From gravity-defying swim spots set atop skyscrapers to illusive infinity pools, prepare your inner daredevil for a dive and make a splash in one of these unique pools of endless blue…
Have a great weekend, everybody!
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Tags: Holiday, Hotels, Inspiration, Luxury, Swimming Pools, Traveling, Vacation
August 30th, 2013
“ When you become an adult you often have to limit your creativity – I mean, you can still be creative if you are working in a system – but if you do creativity that is only connected to pleasure, then you make big electric trains and you seem to be either a child molester or a big kid. I am a little bit of a big kid. It’s a subject I talk about with Björk a lot. Sometimes she says, “I think it’s time you should move on to something more adult,” and I think she’s right because she is very smart and she’s generally right. But if being adult is becoming cynical or pretentious then I prefer to stay immature.”
The cinematic maverick talks childishness, horror stories, his son and a general dislike for Tarantino movies..
Read the full interview to find out why here.
Tags: Filmmaker, Inspiration, Interview, Michel Gondry, Talk
August 22nd, 2013
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Take a peek into the wonderfully inspiring world of renowned sculptor and artist, Alexander Calder in this rare footage from Herbert Matter’s 1950 film ‘Works of Calder’. “Renowned for his ability to “sculpt with air,” Calder dedicated his seven-decade career to observing the complex nature of movement, pioneering kinetic sculptures, called mobiles, which prefigured the work of a diverse range of contemporary artists.”
Via here.
Tags: Alexander Calder, Art, Inspiration, Mobiles, Sculpture, Works of Calder
July 3rd, 2013
Working religiously and tirelessly behind canvases, brushes and oils during the Cultural Revolution in China is a group of brave artists who quietly banded together during a repressive period. Showcasing their works for the first time in an exhibition titled “Light Before Dawn: Unofficial Chinese Art 1974 to 1985″, the three distinctive schools of artists, each with a distinctive style will display more than 100 paintings and sculptures.. Heroic artisans out there, this will surely pique your interest.
Find out more here.
Tags: Art, Asia Society, China, Cultural Revolution, Culture, Inspiration, Light Before Dawn
June 17th, 2013
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. While a slew of celebrations are lined up across the pond, the English department at the University of Texas decided to commemorate the event by creating a portal that gives us glimpses into the writer’s world.
The website, ‘What Jane Saw’ is an online re-creation of an 1813 exhibit that Austen attended, giving viewers a chance to tour and see the artworks as Jane may have seen them. A retrospective of famed portraitist Joshua Reynolds, the exhibition features portraitures whose subjects range from King George III to actress Sara Siddens and other ‘abnormally interesting’ people..
Take a tour here.
Tags: Art, Exhibition, Inspiration, Jane Austen, Joshua Reynolds, Literature, Retrospective, Virtual Reality
June 3rd, 2013
One of Singapore’s most notable artist and photographer, John Clang debunks talk of him being sentimental, the nature of commercial photography and the delicate balancing of his own art in this candid interview with Esquire magazine.
Having had a solo show earlier this year at the National Museum of Singapore, where he displayed a staggering series of works documenting families and kinship, the man honors his craft with a sensitiveness and integrity that well reminds us of the Heroic Artisan..
Hear it from the man himself here.
Tags: Art, Inspiration, John Clang, People, Photography
May 28th, 2013
“Did you know that before the brunches, gifts and greeting cards, Mother’s Day was a time for mourning women to remember fallen soldiers and work for peace?” Championed by Ann Reeves Jarvis, a wartime activist who fought for better sanitary conditions and attended to wounded soldiers, the holiday was born out of commemorating the death of her own mother. From then on, the second Sunday in May came to be known as Mother’s Day..
For more on its history, read on here.
Tags: History, Inspiration, Mother's Day
May 12th, 2013
An inspiring and ingenious take on architecture and conservation, an old building in Mexico is transformed into a modern-day library with its external glass and concrete structure. Conceived by architects Fernanda Canales and Arquitectura 911sc, and located in the south of Mexico city, in Coyoacán, the ‘Elena Garro Cultural Center’ was previously a two-storey brick and plaster house from the 20th-century. With new life breathed into it, old and new are elegantly melded in a functional and thoughtful manner..
Read more about it here.
Tags: Architecture, Arquitectura 911sc, Design, Elena Garro Cultural Center, Fernanda Canales, Inspiration, Mexico
April 26th, 2013“Things like traumatic stress and anxiety and tension and sorrow and depression and hate and bitter, selfish anger and fear start to lift away. And that’s a huge sense of freedom when that heavy weight of negativity begins to lift. So it’s like gold flowing in from within and garbage going out. The things in life that used to almost kill you, stress you, depress you, make you sad, make you afraid — they have less and less power. It’s like you’re building up a flak jacket of protection. You’re starting to glow with this from within.”
For the stressed-out and ever-busy city man like yourself, we know how hard leading the high-octane urban life can get. It can all be very simple actually. Take a leaf from the books of cinematic great, David Lynch. For just 20 minutes twice a day, try his trademarked practice of Transcendental Meditation, a form of relaxation that involves sitting quietly and saying a mantra to yourself. A contrast from his dark, disturbing films, he reveals that meditation actually helps him be more creative and to come up with better, more visceral stories…
Read about it here.
Tags: David Lynch, Inspiration, Life, Meditation, Personality
April 11th, 2013
” While most of the Western world divides the day into two halves — a.m. and p.m. — Russians tend to think in terms of four quarters: morning, day, evening and night. Typical ways to describe time in Russian include phrases such as ‘I woke up at 7 in the morning’ or ‘I will stop by at 2 in the afternoon’ or ‘Someone was making a lot of noise at 11 at night,” Mr. Chaykin said. Using revolving indicators, the Quartime presents these four time sections, each allowed a six-hour window.”
Introducing Konstantin Chaykin, a self-taught watchmaker who started from selling watches to fixing them, and then reading up on all the sources he could lay his hands on.
“He started, with a confidence based on blissful ignorance, a tourbillon- the complicated mechanism invented by the 18th-century master Abraham-Louis Breguet that remains to this day one of the supreme tests of watchmaking skill.”
Read about it here.
Tags: Art, Craft, Horology, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Timepiece, Tourbillon Watchmaker, Watch
April 11th, 2013