BEAUTIFUL AGONY

A really inspiring collection from Reem Alasadi. She is from Iraq!, but studied in UK of course... Her collections are truly excuisite and distinctive. Not just beautiful but also eco conscious. (if there is still anybody outhere who things eco is boring, here's the prove of the contrary) The signature on all Reem’s clothes is artisanship - she turns discarded clothes to couture pieces, full of handcrafted details.
 as written on her webpage: 
Ream Alsadi has always been a trailblazer and a pioneer. A mapmaker and a pathfinder. The hallmark of an item by Reem is integrity and originality, she manages to put together the most surprising elements and somehow they always work. Mixing metaphors is Reem’s signature style,...
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She will present her new collection on ECOCHIC FASHION SHOW in Geneva in 2010.
 Included in this collaborative effort will be the launch of a Sustainable Design Exhibition and Competition, and a dramatic EcoChic Fashion Show featuring sustainable and ethical ready-to-wear and eco-couture created by fashion designers from around the globe. 

 

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STEAMPUNK

A few days ago, while I was doing a reasearch about victorian age for the new project I'm preparing, I "discovered"*  steampunk. (*like Christopher Columbus discover America although it has been there for centuries :)   
It's a  a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction. It's like an alternative reality... a mixture of victorian age and the beginning of industrial revolution. Full of unusual machines, tools and extraordinary inventions.There are a lot of references in popular culture to it... so if you like it you shouldn't miss the movie from Jaunet and Caro: The city of Lost children. Full of unusual characters, machines, tools and extraordinary inventions.

with words of others:  
Wacko victorian fantasies.
K.W. Jeter & Michael Berry, 1987
 
Everything Jules Verne could have written.
Everything H.G. Wells should have written.
Everything A. Conan Doyle thought of but never published because it was too fantastic.
Frank Chadwick, 1988

 
 

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DRESSING THE MEAT

Maybe vegeterians are going to eat meat in the future ... without having to sacrifice a life of an animal...

It is scary in a way how technology, in this case nanotechnology, can change the way we percieve the world and chalenges our concentions. Can you imagine that meat can be grown in vitro from a small sample of animal tissue? And we can actually design how it is going to look!

Students of Royall College of art made a project called: Dressing the meat of tomorrow.

The mobile animal MRI [Magnetic Resonance Imaging] unit scours the countryside looking for the most beautiful examples of cows, pigs, chickens and other livestock. Once located, the creature is scanned from head to toe, creating accurate cross-sectional images of its inner organs.

The most interesting and aesthetically pleasing examples of anatomy are used as templates to create moulds for the in-vitro meat .

 

enjoy your meal :)

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DIGITAL WATER

 

IMAGINE A BUILDING MADE OF WATER…

click : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtMzbeMA58I

Carlo Ratti, an Italian architect and engineer, is the creator of   Digital Water Pavilion,

 which was chosen by Time magazine as one of the best invention in 2007 and presented at Expo zaragoza 2008. It is an interactive structure which features liquid curtains for WHICH can be programmed to display images or messages and also sense an approaching object and automatically part to let it through.

The "water walls" that make up the structure consist of a row of closely spaced solenoid valves along a pipe suspended in the air. The valves can be opened and closed, at high frequency, via computer control. This produces a curtain of falling water with gaps at specified locations - a pattern of pixels created from air and water instead of illuminated points on a screen. The entire surface becomes a one-bit-deep digital display that continuously scrolls downward.

The dream of digital architecture to create buildings that are responsive and reconfigurable and can dynamically adjust to people and conditions, came true.

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CALEIDOSCOPIC MAGIC - make your own

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DON'T SCREW IT - WEAR A. CREW

 

ANDREA CREWS

...a collective which federates artists of the French and international cultural scene

with a totaly fresh and inovative approach to sustainable design...

More than a brand: Andrea Crews is a new concept which proposes a federing and equitable model of production , an alternative to the current consumer system . It fits in the world of creation like a space of resistance and freedom.

 I was really inspired by the way they do things: recycling, salvaging, sorting out... they transform tons of second hand discarded clothes into unique,artistic, chic, trendy pieces... 

 

 

collection fall'winter 2010

COOPERATION WITH NIKE - REMODELED AND REINVENTED STOCK CLOTHES 

  

ACTIVISM: RECYCLING WORKSHOP  AT L'INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE BILBAO

 

more from Andrea Crews on http://www.andreacrews.com

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QUEER AS FOLKS

 

 PHOTO PROJECT MADE BY ANDREA CREWS TEAM

...or how the creative approach can transform the forgotten clothes into most up to date, edgy and avantgarde fashion...

Queer as Folks was made in the archives of the Ethnographical Museum of Warsaw. It's a styling project with history clothes from the archives, but worn in a tottaly differen't way as by the rules...meaning that a guy was wearing a wedding hat for a virgin from the north mixed with a hunting belt from the mountain, and labor shoes, etc... is was a free reinterpretaion of the pieces in term of styling.

more on : http://www.andreacrews.com/SPIP/article.php?id_article=142

 

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RAIN ON ME CRAZY DIAMONDS

"Rain installation" by Stacee Kalmanovsky

 Beautiful instalation of  beads on a fishing line under a glass ceiling. As if the time has stopped...

artist statement

Stacee Kalmanovsky's work is rooted in the uncanny, suggestive, and picturesque. Her urge to invent and exaggerate is tempered by a deep dedication to the medium at hand. She believes in the conceptual process itself, from gathering information and sorting through, manipulating, and qualifying the image, to the indisposable skill to achieve the end result. Like in the alchemic process, the raw matter (sulfur = visual information) is transformed, refined, and persuaded into its purest form (gold = art).

See more on http://www.staceekalmanovsky.com

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