The Dwelling Lab in London

Last week, I got a chance to see this extraordinary BMW 'The Dwelling Lab' at Tramshed in London Design Festival. Patricia Urquiola and Giulio Ridolfo have created a ground-breaking interpretation of the BMW 5 Series, and what excited me the most about this installation is how they combine together mobile design and industrial design, in such a way to show creativity and their research, how they care so much for details and activities in a journey. Luxury product is indeed about details and unforgettable experience.   


Most of all it means to challenge our perception and create a space for future expansion of creative flow.

A Gust Of Wind : Paul Cocksedge at V&A

"A Gust Of Wind" is a one night installation exhibited at V&A museum in London, part of London Design Festival 2010. Display with extraordinary three hundred curvaceous pieces of Corian®, which signified paper shape that came from Paul Cocksedge inspiration for this piece.  It almost look like stack of paper that has been blown into the air by a gust of wind. Last night at V&A I have experience this installation and a chance to get one of three hundred piece that give away from the designer himself. It was very powerful and stunning piece. This installation challenges viewer's perception, it also giving sense of floating in time and space, and free form 360 degree dimension. Each of this limited pages also act as a paper tray at last.

What We See From 21st Century Portraits

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of i-D magazine, Nick Knight mirrored his 1985 '100 Portraits' series and photographed 200 of the most important people in fashion, music and culture today. Alongside the photographic portraits, Knight created a series of unique video portraits of each sitter during this landmark seventeen-day shoot. Each week, SHOWstudio.com will launch a new selection of video portraits captured on a specific date, the series as a whole documenting not only this shoot but a slice of twenty-first century culture.

Click the photo to link the site.

Daylight

Daylight

DIRECTOR: Igor Zimmermann
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Marcus Palmqvist & Martin Steinberg
EDIT/GRADING: Igor Zimmermann

The Long Walk : Sandra Freij

               

  Click to watch the film here.

Question of 'Seeing' - one self

In Three Transitions, Campus presents three introspective self-portraits that incorporate his dry humor. He begins with an image created by two cameras facing opposite sides of a paper wall and filming simultaneously. His back to one camera, Campus cuts through the paper. In the double image, it appears as if he is cutting through his back, which is both disconcerting and tongue–in–cheek. Campus then uses the "chroma–key effect" of superimposing one video image onto a similarly colored area of another image. He applies blue paint to his face, and during this process another image of himself is revealed; he then superimposes his image on a piece of blue paper, which he sets afire. AsThree Transitions moves between deadpan humor and seeming self–destruction, Campus explores the limits of visual perception as a measure of reality.

Faces and masks have long been subjects in art, but, with the advent of television, these analytical discursive figures intimately entered our daily lives. Campus's video art is concerned with exploring the subtle balance between remote but penetrating and formal, but unsettling, elements.

The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999

Peter Campus, born in New York in 1937, is one of the seminal figures in the development of video art. Along with Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Frank Gillette and Dan Graham, he was among the pioneering artists who explored how video imagery could challenge the traditional relationships between artist, subject and viewer. In the artist’s 1970s closed-circuit video installations, viewers experienced their own images in real time manipulated to produce unique, and sometimes unsettling, psychological effects. Informed by his life-long interests in the neurophysiology of cognition, and cinema, these early works explored the formal sculptural qualities of projected video space. In more recent digital video work, Campus’ formal exploration is framed within his environmental concerns.

The Eyes: Scherzo di Follia

Pierre-Louis Pierson 1822-1913

'The Eyes, 1863-66'

Scherzo di Follia

The Countess of Castiglione was a socially ambitious italian aristocrat. Her 40-year collaboration with Pierre-Louis Pierson resulted in over 400 photographs taken between 1865 and 1895. The Countess was an active participant in the construction of these images, drawing inspiration from contemporary fashion magazines and theatre performances for her diverse poses, costumes, and fantasy identities. The photographs anticipate a modern understanding of the celebrity persona whose identity is constructed through photography.

The important of the eyes, where we see things though out our lives, we adopt specific performance for different roles, occasions and spaces. The combination of roles and performances compose our sense of self for individuality. We somehow take the notion of self as a given as natural and normal thing but in fact individuality is a product of our historical moment and our dominant cultural moves.

Smith Westerns and Girls film by Ryan McGinley

Watch the film here.

La Vitesse Et La Pierre

This is one of my favorite fashion film.


'La Vitesse Et La Pierre' is an epic short film created with audio and still images. A film about the restrained Iris and the fleeting Bernard and the solitude that unites them. The film directed by Igor Zimmermann and photographer duo Frode Fjerdingstad and Marcus Palmqvist. Music written and produced by Yourhighness.


More information here 

The Girl with the Pre-Fabricated Heart

Scene from Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947), directed by Hans Richter.

This is one of my favorite surreal film, I personally think it said something very strong about relationship of fashion,decorative exterior of ourself, one personality, and the way we see ourselves. It somehow give us back message of the way we could be perceived by others as well. 

About the film

Berlin-born Hans Richter - Dadaist, painter, film theorist and filmmaker - was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde. Richter assembled some of the century's liveliest artists as co-creators of Dreams That Money Can Buy, his most ambitious attempt to bring the work of the European avant-garde to a wider cinema audience. Among its admirers is film director David Lynch.

Joe, a young man down on his luck, discovers he has the power to create dreams, and sets up a business selling them to others. The 'dreams' he gives to his clients are the creations of Max Ernst, Fernand Lger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder and Richter himself, and the result is by turns playful, hypnotic, satirical, charming and nightmarish.

 

It's so 'Surreal', so it is fashion.

"Chronology" 

click to watch the film.

Chronology is styled by Cathy Edwards, and in an innovative fusion of inspiration and instant gratification, the looks seen on Boscono are available on Net-a-Porter, which is debuting a version of the film today (while NOWNESS hosts the director’s cut).  “Short film is a way to capture the imagination of our clients,” says Loehnis. Guadagnino does this and more—with its rich palettes and flashes of surrealism, Chronology ignites our desire for the textured, glamorous folds of fall. 

Mariacarla wears clothes by Christopher Kane, Chloé, Miu Miu, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Sigerson Morrison and Azzedine Alaïa (all available from Net-a-Porter); chandelier earrings by Alexis Bittar; young girl wears skirt and shirt byBonpoint, velvet pumps by Gap. 

NOWNESS Premieres the Director's Cut of the Fairytale Created in 

Association with Net-a-Porter

Directed by : Luca Guadagnino

Disembodied Experience - I Am Sad Leyla

    

Hussein Chalayan
I Am Sad Leyla  (Üzgünüm Leyla) 
Lisson Gallery, Until 2 October 2010


Taking this art form, which has evolved through shifting environments,conquests,political reforms, geo political and cultural relations, and recontextualizing it in a gallery environment in London also with a new dress code... is another shift which alters and reframes the way in which this genre of music can be perceived.


The new installation explores music as a cultural form, creating a “disembodied experience” of a performance of a traditional Turkish folk composition by Sertab Erener, one of Turkey’s most successful female singers, accompanied by an Ottoman orchestra. The installation is made up of a nuanced combination of audio, film, sculpture and musical notation. Here Hussein examines the experience of music as layered, exploring both the sounds created by different instruments, and the diverse cultural influences on the composition, which include Persian poetry and Greek orthodox chanting. 
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The Game Of Perception

Clare Stephenson's Sculptures

 Made from Silkscreen on wooden panels, Prop-like cut-out stand.

La Belle Toute Savante 2009

Our Lady Of The Conscious Optics 2009

Ornament And Boredom 2009

   Clare Stephenson's sculptures occur to me in the similar way of seeing fashion as artistic experience. The game of perception, of subverting material with image and vice versa, is redoubled in her work's development process. By manipulating appearance of physical bodies and recycled its own images. These sculptures embodies a fashion of aesthetics. What I really like about her work is that she brought together influence of pop-culture and historical elements. It is a self recreation and these figures conflate Modernism and medievalism. The installation recalled a mannequin display in a department store, or a waxworks museum, or a stage set.

Style define our body, or our body devise style.

Is it because of clothes, or what is underneath it that constitute one own personality? somehow I believe that it compliment one another.

Jane Birkin

     

Grace Kelly

What it take to be remember in such an elegant way. What constructs as a style? But what is it really that we admire, is it her smile, her bone, her skin, her hair or what she have on her body? What would be left if we take it all off...

What I Saw Today.

This is what I love about people watching other people, how we see things surround us. Do you look close enough, care enough for details? We are all have a chance. At that moment, I once saw lines and another lines crossing over to form beautiful gestures and then I saw how we began to absorb colors and shine.

I really like his works, it bring out the elegant and charming sense of banality.
Drawing from What I Saw Today.