August 2011
Vhils @ Walk & Talk Festival 2011
Portuguese born in 1987 and now based in London, Alexandre Farto, also known as Vhils, sculptes, carves and scratches the walls to tattoo them with faces. As the fresco he made during the Walk & Talk Festival (Assores), a gallery of portraits appearing by the liberation of layers and bases of the sides on which they grow. [...]
Siata 208 Spider (1953)
Marketed in 1953, the 208 Spyder is one of the six models of cars created by the Italian firm SIATA. Manufacturer of luxurious mechanical components for FIAT, the company launches a car production after the Second World War before it disappears in 1970.
The SIATA 208 S was available in open and closed versions and 35 examples were distributed. FIAT [...]
El Empleo by Santiago Grasso
Shown in more than 170 International Festivals and rewarded with 93 prizes, “El Empleo” is a 6 minutes animation directed in 2008 by the Argentinian Santiago Grasso, also known as “Bou”. This illustrator and scenarist has so built a short-movie violently silent where, driven to its extreme, the absurdity of the contemporaneous professional sphere reaches all its echo. A [...]
Beach by Hilo Chen
Day after day, the summer is getting to its end. So to preserve some memories, nothing better than the evocation of the warm sand, the tanned skins and the semi-naked bodies. What the Taiwanese Hilo Chen perfectly does. Radiant paintings, his works belong to this contemporaneous hyper-realistic trend that, falling expressing or defending any great idea, represents wonderfully the [...]
Cesar del Valle
Colombian living in Medellin, Cesar del Valle draws with pencils characters in trompe-l’oeil he animates through an interaction with their environment. With a sewing cotton, a pin or a paper cut, he offers them a movement, an attitude to get them out of their representative torpor. By this way, he defies materiality, physics, and responds to his taste for [...]
Oddisee – Rock Creek Park
Released the 23 of August, “Rock Creek Park”, the last Oddisee‘s LP, pursues his artistic train. Inspired by the park of Washington which backed all the chapters of his existence, the producer saw there the opportunity to develop his relationship to time and environment, urban or natural. Are thus mixed en tracks leading us through a world [...]
Blade, the Razer’s gamers laptop
Famous for its mouses and keyboards, Razer has just presented “Blade” its first laptop dedicated to the gamers. A little monster of 48x28x2cm weighting 3kg and integrating a 17′ screen, an ICore7 processor, 8Go DDR3, a 320Go HD and a Nvidia Geforce GT 555M graphic card.
Special feature, instead of a num pad, the engineers of the firm installed a [...]
NEDS by Peter Mullan
Where Vatican had condemn him , critics acclaimed his “Magdalene Sisters”. Ten years later, the Scottish Peter Mullan comes back to direction for “NEDS (Non Educated DelinquentS)”. The film should have historically look to violence as sociological phenomenon. But in front of the complexity of such issue, and to avoid any caricatural speech, Mullan actually opted for a drama [...]
Dj SureShot ft Coultrain – Chair On The Ceiling
Excerpted from the LP “A Good Look” of Dj SureShot, here’s “Chair On The Ceiling”. A soul track featuring Coultrain, the Hawthorne HeadHunter singer. Clip, as the song, elegant and intoxicating, directed by Mike Maniglia. The album “SureShot Symphony Solution – A Good Look” is available on iTunes.
Vhils @ Walk & Talk Festival 2011
Portuguese born in 1987 and now based in London, Alexandre Farto, also known as Vhils, sculptes, carves and scratches the walls to tattoo them with faces. As the fresco he made during the Walk & Talk Festival (Assores), a gallery of portraits appearing by the liberation of layers and bases of the sides on which they grow. [...]
Siata 208 Spider (1953)
Marketed in 1953, the 208 Spyder is one of the six models of cars created by the Italian firm SIATA. Manufacturer of luxurious mechanical components for FIAT, the company launches a car production after the Second World War before it disappears in 1970.
The SIATA 208 S was available in open and closed versions and 35 examples were distributed. FIAT [...]
El Empleo by Santiago Grasso
Shown in more than 170 International Festivals and rewarded with 93 prizes, “El Empleo” is a 6 minutes animation directed in 2008 by the Argentinian Santiago Grasso, also known as “Bou”. This illustrator and scenarist has so built a short-movie violently silent where, driven to its extreme, the absurdity of the contemporaneous professional sphere reaches all its echo. A [...]
Beach by Hilo Chen
Day after day, the summer is getting to its end. So to preserve some memories, nothing better than the evocation of the warm sand, the tanned skins and the semi-naked bodies. What the Taiwanese Hilo Chen perfectly does. Radiant paintings, his works belong to this contemporaneous hyper-realistic trend that, falling expressing or defending any great idea, represents wonderfully the [...]
Cesar del Valle
Colombian living in Medellin, Cesar del Valle draws with pencils characters in trompe-l’oeil he animates through an interaction with their environment. With a sewing cotton, a pin or a paper cut, he offers them a movement, an attitude to get them out of their representative torpor. By this way, he defies materiality, physics, and responds to his taste for [...]
Oddisee – Rock Creek Park
Released the 23 of August, “Rock Creek Park”, the last Oddisee‘s LP, pursues his artistic train. Inspired by the park of Washington which backed all the chapters of his existence, the producer saw there the opportunity to develop his relationship to time and environment, urban or natural. Are thus mixed en tracks leading us through a world [...]
Blade, the Razer’s gamers laptop
Famous for its mouses and keyboards, Razer has just presented “Blade” its first laptop dedicated to the gamers. A little monster of 48x28x2cm weighting 3kg and integrating a 17′ screen, an ICore7 processor, 8Go DDR3, a 320Go HD and a Nvidia Geforce GT 555M graphic card.
Special feature, instead of a num pad, the engineers of the firm installed a [...]
NEDS by Peter Mullan
Where Vatican had condemn him , critics acclaimed his “Magdalene Sisters”. Ten years later, the Scottish Peter Mullan comes back to direction for “NEDS (Non Educated DelinquentS)”. The film should have historically look to violence as sociological phenomenon. But in front of the complexity of such issue, and to avoid any caricatural speech, Mullan actually opted for a drama [...]
Dj SureShot ft Coultrain – Chair On The Ceiling
Excerpted from the LP “A Good Look” of Dj SureShot, here’s “Chair On The Ceiling”. A soul track featuring Coultrain, the Hawthorne HeadHunter singer. Clip, as the song, elegant and intoxicating, directed by Mike Maniglia. The album “SureShot Symphony Solution – A Good Look” is available on iTunes.
