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Trinidad-born NYC rapper Theophilus London follows up on the release of his latest single “Rio” with this music video. A chilled out track that features The Menahan Street Band, “Rio” draws on London’s diverse musical influences that include non hip hop genres such as funk and jazz. The self-directed video is hazy and dreamlike, which pairs well with the laid-back groove of the back track.
The Ressence Type 3 Watch is filled with fluid that projects a series of constantly rotating discs, indicating the hour, minutes, seconds, and the date onto the crystal exterior. This futuristic timepiece uses a completely new time of mechanism. Instead of crown the Type 3 watch features a gravitational gear system through which you can adjust the time and date.
Opening in theaters on November 8, Thor: The Dark World continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel’s “Thor” and “Marvel’s The Avengers,” Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos…but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save the world. “So when do we begin?”
The Big Face Woody, made from all natural bamboo, this watch has the all bamboo-characteristic such as lightweight, durability and eco-friendly of course. Apart from its bamboo-feature the watch has a classic look and decent enough to suit with both formal and casual occasions.
The sixth installment of DJ Earworm’s “United State of Pop” series, which mashes up 25 of the year’s biggest pop smashes into one bite-sized single, unveiled its official music video on Tuesday (Dec. 18) after a version of the song hit the web earlier this week. Dubbed “Shine Brighter,” the track focuses on songs by Ke$ha, Rihanna, fun. and Bruno Mars while throwing in dashes of other Hot 100 champs (apparently our pal Earworm is not the biggest Carly Rae Jepsen fan!). The backbone of this year’s “United State of Pop” anthem is Ke$ha’s “Die Young,” which scoops up the momentum set forth by Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven” on the track. There’s a but of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” in there, a heavy dose of Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake” and fun.’s “We Are Young,” some One Direction guitar riffs, and our good friend Flo Rida even gets to drop a verse. Two of the year’s most ubiquitous smashes, Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” and PSY’s “Gangnam Style,” only pop up in split-second form. When asked how much “Call Me Maybe” will be incorporated into the new masterwork by Chicago Magazine, DJ Earworm (real name: Jordan Roseman) admitted, “Very little. She’ll get in there, little bit of “Gangnam Style,” but I feel like other songs are more expressive of what I’m feeling.”
A$AP Rocky has unveiled the tracklisting for his forthcoming new album ‘LongLiveA$AP’, revealing a host of guest stars, including Florence Welch of Florence And The Machine, Drake and Kendrick Lamar. The record will be released on January 15, 2013, and also features appearances from Santigold, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson and Pharrell. However, the record will not feature ‘Ridin” – his collaboration with Lana Del Rey that was pulled from the KickDrums’ recent mixtape.
The New York hip-hop star was originally due to release ‘LongLiveA$AP’ in September of this year but rescheduled the release date to October 31. He then subsequently shelved the release until 2013 after revealing that the mastering of the record was taking longer than expected, due to his refusal to back down over clearing any of the samples used on the LP. Explaining the delay, Rocky said: “The issue with my album is I got things on it that’s so out of this world that it’s taking so long to get mastered. That’s the issue, and I refuse to take anything off. It’s complete, everything is being mastered and cleared right now. Its just so hard to get things cleared, because you got to find people to clear samples.”
The ‘LongLiveA$AP’ tracklisting is:
‘Long Live A$AP’
‘Goldie’
‘PMW’ (All I Really Need) feat. Schoolboy Q
‘LVL’
‘Hell’ feat Santigold
‘Pain OverDoz’
‘Fuckin’ Problems’ feat. Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar
‘Wild For The Night’
’1Train’ feat. Kendrick Lamar, Joey Bada$$, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Big K.R.I.T.
‘Fashion’
‘Phoenix’
‘Suddenly’
‘Pretty Flaco’ (Remix) feat. Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka Flame & Pharrell
‘Ghetto Symphony’ feat. Gunplay & A$AP Ferg
‘Ticket’
‘Like I’m Apart’ feat. Florence Welch
‘Purple Swag’ (Remix)
On first glance, The Passenger restaurant, recently opened in the trendy Malasaña neighborhood’s Triball area in Madrid, Spain, appears like any retro dining establishment with heavy-handed use of leather, brass and dark wood. Yet there is a distinct undertone of a train, of a fine passenger train of a bygone era. The bulky and clubby arm chairs, the iron table legs, the big windows all refer to a time when heads of state and industrialists, often traveling with their wives and servants, occupied entire train cars and dined in the most lavishly appointed dining cars rivaling the best-known fine establishments of the time.
But the real fun aspect of the 150-seat The Passenger — coffee bar by day, rock bar by night – is the illusion of movement. The three “windows” in the main seating area are actually video screens onto which a constant, synchronized stream of video is programmed so that it flows from window to window, creating a feeling of looking out the window of a moving train. The restaurant’s designers at Parolio took their inspiration from the long-and-narrow space and then continued with the train travel concept throughout. Consistent with the classic rock music played at night, the main hall of the restaurant is decorated with images of the greatest stars of classic rock pictured in trains and railway stations.
The Francis Sunglasses feature glossy black surface with the semi-transparent black premium Zeiss lenses and silver toned temples & hinges meticulously engraved with precision. The silver-tone metal undoubtedly gives the original and fresh look every time you wear it.
“Breakn’ a Sweat” is a song by American electronic music producer Skrillex. It is the third track on his fourth EP, Bangarang. It features guest vocal and musical contributions from the American rock band The Doors. It was created for the 2012 documentary film Re:Generation. Musically, “Breakn’ a Sweat” has heavy influences of dubstep, electro house and progressive house. It contains a vocal sample from a 1960s interview with Jim Morrison, while the remaining members of The Doors and Skrillex did the chants. The song received generally positive reviews from music critics, with some highlighting it as the standout track from the EP.
The Sofitel So Bangkok hotel unveiled a new executive lounge designed by legendary French couturier Christian Lacroix. This 30-story hotel is the Sofitel group’s second So design boutique property following the Sofitel So Mauritius. Located on the 25th floor of the 238-room hotel, the Club Signature lounge is dedicated to premium guests staying in ‘So Club’ rooms and higher categories. It also provides check-in, breakfast and tea services, and doubles as a cocktail bar at night. A library corner in the lounge allows for the complimentary use of iPads. Décor-wise, the lounge features extensive images and motifs of old Siam and 19th-century France, as well as a colorful surreal art centerpiece showing images of French dresses and Asian flowers. The interiors of the hotel were designed by Lacroix in collaboration with a team of six Thai architects, drawing inspiration from the Asian philosophical system of the five elements of water, earth, wood, metal and fire. Lacroix, who led the artistic direction of the hotel’s overall design, also created the uniforms of the hotel staff.
Born in Yokohama, Japan, Sayaka explains that, “Japanese Shinto beliefs are such that all objects and organisms have spirits, and objects that are discarded before their time weep at night inside the trash bin… or so they teach children at many preschools.” Whether truth or tale, the image stuck with Sayaka as she moved from country to country. “I had a strong desire to fit in, and to make people and objects surrounding me fit together to create harmony,” she tells. “My goal is for each object to transcend it is origins by being integrated into the form of an animal or some other organism that seems alive and in motion.”
Using possibly the cheapest material around—thrift store plastics that have already been used or trashed—Sayaka Kajita Ganz still manages to make pieces that look priceless.
The “Empty America” series, directed by Ross Ching begins in San Francisco. From the Golden Gate Bridge to Fisherman’s Wharf to Lombard Street to Ghirardelli Square to the Bay Bridge – get a good look at some of San Francisco’s most iconic landmarks (wiped empty of tourists and traffic). It’s a series that was initially inspired by Matt Logue’s photo series “Empty LA”.
Future Releases
October 22nd – Seattle
October 29th – New York City
November 5th – Washington D.C.
Designed by Hat-Trick Design, this typographic chess set is based on chess notation, K for king etc. The forms are based on the typeface Champion (lightweight) by Hoefler Frere Jones. The limited edition of 50 sets are laser cut from 25mm acrylic. The king is 50mm tall, the pawn is 30mm. The board is made from two 2mm pieces of greyboard, and foiled in black. The whole set comes in a foam tray with a greyboard sleeve.
Wallis is British aspirational, premium high street brand. Slogan of this campaign launched in 1998 is “Dressed to Kill” and these images absolutely correspond slogan.
The Ritz-Carlton group will open its first Tunisian hotel in Sidi Bou Saïd (outskirts of Tunis) in 2014. The Ritz-Carlson Tunis Carthage will offer 129 suites, seven restaurants, a vast ballroom and a wellness center featuring a spa. With direct access to the ocean, the new hotel will be located near the famous ruins of Carthage and the presidential palace. Tunis has a rich history evident in its many historical sites including the medina, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, comprising of ancient Islamic architecture including over 700 monuments. The Ritz-Carlton Tunis, Carthage is owned by CompanieTunisienne de Development Touristique (CTDT), a subsidiary of the Driss-Jenayah Group, and a pioneer group in hospitality. The Group owns a portfolio of hotels with more than 6000 rooms.
Elegance, minimalism, form-and-function is what first comes when people saw Muriel Grateau’s newly minimalized boutique/gallery at 37 Rue de Beaune in Paris. Grateau, the queen of the minimalist table setting and sculptural Art Deco jewelry, has had a shop in Paris since 1992 and this fall’s boutique refurbishment was undertaken in celebration of her two decades here. Displaying her 100 shades of table linen and her subtle, unobtrusive tableware in an all-white setting is not terribly original or imaginative, but it does seem to be perfect for the purpose. Materials such as white mineral resin, stones covered with white powdered paint, white lacquered steel plate and LED lighting were used to create the ethereal 140 square-meter space.
Street style blogs are one of the great online phenomena of the past decade. They have become a core reference tool for fashion houses and designers who monitor them for global inspiration and to learn how trends are being adapted on the street – and all without leaving their desks. Yvan Rodic, the photographer and creative behind the facehunter, gives the reader a window into the edgier side of street style. Rodic delivered many unique moments of inspiration direct from the pavement; the kinds of startling images that eluded many of the other most popular style blogs. His latest venture is a new site, proudly under his own name – Yvan Rodic. Essentially a travel diary, Rodic documents the interesting people he meets in all sorts of places.
Every year, TreeHugger and all the architectural websites troll through theEvolo competition entries, looking for the most imaginative work from young architects with time on their hands. Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder at the creativity and drawing skills. In 2010, they did not pay a lot of attention to Bunker Arquitectura’s proposal for Earthscraper, an upside down pyramid in downtown Mexico City.
It was not a new idea, and it was not the best iteration of it that we had seen. But in two years, it has become a worldwide sensation. Emily Gertz at EcoImagination writes:
Earthscraper has become the architectural equivalent of a shot heard ’round the world. Since first surfacing this past summer on a handful of major design and tech blogs like archdaily.com, thetechnologyreview.com, and gizmag.com, this conceptual design for a 65-story, 82,000-square-foot inverted pyramid underneath Mexico City now commands over a quarter-million stories in diverse publications around the globe.
She spoke with Jeremy Faludi, who had some issues with the concept:
I think it would work much better in a dry area in a northern, colder climate, where solid ground keeps you warm, and the glass top acts as a greenhouse. In a hot climate, putting a building underground removes many ventilation opportunities—and you don’t want all that heat.
They discounted it at the time for some of the same reasons; while most people admired the density, They didn’t think it resolved the environmental issues. Also they remembered an earlier proposal from 2007 that had the same name, Earthscraper. and they thought, from an environmental point of view, was perhaps a bit better resolved:
Sunlight goes into the building through the central hole and a system of autoregulated mirrors induces complementary light into the depths. The circulation of natural air is forced through four suction nozzles that injects renewed air to the “green rings”.
But when it comes to resolving environmental issues, nobody comes close to Matthew Fromboluti, who has designed a skyscraper that seeks not only to hold a veritable society worth of people and uses, but simultaneously heals the scarred landscape of the desert outside of Bisbee, Arizona. His project, titled “Above Below,” proposes the infill of a 900-foot deep and nearly 300-acre wide crater left by the former Lavender Pit Mine with a structure that will hold living and working areas, and green space for farming and recreation.
He’s designed passive systems that work well in hot climates, including evaporative coolers and a solar chimney to create air circulation.
The land carved out by the Lavender Pit Mine is reclaimed by the desert, resembling its condition before the mine took place.
Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames for Pacific Standard Time the birth of the LA art scene. As he drives Inglewood blvd. describing the Los Angeles that he knows, he talks of landmarks like The Forum, Five Torches, Cockatoo Inn, Brolly Hut, and Watts Towers. He refers to the 110 as “Gangsta Highway”. Cube says coming from South Central LA teaches you how to be resourceful. He walks the Eames House perimeter, through the Eames living room, and sitting in the Eames lounge chair. He brings us back to his NWA years when he studied architectural drafting before launching his rap career. One thing he learned that translates is to always have a plan. Cube describes the modern, green and resourceful building design of Charles and Ray Eames. Visionaries of connecting nature and structure. “Who are these people who got a problem with LA? Maybe they mad cuz they don’t live here.”
Gone are the days that bigger is better. Streamlined packaging designs like the flat pack Spline Light are in… for good. The simple yet elegant design of this matt black pendant light helps save on shipping costs and ease up on the environment. With an interesting shape and unique shadow-cast, it don’t look half-bad either.
The German practice Christ Associated Architects have completed ‘house S’, an upgrade to a bungalow constructed in the 1960s by Wilfried Hilger in Weisbaden, Germany. To add space to the single family residence, three separate boxes connected with a channel glass corridor were placed upon the flat cantilevered roof. The arrangement generates open-air terraces with diverse atmospheres including a stone-paved courtyard with a pine tree, a meadow with an apple tree and a wooden planked patio with a magnolia.
A new trail path in China’s Tianmen Mountain National Park offers visitors an unusual experience: the floor and rails of the pathway are composed of glass, offering walkers a vertigo-inducing look at the sheer drops and wilderness below. The walkway spans three feet wide, composed of glass 2.5-inches thick. Measuring approximately 200 feet (61 meters) long, the walkway is raised almost a mile into the air at about 4700 feet
(1430 meters), inviting comparisons to the Grand Canyon ‘Skywalk’ in Arizona, USA. The passage joins the west cliff at the Yunmeng Fairy summit, where Tianmen Mountain and Zhang Jiajie meet. Visitors to the Tianmen Mountain Bridge are requested to wear shoe covers to keep the glass transparent and clean.
It’s just logic that people use things. Some things are consumed, while others are thrown away. The more people, the more stuff. Eventually everything gets to a heinous point, and this planet has reached that point for sure. These photos from locations all over the globe are proof of that.
Wincanton recycling plant in Billingham ,Teeside, checks all the old fridges and washing machines before they are recycled.
Indian local boy wade through the pollution and floating debris left after the immersion of hundreds of idols of Hindu goddess Durga into the River Yamuna in New Delhi, India Monday 02 October 2006. The Hindu Festival of Durga Puja, celebrates the killing of a demon king by the goddess ended today with colorful celebrations all over the country. Every autumn, Bengalis all over the world celebrate her festival which not only represents the victory of good over evil, but is also a celebration of female power.
Chinese migrant workers sort through industrial and household waste at a recycling center in Beijing, China, 22 January 2008. In an attempt to clean up the nation’s air, soil and water China is attempting to improve recycling of household waste as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions and industrial pollution. Environmental degradation has been labeled by government officials a leading obstacle to continued economic growth. China is considering adopting a new environment tax that will force companies to pay in accordance with how much pollution they discharge, reports state media.
An Indian boy searches for coins in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi on April 4, 2008. The national capital is a major culprit in the pollution of the Yamuna, accounting for about 79 per cent of the total waste water that is poured into the river by the major towns along its banks. Despite the Indian government spending millions on trying to clean up the river, most of it going to waste-treatment stations, pollution levels continue to rise.
A file picture dated 11 July 2007 shows a man collecting dead fish in Guanqiao Lake in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province, which died due to the polluted lake water and the sizzling weather in the city. On 22 April 2008, Earth Day is celebrated in many countries to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the earth’s environment.
Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers remove algae from a beach near the Olympic Sailing Centre in the city of Qingdao on July 5, 2008. Olympic sailors are not normally afraid of the water, but athletes and coaches say the pollution at the Olympic sailing course in Qingdao makes them very wary of getting wet. The bright green algae that has choked parts of the Olympic course has drawn an unwelcome spotlight on China’s environmental record and prompted an ongoing cleanup effort by more than 10,000 people, backed by boats, bulldozers and the military.
View of a graffiti of a woman reading a book in the walls surrounding the Mapocho river in Santiago on August 21, 2008. The Mapocho river, at present gravely polluted, is being cleansed through an innovative project which includes a 28,5 km long underground tunnel where the sewage will be re-directed.
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A polluted creek covered with trash in Manila, Philippines on 01 March 2009. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources reported in 2008 that the Philippines hosts 50 major polluted rivers, with a majority of pollutants coming from domestic waste.
Thousands of scrapped taxis are abandoned at a yard in the center of Chongqing city on March 4, 2009. Traffic congestion and pollution have worsened dramatically in Chinese cities as the country’s long-running economic expansion has allowed increasing numbers of consumers to make big-ticket purchases such as cars.
Indian scavengers look for coins and other valuable items from among the offerings of devotees in the Ganges at Varanasi on April 5, 2009. More than 400 million people live along the Ganges River. An estimated 2,000,000 persons ritually bathe daily in the river, which is considered holy by Hindus. In the Hindu religion it is said to flow from the lotus feet of Vishnu (for Vaisnava devotees) or the hair of Shiva (for Saivites). While the Ganges may be considered holy, there are some problems associated with the ecology. It is filled with chemical wastes, sewage and even the remains of human and animal corpses which carry major health risks by either direct bathing in the water (e.g.: Bilharziasis infection), or by drinking (the Fecal-oral route).
A Chinese woman and her child walk along a street during a sandstorm in Lanzhou, north China’s Gansu province on April 23, 2009. Air pollution in China’s cities remains very serious, state media quoted a minister as saying, amid an ongoing battle to clean up the skies in the world’s largest coal-consuming nation.
Kosovo albanians work at an open coal mine near the town of Obilic on April 24, 2009. Air pollution in Pristina has passed all legal norms of environmental pollution regulations. While in the world’s developed countries air pollution is permitted to pass its limits only 18 times during a year, Pristina reaches this limit within three months. Experts at the Institute for Public Health warn that this pollution factor is decreasing people’s life expectancy.
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A worker washing dead fish remains at a Meat and Bone Meal factory in Dhaka. MBM is animal feed manufactured from abattoir waste and animal carcasses. Following the BSE (Mad Cow Disease) crisis, meat and bone meal been illegal as animal feed in Europe since January 1st, 2001. This is not the case in Bangladesh where the practice is still widespread.
Volunteers try to clear a dam which is filled with discarded plastic bottles and other garbage, blocking Vacha Dam, near the town of Krichim on April 25, 2009.
A cow grazing amidst the piles of rubbish in Dhaka. With over 8000 slums, thousands of people work everyday in the polluted environment of Bangladesh’s capital. The city is known to have the 2nd most polluted water supply in the world, contaminated by industrial waste and human excrement. The local authorities in Dhaka do not consider waste disposal a priority and as a result, rubbish accumulates in large piles around the city before it is finally removed.
