In November 2009, Julia Chesky, a Parsons’ graduate, launched a series of photographs – together with Art Director Ali Lee – of a New York homeless man. In January 2011, the theme of Vivienne Westwood‘s A/W 2011 collection was “Homeless Chic” – the name is there, but its not quite the same “authentic” look. In [...]
Continue reading Fashion Inspiration from the Homeless Can you believe the following images are of grains of sand? Artist, inventor, and scientist, Dr Gary Greenberg has devoted his life to revealing the secret beauty of nature. Using a high-powered light microscope, Greenberg has magnified grains of sand to 250 times their real size. The result is breathtaking microphotography that reveals each grain [...]
Continue reading Grains of Sand – The Secret Beauty of Nature As I mentioned on a tweet; luxury French fashion brand Hermès has been busy, with a new Paris store, a finger-boarding video, a pop-up scarf store and the ‘Kellydescope‘. Well, last night I had the privilege of being part of Hermes’ initiatives and attended the exclusive cocktail launch of Hermès Silky Net Café in Hong Kong. Said to bring [...]
Continue reading Hermès Silky Net Café Today I came across Wetransfer, a file transfer website that provides users with creative eye candy while they wait for files to download. I like it!! Its a great platform for illustrators, photographers, painters etc to showcase their work, and totally suits the use of creatives. It says its in beta (isn’t everything always?), but [...]
Continue reading Wetransfer Based in Hong Kong, MobArt is “an art gallery with a twist”. Rejecting the limitations of one physical venue, they utilise alternative spaces like restaurants, coffee shops and loungers to curate art shows. By being mobile, MobArt shows can pop up anywhere and everywhere in the city! Last night I had my first MobArt experience [...]
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Thanks for blogging about this Danni:) and for the tag! Hope you enjoyed the exhibition!
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Last night I had the amazing opportunity to attend the official premiere of 4×31 – a collaborative multi-media project by New York fashion designer, Phillip Lim and Hong Kong’s high-end department store, Lane Crawford – held at the equally amazing venue, The Factory in Hong Kong. A series of four short films created by “four [...]
Continue reading 4×3.1 While others are shooting music videos entirely through the use of the iPhone 4, some are still not quite satisfied this function. Jeremy Salvador ‘hacked’ the lens of a (Nikon SLR and Canon EF) digital SLR camera and made it work on the iPhone. The result: the iPhone DSLR, a customized mounting system, in which [...]
Continue reading iPhone DSLR Now consumers can really try before they buy. Total Immersion, (a global leader in augmented reality, whose work I’ve bigged up before), has teamed up with Olympus and ad. agency Mullen to develop a browser-based application, which enables people to explore the Olympus PEN E-PL1 micro camera – the thinnest digital SLR on the market. [...]
Continue reading Olympus’ AR camera Photowalking is “an activity amongst members of photosharing communities. Essentially long jaunts where the point is to take pictures of everything encountered, photowalkers use Web 2.0 sites such as Flickr, Zoomr and Facebook to connect with others, organise walks and share their resulting images”. I wonder whether this would dramatically increase competition in the industry and cause [...]
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You could say the same for internet bloggers saturating the media, or wikipedians reducing the number of high-quality encyclopedic articles.
There will always be a spectrum of low to high quality content, but with the increase of highly collaborative Web 2.0 sites such as Wikipedia and Flickr, there is indeed “power to the people”
Who says professionals make better content than amateurs anyway, the open-source software movement has already proved this!
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