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Category Archives: ART
Bedtime reading thanks to Tsutaya
Tokyo has one of the best book and magazine stores in the world called TSUTAYA in Roppongi Hills. I always do a few trips there when I’m in town and when I was living in Tokyo conveniently picked an apartment almost across the road from it. One of the best magazine selections I’ve ever seen. I popped down there this evening to grab a few magazines and ended up coming out with a pile of everything from fashion, japanese illustrators, interiors, a surf dvd, skateboarding, and hat&cap magazines. Can’t wait to find time to look through them all. The only problem is they weigh a tone, so I’m not sure how I’m going to get these all back Hong Kong yet.
TSUTAYA 6-11-1, Roppongi Hills Roppongi Keyakizaka as Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
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Mansions on the Moon: For Awhile
Mansions on the Moon – For Awhile by Hypetrak
Mansions on the Moon is back with another new audio taste off their debut album Lightyears. Entitled “For Awhile.” Great track! Can’t wait for the album to drop later this year.
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Gaming Character Concept Art
Before any computer game comes to life. Gaming Studios all over the world have artists create these unique monsters and characters. It’s amazing what the imaginations of some artists can come up with.
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FIRE IN THE BLOOD BY NINELLE EFREMOVA
Janelle Fishman was styled by Basia Richard, and had hair and make up done by Adam J Breuchaud. The story is named after Irène Némirovsky’s novel Fire In The Blood.
Ninelle, originally from Minsk, Belarus, began her photography study through photographing details and models for her painting work. Read more about Ninelle’s background here.
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Retro Posters of Airline to Mars
What a great contrast of old retro style artwork for what ‘I hope’ will be the future of air travel. Mars Airlines! The rocket is called MarsUnited and the idea was created by Andy Rohr, a Chicago-based artist, illustrator and graphic designer.
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Tyler, The Creator: Goblin Album
Tyler Okonma, better known by his stage name Tyler, The Creator, is an a rapper, record producer and music video director from LA. He is the leader of the hip hop group OFWGKTA. He gained fame from his single “Yonkers”, which Kanye West called “the video of 2011”. His stuff isn’t for everyone but I dig his style and creativity.
Follow him on twitter – @fucktyler
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Cope2 Bubble Tee
Graffiti artist Cope2 will soon be releasing a graphic T-shirt with his signature bubble. The shirt comes in grey and white.
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ROOK: Beginnings
ROOK Beginnings from Rook Brand on Vimeo.
Love some of these guys graphics on their tees. ROOK is the brainchild of Jonathan Garcia and Joe King.
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The Art of FLIGHT: The Metal Trailer 2
I can’t wait for this to come out in September. The first video ‘That’s It. That’s All’ changed the way I snowboarded. I’m sure from the two trailers that this is one’s going to be even more mind blowing. Track is by Arch Enemy – “Vengeance Is Mine”.
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The World is Where We Live
The world is where we live from WWF on Vimeo.
A fantastic video that makes you realise how close the nature of humans and animal are. Created by WWF.
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Food for thought
This is an area of design I’ve never really thought of, but imagine if you got the opportunity to create your own candy bar. There’s quite a lot of elements that you’d have to consider to it. How big would it be? What ingredients would you use? What shape would it be? How would you package it? What would you name it? It’s an interesting thought and has got me thinking outside the box and an area I’d like to investigate more. Sorry if this has made you hungry.
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Hulk Baby
I stumbled across this fantastic foot high Hulk Baby figurine by Ron English while mountain biking through Hong Kong yesterday. The gallery wasn’t open where it was on display in the window, so I’m going to get back there this week to have a better look at the detail and maybe buy it if it’s not too expensive. Sorry for the ratty photo. I’ll take some better pics when I’m at the gallery again.
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SBTG: We are 138
We are 138 from VITA BREVIS FILMS on Vimeo.
Mark Ong aka SBTG talks about his creative process and the hurdles he has had to overcome growing up in Singapore. He makes some great points in this interview I found inspiring and make me proud to own a pair of his sneaks.
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Photography by Pavel Platonov
Little is known about Pavel Platonov other than he is from eastern Europe. I think his work tells a thousand words of how talented he is.
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The art of design
A key to a good designer is the ability to multi-task. A lot of design work is charged out on ‘billable time’. Meaning each hour we are sitting in front of the computer is time we are working on a job and is allocated to a current project. This may seem straight forward but when you spend the majority of your time concepting and coming up with ideas. Some projects ie. a logo design can come to you in a day. And other times it can take weeks! So time is of the essence. What I try to do is take a brief or project idea and plant that seed in my mind and let it grow. A good example of this is when you start looking a buying a car and you like the colour red. You notice you start to see a lot of red cars on the road. This is the same with ‘brief seeds’. You plant the idea and you start to become aware of visuals that relate to the brief. This way you are always concepting. I have found it very effective for me. I am currently working on two interior design jobs at the moment. One retail the other residential. I decided to leave my computer at home over the weekend and pick up a new pile of interior design books to thumb through.
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NEIGHBORHOOD: 2011 2nd Fall/Winter “GIMME SHELTER” Lookbook
NEIGHBORHOOD has always channeled biker culture through their apparel. This coming fall/winter collection has kept with this look but also be inspired by the late 1960’s and events around the Vietnam war. I love the the grainy styling of photo shoot but I’ll wait to see the products in the flesh before I grab any August 6th.
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VERBAL Named Creative Director for Reebok
Reebok have just announced the news that musician and AMBUSH co-founder VERBAL will become the new creative director at Reebok. VERBAL has always been a dude that pushes fashion since becoming known through Teriyaki Boys and it’s obvious from Reeboks choice of Creative Director that they want to take Reebok to in a new direction. Best of luck to you VERBAL.
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Depth of Speed: Tale of Three Cars
HBTV: Depth of Speed – Tale of Three Cars from HBTV on Vimeo.
I respect anyone that love’s what they do. Whether it’s a hobby or a job or if you’re lucky enough. Both! This is a nice little watch on one mans passion for cars by HBTV.
Depth of Speed was born from a desire of story, travel and a love of anything automotive related. Next year my wife and I will be taking to the streets to uncover and document the greatest stories from the automotive world. From coast-to-coast and from top to bottom, finding the best stories will take the highest priority. Every time I meet someone new or attend an event I’m amazed at the depth, passion and love that the automotive world brings. Depth of Speed is just that – an in-depth look at these stories. There is something about motors and machines, that to an outsider looking in, would make us seem plain crazy.
We have begun the process of outfitting our trusty Scamp trailer to traverse the entire country. Known affectionately as a fiberglass egg, our Scamp will be our home for one year of our lives. At only 13 feet long it will make for a cozy year.
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Clocking off for the day
The days are faster and the nights even longer in Hong Kong. It’s not unusual to finish the average day until around 10pm. That’s what’s great about this city is the fact the city never sleeps so even when you have a late one working there’s still plenty of people out and plenty of restaurants open to eat. My head is swimming at the moment with four major projects on, so it’s nice to finish the day with a great Japanese dinner at SUSHI SASE which specialise in Kaiseki cuisine accompanied by a bottle of sake and a few Sapporos.
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