July 2009
10 posts
“Cool is”
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Spray And Drip
That Glowing Screen
Conceptually and aesthetically, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Theaters” series is brilliant. Photographing movie theaters across the country, Sugimoto matched each photograph’s exposure time with the film’s projection time, thus capturing an entire film in a single frame. In each image, a glowing white rectangle illuminates an entire theater — an effect Sugimoto himself calls...
An Artificial Storm
“Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete...”
– Raymond Loewy
The Floating Park
Hollywood, As Per Edith Head
Edith Head was a costume designer and eight-time Academy Award winner who dressed Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Marlene Dietrich and Elizabeth Taylor, among many others. She even inspired the folks over at Pixar a few years back. In 1967, Head published a book called How to Dress for Success, full of whimsical drawings.
“I think that these days the really cool girls want to wear men’s clothing.”
– Yolanda Zobel, Vogue, September 2008