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Jun 30

A spread from BBC Ice Cream’s Season 7 Look Book…

“ The topic of the exhibition – flexibility – gave me the chance to find again one of these ideas that were still unsolved. this enabled me to create open objects that, like a programme, can be modified, erased and restarted multiple times.

— Fernando Brízio

Billy May’s Torn Lighting is space efficient and intriguing… I want.

» The 10 Commandments of Web Design

“Thou shalt make content king.”

Unofficial music video for Radiohead’s “Nude” by Stefan Ringelschwandtner…

Jun 29

“ My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

— Steven Wright

Photograph by Cristobal Palma of Casa 11 Mujeres (Eleven Women House). The rest of the series can be found on Dezeen.

Designed by Mathias Klotz as a holiday home to accommodate a family with eleven daughters, the house is built on a 45 degree slope. “Eleven Woman” house is a vacation home at Beranda. It stands on a site sloping down to Cachagua beach on the Pacific, 140 kilometers north of Santiago, Chile.

Planned in bare concrete with travertine floors, [the] house adapts to the contours of its site by its extremely compact layout so as to offer splendid views from every room.

The Gay Pride Parade is today. Although the weather is unfortunate, I still see great potential for a rainbow. Just imagine the parallels…

I’m officially obsessed with hybrid animals. My first exposure was the unbelievable product of a female zebra and a male horse - often called a Zorse or Hobra (photo). My most recent is this cross between a Leucistic Indian Peafowl and an Indian Blue Peacock. The result is gorgeous…

Jun 28

“ I see the dopeness in everything, and you just see the wackness.

— Stephanie, The Wackness

WALL-E provides a(n unexpected) reminder of how bleak our future will be if we don’t start taking responsibility for our environment. The video above is of the trash crisis in Naples, Italy earlier this year. A more current article about the issue and its impact can be found here…

Under the ever-expanding list of things that should never be (accidentally) thrown down my apartment building’s trash disposal (because they will never be seen again), we can now safely add “the keys to my apartment”.

Earlier this month, Phillip Lim opened a 5,000 sq. ft. boutique in Los Angeles. From certain angles, with the exception of the (dimensional) wall treatment, it looks almost identical to Comme des Garçons…

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I saw it and it was definitely worth the hype.