAVA worked alongside producer Will O’Rourke and arts organisation The Glue Society to design the centre for creative writing charity The Sydney Story Factory, who organise classes where children can develop imaginative writing skills.
A skeleton of plywood ribs surrounds the space, integrating seating, counters and shelves.
Travel essentials for Martians fill the display areas and can be purchased at a plywood counter, while the workshop desks are located just beyond.
“The concept is to awaken creativity in kids,” explains LAVA director Chris Bosse, ”so the design acts as a trigger, firing up the engines of imagination”.
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Photography is by Brett Boardman, apart from where otherwise indicated.
Here’s some more information from LAVA:
The Martians have landed and they’ve set up their very own embassy in inner city Sydney!
The new embassy was designed by LAVA, with partners Will O’Rourke and The Glue Society, as a fusion of a whale, a rocket and a time tunnel, an immersive space of oscillating plywood ribs brought to life by red planet light and sound projections.
Above: photograph is by Peter Murphy
LAVA’s design for the Martian Embassy is for The Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit creative writing centre for young people in Redfern, Sydney. The project was a collaboration with production company Will O’Rourke and their creative partners The Glue Society, who developed the Martian concept which was then road tested with kids – of all ages.
Chris Bosse, Asia Pacific director of LAVA said: ‘It’s the stuff great stories are made of – think of Moby Dick, H. G. Wells’ Time Machine and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick’.
Above: photograph is by Peter Murphy
‘The concept is to awaken creativity in kids, so the design acts as a trigger, firing up the engines of imagination. It’s an intergalactic journey – from the embassy, at the street entrance, to the shop full of red planet traveller essentials, to the classroom. By the time kids reach the writing classes they have forgotten they are in “school”.’
‘Using a fluid geometry merging the three program components [embassy, school and shop], a computer model was sliced and ‘nested’ into buildable components. 1068 pieces of CNC-cut plywood were put together like a giant puzzle. Using technologies from the yacht and space industry the timber ribs create shelves, seats, benches, storage, counters and displays and continue as strips on the floor. Edged with Martian green, the curvy plywood flows seamlessly so that walls, ceiling and floor, space, structure and ornament, become one element.’
A mix of Martian essential oils infuses the tunnel to inspire young imaginations, whilst the sounds and lights of the red planet animate the space.
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Martian passports, alien money, 1kg cans of gravity, abduction kits and SPF 5000 sunscreen are just some of the ‘Made on Mars’ gift products sold in the Martian Embassy store.
‘We had a lot of fun creating the first diplomatic mission from inner space’, added Bosse.
The Sydney Story Factory is a not-for-profit creative writing centre for young people in inner Sydney. Volunteer tutors help students to write and publish stories. Free programs target young people, from marginalized, Indigenous and non-English speaking backgrounds, but are open to everyone.
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It was inspired by 826 Valencia, a creative writing centre for young people started by novelist Dave Eggers in San Francisco in 2002. A Pirate Supply Store fronts the centre, selling everything the working buccaneer needs: peg legs, eye patches, parrot feed. There are now eight chapters across the US, each with its own unique themed shop. In 2010 novelist Nick Hornby opened The Ministry of Stories in London, behind Hoxton Street Monster Supplies.
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Architects: LAVA: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
Production: Will O’Rourke
Creative direction: The Glue Society
Project Manager: Berents Project Management
Lighting and acoustic design: ARUP
Builder: Redwood Projects
Lighting: Philips
Sound: Syntec
Oils: Avatar Air
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Iceland’s small-batch spirit distilled over lava rocks
Only a handful of components are necessary for making Reyka vodka: a grain spirit made from quality wheat and barley, water, geothermal energy, lava rock filtration and a custom-crafted, copper Carter-Head still. The incredibly smooth spirit is the upshot of Iceland’s pristine environment, which affords the distillery an extremely pure brewing process. We recently had the chance to meet with Reyka’s master distiller Kristmar Olafsson in Borgarnes, who shed greater insight on their small-batch production.
Steam produced by molten rock is funneled in a stainless steel pipe to the distillery, where it heats Olafsson’s beautiful Carter-Head gin still, which was handcrafted in Scotland. One of only six in the world, Reyka’s earns the unique distinction of being the only one used for crafting vodka. This gives Olafsson the advantage of controlling the spirit’s path, manually manipulating the machine throughout the process and capturing only the best part of the spirit for bottling. Traditional vodka stills force the distiller to use the entire spirit from beginning to end, and in order to remove impurities it has to be distilled again.
“When we start to distill—this is just like when you’re boiling water in the kitchen—the vapors start to rise up when the spirit is close to 100 degrees [celsius], and we keep it inside the tower here in the beginning because when the vapors start to rise up it passes through a lot of copper pipes. Everything is created just to remove impurities from the spirit, and we distillate, or boil it, for about 30-40 minutes and keep it always inside the tower. The lightest ingredients stay in the upper part of the still, and that’s the part we are removing from the spirit. These are the impurities that give it a bad taste and bad smell.”
Olafsson removes about 30-40 liters of impure liquid in this initial process, which is simply discarded. He knows when the time is up by his expert sense of smell, and the remaining desirable vapor is pushed to another tower in the still, cooled down for a bit and returned to a liquid state. They then distill about 1,200 liters of 96% alcohol for five or six hours, resulting in the spirit that is used for Reyka later on. The last 250 liters is significantly weaker at around 35% alcohol, which they separate and use for flavor-infused vodkas like Opal Red.
To bring the spirit down to a more drinkable 80 proof, they blend it with water from the nearby Grábrók spring, ideally located on a 4,000-year-old lava field. This is then run through actual lava rocks—which they change about every three months—for the ultimate in natural filtration.
One taste of Reyka vodka and it’s clear that something is different. It feels silky on the palate, and the clean flavor is easily sipped neat. Currently the eight-person team at Reyka is producing around only 400,000 bottles a year, but Olafsson hopes to increase this over time, slowly but surely. His distribution approach is not unlike that of his distillation process, both the result of extreme patience and well-earned instinct.
You can purchase Reyka at shops throughout the U.S. and U.K. (as well as in Iceland) for around $20 a 750ml bottle.
See more images in the slideshow. Photos by Karen Day
Les architectes du laboratoire Lava développent actuellement une méthode simple et économique pour transformer les anciens bâtiments de la ville de Sydney : il s’agit d’une seconde peau. Un cocon transparent qui agit et génère de l’énergie avec des cellules photo-voltaïques.
Un impact visuel important avec un effort matériel minimum, car la tour est enveloppée légèrement en matériaux composites de haute-performance.
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