Author Archives: Chungaiz

Happiness

By Chungaiz | Published: March 12, 2010
Invest in the process of something to get hapiness, rather than focussing on the outcome (which is likely to be disappointing in relation to your expectations). Seems  a very smart philosophy, from Srikumar Rao. John Wooden never got his UCLA basketball team to focus on the winning, but on playing as well as they could. They’d [...]
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Augmented Reality Maps at TED

By Chungaiz | Published: February 17, 2010
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Hyper local blogs, stories, are overlaid onto the maps, which can easily flip from a birds’ eye view to 45 degree Sim City style landscape, and then flow into a full 3D environment with their equivalent of street view. Immense.
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Valet

By Chungaiz | Published: February 15, 2010
Valet is a menswear and style site that has been very well designed. All online magazines should take a look and consider what it is that makes Valet so attractive. Is it the font changes, the layout, the articles, the broad variety of links (online and off) or just the charming “biased/insider knowledge” quotes next [...]
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Feltron Report

By Chungaiz | Published: February 3, 2010
Nicholas Felton has released his newest Feltron Annual Report for 2009 which outlines all of the activities he participated in last year. Normally it’s a very personal log of the year’s activities that documents things like distance travelled and by what means, animals eaten, books read, plants killed etc (see reports for 2008, 2007, 2006)… but [...]
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Four Lions – Chris Morris’ New Film

By Chungaiz | Published: February 3, 2010
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Chris Morris has made a film about a group of British suicide bombers. Four Lions, which was partially funded by Film4, was screened last night at the Sundance film festival in Utah, The Guardian reports. Morris is known to have worked on little else over [...]
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Terry Richardson Directs Pirelli Calendar

By Chungaiz | Published: January 29, 2010
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 videos here [...]
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Hostage Store, Stockholm

By Chungaiz | Published: January 27, 2010
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 showing Back has been [...]
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100 Gourmet Recipes

By Chungaiz | Published: January 27, 2010
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 of [...]
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Chair Whore

By Chungaiz | Published: January 25, 2010
It’s a picture blog. About chairs. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Chair Whore
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House for Sale, Somewhere Near Barstow on the Edge of the Desert…

By Chungaiz | Published: January 13, 2010
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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