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Berenice Abbott – Changing New York @ Les Douches La Galerie
Next to the retrospective organized by Paris Jeu de Paume, the Douches la Galerie currently, and until May 4, present 15 signed photographs of Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Black and white silvers taken from her project “Changing New York”.
Born American, Berenice Abbott learned photography in Paris during the 20′s next to Man Ray. In 1929, she went [...]
The Unity Sextet (Audio)
The band is young (formed at summer 2011) but the six musicians are experienced. British collective The Unity Sextet released at the beginning its first eponymous album. A session of eclectic jazz, shared among 13 tracks, recorded, arranged and mixed by Lack of Afro. Between lounge and electro with some touches of cuban or latin jazz, their sound joyfully [...]
Ludo – Défense d’Afficher
Ludo is a street artist who appropriates the billboards to paste portraits of hybrid insects, macabre plants and organisms mechanically alive. Representations that curiously reconcile the industrial Man and the nature this one thinks dominate. His approach can essentially be seen on the walls of Paris, even if it often corsses the borders (New York, London,…). It [...]
Cosmopolis by David Cronenberg (Trailer)
Of course, presenting a film still to be released only allows suppositions. Though, Cosmopolis, the new Cronenberg’s, is preceded with good reviews. Taken from the eponymous novel of Don DeLillo, it stars, among others, Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti and Mathieu Amalric. In a futur and seething New York, receiving the president of the United States, Eric [...]
I Resort by A21 Studio System
The I Resort is a therapeutics complex more than attractive. Located in Nha Trang (Vietnam), it has been completed this year following the plans of the A21 Studio System. The traditional Vietnam’s architecture is so associated with the contemporary spatial innovation and offers settings as spectacular as soothing. Natural control of the climate and ventilation, preferential use [...]
Speaker by People People
People People, the sweden behaviorists of design, pretend to anticipate our consumers wishes even before we become aware of them… With that spirit, they focused on our ideal in terms of Audio HQ. And there came out this strange transparent speaker. A cube of glass neutral enough to fit in any interior but, at the same time, [...]
Funkommunity – Dandilion (Clip)
On the occasion of the release of “Dandilion”, their second clip directed by Stringer Bell, little zoom on the new-zealander band Funkommunity. Formed around producer Isaac Aesili and singer Rachel Fraser, the collective proposes an electronized soul sound we’ll be pleased to qualify as nu-soul. Analoged 80′s keyboards, warm basses and rickety rhythms, rocked by the heartening voice [...]
Lita Cabellut
The artwork of Lita Cabellut (Barcelona, 1961) clearly reflects her origins. Spanish, catalan, gipsy. But not only. Trained at Amsterdam’s Rietveld Academy and working in Den Haag, the painter carries all the Dutch tradition. Classical credentials that appear in her portraits. The figure so emerges from dark backgrounds with reduced chromatic ranges that allow, layer [...]
The Shrine by Sigurd Larsen
Thirteen compartments with lock, of different size and form, make “The Shrine”. Oak case, inspired by contemporary urbanism and imagined by the Danish Sigurd Larsen, The Shrine has been designed according to standard sizes and is so able to hold most of the daily objects. Scarves, documents, bottles, discs, jewels, and other goods thus benefit from appropriate [...]
