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Cut&Paste 2006 LA Entry Deadline
by Letizia Rossi
This coming Friday, 13 October 2006, is the deadline for the Los Angeles leg of the Buff Monster and Giant Robot publisher Eric Nakamura in Los Angeles and Scott Dadich, the creative director of Wired Magazine and Small Stakes founder Jason Munn in San Francisco. For more info and to submit, check out cutandpaste.cc.
Also, for those who have stage fright, Cut&Paste recently announced an Audience Design Contest that will let attendees compete during 10-minute time slots on workstations at the event. Buy your advance tickets here.
Stacks
by Letizia Rossi
A one-night only art show, Stacks features works by 21 emerging artists all working within the same parameter—a cube. Stacked to create a collectively-curated "Exquisite Corpse meets totem poles," the cubes are made from a variety of materials, and range in style from "defiantly poetic to graphically visionary." Though there's no word on the artists yet, works are affordably priced from $50-$500. Curated by Nathan Pickett, check out Stacks at Josée Bienvenu Gallery on Sunday, 15 October 2006. From it's New York debut, the show will then travel to other locations, each stop inspiring a different arrangement of the cubes and creating a new perspective on the work.
Stacks
15 October 2006, 6-9pm
Josée Bienvenu Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011 map
tel. 01 212 206 7990
Aerial Yoga
by Ami Kealoha
Using a soft trapeze, Aerial Yoga combines basic yoga postures with the miracles of gravity. The result is a new practice that encourages proper alignment by strengthening shoulder and core ab muscles and increasing shoulder and spinal flexibility—all without strain or pain. Like partner yoga or any other type of assist, the hammock-like aerial apparatus counteracts the affects of gravity, which is a great way to relieve compression and elongate your spine. Developed by Michelle Dortignac, a dancer and yoga instructor, she's been teaching weekly classes since January 2006 at S.L.A.M. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Other similar programs are popping up elsewhere throughout the country.
Hut Up Flowerpot
by Letizia Rossi
Hut Up Berlin creates one of a kind raw wool creations using traditional felting and blocking methods. The Hut Up Flowerpot is wool container created to fit around a flowerpot, lending a soft feel with an organic stone-like shape. Perfect for creating an ethereal Science of Sleep-influenced cuddly rock garden, the Hut Up Flowerpot is available in three color combinations: chartreuse outside with olive inside, brown outside with red inside, and light grey outside with brown inside. Available from Rose and Radish for $67.
1971 Pierre Cardin Espace Watch Line
by Watchismo
After designing collarless suits for the Beatles in 1963 and Nasa Spacesuits in 1970, Pierre Cardin launched his very brief Espace watch line in 1971. Cardin was an O.G. of the space-age set along with Andre Courrèges, Mary Quant, Rudi Gernreich, and Paco Rabanne, all creating clothing for the future where you'd be accompanied by your best friend and confidant, Barbarella. Made of metal blocks, lucite cubes, layered disks, contouring arcs, smoky crystals, bold stripes or flying saucer-shaped Futuro domes, most are very rare. (Click image for detail.) With many unearthed prototypes and scarce models they're often a challenge to find. Ranging in price from $200-$1000, all are mechanical watches fitted with handwound Jaeger FE-68 movements and many are on display here.
Lost at E Minor Newsletter
by Ami Kealoha
If you've ever noticed a visually arresting Australian photographer, illustrator, or artist on Cool Hunting, chances are it's a contribution from Lost at E Minor, a site and weekly newsletter published by brothers Zolton and Zac Zavos. But, what you see on CH is only a select sampling of the rich finds the two come up with from the smallest continent and beyond. For a highly-recommended dose of some of the best new creative work out there, conveniently delivered every seven days to your inbox, sign up here.
