May 26
May 26
Hot In The Hive: Polaroid 300
Posted in: Uncategorized  | In the past few years, digital cameras have been all the rage; many of them now include video options, panoramic capabilities and a multitude of other features that I have no idea how to handle. Most everyone has, or has access to, a digital camera; and with the hyper-popularity of Facebook, we can post our documented activities for all to see. While I’m just as hooked on social networking as anyone else, I do miss the days of physical photographs and making bulletin board collages to add a touch of personality to my room. But the process of taking your memory card to a photo center, choosing which pics make the cut, then waiting for an hour PLUS having to pay is just too much in this new world of instant gratification. Speaking of instant gratification, remember the Polaroid? That little, boxy camera that spit out little, boxy photos that appeared with a few flicks of the wrist? Well, they’re back and better than ever! With a new, sleeker look and instant high quality pics (you won’t have to sprain your wrist trying to get an image to appear either), the Polaroid 300 is the newest thing from the picture taking past. The Polaroid 300 allows you to snap pics of the memories you’d like to keep and give you an instant, business card sized glossy print that you can keep and look at without having to sift few thousands of other pictures on your thumb drive or FB photo albums. Bring one to your next big event and start snapping!Price: $89.99 Who Found It: idabone was first to add the Polaroid 300 to the Hive. |
May 26
Pantone Hotel by Olivier Hannaert and Michel Penneman
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Interior designer Olivier Hannaert and architect Michel Penneman have completed a hotel in Brussels, Belgium, for colour company Pantone. (more…)
May 26
Preserving for posterity or hoarding?
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail ran an article last week about artist and writer Douglas Coupland. Irrespective of if you are familiar with Coupland’s work, “A Generation X pack rat forfeits his treasures” is a thought-provoking article that explores the fanfare surrounding Coupland’s recent donation of his home’s vast collection of clutter to a university’s library.
On Thursday, the library at the University of British Columbia announced it had acquired Mr. Coupland’s papers, a voluminous and fascinating collection now available to researchers.
Among the treasures is the first draft of the novel Generation X, the title of which became a catchphrase for those who, like the 48-year-old author, were born in the shadow of self-obsessed baby boomers. The opening page of the draft, written in tidy cursive in blue ink, includes the author’s annotations and revisions.
The archive is stored in 122 boxes featuring 30 metres of text and graphic material. It includes 30 objects, 40 audio and videocassettes, and 1,425 photographs, among them a Polaroid snapshot of Terry Fox’s artificial leg. (The prolific author’s credits include a non-fiction book about Mr. Fox’s aborted cross-Canada run.)
Articles such as this always make me uncomfortable with their choice of words like “treasures” and “archives” when discussing someone’s clutter. And, I’m not the one calling the 122 boxes clutter, Coupland is:
“I was feeling like I was on that TV show Hoarders,” Mr. Coupland said Thursday. “The excuses people gave for keeping an old empty Styrofoam cup were the same reasons I was using for holding on to stuff. It was a wake-up moment.
“The moment it was out the door, I felt a thousand pounds lighter.”
Coupland admits that keeping all these things was unfulfilling and he was happy to see all of the clutter go — but the article treats his things like an archeological discovery “now available to researchers.” And, based on a paragraph in the middle of the article, it sounds like the library may have paid for the donation:
The library received the archive 18 months ago after several years of gentle entreaties and, finally, serious negotiations.
Reality is that the majority of us and our things will end up in landfills and recycling centers. We are not Douglas Couplands. No one is interested in our clutter. We do not need to be curators or purveyors of stuff for future generations. But articles like this one seem to promote collecting or hoarding random things on the chance that we might become famous and that someone might be interested in our stuff and they might pay us for it.
What do you think? What came to your mind while you were reading this article? Were you as conflicted about the message of the article as I was? I’m interested in reading your reactions to this thought-provoking piece, and I’m glad Coupland is now living clutter free.
(Thanks to all the readers who sent this news story our way.)
May 26
David Starks All-Paper Pop-Up Shop
Posted in: UncategorizedMaybe it’s our thawing out now that summer’s here or we’re just mellowing with age (though that would mean uncomfortably rapidly), but it was a nice thing, starting off yesterday on a positive note. So why not do it again? We turn to our pal and brilliant event designer David Stark, whose new book, aptly titled David Stark Design just came out. To help celebrate its launch, he recently talked the Broadway and 62nd Street West Elm into letting him take over a portion of their store to build a pop-up shop/installation (might have helped that he handled the store’s launch back in March). The pop-up looked a bit like a traditional flower shop, until you took a closer look, seeing that almost every item in the store was made out of paper. “Everything from the flowers and plants, to the gardening tools were created out of paper and made by us. Even the walls and awning of the store were paper.” If you weren’t fortunate enough to catch it, Stark has put up loads of photos on his blog, as well as this video, showing just a bit of the insane amount of work this took to pull off:
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May 26
Outline Editions: London show and pop-up store
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Outline Editions has commissioned a selection of leading British image makers – including James Jarvis (his Sphere With Block II, shown, above), Anthony Burrill, Supermundane, Kate Moross and LIzzie Finn – to each create a new image, inspired by the city of London…
The new works – all beautifully Giclée printed on 270gsm Somerset Velvet stock in signed and numbered editions of 300 – are being exhibited at Online Editions’ pop-up gallery / shop at 7 Marshall Street, near London’s Carnaby Street. Here are a few of the works that will be shown and available to buy:
Welcome To London, by Anthony Burrill
Walkers Court by Robert Rubbish
On Where All Sides And Angles Are Equal #2 by David Saunders
All Things Could Be Happening At All Times, by Supermundane
001 London runs from tomorrow, May 28 to July 3 at the Outline Editions pop-up store at 7, Marshall Street, London, W1 7EH.
To see all of the artwork and / or to buy direct online, visit store.outline-editions.co.uk
May 26
The Wired Magazine for iPad
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Wired Magazine app is presently available in the App Store for $4.99.
May 26
Peneira by the Campana Brothers for Alessi
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Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have designed a set of stainless steel mesh baskets for Italian design brand Alessi. (more…)
May 26
Competition: six MoviePegs by magneticNorth to be won
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We’ve joined up with UK designers magneticNorth to give away six MoviePeg portable iPhone stands. (more…)
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