When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors
Coming in April: First Feature Documentary About The Doors.
Award-winning writer-director Tom DiCillo’s riveting film uncovers historic, previously unseen footage from the illustrious rock quartet and provides new insight into the revolutionary impact of their music and legacy. The film is narrated by Johnny Depp.
“Tom DiCillo’s ‘When You’re Strange‘ is a meticulously crafted, exhilarating ode to one of music’s greatest ensembles, THE DOORS. Watching the hypnotic, hitherto, unreleased footage of Jim, John, Ray and Robby, I felt like I experienced it all through their eyes. Here, Jim has been resurrected to remind us that he is to this very day, one of the most significant frontmen/poets/shaman to ever grace a stage while the band behind him kept the music alive, adding fuel to an already raging ride into history. As a rock n’ roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn’t get any better than this. What an honor to have been involved. I am as proud of this as anything I have ever done.” – Johnny Depp
LA CASA 139. QUESTA VOLTA BRUNORI S.A.S.
Lunedì 22 Marzo, La Casa 139 ospiterà il giovane cantautore italiano Dario Brunori (accompagnato dalla sua band), in esordio con il suo primo album “Vol. Uno”. In attesa della bella stagione, i Brunori S.A.S. ci regalano ballate fresche e scanzonate dove la chitarra acustica accompagna testi ironici e nostalgici. Con lo sguardo al passato (e di qui il piccolo Dario in copertina) la band ci proietta nella nuova musica melodica italiana.
Das rote Paket
Das rote Paket presents elegant and timeless furniture in small editions, designed by ambitious young architects and designers.
Our pieces are simple, distinct, plain and charming. That is how we would describe ourselves as well. Nice people, interested in design, who rejoice in great materials and shapes.
They also ran a super nice competition on their website asking the readers to create and build a ready-made-light that works with a bulb and was under 40 euro.
Yasuhiro Suzuki: Please watch your step
“Please watch your step” by japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki was one of four public installations organized by the digital public art project at the haneda airport in toyko. suzuki’s floating human shaped balloon was an experiment in getting users to participate in public art. for many, airports can be a place devoid of human emotion with its vast size and long waiting periods. this site intervention hoped to evoke a positive response from by passers and provide an element of humor and surprise to their journey.
‘it’s important for people to experience and participate in public art, but you can’t get everyone in an airport to do so. however, when I think of the sight of people enjoying my work and some of the others, [I feel that] I want a lot of airport visitors to enjoy the art exhibit.‘ – YS
‘Please watch your step’ is part of ‘technology to create digital art’, a research proposal selected by japanese science and technology agency (JST CREST). it is currently being exhibited at the cyber arts japan exhibition, which celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the ars electronica festival in linz, austria. the show will be on display until march 22 at the museum of contemporary art, Tokyo. | Via
Star Wars x adidas Originals
Star Wars and adidas Orignals have coalesced to provide a fleet of heat for your feet in the new year of 2010. The extensive Star Wars x adidas Originals Collection is categorized into three different packs: the Characters Pack, the Vehicles Pack, and the Direct Pack. Both parties draw upon their renowned imagery-characters and starships for Star Wars and grizzled silhouettes for adidas Originals-to create pairs with flair. A few of the aforementioned characters and vehicles include the TIE Fighter, Darth Vader, and the X-Wing. The adidas Originals silhouettes that serve as the respective canvases are the Nizza Hi, the ZX Runner, and the Samba. An huge selection is available @ SuperFlyDeluxe.
Keep your eyes on the road – The Lone Wolf single
“The Devil and I” will be the name of the album by Paul Marshall under the new name of Lone Wolf, a debut powered by Bella Union. This is the video realised for the launch of the first single “Keep your eyes on the road” thanks to the collaboration of Ashely Dean, the popular animator of the Broken Pixel methods. It wants to be an homage to Peter Gabriel’s video “Sledgehammer” (1986) that has been considered the best animated video into music history until now. Good sounds, great video! We are waiting for the complete L0ne Wolf’s album!
RearViewMirror magazine
Photo © Justin Jin | courtesy of RVM
One hundred pages, 16 x 24 cm in size, a cover encompassing front-to- back the magazine within the horizon of a single click: RearViewMirror – published by Postcart – is a new quarterly magazine dedicated to documentary photography. In the bulls’ eye of its target, RVM puts photojournalistic reportage, explored, even beyond traditional codes, with various approaches: hardly reassuring, more unexpected (and less prone to mainstream publishing specifications), provided it remains faithful to the magazine’s declared vocation of telling stories. Photography is a language, an exercise in selecting one’s own point of view, a criterion of knowledge of the world we live in, an access key to its surprising places, unfamiliar lives and untraveled roads
Starting from the cover, RVM follows a storytelling thread: choosing a shot which, all by itself, makes up a story. But is also a door ajar on a broader photographic work which will not dwell in RVM printed pages, but will lead readers directly to the website www.rearviewmirror.it, an extension of the magazine’s structure offering a wider field of view.
Photography on Board is a photography workshop on a ship with two renowned photographers (Massimo Berruti and Massimo Sciacca, both winners of the World Press Photo) organized by RVM. May 15-16-17-18 , Rome-Barcelona-Rome, making practice and theoretical lessons. More informations here.
Photo © Justin Maxon | courtesy of RVM
The new burlesque
Vintage, elegance and ironic eroticism, that’s burlesque! From the great icon and most popular pin up Betty Page, during the mid century, to Dita Von Teese during these days. The italian photographer Cesare Cicardini celebrates the burlesque myth with a free exhibition in Milan at Mc2Gallery Contemporary art (from tuesday to friday, 10 – 13 and 15 – 19) until 13/03 . The new burlesque atmoshpere is available now.
Sorapot
Sorapot is an another piece of design from an idea by Joey Roth, who Polkadot already featured with his Ceramic speakers. Sorapot is a simple, modern teapot. Its architectural shape and simple functionality bring tea’s quiet beauty into sharp focus. Made from 304 stainless steel, borosilicate glass (Pyrex), and food-grade silicone, it articulates the ritual of tea making in a thoroughly modern way.
Sorapot’s vaulting arch and curved geometry belie its industrial toughness. Made from investment-cast stainless steel, borosilicate glass (Pyrex), and food-grade silicone, your Sorapot will only look better as you use it. My dream is to find a well-loved, well-used Sorapot in an antique shop fifty years from now, and I designed with this image constantly on my mind.
Politica & design?
Solitamente su Polkadot non affrontiamo mai argomenti di natura politica, anche se gli accadimenti degli ultimi mesi nel nostro paese e l’annullamento quasi totale di una sana informazione ci amareggiano molto. Non vogliamo nascondere le nostre idee politiche ma neanche metterle al centro delle nostre scelte di contenuti, salvo eccezioni interessanti. E la campagna elettorale di Nichi Vendola è di fatto una novità, al di là del contenuto ideologico, in termini di grafica & design e di comunicazione politica più in generale. Da sempre abituati al vecchio e retorico manifesto elettorale, quello con il busto del candidato sulla destra e il solito messaggio di speranza a sinistra (con relativi simboli di partito inseriti in cornice), il movimento di Nichi Vendola abbandona coraggiosamente questo format per adottare un modello unico in Italia, con codici completamente diversi da quelli della propaganda in termini di visual e di messaggio. Colori pastello e riferimenti iconici semplici e diretti per enfatizzare di volta in volta un concetto in modo chiaro e divertente (dove divertente sta per volutamente ironico al fine di evidenziare una problematica). Payoff finale “La poesia è nei fatti“. Una visione nuova all’interno di un sistema di comunicazione obsoleto e stanco che noi ci sentiamo di sostenere e apprezzare. Il progetto è a cura dello studio pugliese di design della comunicazione FF3300.
Eastpak Hokkaido backpacks
Inspired by true street fashion trends, High Times Eastpak bags are contemporary , slick and effortlessly cool. You can rock these bags anywhere. Ergonomically designed and fit into the metropolitan lifestyles that users lead.
Features:
One large, stretched zippered main compartment with front pocket | Two mesh side pockets
Multi-purpose webbing loop on front panel | Comfortable padded back | Thick padded shoulder straps | Tarpaulin reinforced bottom.
The StandART Channel Curated by Creative Time
Curation of hotel room art is not such a new idea, but The Standard Hotel family extends this concept from the walls to the LCDs that occupy each room. “The Standard Hotels and Creative Time are proud to introduce an in-room video art exhibit featuring the work of 10 renowned international video artists, debuting on March 5th at The Standard, New York. The StandART channel, viewable on in-room televisions at all four Standard hotels in New York, Hollywood, Downtown LA, and Miami, is an extension of both companies’ ongoing commitment to presenting innovative art in the public realm.” Features artists include Marilyn Minter, Mika Rottenberg, Neistat Brothers, Lee Walton, and many others. | Via
