When It Rains, It Pours Design. Fornasetti Umbrellas & Holders.


If It's Hip, It's Here 20 Mar 2010, 8:00 am CET




I've written about some wonderful Piero Fornasetti products in the past and now here's the latest collection of umbrellas and umbrella stands from the Italian brand.

Fornasetti Umbrellas:







The Fornasetti umbrellas shown above are available here at European Umbrellas.com and are less expensive than the ones shown below from Barneys. Even with the additional 19% VAT and $43.00 to ship to the US, they still come out to less.

Fornasetti Umbrellas at Barney's:





The above umbrellas have long wood handles and each sell for $260.00, available at Barney's.

Fornasetti umbrella holders:



The above Fornasetti umbrella holders and more not shown here, are all available at Unica Home. Prices start at $1,170.00.

Big Fornasetti fan? Then you'll love this:


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Ständigt denne Paul


Herr Alarik 19 Mar 2010, 10:14 pm CET

Två av remixarna från dyrversionen av Paul Wellers kommande platta finns att tanka gratis och om jag fattat rätt lagligt nu. Gå bara in här. Det är Wake Up The Nation (Zinc Remix) och den tidigare omtalade No Tears To Cry (Leo Zero Remix). Jag föredrar den senare som jag för några månader sedan höll på att leta mig blå efter innan jag hittade en ful mp3 rippad från radio. Tack till Jonken för tipset. Jag blev så peppad att jag till slut kopplade datorn till stereon. This is the modern world.

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Album: SHYHEIM – The Lost Generation


Tidskriften POP revisited 19 Mar 2010, 5:16 pm CET

SHYHEIM

The Lost Generation

Noo Trybe/Virgin

Det var väldigt få som lyssnade på klanmedlemmen Shyheims debutsingel, den finfina »On and On« från 1993. Alldeles för få, åtminstone på vår sida av Atlanten. Trots att det inte var The RZA som producerade så lät det som Wu-Tang. På »On and On« fanns redan det där samplade stötblåset som senare dök upp på Method Mans »Bring the Pain« och också en lätt spöklik stämning som påminde om RZA:s album med Gravediggaz som kom ungefär samtidigt. Av alla de riktigt tidiga produktioner som på ett eller annat sätt kan förknippas med Shaolin och Wu-Tang var »On and On« och debutalbumet som följde, »AKA The Rugged Child« och som underligt nog aldrig släpptes i Europa, en av de bästa. Fullt i klass med både Gravediggaz »Nigga Mortiz« och Klanens egna »Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)«.

Shyheim — med efternamnet Franklin — var nyss fyllda sexton när hans album släpptes. Så nu har han alltså precis hunnit fira sin nittonde födelsedag.

När året är slut kommer Shyheim förmodligen att vara mer känd under namnet Dink än som Shyheim. Dink är namnet på den rollfigur — en tonårig tjallare som säljer information till högstbjudande — han spelar i filmen »Original Gangstas«, ett nattsvart drama där alla de största rollerna gått till några av det tidiga sjuttiotalets »Blaxploitation«-legender, som Pam »Foxy Brown« Grier, Ron »Super Fly« O’Neil och Richard »Shaft« Roundtree. Dessutom dyker Shyheim i höst upp i Penny Marshalls »The Preacher’s Wife«, tillsammans med Denzel Washington och Whitney Houston.

På debutalbumet hade Shyheim knappt kommit igenom målbrottet. Och likt Michael Jacksons funkigate inspelningar som purung sångare i Jackson Five lät mötet mellan Shyheims nästan barnsliga röst och knastret, scratchandet och alla de samplingar som inspirerats av DJ:s som Lord Finesse och Pete Rock fullkomligt unikt. GZA:s »Liquid Swords« från i vintras inleds med en liten pojke som över Morricone-inspirerade panflöjter och stämningar berättar en historia om sin pappas strid med Shaolinmunkar i det antika Asien. De första gångerna jag hörde det trodde jag att det var Shyheim som talade, jag trodde ju fortfarande att han lät som vore han tolv. Men det gjorde han ju inte.

Bara ett spår på »The Lost Generation«, »Dear God«, är producerat av The RZA, resten har överlåtits åt yngre förmågor i periferin av 36 Chambers. Dessutom har Shyheim bjudit in polarna från sin posse, The Gladiators, som i framför allt »Five Elements« än en gång visar varför Wu-Tang Clan under de närmaste åren bara kommer att fortsätta växa.

I »What Makes the World Go Round« förklarar körsångarna att det är kring Shaolin som jorden egentligen snurrar. De har förstås alldeles rätt. Även om det egentligen bara är en enda person som är Shaolin: The RZA.

Andres Lokko

Up Close and Personal with a Baby Squirrel Monkey


ZooBorns 19 Mar 2010, 2:45 pm CET

On February 1st, the Edmonton Valley Zoo welcomed a tiny baby squirrel monkey. For the next six to ten weeks, the curious but cautious baby will hitch a ride on its mom's and aunts' backs. Until the baby becomes a bit more independent and starts venturing out on its own, zoo staff cannot be sure whether the little ball of monkey is a boy or girl.

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More info below the fold.

It's all monkeying around with Edmonton Valley Zoo's latest addition, a baby squirrel monkey born at the zoo on February 1.

Proud mother Mia will let the infant ride on her back for the next six to 10 weeks and on the backs of other female monkeys who will step in as aunts. Once the baby becomes more independent, zookeepers will be able to examine the infant to determine its gender.

“We prefer to let mom and baby stay together as they would in the wild. We’re keeping an eye on them both, and baby looks strong and healthy and is growing well,” said Sandy Helliker, head zookeeper.

The as yet unnamed monkey joins its sisters Keisha and Keeley in the Saito Centre at the Edmonton Valley Zoo.

Squirrel Monkeys are native to the forests of Central and South America and the largest monkey group in the world. Squirrel Monkeys are quite agile and are good jumpers. Their diet consists of fruit, nuts, insects, birds, eggs, spiders, seeds and leaves. Their average lifespan is nine to 20 years. Deforestation, hunting, collection for research and pet markets, and mosquito-spraying programs have all had a detrimental effect on these monkeys.

The Edmonton Valley Zoo Squirrel Monkeys are part of the Population Management Program designed to ensure demographic and genetic health in the species. As part of the program, the captive Squirrel Monkey population are closely tracked and animals will be lent out to other zoos to maintain diversity within the species. The baby’s father, Bobby, came to the Edmonton Valley Zoo from Riverview Park and Zoo in Ontario in 2003.

Luck of the Irish for Lowry Park Zoo Visitors


ZooBorns 19 Mar 2010, 1:35 pm CET

Bearing soft brown and white stripes instead of the traditional Irish green, an endangered Grevy’s zebra foal was born on exhibit at approximately 1:45 p.m. wednesday (St. Patrick’s Day) at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo. Zoo animal care staff observed the entire labor and delivery, along with a small crowd of curious guests who lingered in an area near the exhibit for more than an hour to be on-hand for the rare opportunity to see a newborn zebra. The endangered species is named after Jules Grévy, a president of France, who, in the 1880s, was given one by the government of Abyssinia.

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Simon Pestridge From Nike Make Future Advertising Sound Simple


Blog of Ronnestam 19 Mar 2010, 11:18 am CET

Apple, Nike, adidas, Google and so on. It’s always easy to point the wow pointer to these huge brands that have massive amounts of brand fans world wide. But sometimes you’ve just gotta remind people about why these brands often are leading the pack.

I have just gotten of stage in Tallin, Estonia after speaking on the future communication landscape. Right now I’m in a sofa listening to James Matthewson just now quoted Nike and I just have to share that quote cause it’s what it’s all about:

Nike’s point of view on advertising: “We don’t do advertising any more. We just do cool stuff…It sounds a bit wanky, but that’s just the way it is. Advertising is all about achieving awareness, and we no longer need awareness. We need to become part of people’s lives and digital allows us to do that”

Simon Pestridge – Nike UK

And boy do they deliver on that promise. Here’s just one of thousands of projects they do every year to make people join their brand.

Do great stuff and people will follow you. That goes for products, services, support, communication and advertising. It’s a simple as that!

First and never


Seth's Blog 19 Mar 2010, 11:07 am CET

I met a new addition to the family the other day. She was eleven days old.

It was the warmest day of her whole life the day I was there. And she had just eaten her biggest meal ever.

Firsts are fun and exciting and it's neat to keep topping ourselves.

I've also come to grips with the fact that I'm never going to eat tuna ever again, and that I'm never going to be able to easily walk onto a shuttle flight at the last minute and just show up in Boston. Never is a lot harder than first, but I guess you get used to it.

The internet is like Ice 9. It changes what it touches, probably forever. We keep discovering firsts, the biggest viral video ever, the most twitter followers ever, the fastest bestseller ever... And we constantly discover nevers as well. There's never going to be a mass market TV show that rivals the ones that came before. There's never going to be a worldwide brand built by advertising ever again either. And Michael Jackson's record deal is the last one of its kind... And there may never be a job like that job you used to have either.

Revolutions are like that. They invent and destroy and they only go one way. It's like watching a confused person in a revolving door for the first time. They push backwards, try to slow it down, fight the rotation... and then they embrace the process and just walk and it works.

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Model Iris Strubegger Plays Dress Up For Karl Lagerfeld & Harper's Bazaar


If It's Hip, It's Here 19 Mar 2010, 8:01 am CET



above, clockwise from upper left: Iris as Karl, Donatella, Carolina, Vivienne, John, Sonia and Rei, shot by Karl Lagerfeld.

Karl Lagerfeld photographed model Iris Strubegger as a series of famous fashion directors, including himself, for an editorial titled "Designer Double Take" in the March issue of Harper's Bazaar.


above: model Iris Strubegger

The model was superbly styled (hair by Odile Gilbert, make-up by Max DeLorme, fashion styling by Jacob K) and posed in Lagerfeld's own likeness as well as the likenesses of the following.

Below are all the photos without the editorial text

Iris as Donatella Versace:

Iris as John Galliano:

Iris as Carolina Herrera:

Iris as Vivienne Westwood:

Iris as Sonia Rykiel:

Iris as Rei Kawakubo:

Iris as Karl Lagerfeld:


Credits:
Iris Strubegger - Model
Jacob K - Fashion Editor/Stylist
Karl Lagerfeld - Designer/Photographer
Odile Gilbert - Hair Stylist
Max DeLorme - Makeup Artist(images courtesy of Chanel)
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