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Piombo teaches

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:28:13 +0200

Piombo teaches

lemonade

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:21:35 +0200

lemonade

REMEMBER ME?Sony produced their first advertisement, a print ad,...

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:58:48 +0200

REMEMBER ME?

Sony produced their first advertisement, a print ad, in 1979 named “Bridging the difference“.The marketing of the Walkman introduced the idea of ‘Japanese-ness’ into global culture, synonymous with miniaturization and high-technology.
Before the release of the Walkman, Sony distributed 100 cassette-players to influential individuals like magazine editors and musicians.

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Wed, 23 May 2012 15:19:15 +0200

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A rough night

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:50:14 +0200

A rough night

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:42:18 +0200

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Illustration by Victo Ngai for the fiction “Sweet Dreams” by...

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:30:05 +0200

Illustration by Victo Ngai for the fiction “Sweet Dreams” by Peter Stamm

“She went to the bathroom, filled the tub, and got undressed. The mirror misted over with condensation, and the smell of pine needles filled the air. She turned off the water, and the apartment suddenly seemed very quiet. Then she heard footsteps, and Simon’s voice through the half-open door. He said, I’ll just go downstairs for the bottle of wine. I thought you’d gone already, said Lara, and she poked her head through the crack, and he kissed her on the lips and tried to barge the door open, but she held it shut. They kissed again. See you soon, said Lara. It was odd, she still felt a little ashamed in front of him.”

PRADA present “A THERAPY” By Roman Polanski Starring...

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:16:40 +0200

PRADA present “A THERAPY”

By Roman Polanski

Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Kingsley

David

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:52:33 +0200

David

Le cose proibite!

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:50:37 +0200

Le cose proibite!

Fluo is 80s

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:47:49 +0200

Fluo is 80s

Good Morning Sir

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:40:41 +0200

Good Morning Sir

Dopo Giappone e Scandinavia, Italia Independent sceglie Israele,...

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:07:36 +0200

Dopo Giappone e Scandinavia, Italia Independent sceglie Israele, Giordania e Territori Palestinesi come scenario del video per la Primavera-Estate 2012.
Da Eliat a Petra, da Tel Aviv a Gerusalemme, passando per Betlemme e attraversando il deserto del Negev con le sue montagne di pietra rossa, scendendo fino al Mar Morto e immergendosi nel Mar Rosso, chilometri di deserto intervallati da città dove palazzi modernissimi sorgono a fianco di edifici antichi migliaia di anni, montagne rosse che cadono a picco sul mare turchese, palme e ancora montagne all’orizzonte: questo è stato il viaggio di Italia Independent attraverso Israele, Giordania e Territori Palestinesi.

The Look Mr Nicolas Malleville Mr Nicolas Malleville is sitting...

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:46:00 +0200

The Look

Mr Nicolas Malleville

Mr Nicolas Malleville is sitting on the sandy shores of Tulum, Mexico, his handsome, scruffy face staring out at a picturesque sunset. It’s a familiar image, one that we’ve seen captured by the likes of Mr Mario Testino in countless magazines and fashion campaigns. But this time Mr Malleville is not helping to hock designer wares. We’re with him - one of luxury fashion’s most in-demand models of the past two decades - at one of the properties he has built on the Yucatán Peninsula, looking out on his own fledgling empire. “Everyone thought I was nuts. They called me coqui coqui,” Mr Malleville explains of his first pilgrimages to this part of the world. Coqui coqui is Spanish slang for “coconuts”, which Mr Malleville duly named his first property.

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The new Bachelor pad While the very term “man cave” makes us...

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:38:08 +0200

The new Bachelor pad

While the very term “man cave” makes us cringe, we’re firm believers that it’s possible for a gentleman’s bedroom to be a more grown-up reflection of his interests and pursuits without the cutesy jargon. Case in point, this downtown-inspired space suggests an inherent green thumb, it’s also full of personality—a throwback stereo (mix tape, not included), a mounted buck horn on the wall, a Pendleton blanket for added color and texture. We added some of our favorite music—old Neil Young, the new Geographer album, you know, to help set the mood should the impulse strike you. —Nandita Khanna

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Boston Rubbernecks Times have changed, but people have always...

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:14:45 +0200

Boston Rubbernecks

Times have changed, but people have always loved to gawk at a car crash. The Boston Public Library has hundreds of opportunities to rubberneck wrecks from the 1930s. Some of the most interesting below. Please take note the painful lack of seat belts as displayed on the windshields. Also, check out the work wear on the bystanders. Be safe out there.

Matera is an unusual town and a province in the region of...

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:02:00 +0200

Matera is an unusual town and a province in the region of Basilicata, just above the heel of southern Italy. Spread over one side of a gorge alongside the modern town, “I Sassi” (The Rocks) is an area of extraordinary dwellings, half-carved and half-built from the surrounding biscuit-coloured tufo (tuff) rock, in which people have been living since Palaeolithic times. In 1987 a law was passed opening the way for the area to be redeveloped. Five years later Unesco revolutionised its prospects by adding the Sassi, and later the rupestrian churches in the surrounding countryside, to its list of world heritage sites.

Whatever images of velvet curtains and plush sofas the word “suite” may bring to mind should be locked away when applied to Le Grotte. The unusual rooms are, in fact, nothing but caverns lit by dozens of candles, which were part of a deconsecrated church hewn from the rock. There are no TVs, telephones or even a carefully disguised minibar in the rooms at Le Grotte. The furniture is made of wooden and iron items collected in the Sassi over a period of five years and given to local craftsmen to restore or cannibalise. Much of the linen is from old dowries.

There are other hotels in the Sassi. But what distinguishes Le Grotte is a determination to preserve the character of this most extraordinary of environments and to evoke the lifestyle of the people who once inhabited it.

Sassi di Matera
Via San Giovanni Vecchio
75100 Matera, Italy
Tel: 0835 332744

www.legrottedellacivita.com
www.sextantio.it/grotte-civita

Hobo & Mojo Tee...

Mon, 21 May 2012 21:22:18 +0200

Hobo & Mojo Tee “Nothing”

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Reno

Mon, 21 May 2012 21:20:13 +0200

Reno

Thailand’s Floating Auditorium Archipelago Cinema is a...

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:42:08 +0200

Thailand’s Floating Auditorium

Archipelago Cinema is a collaboration between Ole Scheeren, a German architect working in Beijing, and the Film on the Rocks Yao Noi Film Festival curated by Tilda Swinton and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

In Ole Scheeren words: “When we first arrived at the lagoon, the water was calm. Nothing like the choppy boat ride that took us here. There was a beach, and a backdrop of a huge wall of rocks. […] The thought of watching films here seemed surprising: A screen, nestled somewhere between the rocks. And the audience… floating. […] A sense of temporality, randomness. Almost like drift wood. Or maybe something more architectural. Modular pieces, loosely assembled, like a group of little islands. A congregation of rafts as an auditorium. Archipelago Cinema.
Local fishermen farm lobsters on rafts. Wooden frames are tied by rubber straps to foam blocks wrapped in mosquito nets. A simple construction. A local technique. Adopted to build the floating cinema. Recycled wood and materials. Reusable modularity of the raft. Assembled, disassembled. Reconfigured, reused. After the screening, it will go back to the local community. As a stage, a playground. As an event platform, an assembly space. As something that belongs to them, that was merely borrowed. As something, that is flexible, that can be towed anywhere. And as something that can appear, from time to time, to host a few people watching movies”.

The result is a a stunning floating movie theater off the island of Kudu Noi, near the resort island of Phuket.