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Pharrell Williams & Cara Delevingne will be the face of the next Métiers d’Art 2014/15 campaign Paris-Salzburg wich will be unveiled in Salzburg on December 2nd. The advertising campaign will be shot by Karl Lagerfeld and released in May 2015.
Reincarnation” is the title of the video-clip created and directed by Karl Lagerfeld to accompany the CHANEL Paris-Salzburg 2014/15 Métiers d’art collection to be shown on December 2nd, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria. This new short film was the perfect opportunity for Karl Lagerfeld to develop an artistic collaboration with Pharrell Williams, a close friend of the House and personal friend of the designer. Pharrell Williams composed and wrote the lyrics to “CC The World,” the original soundtrack for Reincarnation, and he also plays one of the lead roles and will be, along with Cara Delevingne, the face of the upcoming campaign of the Paris-Salzburg 2014/15 Métiers d’art collection. Reincarnation will be screened in Salzburg and on http://chanel.com on December 1st, 2014 the night before the Paris-Salzburg 2014/15 Métiers d’art show. Karl Lagerfeld directs here the Geraldine Chaplin and Pharrell Williams to imagine a new episode from the life of Gabrielle Chanel. Gabrielle Chanel is holidaying in the suburbs of Salzburg in 1954 when she meets at her hotel a young lift-boy whose jacket would later inspire the iconic Chanel jacket
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For the last two years, Andrey Rudenko has been 3D printing a concrete castle in in his yard, layer by layer. Now, his castle is finally finished.
Andrey shared pictures of his process over the past two years to mixed reactions from the 3d printing community. While some may have thought he was headed off the deep end, many were enthralled by his progress and eagerly anticipating each update.
His printer is completely custom built and able to spew out concrete reliably thanks to tons of trial and error. His current settings give him layers that are 10mm tall by 30mm wide. He mixes his own concrete to make sure that it is the exact consistency he needs to avoid clogging his print head.
The printer
This isn’t a 3D printed club house, not just a 3D printed building, but rather an entire 3D printed estate including all the structures and the swimming pool!
The huge project is being printed by D-shape, a large scale printing facility out of Italy. In conjunction with Kushner studios, D-shape is coming over to America and beginning the construction in Gardiner, New York. Typically used for items like chairs and sculptures, a new modified version of the printer will need to be created to accommodate things like pools and buildings.
The D-shape printer, as you can see in the video above, is a powder based printer that uses crushed stone with a binder. It is very much like the Plan B printer we shared earlier, only scaled up to a massive size. There may be some issues when printing a structure as large as a 2,400 square foot home, but the benefits are fairly evident. They don’t have to worry about a nozzle getting clogged up by inconsistent concrete thicknesses as they are only dispensing a binder, which they can control very tightly.
New York state construction permits were issued for a fully 3d printed structure. There are more pictures, including the plans for the estate over at 3Dprint.com.
They’ve already laid their power lines, hopefully they’ll begin printing soon so we can see some updates!
As companies hired Data Scientists, large tech companies such as Microsoft and Google are bringing in the data artists from museums and galleries and putting them to work with developing new visualizations that can help explain their message, promote company awareness, and help out with the marketing efforts.
Converse gave the media, and Sole Collector, a private tour of the Bata Shoe Museum’s “Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture” exhibit, in Toronto.
The Bata Museum houses over 1,000 shoes (from a collection of over 13,000), and not only celebrates style, but also helps to tell human history through footwear. In April of 2013, the museum opened this sneaker exhibit, which showcases shoes as far back as the 19th century, all the way through to today’s culture.
The sneaker collection features brands like Converse, Nike and adidas, as well as the higher end of things, like Christian Louboutin and Lanvin. There are even sketches on display by Tinker Hatfield and Eric Avar.
The Exhibit closed June 1, 2014
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First spotted by Co.Design, the new nail technology uses sensors embedded in gel polish to track our behavior by the touch. It’s the work of Kristina Ortega and Jenny Rodenhouse of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. They believe wearable, purposeful nails could soon be all over the place as standard salons themselves.
Lausanne-based Morphotonix has found a way to etch microstructures into chocolate that refract light to produce holographic images. there is no stickers, no additives, no paint. The holograms work similar to those etched into credit cards, except these are edible. Microscopic patterns are carved into a master mold made from metal. That mold in turn is used to create a plastic mold in which the chocolate is poured. Dark and milk chocolate varieties have been made, but not all chocolate is made the same.
The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own
Rico Baca, auctioneer and co-owner of the West Palm Beach auction house. Baca hopes that attitude and the Lagerfeld signature attracts buyers to a Jan. 11 auction of an archive of sketches for Tiziani designs.
During the 1960s, the Rome-based Tiziani designed movie costumes and clothing for Elizabeth Taylor and other celebrities. It also was one of the European fashion houses where Lagerfeld freelanced, early in his career as a designer.
Tiziani’s founder, Evan Richards, kept Lagerfeld’s designs and sketchbooks together with other work produced for the fashion house in the 1960s, and the archive was maintained by subsequent owners. The sketches might not have survived if they were left in Lagerfeld’s hands. In 2007, as a nearby wastebasket filled with discarded sketches, Lagerfeld told The New Yorker, “I throw everything away!” He added, “The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can! I keep no archives of my own, no sketches, no photos, no clothes—nothing! I am supposed to do, I’m not supposed to remember!”
Baca could not estimate the value of the unique archive as a whole, but bidding on the sketches likely will start at $500 each.“It was not meant to be art, but as 50 years have gone by, it has become art because it was done by Lagerfeld,” Baca said.
Cano Cristales is a unique biological wonder often referred to as “the river of five colors” or “the river that ran away from paradise” and “the world’s most beautiful river”. Greater part of the year, Cano Cristales looks like any other river, but during a brief period of time yearly, it bursts into blossom and turns into the vibrant explosion of colors.
The Richat Structure is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert lying in the west-central Mauritania near Ouadane. This structure is a deeply eroded, slightly elliptical dome, 40-km in diameter. Differential erosion of the resistant layers of quartzite has created these high-relief circular cuestas.
he Wave, Arizona
The Wave is a sandstone rock formation in the United States of America near the Arizona and Utah border on the Coyote Buttes slopes.
Lake Retba or Lac Rose is located in the north of the Cap Vert peninsula of Senegal. It got its name due to the Dunaliella salina algae making its water look like strawberry milk shake. Pink color is clearly visible during the dry season. The lake is also famous for its high salt content, allowing people stay on the surface similar to the Dead Sea experience.
Deadvlei is one more surreal attraction of Sossusvlei, Namibia. It is a clay pan located about 2 km from Sossusvlei. It used to be an oasis with several acacia trees before, but the river that watered the oasis has changed its course.
These waves look like decorations from popular “Ice Age” cartoon. It seems as if they were frozen immediately at the will of a snow Queen. In fact, the waves are the result of melting, not freezing. Melting has created those downward pointing spikes, which are simple icicles
Glen Brittle is a large glen in the south of the Isle of Skye, in Scotland. The magic Fairy Pools you see in the picture run down from the mountains into the glen. The area is extremely popular among hikers and mountain bikers. The marvelous lilac slopes above the Fairy Pools are covered with thick forests full of rare plants and animals and who knows, maybe even elves and fairies have found their refuge in this mystical place
Cano Cristales is a unique biological wonder often referred to as “the river of five colors” or “the river that ran away from paradise” and “the world’s most beautiful river”. Greater part of the year, Cano Cristales looks like any other river, but during a brief period of time yearly, it bursts into blossom and turns into the vibrant explosion of colors.
Grand Prismatic Spring – Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
If you want to see something really magnificent, put Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming into your list. This hot spring is the largest in the United States and the third largest in the world.
This rock soaring in the clouds is called Mount Roraima, the highest mountain of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateau in South America. The mountain includes the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.
REVOLT, www.revolt.tv, is the new #1 name in music. Launching October 21, 2013 in major cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago on Comcast and Time Warner Cable, the multi-platform network is said to the influence of music on art, culture and society, representing news that matters most to the millennial generation.
Presented by Sean “Diddy” Combs, REVOLT is led by an executive team of award-winning, media veterans that include Keith Clinkscales (ESPN, VIBE Magazine), Andy Schuon (Ticketmaster, Warner Brothers, MTV) as well as Val Boreland (Comedy Central, Lifetime Television).
The George Washington Presidential Library opened Friday on his Mount Vernon Estate. The Library will house Washington’s writings and rare books and serve as home to visiting scholars and researchers.
Wang Saen Suk, 90 minutes outside of Bangkok on the way to Pattaya, is a garden full of statues depicting what is supposed to be hell.
Ball’s Pyramid is a sea stack, a great jagged spire rising from the Tasman Sea. Its steep base, roughly 650 feet across, is battered by the rugged sea, making the landing a serious challenge. It is located off the southeast shores of Lord Howe Island, over 400 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia.
The building is located in one of the newly urbanized parts of the seaside city of Batumi, Georgia. It includes fuels station, McDonald’s, recreational spaces and reflective pool.
Fraser Island is considered to be the largest sand island in the world at 1840 km². The total volume of sand above sea level on Fraser Island is directly proportional to the mass of 113 cubic kilometres (27 cubic miles).
The Abu Lawha, the largest Nabataean tomb at the desert archaeological site of Madain Saleh, in Al Ula city, 1043 km (648 miles) northwest of the capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mont Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France. The population of the island is 41, as of 2006. The island has been a strategic point holding fortifications since ancient times, and since the 8th century AD it became the seat of the Saint-Michel monastery, from which it draws the name.
The Rhone is one of the major rivers of Europe, rising in Switzerland and running from there through southeastern France. The river on the left is the Rhone, exiting Lake Lehman. The river on the right is the Arve, which receives water from the many glaciers of the Chamonix valley (mainly the Mer de Glace) before flowing north-west into the Rhone on the west side of Geneva, where its much higher level of silt brings forth a unique contrast between the two rivers.
The Solvay Hut at 4003 m is the highest hut on the Matterhorn. It is a small emergency refuge for about 10 persons situated on a ledge immediately above the Moseley Slab on the Hörnligrat. It is strictly to be used in the event of an emergency. About two thirds up the mountain, 743 m above the Hörnli Hut and 475 m below the summit, many Matterhorn climbers have rested on the small ledge outside the hut admiring the spectacular view of all the Monte Rosa summits.
A moon bridge is a highly arched pedestrian bridge, which in its wooden form may require the walker to initially climb (as one would a ladder) and also when descending. The moon bridge originated from China and was later introduced to Japan and Taiwan.
The San Alfonso del Mar resort, located north of the city, is home to the world’s largest outdoor pool.
Ole Scheeren, a German architect based out of Beijing, China designed a floating movie theater to give viewers a truly unique experience while watching films. By using local lobster fisherman rafts with tires, Scheeren created a floating screen and a separate platform for the audience to sit back, relax and enjoy the show. The screen was placed in front of two beautiful rocks in the archipelago in the Bay of Bengal for a film festival called “Film on the Rocks Yao Noi.” After the film festival concluded, the rafts were given back to the fisherman and life as usual went on in the small villages of the region. It may be brought back for next year’s festival. Scheeren explains his vision for the project:
A screen, nestled somewhere between the rocks with the audience floating and hovering above the sea, somewhere in the middle of this incredible space of the lagoon
Drina River, Tara National Park
House on the Drina River / Kućica na steni
Piano House
This unusual Piano and Violin shaped building built in 2007 serves as showroom for exhibiting the plans for newly created district of Shannan in Huainan City, China.
Vardzia
Vardzia is a cave city that was founded by Queen Tamar in 1185. An earthquake in the 13th century destroyed about two thirds of it and exposed the caves to outside view. Before the earthquake nothing of the city could be seen from the outside, there were merely two entrances, one on each side.
These days a few monks still live there and the caves can be visited. Some of the frescoes are still preserved as is a spring inside the mountain.
The monastery was constructed as protection from the Mongols. and consisted of over six thousand apartments in a thirteen story complex. The city included a church, a throne room, and a complex irrigation system watering terraced farmlands.
Veronica Lane publishes the bestselling What is? series of life concepts books by children’s author Etan Boritzer. Written for ages 6 to 10, his books promote character education, critical thinking skills, emotional intelligence and values.
Parents, teachers and professionals can use the books to engage children in interactive discussions designed to guide them through difficult issues that children may confront at various developmental stages. The book assist them with such universal problems as bullying, self-esteem, grief, conflict resolution and sharing.
“The Day the Crayons Quit” 
Written by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, ages 4-8) When Duncan reaches for his crayons instead he finds a stack of letters with his name on them. He begins to read. “Hey Duncan,” the first letter says. “It’s me, RED Crayon. WE NEED to talk. You make me work harder than any of your other crayons.”
In the note crayoned in red letters, Red Crayon complains about the many fire engines and apples he has to color, and that he even has to work on holidays, drawing Santas and valentines. “I NEED A REST!” he says.
Black crayon is tired of just being used for outlines. Orange and Yellow are arguing about who is the true color of the sun. Blue points out how short and stubby he is after all of those oceans and skies. Pink complains about being underused by Duncan, and Peach feels naked without his wrap and refuses to come out of the box.
Duncan, of course, is concerned. He wants his crayons to be happy. He then comes up with an idea. He draws a picture — with a pink monster, a black beach ball, a green ocean, small blue bus, an orange whale and more. His teacher gives him an A for coloring and an A+ for creativity.
According to a new report just released by ICv2 in Internal Correspondence #82, the comic market in 2012 was the best of the millennium. The North American market for comics, including periodical comics, graphic novels, and digital, totaled $750 million in 2012, up from $665 million in 2011, a 13% increase.
There were dramatic changes in sales of every format. Digital sales nearly tripled, to around $70 million, or around 9% of the total market, from $25 million in 2011. This growth seems to be helping, rather than hurting, the growth in print, as we have been predicting for years.
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2009 |
$370 |
$310 |
$680 |
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$350 |
$295 |
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2011 |
$340 |
$300 |
$640 |
$25 |
$665 |
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2012 |
$335 |
$345 |
$680 |
$70 |
$750 |
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Print sales, at $680 million, were back to 2009 levels, recovering from a tough couple of years after the crash of the world economy in 2008 and the collapse of the Borders bookstore chain in 2011. Unless things change dramatically in the second half of the year, 2013 should see a full recovery of the print market to levels above 2007 and 2008, the top years since 2000.
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on December 22, 2014