Thursday, January 7, 2010
Recently, anti-smoking lobbyists have been pushing for any movie that features cigarettes/smoking to be slapped with an automatic R rating. This pains us. The royal We here at Badger & Partners love smoking. The Art Department in particular feels a strong and incessant urge to consume cigarettes. More than the act of smoking, which is [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
When Hendrik Kerstens decided to dedicate himself entirely to photography in 1995, he turned to a model very near at hand – his daughter, Paula. He captured incidents throughout her development, such as her first day with braces or getting a bad sunburn, in an effort to immortalize those memories that make up life but [...]
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Questa is an artist based in Tokyo who conducts live performance paintings using fluorescent paint under blacklight. Excerpts from an interview with Questa earlier this year… Q: Is there a reason you prefer fluorescent paints? Energy is closely related to light, specifically the light that comes from the sun. I want people to get their [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
For the new prefall collection of Chanel: Paris-Shanghai, Karl Lagerfeld wrote & directed a short movie,”Paris-Shangai: A fantasy”, just as he did with last year’s Paris-Moscow collection. In the movie you can spot Freja Beha Erichsen, Heidi Mount & of course, Karl’s fave: Baptiste Giabiconi. – –
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
It is rare to be able to follow the complete evolution of an artist’s ideas, but through the work of prolific sculptor Constantin Brancusi, it is possible to see the evolution of his thought in precise intervals, to follow his idea from its inception, through its intermediary phases into ultimate realization. From the 1920s to [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Maison Hermès in Tokyo commissioned Tokujin Yoshioka to recreate his 2004 installation for their December windows – a video of a woman alternatively blowing air through two scarves. Aside from its inherent aesthetic value, it’s interesting how the product is encapsulated within the performance without being subsumed by it. Often with such large, essentially two-dimensional [...]
Artist Laurent Grasso and architect Pascal Grasso have created a temporary, transportable restaurant to sit atop the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France. The 678 square foot venue is named Nomiya after a small restaurant in Japan. Made entirely of glass, with a perforated metal screen over the central cooking area, the 12 person dining [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Spirits bottle are getting pretty fancy these days but at the top of my list is the cool glass skull by Crystal Head Vodka. Back in October last year, there was buzz about an online video of Aykroyd talking about the Skull. People weren’t sure if it was a joke or some promotion for Indiana Jones. [...]
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Candy cures all, so naturally the Spanish design firm, Marion + Merche Design thought to use pill bottle packaging for a Barcelona candy company. Instead of plastic bags, customers load up their goodies in jars & pill cases labeled with a universal (but bright pink) cross. The result is a clever packaging concept that feels [...]
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Always interesting, always unexpected, always extreme, Alexander McQueen’s Spring 2010 was definitely a spectacle. The show crossed into a whole new digital arena of entertainment as it was live-streamed on Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio.com, intercut with the photographer’s premade video footage. On top of that, 30 minutes before the show, Lady Gaga twittered that McQueen was [...]