BIOPOWER SYSTEMS
Nature is the most amazing thing. By looking at it there is always something we can learn. This is what Bio Power Systems – a company of renewable energy technology based in Sydney, Australia – has cleverly done. Continue...
FROM ANOTHER PLANET
Greek- Italian artist Angelo Plessas has just been awarded the Rhizome commission 2009 at the New Museum, New York. Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Continue...
COMPASSI D'ORO
Torino World Design Capital 2008. Turin, Italy, is where you want to go in 2008 if you love design. This year is rich of events, shows, occasions, and prizes. The most prestigious award is the Compasso d’Oro, well known and desired Continue...
SUMMER MELODRAMA
Meo suo í eyrum vio spilum endalaust – great title isn’t it? – the new album by Icelandic mavericks Sigur Ros is another very long rush of sublimated longing and angst. Where the celestial meets a dark energy somewhere. Continue...
RARE NINA SIMONE
LOVING YOUR SKIN
Is there anything less sexy than a badly shaved man? Not much. But men of all ages don’t worry!
Geo. F. Trumper, Gentlemen Perfumer – a classic London shop– has the remedy. Believing that shaving is an art, and not an instinctive knowledge (in the past gentlemen would be always shaved by someone else) and in order to prevent the discomfort of damaged skin, Trumper has set up a shaving school.
A one-to-one session with a barber where the customer learns how to manage his skin-type and how to perfect his shave.
And if you can’t make it to the shop, you can read their tips to help you, step by step
ETERNAL PIN-UP
After the sophisticated, mysterious divas of the 1930s, in ’40s America a new dream woman emerged.
A generation of ambitious girls decided to reach world domination by turning the girl next door look into the most refined sex symbol ever, gaining unprecedented power and success. Easy, with long legs, sensuous lips and generous breasts, the pin-up became everybody’s (un)attainable girlfriend. Armed with her rosy complexion, she would wear inviting lingerie or bikinis
GREEN CHINA
In the past decades China has grown so much industrially and in population that it is now forced to face the downsides of unsustainable development.
MISTER LONELY
“I don’t know if you know what it’s like to want to be someone else. To not want to look like you look. To hate your own face. All we want is to be better than ourselves. It is easier to see things in others. To see things you admire and try and become that. To own a different face. To dance a different dance. And sing a different song. Let us become who we are not. I think the world is a better place that way.”
