check this : clients from hell
Friday, November 20th, 2009turntable clock
Friday, November 20th, 2009
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727 fuselage suite at the hotel costa verde
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Now you can make your next Costa Rican vacation even more unique by staying in the Costa Verde 727 Fuselage Suite ($300-$350/day), a luxuriously appointed, fully refurbished fuselage of a retired Boeing 727. This retired airframe was salvaged from San Jose and transported piece by piece through the jungle where it was reassembled atop a 50-foot pedestal. Featuring a terrace opening up to the edge of the Costa Verde National Park, the interior is furnished with handmade teak furniture from Java, and the walls are linked with teak panelling. Luxury touches include two air conditioned rooms with queen-sized beds, private baths, flat screen televisions, and even a secluded river-rock spiral staircase entrance. This is one plane that won’t cramp your style. While you’re there, don’t forget to have dinner at El Avion, a converted C-123 airplane like the ones used in the Iran Contra affair (really).
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burberry : art of the trench
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Burberry today launches ArtoftheTrench.com – an evolving celebration of the iconic Burberry trench coat. Art of the Trench is a new Burberry digital platform with social networking functionality. The site will be an ongoing project between Burberry and some of the world’s leading image makers, building a living testament to the trench coat with regular collaborations being announced. Burberry will invite site users to submit their own portraits to feature on the site, creating a body of images reflecting personal trench coat style across the globe.
For the launch of the site, Burberry Creative Director Christopher Bailey commissioned a collection of photographs of trench coats wearers taken by photographer Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist. For this first collaboration, Scott has been capturing street portraits of people in Burberry trench coats in London, Milan, New York, Paris, Berlin, Sao Paulo and Venice over the last few months. Visitors to the site will be able to favorite and comment on the portraits and share these over their own existing social networks including Facebook and Twitter.
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british artist ben turnbull
Monday, November 9th, 2009
For this series, artist Ben Turnbull whittled symbols of violence into school desks. The series explores childhood fascination with violence. Born in 1974 and and working out of London, he is a passionate critic of the contemporary American political system, and explains why toys are central to his work: “Force fed on violence, abused by a controlling superpower and blackmailed through patriotism, the public are ultimately as disposable as the toys they once played with.”
Turnbull is fascinated by the global dominance of American culture, and his works unsettling effects result from re-presenting the toys of our innocent youth in symbolic forms that reveal the shocking truths about war, death and guns in the world’s most powerful country. Above all they take a satirical look at the lengths that the country’s political elites go to in order to control and manipulate the way we think, from our first days of play to the last time we cast our vote.
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anamorphism by ninja182
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Graphic design studio Truly Design introduces us to the street art of Ninja182 and his latest project called ‘Anamorphism’ made with contemporary art techniques to create a mind-blowing artwork, which can only be seen in its completeness from a specific angle in the room.
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drake f/ andreena mills : closer to my dreams
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samples goapele’s “closer”. me likey this song a lot.
toofly aka maria castillo : brave souls illuminate
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Upper Playground and Fifty24LA Gallery will be hosting ‘Brave Souls Illuminate’ an exhibition of works by TOOFLY, one of New York City’s most important street artists. TOOFLY, aka Maria Castillo, is one of the overlooked and under-appreciated women street artists active today, and this is a great chance to get an introduction to her work, with old and new pieces on display. Brave Souls Illuminate will open on November 11th, 2009 and close January 4th, 2010.
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shaun white x redbull
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Last year, Shaun White disappeared from the snowboard scene, holding up in the wilds of Colorado training for what would be the biggest winter of his life. This is the story of his year, the private halfpipe and one of the most progressive sessions in history.
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microsoft redesigns msn look and feel
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Earlier tonight, Microsoft unveiled the redesign to its MSN.com web portal. The new look is far more minimalistic than its predecessor, increases its integration with Bing, and adds a social layer to the aging (but still highly popular) Internet gateway. A preview of the new MSN.com can be found here. The best way to explain the new changes to the Microsoft start page is to show you a before and after comparison. First, here’s the before shot, as MSN.com stands today:
and here is the new redesign:
Earlier tonight, Microsoft unveiled the redesign to its MSN.com web portal. The new look is far more minimalistic than its predecessor, increases its integration with Bing, and adds a social layer to the aging (but still highly popular) Internet gateway. A preview of the new MSN.com can be found here.
The best way to explain the new changes to the Microsoft start page is to show you a before and after comparison. First, here’s the before shot, as MSN.com stands today:
And here is the new, redesign MSN:
The new design has far less clutter and far more aesthetic appeal. It focuses on video, importing your social media streams, and localized customization. Even the iconic MSN butterfly got upgraded. It is dramatically different than the current MSN, which is probably why the rollout of this update will be staggered over weeks, not hours. Still, we’re fans of what Microsoft has created. They couldn’t leave it in the form of the cluttered mess it is currently and expect to keep relevant.
MSN.com is still one of the world’s most visited websites in the world (80-100 million U.S. visitors per month alone, according to Compete), so any change to it is huge and could shift the balance of the web in Bing’s (Bing) favor. We’ll have to wait and see what effect, if any, this change has on either MSN or Bing’s traffic numbers.
via mashable