Zarin, Shirin Neshat

Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat, living in New York is known for her work in film, video and photography.
I first saw her work at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark where she showed a world premiere of the major video work 'Women without Men'. On screens now.
The artist has taken her inspiration for 'Women without Men' from a novel from 1989 by the Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur.

Chromaesthesiae

This is an installation made by SOFTlab at the Devotion gallery in New York. Made of laser cut photo glossy ink jet paper. Love the color gradients.
http://softlabnyc.com/
via:todayandtomorrow

McNally Jackson Cafe by Front Studio

There is a little bookstore cafè in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood called McNally Jackson Bookstore, where I used to spend quite a bit of time reading the magazines provided and drinking hot american coffee...Well, I just found out reading the contemporist blog, that New York based Front Studio have completed the design for its renovation...in a really nice way!
http://www.frontstudio.com/

W&W

Tooth­pick Thoughts

One of the first sequences of the 'Objectified' film con­tained a fun fact about Japan­ese tooth­picks. As you may have noticed, one end is dec­o­rated with some grooves. Well, In Japan, break­ing off the tip not only sig­ni­fies that the tooth­pick has been used, it also gives the tooth­pick a small stand to rest on. I have been using these tooth­picks my whole life and never real­ized this fact, Brilliant!!!

Hella Jongerius

Just finished watching Objectified, finally, by Gary Hustwit(director of Helvetica)and thouht of posting the gorgeous work by Dutch designer HELLA JONGERIUS who works with fusing traditional and contemporary influences, high tech and low tech, the industrial and artisanal. Love the way her works show the traces of how they were made,
embracing imperfections and unusual mixtures of materials and techniques.
http://www.jongeriuslab.com/

Hotel Basico

Mexican hotel in the Caribbean coast town of Playa del Carmen made out of a mix of recycled 50's industrial aesthetic and real recycled materials, like the rooftop pools made out of oil tanks and the cabanas made from the back of old trucks. Pretty hip and young.
http://www.hotelbasico.com/