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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Vídeo for Franco-American Band Hold Your Horses directed by L’Ogre I love Gustav Klimt – The Kiss | via: Two Dot Two
Mark Wong, 35, has spent the last three years turning films, including Speed, Pearl Harbour and Top Gun, into 60 second spoofs. The movie buff even built a life-size aeroplane cockpit in his garden for his version of Pearl Harbour. Mr Wong, an accountant, spends up to nine months planning, directing and making each movie with the …
Within the world of fashion photography, Wendy Bevan is an unexpected unique curiosity. Her rich and painterly works of art draw us into a world of ambiguity and uneasy narratives. Perusing her portfolio, one is led through a labyrinth of antique film sets in which dramatic silent performances are taking place, with disconcertingly beautiful femme …
For Lomographers worldwide the Lomo LC-A+ has always been worth its weight in gold. This is why the Lomographic Society International decided to bring the inner values of the Lomo LC-A+ to its outside and created the Lomo LC-A+ Gold. Entirely plated with 24 karat gold and wrapped in smooth leather with croco-stamping, this treasure is limited to …
Graphic designer Tavis Coburn designed the program covers for this year’s BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards. Each one is in a retro-style and features elements from the nominees for the Best Picture Award. Bigger versions of the posters after the jump…
Ji Lee is a corean designer that grew up in Brasil and went to NY for studying. Taday he’s creative director at Google Creative Labs and on his spare times, creates projects like the one above: small scenarios stuck to the ceiling, proposing new perspectives. His portfolio is worth a visit. | Via
Si definisce un “vecchio hipster” Mike Giant, colui che, dopo aver studiato architettura, aver lavorato come disegnatore di grafiche, aver riempito muri con i suoi graffiti e aver aperto un suo negozio di tatuaggi, oggi invade anche lo spazio di gallerie d’ARTE. E già! Adesso è proprio di arte che si parla.Fotografie e carta disegnate …
Sunbeam Poem Projector by Jiyeon Song. The type is formed ( as you can see ) through a complex array of perforations aligned with the passing of the sun. The poem takes about 8hrs to sweep through the full text. Based around the solar calendar, winter and summer display different poems. Extremely clever. Read the detailed description, …
Jake Gyllenhaal is part of a superstar cast for Vampire Weekend‘s new video for ‘Giving Up the Gun,’ which also brings together another fine tennis player, Joe Jonas, as well as Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Lil Jon. The clip is a stylish but decidedly weird dreamlike sequence where Vampire Weekend video muse Jenny plays the …