Monthly Archives: January 2010

Terry Richardson Directs Pirelli Calendar

Oh my. Terry Richardson‘s directed and photographed the new Pirelli Calendar. Thank you High Snobiety for publishing all the pics. Featuring Miranda Kerr, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Ana Beatriz Barros, Lily Cole, Daisy Lowe, Marloes Horst, Abbey Lee, Catherine McNeil, Eniko Mihalik, Georgina Stojiljkovic, and Gracie Carvalho. Biographies of all those involved are available at Pirelli. Backstage [...]

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Hostage Store, Stockholm

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Pop-up stores are passe. Hostage stores are more exciting. Swedish designer Ann Sofie Back (and her ad team We Are Group) have launched this much more outlandish and provocative concept. Society of the Spectacle report: The stunt started with videos posted on YouTube [...]

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100 Gourmet Recipes

The Geometry of Pasta from Amy Lines on Vimeo. Great list from some of the UKs great chefs. I’ve always wondered what food these guys would be cooking at home, for their family. I can’t imagine that Heston whips up a quick bacon and eggs ice cream on a Saturday night to watch in front [...]

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Chair Whore

It’s a picture blog. About chairs. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Chair Whore

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chris newton’s new track bike

new frame for Chris Newton made by Akio Tanabe of Kalavinka, Tokyo; for Condor Cycles, London. looks amazing! can’t wait to see it winning races!

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House for Sale, Somewhere Near Barstow on the Edge of the Desert…

Sited upon small volcanic cone in the high desert midway between Las Vegas & Los Angeles, this 60-acre retreat seems to cap the mountain top with its dome-like roof: Concrete and truss beams form its dome allowing the interior to embrace 360 degrees of stark, strong almost lunar landscape. Main house of two bedrooms, 2 [...]

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Martin Margiela White Objects

Anyone know how I can get hold of these White Objects by Maison Martin Margiela? Or better still, how I can recreate them myself? Brilliant industrial anonymity. A kind of celebration of form and design, but with the texture and decay tempered by cloth coverings and false fronts. Deconstructionism. I particularly love the “doors” and [...]

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QR Code Building

N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo. If the future is giant barcodes on the side of buildings, not only will I likely be out of a job, but it would be a shame for the whole creative marketing industry… but of course with every closed door a new one opens. With that in mind, [...]

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The Fun Theory

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The easiest way to change behaviour is to make it more fun to do. You might have seen the piano staircase video before, but now it seems that The Fun Theory (the guys behind the “guerrilla” piece of interactive media) was in fact [...]

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Fuct – New Direction

Fuct – the fashion brand that came, conquered, went and came back again – has directed their first short film, part one of which can be seen above, and on their website. Nice to see the originators of street fashion (a/k/a “streetwear”, ahem) can still shake things up, push creative boundaries and not be afraid [...]

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