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Beautiful and Intelligent, Khloe Terae is a Playboy Playmate and Bikini model born on May 7th 1993. Inspired by her mother, Khloe started modelling at the age of sixteen. Being the eldest daughter with 4 younger brothers, Khloe has always considered herself a leader and a role model.
Whether it’s in black and white, or with a little bit of colors, Silvia Grav’s pictures have a glimpse of darkness. A mix between a cold winter afternoon & a depression storm. Here’s a selection of her portraits and other captured instants.
Angelina Ivy is Swedish and Chilean and when she’s not modeling, she’s recording music, creating art or dancing for special events. Spending most of her time at dog beach and practicing her serve at the tennis courts are just a few of her other hobbies. The 32H-22-38 model started with a Pin-Up style modeling background and known for appearances in Lowrider Magazine, Angelina was raised mostly in Southern CA, Ivy has also lived in Miami, Philadelphia, New Jersey and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
29 Can Suirell is a magnificent villa overlooking Port Andratx in Mallorca which was built last summer by PH Mallorca, the Mallorcan division of PH Property Holdings, Cheshire. Curve Interior Design were appointed as interior designers following other successfully completed projects for the client on Mallorca.
Ben Clarke was the lead designer on a project that involved everything from specifying finishes with the developer and the complete design and fit of the beautiful Varenna kitchen to fitted wardrobes and storage, along with the complete specification, supply and installation of all furniture items, window treatments, wall coverings and accessories.
The exterior of the villa is based on traditional Mallorcan design, with stylish outdoor living areas and a stunning infinity pool. The interior is smart and modern with a sophisticated and comfortable feel. The quality of the specification speaks for itself and the sale of the property has recently completed – a delightful conclusion for all involved. Photography by Oliver Mallah.
Sometime post just speak for themselves. These clever and quite bitter illustrations are pretty funny. Check them out.
The EVOS concept car introduces a new design direction for the global car manufacturer ford. Debuting at the 2011 frankfurt motor show, the vehicle is an interpretation of a fastback bodystyle design, featuring four gull-wing doors which open to reveal a four-seat layout. The concept offers a bold red driver’s seat and the vision of unprecedented driver interface. The two rear seat passengers host dedicated touch-screen displays to interact with the vehicle and individually adjustable sports seats. The concept’s technology experience embraces a new generation of driver interaction and awareness, in which the seamless connectivity between the vehicle and the driver’s ‘personal cloud’ of information is the heart of the vision for its capabilities.
With information from the cloud, the vehicle is able to provide the same connected lifestyle the driver experiences at home or the office. The car knows the driver, automatically adapting its handling, steering and engine control to deliver a dynamic driving experience. Drawing from a detailed understanding of the driver’s preferences and habits, the EVOS concept car combines this personal information with additional data from the could, such as the individual’s work schedule and local traffic or weather conditions. This information provides a personalized and seamless sophistication as the driver transitions in and out of the car.
Desana Moses, is quite a remarkable music video vixen, model, and actress. She was born in Europe, and later continued her growth in D.C. She has appeared in several music videos, magazines, and host a number of major events. Her most notable appearance was in the Gucci Mane’s “Burrr” Video feat. Soulja Boy & Yo Gotti. Since her appearance in the modeling business, she has frequently been featured in magazines such as Straight Stuntin’ Magazine, Sweets Magazine and Don Diva Magazine just to name a few. Desana is Caribbean, Black and Dominican.
These beautiful photos were taken by the talented photographer Mariya Maracheva. Sensual art nude, beautiful fashion and beauty photos. These photos speak for themselves.
Surprisingly, not everyone wants to hear our music. When we were pumping our LCD Soundsystem mixtape, others in the office said they couldn’t “concentrate” and they “wished we were fired.” For this, and for many other reasons, headphones are an absolute necessity in our daily lives. It was long before Steve Jobs produced white earbuds and Dr. Dre jumped in the game, however, that people began getting tunes pumped into their ear canal. Here’s basically how it all went down.
1881 – Way before MP3s, dubstep and premium Spotify accounts, headphones had little to do with music at all. Back in the 1880’s, the first headphones (or at least their early ancestors) were used by telephone operators. It was a single earpiece that rested on the user’s shoulder and weighed over 10 pounds (kinda like placing a boombox on your shoulder).
1895 – Thanks to the Electrophone system, in 1895 folks could start rocking out to the sick beats of the local opera house from the comfort of their own home. Subscribers to the pricey service would listen through headphones that looked more like stethoscopes than a modern offerings as very large people produced very big sound on a stage miles away.
1910 – Nathaniel Baldwin began manufacturing the first modern headphones. He crafted them in his kitchen and sold them all to the U.S. Navy. This was the first time a pair of cans resembled something you’d see today. Baldwin never patented them, however, because he was an idiot.
1937 – The DT-48’s from Beyerdynamic became the first dynamic headphones to hit the market. Though it would be a few decades before electrostatic headphones came into play, this was obviously a huge leap forward in the can story. Dynamic headphones are, to this day, the most popular type on the market.
1949 – With design in mind, AKG produced their first pair of headphones, the K120’s. If they were reproduced today, they would sell like hotcakes at Urban Outfitters. This model, and other more popular ones that followed, were enough to make AKG quit the film equipment business and focus just on audio.
1958 – John C. Koss changed the headphone game in a way that would make Dr. Dre jealous. In 1958, Koss created the first stereo headphones (Koss SP-3) and launched an all out assault on awaiting ear canals. Over the next few decades, Koss would come to dominate the headphone industry, and he would do it all without the need for a pesky college education.
1959 – At a show in Tokyo, Stax debuted the world’s first ever electrostatic pair of headphones. The SR-1’s would go into production a year later. They are now extremely rare like an original pair of Nike Air Mag’s or a headphone user without hearing loss.
1968 – A decade after introducing the first stereo headphones, Koss unleashed the first US made electrostatic model. The ESP-6’s clocked in at around two pounds, meaning they weren’t exactly like putting in a pair of earbuds, but were still a long ways from the massive pieces created less than a century before.
1979 – If you had to pick the most important event in headphone history, you’d be hard-pressed not to choose Sony dropping the Walkman. All of a sudden, headphones had to be portable. Included with the purchase of the first Walkman were Sony’s MDL-3L2 headphones and everything you needed to rock out to London Calling while roller skating in your driveway.
1980’s – For the man who was prone to headphone hair, the 80’s offered the first solutions. Both the earbud and the in-ear headphone made their way onto the scene in the 80’s even though they wouldn’t reach their peak in popularity until one Steven Paul Jobs changed the music game years later.
1997 – If you wanted to keep your hair in check but also hated the fact that earbuds couldn’t isolate sound well, Sony thought you might like a pair of neckband headphones. You didn’t.
2000 – Screaming babies and loud snorers met their match when Bose unveiled their QuietComfort line. Though pilots had been using noise-cancelling technology for decades, now passengers could also get some relief on loud flights (or in front of the TV with a nagging spouse).
2001 – The iPod changed up the whole music universe. It became common to see people with a white cord running from their pocket to their ears multiple times a day. From their inception in 2001 to today, over 300 million iPods have been sold all with the accompanying pair of earbuds.
2008 – Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine joined forces and, along with Monster, created Beats by Dre headphones. Designed with deep bass and great sound quality in mind (this is debatable), the Beats line quickly grabbed a large market share and could be seen on just about every NBA player as they walked from the bus to the locker room.
2012 – Headphones have become as much about style as they are sound quality. This may never have been more relevant than when Lil Wayne wore these $1 million dollar pair of Beats.
Tzviatko Kinchev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and he is an extraordinary, talented young man. He is studing in The National Academy of Arts and also working for Haemimont Games as an 2D artist. Check out his works and how he uses a great colorful palette of warm colors.
Jonathan grew up in a small Pennsylvania town outside of Harrisburg and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has done work for a wide variety of clients in various markets, receiving awards and recognitions from American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, Spectrum Fantasy Art, 3×3 Magazine, and The Art Directors Club. He has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, Illustration as Visual Essay program. Jonathan was recently named a winner in the Art Directors Club Young Guns 2011 competition and was awarded a silver medal by the Society of Illustrators for his poster work with The Bridge Theatre Company.
New York photographer Jonathan Leder just posted some sizzling new black-and-white Polaroids he recently shot of 20-year-old actress/model, Emily Ratajkowski, which since it’s my birthday, I decided to throw up online regardless off the mature nature of the photos.
Just because you can’t do something in real life, doesn’t mean you can’t make it happen with a bit of Photoshopping and some hard work. After all, what has the internet taught us if not that when you can’t achieve something, fake it? And so it goes with levitation. It’s not something most people claim they can do, apart from those flying Buddha types or some yogic masters. Everyone else can only really jump in the air and remain there until gravity tells them otherwise, which isn’t impressing anyone.
But people can levitate, or appear to levitate, in photographs. It’s a bit of a trend, everyone seems to be at it—and you can see why, because it looks great and until we all become Tibetan lamas, this is the closest we’re going to get to seeing people suspended in midair. If you want to give it a go yourself, there are plenty of tutorials floating about the web, just Google and you will be rewarded. But until you do, here’s a selection of some fine examples of levitation photography.
The recently opened Masters Craft ceramic ware boutique in the basement shopping area of Palace Hotel Tokyo is pure proof of what we already know: nobody masters the art of minimalism as well as the Japanese. Everything in this store, including how each individual item is displayed on the shelves and counters, manifests the skill of leaving all else out except what is needed for balance; of not being afraid of empty space, and of allowing every piece to tell its complete visual and tactile story. The 45 square-meter (484 sq.ft.) store was designed by Akemi Katsuno & Takashi Yagi, founders of Kyoto-based Love the Life.
Alex is a native North Carolinian, 23 years old, and has been living in New York for almost five years now. Although she says she misses the mountains, the grit, grime, and glamour of good ol’ NYC is where she wants to be. Alex is a performer (dancer/actor) and is currently freelancing on a few projects in the city. She also work with kids during most days and teach yoga classes a few nights a week. The site Me In My Place certainly knows how to pick them, and whenever my team finds a girl that doesn’t fit the usual mold of this blog, but is still quite appetizing, MIMP seems to do the trick. Where else can you find a dancer/actress who has lingerie-clad pillow fights while the boys in neighboring fraternities try peeking through the windows.
Take a look at some illustrations from Polish artist, Michal Lisowski.
Mondo, the collectible art boutique arm of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, has announced their second Batman print for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. The limited edition variant of this print from world-renowned artist Olly Moss was available at Mondo’s Comic-Con booth.
Anna Williams is a 17 year old self taught photographer from Atlanta, GA. One look through her photo collection and it’s not hard to tell that she has a natural talent for capturing raw, imaginative, photography that captures whatever subject she’s shooting. She says…
“I found my love for photography about a year ago, when I obtained my first camera. I hope to take this passion farther later in life.”
At the age of 17, there’s nowhere but her skill level to go but up, and I hope to be able to check out more of her work later on down the road.
Jasmin Cadavid was born and raised in Miami. Extremely active, ambitious, and flexible, it’s no suprise that this post is among the largest I’ve posted up of any model. Jessica absolutely loves anything to do with sports and fitness, traveling, luxury, animals and nature. Her nationality is an exotic blend of Colombia and the Philippines, and with measurements of 34-25-36, she’s obviously a head turner. She’s been featured in Smooth Girl Magazine, BlackMen Magazine, Lowrider Magazine, Rides Magazine, Mixed Magazine, and ICE Magazine to name a few. As for music video’s, she’s worked with a gambit of different artists including Birdman, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne
Bow Wow, Red Cafe, Omarion, Pitbull, Cam’Ron and Vado.
These are the dizzying pictures of Dubai taken from on top of the tallest skyscrapers in the world by a daredevil Russian teenager. Student Marat Dupri has made it it his mission to scale the highest buildings he can find before dangling precariously over their edges to take his extraordinary shots. The fearless 19-year-old, who only bought his first camera just two years ago, started by sneaking past guards and climbing on to the roofs of Moscow landmarks, before setting his sights even higher – on Dubai’s towering structures.
Mr Dupri then travelled from Russia to Dubai after being enticed by the extravagant high-rise buildings. There, the teenager and his friends enthusiastically climbed the buildings until they had captured these amazing images. The student said:
‘When I’m on the roof I have a feeling that the whole world is by my feet. All my problems and trouble are left somewhere down. The height exhilarates me. It gives me energy and fills with enthusiasm to make new and great shots. I had always been interested in photography and a couple of years ago, I bought my first proper camera. I wanted to try and get the most spectacular pictures I could – pictures like no-one else had taken before. I began by taking pictures from my own roof, but soon I wanted to get bigger and better pictures. So I went with my friend to the top of a 33-storey building. It was about 120 metres high and we went right out to the edge and I started taking pictures. It was such a thrill, we couldn’t wait to do it again. I’ve taken a lot of the photos by sneaking past guards and getting access to structures illegally. But I think the risks are worth it to take such amazing pictures.’
Liu Bolin aka the Invisible Man blends in perfectly with his surroundings. These ‘sculptures’ are part of his new ‘Chargers Series’.
Remedios Simón has designed the Spiro lamp for the Spanish lighting brand LZF. Spiro Lamp is named after its structural design; delicate concentric wood modules, through which light flows. This new way of shaping the Polywood veneer opens new possibilities to incorporate these circular mini structures into various configurations which are readily adaptable for the contract market. The first of these is the handcrafted circular suspension lamp, ideal to bring light and warmth to every room in your home. The variations in colour between the inside and the outside of the lamp and the two combinable diameters can be matched to create countless possibilities which will enhance the designs created by and for architects and designers.
Google streetview is well known, it’s an easy tool to explore unknown area’s etc.. But there are also some weird and accidental captures by Google’s Streetview car. Check out some bizarre Google Streetview findings.
Lindsey Wixson returns for her third season as the face of Mulberry with the label’s fall 2012 campaign, lensed by Tim Walker. The campaign was shot in Surrey’s Blackheath Forest, and plays on the ‘dark fairytales’ theme that Emma Hill introduced back in February. The images feature a Mulberry-clad Lindsey Wixson surrounded by a host of larger-than-life monsters and beasts.
The Cloud House is an addition and renovation to a double-fronted Edwardian house in Fitzroy North. Over the course of close to a century, this house has received several additions and modifications. McBride Charles Ryans work for the house is designed in three parts. This allows for a sequence of distinct and unexpected episodes, with glimpses previewing oncoming spaces and experiences as you move through the home. The street facade has been left to demonstrate the clients respect for the evolution of the character of the area and the modest street alteration belies the extent of the comprehensive internal renovation work. The spaces within the original structure are largely white in color, united by exotic floral hallway carpet. This journey through the space is followed by encountering a disintegrated red-colored box. This is the kitchen, at the heart of the property, which acts as a bridge linking the major spaces.
A cloud-shaped extrusion is the unexpected final space. Following the form of a child-like impression of a cloud it is a playful addition where family and friends can eat and have fun surrounded by the curved form. The new living addition faces due south while allowing controlled north sun into the living area and providing effective cross ventilation. The form of the cloud conforms to setback regulations without appearing obviously determined by them. The extrusion creates a dramatic interior language where walls merge seamlessly with the floor and ceiling. The craftsmanship is remarkable throughout; it has a sense of care one typically associates with the work of a cooper or wheelwright. While the geometry is playful, the extrusion is essentially a contemporary barrel vault. It is our hope that this cloud has a silver lining.
