Jeremy Fish exhibition at Upper Playground, Fifty24SF-San Francisco

-Couple nice pieces, a lot of black and white inks, some 3d pieces, not my favourite exhibition but a niece one nevertheless. July 14, sep 14 2012

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Damien Hirst at Tate modern london

-I was curious about Mr Hirst exhibition at the Tate ,last month I had the chance to see it, i have to say i was impressed by the size of the exhibition , but the content was not as visually motivating as i expected, nevertheless i found some piece quite inspiring and unique . Here is my favorites : Anatomy of an Angel. MArble

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Incredible machine , the Cane Sugar Juice machine

-Found in India-Pune,during our trip in december , enjoy as we did .

- I went to pune in India to make a design workshop with ISD-DSK and manage to escape couple days and snap thos videos,quick snapshot of what i experienced in india; check it out , some good fun

GRID-IT like you mean it

- Brandon Lynne

and Orange22 came up with this rather Obvious and genius idea in the same time.
a basic organiser for all the goods that end up at the bottom of your bag.
check them out, pretty cool stuff.

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Awesome timelapse video of burning man 2011

- Enjoy as we enjoyed living it.
Burning Man 2011 Tilt Shift Time-lapse by James Cole with additional motion controlled time-lapse by Jason Phipps and Byron Mason. Support by Mark Root, Aaron

Acupainture aka Bowa , body painting ,face painting and graffiti

- We've seen body painting before, I've seen graffiti on bodies too, i just discover and fell in love with this symbiosis that Acupainture aka Bowa is creating between paint and curves , those curves are natural and are feminines but the colorful and violent lines and proportions that Bowa put on those body somehow compliment and create a all new level of beauty.

Those images are full of contrast, they are eye catching but they are also deep and somehow tells story ,I can only imagine that those kind of canvas are not just like a white page or a concrete wall, those ephemeral art pieces are for me some kind of a co-creation, between the model and the painter.

He's experimenting with paint but also with image through the lens of his camera,playing with light , mood , black and white ...

He's been also lately experimenting the mix of bodypainting and lightgraff with
Hide (that we highlighted in the past here on the design llama for a video collaboration with Benjiro) .

check his facebook page for way more pix .

From his own words:
"Après plus d'une dizaine d'années dans la pratique du graffiti...Me
tournant désormais vers la plus éphémère des disciplines,le body
painting.
& je passe dès lors sur le plus beau des "supports" : la Femme.
Je n'ai aucunement la prétention d'être photographe,ni même maquilleur...
Je suis juste un agitateur visuel, qui recherche la symbiose & la mise
en valeurs du corps féminin par la peinture."
AcupAinture aka bOwa

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"after more than 10 years spent doing graffiti ,my main practice is now the most ephemeral one: Body painting.
My support is the most beautifully one, Women's body .
I'm not proclaiming myself a photographer or even a make up artist ..
I am just a visual agitator,that search the symbiosis and try to highlight the women's body through paint.
AcupAinture aka bOwa

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Emily Pilloton ,Studio H and the Teague academy

-Yesterday night was the official re-launch of the TEague academy in Seattle , it was held at the Seattle sculpture park , the designer invited was Emily Pilloton, an awesome architect that started with a project called project H then a year later launched studio H: A real-world experiment in design-based education.
To make it short : a really nice story story about two San francisco architects that decided to move to the poorest county in North Carolina and design a program to help public school kids build themselves a better futur by learning, ideation, welding, creation, critique, team work ...
A really fresh approach and a nice message for us "comfortable designers" . I especially loved her last message which sounded like " if you want to get inspired , copy or redo this program, take my hard drive, i'll give you everything about what i learn, i just don't know if i have what i take to repeat the experience somewhere else , i'm here to stay and you are welcome to follow the movement" brilliant.

Here are some visuals of the chicken coop projects she's just been finishing with her students.
Thanks Tad Toulis for bringing a real design super hero to remind us that design can actually do "real" good things :)

Here is a video of her TED talk


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