Blogg meg hardere; The moment
Det er en krig der ute, og du er fritt vilt. Bloggejenta har storefri og kan stå bak hvilket som helst gatehjørne, klar for å blogge deg rett ned. Jeg fikk nylig en sms fra London om at jeg hadde blitt blogget av et italiensk motemagasin. Senere så jeg bilder fra en blogg som blogget at en mann blogget andre folk på gata. Og om du skal inn på en klubb i Miami, og du er lei av køen er det bare å si at du er fra a blog in Norway, så er du inne før de foran deg rekker å si ordet blogg. Velkommen til amatørenes verden. Jeg blogger, altså er jeg;
The moment er NY. Times i bloggeformat. Der postes det om mote, mat, kunst, reiser og design generelt. Som om skribentene til NY.Times ikke skulle være flinke nok, er de flinke til å få inn gjestebloggere på siden sin. Alltid interessante mennesker som skriver om interessante ting på en interessant måte. De profesjonelle inntar amatørenes verden, her er kjefta topp 3;
April 18th, 2008 10:09 AM
For the Moment | Thomas Persson on the Colors of Lanvin
By Thomas Persson
This week’s guest blogger is Thomas Persson, the editor in chief and creative director of Acne Paper. Founded in Stockholm in 1996, Acne — perhaps best known for its omnipresent pipe-cleaner-thin jeans — is a diverse creative collective, working within the worlds of fashion, graphic design, magazine publishing, film production and advertising.
Spring has finally arrived in Paris. Walking to the office today I was mesmerized by the pink cherry blossoming against the clear blue sky. The colors were so brilliant, so vibrant and energizing, I decided to spend my last day as guest blogger thinking about color.
To me there is one fashion house that does color better than anyone else, and that is Lanvin. Therefore, I was so happy when they invited me over to have a look at their collection of fabulous color Polaroids from two years of fittings.
THE COLORS OF LANVIN
For the house of Lanvin, colors means life and celebration, “a feeling of love and happiness,” says Daphne Karras who has worked with Alber Elbaz as women’s wear designer for more than three years. Since then Daphne, a Canadian-born Central Saint Martins graduate, has been a central figure in the house, working with Monsieur Elbaz on research and design, as well as the fittings and the shows.
“In the design process we often take Polaroid pictures to see how everything works together,” she says. “It’s a good way to remember a look, and for the dresser to know what to do at the show. What’s nice about a Polaroid is that it’s the picture before the “real” picture, so the models are more natural and relaxed. Polaroids also have an element of surprise. Sometimes, for instance, the light is wrong. Accidents like that can be very inspiring.”
For today’s blog Daphne and I put together a Lanvin Polaroid story inspired by the rainbow. “Polaroids are fading away,” she says. “Today, it’s mostly used by creative people such as artists and designers. I love the quality of them, the twisted colors. You know, we bought tons of Polaroid film, but then we lost the camera.” Thankfully, Daphne has saved two shoe-boxes of Polaroids documentating some of Lanvin’s most amazing looks. Here’s a selection:
Lanvin Spring/Summer 2008: In October last year, the fashion world witnessed a rare moment in Paris. In the Lanvin tent strings of dim light bulbs created a spectacular circus-at-night effect for the explosions of colors that came in waves down the runway: red, pink, purple, blue, green, yellow. It was the rainbow in flowing motion, a lighter than air silhouette that ballooned as the models walked, making the audience rise from their seats, cheering with excitement and joy. Here is the show:
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May 14th, 2008 3:02 PM
For the Moment | Too Many Veejays
By Felix Burrichter
(Kenneth Pietrobono)
This week’s guest blogger is Felix Burrichter, a New York-based architect. Burrichter, who was born in Germany, is also the founder and editor of PIN-UP, an independent biannual magazine launched in the fall of 2006, whose unlikely editorial foundations are architecture and sex. To read all of Felix Burrichter’s previous blog posts, click here.
Today I would like to take a cue from another guest blogger on The Moment, Thomas Persson from Acne magazine, who had the brilliant idea a few weeks ago to invite his friends and collaborators to play YouTube veejay. So for today’s blog I asked my friends to submit their favorite YouTube clip that’s sorta-kinda-maybe related to architecture and design. And while some entries fulfilled this mission more obviously than others, a recurring theme in most of the selections was music. Wasn’t it Goethe who said that “architecture is frozen music”? Maybe it was Falco.
SIMON FUJIWARA
Artist and member of the Berlin-based band Asia Today.
I nominate Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” It’s as if this film were a psycho-architectural portrait of my suppressed schoolboy daydreams. Not only is it uncanny that it was filmed in the year that I was born, it is also located in the building where I went to school — an all-boys gothic boarding school in the English countryside. The uniforms? I could have worn myself. The ninjas in the dining hall? A nod to my Japanese heritage. And don’t get me started on the homoerotic chorus sequence. To top it off, the ballad continues to be my mother’s favorite — something that might explain why, in 1983, her hairdo was uncannily similar to Bonnie’s.
EXYZT
Paris-based architecture collective.
We like this video because it shows that architecture has to be considered as a playful media in itself and that the key to a vibrant city might be cultural action to gather and stimulate people to commit within the architectural realm.
JOP VAN BENNEKOM
Co-founder and creative director of BUTT and Fantastic Man
It’s not really related to design and architecture, but I like to watch “Fantastic Man,” the weirdly grotesque and absurd Filipino TV series, made after the movie of the same name. The special effects are beyond camp.
TODD COLE
Photographer
The architecture of a song! Imaginative use of design by Hermeto Pascoal, a Brazilian composer that made instruments out unconventional objects such as bottles, teapots, animals, or anything at hand.
ANDREAS ANGELIDAKIS
Athens-based architect extraordinaire.
Klaus Nomi’s “Faling in Love Again.” The 80s never looked as good as on Klaus Nomi. He was the absolute gay robot, and a design statement even when he stood still.
PIERRE ALEXANDRE DE LOOZ
Editor at large, PIN–UP.
Andy Warhol’s eight-hour long “Empire” from 1964 remains the ultimate purification rite, a ceaseless mantra to everything we love about architecture. Watch it in the dark, over and over again.
ELIAS REDSTONE
Curator at the Architecture Foundation in London.
This short film by the young London-based filmmakers Neutral is a compilation of the 22 exhibitions we held at the Architecture Foundation’s experimental project space, the Yard Gallery, from 2005 to 2007. It’s a bit of a nostalgia-fest for me as we worked with so many great people, from 6a Architects and Eley Kishimoto on the opening of their Hairywood installation to Gareth Pugh and Matthew Stone’s !Wowow! Collective and a hundred other architects, artists, and designers. As a nice twist of fate, Hairywood is being rebuilt this summer in Covent Garden piazza three years after it first went up in Old Street.
STEPHEN TODD
Writer and image/branding consultant at Concept+Image
I don’t know who trainerhome is, or why this video was made, but its urban-romantic overtones, its earnest synching of music and image, its seemingly endless parade of Tokyo clichés (the urban sprawl, the metro, the schoolgirls, the neon signs) all set to the drum-machine thrum of Depeche Mode’s “World in my Eyes” make me feel like an art-school kid all over again. Which is amazing, because I never was one.
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May 23rd, 2008 4:08 PM
The Digital Ramble | The Grand Tour
By Rosecrans Baldwin
The Digital Ramble explores aesthetic topics through materials found online.
Tasteful travelers Heath Buck and Doug Campbell en route from Hong Kong to London.
The Grand Tour is alive and well, but slimmer. Leave your Goyard steamer trunk behind — world travel is all about lightness and speed, carry-on and pack out. There’s a new globe-trotter lexicon with terms like couch surfing, paperclipping and voluntary simplicity. Nota Bene: The Times’s own Frugal Traveler Matt Gross is off on a 12-week tour of Europe. Here is his far more informed take on the tradition of the Grand Tour. Just a guess: he’s probably not packing a Baedeker guide (unless it’s iPhone-friendly).
For the long-distance traveler, it’s nice to know that pieces of lunar real-estate are for sale, but let’s start earthbound, in classic European mode, with tuxedos: two men, two tuxedos, voyaging 170 days from Hong Kong to London in the name of charity. See their photo above.
But before take off, maybe it’s best to anticipate where disaster may strike. This report (PDF) by a team at Columbia and the World Bank maps the world by types of disaster, with relative guesses about where crises will strike next.
“What you see above isn’t a virtual-reality image created on a computer. It’s a ‘Fotomo’ — a three-dimensional object you can pick up and hold in your hand.” (Olympus Japan)
The truly risk averse traveler need not leave the house at all. Any decent Fotomo ‘zine includes easy-to-assemble kits so you can build your own three-dimensional photograph model of — for example — a Japanese streetscape. Fotomo was developed by the Japanese photographer Kimio Itozaki, who offers a tutorial on how to make your own Fotomo from your vacation snapshots, as well as the downloadable papercraft for building one of his if you’re too lazy. Of course, if you were actually to visit Tokyo, you could use one of these gorgeous maps of art galleries to get around.
Found art featured in Found magazine.
Sometimes just finding a scrap of note paper on the street can be enough to whisk me away. FOUND magazine celebrates the solitary glove left on the subway, the discarded grocery list, the world in a teacup.
A car-crash sculpture by Jonathan Schipper.
I’m also in love with one man’s illustrated account of the transformation of his 1961 Mercedes from a one-time Lebanese taxi to a “pampered summer car.” That reminds me of these fascinating videos of two muscle cars slowly crashing into one another, a kinetic sculpture by Jonathan Schipper. Somewhat terrifying.
Do world business travelers reach a point where complaining about jetlag — a sign of samurai weakness, of newbie-ism to the craft of earning miles — simply isn’t done? (As compared, say, to emotions being poured out in business class as recorded by David Sedaris.) This 2004 Pico Iyer essay on modern travel is luminous, super flat and multi-directional; a Janet Cardiff walk minus the sound:
For someone who has just stepped off the plane from Japan, where people wear masks of cheerfulness as they go from one place to the next, it looks abject…The next day, though, I have begun to settle into the world around me; I hardly notice the lonely faces. Four, five days later, if you were to remind me of what I’d said before, I’d say: ‘What are you talking about? Everything’s normal. These people are just the way they’re supposed to be.’
Speaking if locomotion and graceful landings, does anyone get around more elegantly than a nudibranch? Mark Morris should be introduced to a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk. I bet they’d get along.
A nudibranch embarks on a Grand Tour:
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