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A Matter of Taste

2010-05-15T00:08:00.007+01:00

Amazing pictures created from natural edible elements, by the Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia for his last book A Matter of Taste. Between gastronomy and haute-couture.

70 Million by Hold your Horses!

2010-05-12T11:42:00.004+01:00

Produced by L'Ogre for Franco-American band Hold your Horses!, 70 Million is a quick and entertaining revision of Art History.

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

Gina Tuzzi's beard!

2010-05-12T11:00:00.011+01:00

Gina Tuzzi's ingredients for a long and colorful beard: acrylic paint, paper and felt.

Cupcake Cannon

2010-04-30T14:04:00.003+01:00

Cupcake Cannon is a short, sweet video by Kamp Grizzly.

Get back in your book

2010-04-29T17:17:00.004+01:00

Lissy Elle, from Canada, claims she takes pictures of anything that will stay still long enough. I'm still wondering how she could shoot this amazing flickr set.

Secret Garden

2010-04-29T11:57:00.012+01:00

I interviewed photographer Amira Fritz for Noknockroom.

"...colourful flowers arrangement, almost too perfect to be true, bloom in the middle of a clearing or behind a bunch of briars. At the end of the forest they seem to multiply, as if their geometric shapes were drawn in by the vertical trunks of the woods.."

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. Barbican Centre, London

2010-03-19T11:52:00.001Z

First solo exhibition for the French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre in London.

His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk-through aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.

Find out more here.

Some pics I shoot in London.

2010-03-19T11:19:00.002Z

1. The Barbican Centre

2. A Southbank Restaurant

3. Architecture of the City

4. Miroslav Balka's "How it is" @ Turbine Gallery, Tate Modern.

Francesca Woodman's exhibitions in Edinburgh

2009-05-03T12:32:00.005+01:00

Francesca Woodman (1958-1981)

Interested in how people relate to space, and how the three dimensional world could be reconciled with the two dimensions of the photograph, Francesca Woodman played complex games of hide-and-seek with her camera.

She depicts herself fading into a flat plane, becoming the wall under the wallpaper, part of the floor, or sealed behind glass, constantly contrasting the fragility and vulnerability of her own body with the strength of the objects around her. Caught in a state of metamorphosis, she is not quite here, nor quite there.

Her body becomes an expressive tool which mingles with the other objects she chooses to photograph; gloves, eels, sheets, mirrors, fireplaces and flowers. Fascinated by limits and boundaries, Woodman's work conjures the precarious moment between adolescence and adulthood; between existence and the ultimate disappearance, death. 

Francesca Woodman's photographies are at the Ingleby Gallery (till 13.6.2009) and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (till 18.11.2009), both based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Start (where fashion meets rock'n'roll), 42-44 Rivington Street, London

2009-03-31T23:36:00.001+01:00

Woodhouse founder Philip Start and his wife (former Fall guitarist Brix Smith-Start) own all three of these Rivington Street flagships, two of which are men’s specialists.

See what you can find online.

Nick Knight photography

2009-03-31T14:01:00.003+01:00

Nick Knight is a british photographer. He is known for his personal, experimental vision, resulting in work that exists outside the conventions of fashion photography.

Knight has won awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, i-D, The Face, W Magazine, Another Magazine, Arena Homme + and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects such as the 2004 edition of the Pirelli Calendar.

He has shot album covers for Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Björk, Boy George, David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, The Style Council, Paul Weller, Gwen Stefani, Seal, ABC and Massive Attack, and has produced Flora (1997), a series of flower pictures.

Flickr Favourites

2009-03-31T01:19:00.001+01:00

Line 1: 1. Dashariabchenko, 2. Francisca Filipa, 3. Noko Mi Koma, 4. Roberto Zotti, 5. Danske, 6. Biorn-Eric.

Line 2: 1. Bjorn-Eric, 2. Emiliebjork, 3. Emiliebjork, 4. kelly♥kaiser, 5. Danske, 6. Danske.

Line 3: 1. Danske, 2. Danske, 3. Eliza Beth, 4. Eliza Beth, 5. ©14'STANDARD, 6. Fleur de Lis.

Line 4: 1. Ta, 2. antufev, 3. Monsieur Oiseau, 4. water&sleep, 5. Lina Scheynius, 6. Roberto Zott i.

Line 5: 1. Marie Ek, 2. Lauren Schmauren, 3. Crystin Moritz, 4. INFINILITE, 5. INFINILITE, 6. Greatestdancer.

Line 6: 1. Toshiya Watanabe, 2. Natasha Klimchuck, 3. Paola_, 4. Ekinakis, 5. Yosigo!!!, 6. Elif Sanem Karakoc.

Laura Laine fashion illustration

2009-03-31T00:55:00.002+01:00

I fell in love with Laura Laine's fashion illustrations.

Tara Donovan

2009-03-30T23:53:00.002+01:00

Some works by Tara Donovan, american artist. She uses everyday manufactured materials (scotch tape, styrfoam cups, drinking straws) to create large scale sculptures.

John Lautner

2009-03-30T23:21:00.002+01:00

The Lighthouse in Glasgow is hosting an exhibition of projects and models by John Lautner, an american architect (1911-1994) who worked in Los Angeles, Hollywood, Acapulco and Anchorage, mostly during the 60s and 70s.

His work tries to correlate man with the environment, and environment itself with nature. His houses are clearly Hollywood-style, and they have often been chosen as a set by fashion photographers, directors and videogames!

They look like spaceships in the desert, don't they?

CameronWebster Architects, the Printworks, Glasgow.

2009-03-30T18:00:00.003+01:00

Today I went with Marian to a lunch in the amazing CameronWebster architects office in Otago Street. It's called the Printworks, my landlord Robin Webster and his partners have designed it, and it looks like this:

Take a look at their website.

Images: Martin Phillimore Photography

2009-03-29T12:40:00.000+01:00

Hello, here are some photo of the lovely House for an art lover, just to finish with Mackintosh!! I visited it last week, but never posted photos so far!

2009-03-14T20:42:00.000Z

Watercolours from Rennie Mackintosh:

2009-03-14T19:47:00.000Z

This morning I woke up early and I went out to the west part of the city to visit the Hunterian Art Gallery and Museum and Mackintosh House.

Here is a photo of a coloured and nice building near the museum, I think it's part of Glasgow University. Isn't it nice?

I went to the Hunterian Art Gallery which has a great Whistler collection plus other artists, included the Glasgow Boys and many other beautiful pictures.

The loveliest thing I've ever seen!! Mackintosh House! Actually, I'm loving Mackintosh so much! I wanted to buy his books of watercolour, but they told me It's gone out of print!! sob!!

Tomorrow I'm going to visit his House for an Art Lover, a house they built after his death, based on his projects.

(I couldn't shot photos, but no one was looking... :)

Hunterian Museum is in another building, inside the Glasgow University Campus. It's a sort of scientific museum, with dinosaurs skeletons, human body parts in formalin, minerals, birds nests, fossils, prehistoric arrows..

...and insects!

That's me in the mirror of the elevator!! ahah!

And that's the amazing Glasgow University!!! I wish I had studied here! (yes! there was the sun!! But a lot of wind as well!)

Princes Square Mall for some shopping. (didn't buy anything for the records)

And finally I deserved a coffee and some black chocolate at Starbucks inside Borders!

Well, that was my saturday! I'll keep posting tomorrow. See you.

2009-03-08T09:58:00.001Z

Well, that's me in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, a beautiful museum near Kelvingrove Park, in quite a lovely area.

This museum contains 8000 items, I visited the ground floor, then I went away, but I'll go back there soon and see Monet, Cèzanne, Van Ghog, Seurat, and many other impressionists on the first floor.

Well, the ground floor is filled with every kind of stuffed animals (elephants, squirrels, phaesants, tigers, monkeys, fishes, insects, kangaroo) and fossils and presents a series of works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, as his famous chair. Guess which is his chair among the four in the picture.

I had the occasion to know many Glasgow artists (called the Glasgow boys), and I particuarly liked two pictures: the first one is called "Caudebec, Normandy" and was made by John Quinton Pringle, and the second is an incredible watercolour by Avril Paton.

2009-03-07T19:48:00.000Z

Then i discovered the Lighthouse, which is the heritage of famous Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Lighthouse is now a centre for art architecture, design and the city (that's the name, I swear!) and it's a very interesting place... design shops and a bookshop, a stairway that brings you up, where you can have a panoramic view of the city... very very nice!!!!

2009-03-07T19:46:00.001Z

At the lighthouse I found three different types of men... dreamer, confused and footballer.

2009-03-06T20:28:00.000Z

Hi everybody! Today I've been with VisitScotland to a little tour of Perthshire.

I had a cup of coffee and a banana muffin at Starbucks, and then me and some representatives from other companies met at George Square.

We have visited a new conference centre at Stirling University, Crieff village (where Ewan McGregor was born and bred), and a fabulous Hotel called Crieff Hydro with swimming pools inside, Spa, golf court, five stars cottages and quads biking paths.

They offered us lunch and then they put us on jeeps through a muddy, rough, precipitous path. We crossed a deep pond. Scary!! And the jeep inclined left to 36 degrees!!!

Then they brought us at Bluesky Experiences where they do funny team building activities. But I was till scared from the jeep, so I chose archery (and I made a very bad score!) while my bravest friends chose an activity called High Ropes. Here are some photos.

2009-03-06T20:11:00.000Z

Hi everybody! Today I've been with VisitScotland to a little tour of Perthshire.

After having a cup of coffee and a banana muffin at Starbucks, me and some representatives from other companies visited a new conference centre at Stirling University, Crieff village (where Ewan McGregor was born and bred), and a fabulous Hotel called Crieff Hydro with swimming pools inside, Spa, golf court, five stars cottages and quads biking paths.

They offered us lunch and then they put us on jeeps through a muddy, rough, precipitous path. We crossed a deep pond. Scary!! And the jeep inclined left to 36 degrees!!!

Then they bring us at Bluesky Experiences where they do funny team building activities. But I was till scared from the jeep, so I chose archery (and I made a very bad score!) while my bravest friends chose an activity called High Ropes. Here are some photos.

2009-03-05T09:26:00.001Z

It's snowing today.. that's what I see from my window, and the last photo is my office. Waiting for Romina's comment. Bye!

2009-03-03T09:26:00.000Z

Well, finally I'm in Glasgow, and this is my lovely house for the next 5 months!!!!

2009-03-02T22:38:00.000Z

That's it! finished!

2009-02-19T12:14:00.000Z

New picture (work-in-progress shot), I'd like to complete it before my departure for Glasgow, where I'll stay for five months. I'm gonna post everything beautiful I see, eat, drink, listen and wear...