This is no ordinary summer fling. It was designed by Atelier Oï for Louis Vitton in 2012. This hammock is made by woven leather and gold rivets and will make your bank account(if any) $30,000 lighter.
Who said that the best things in life are free?
The Chinese language has an alphabet of 37 letters and 4 different tones(it was created as a phonetic alphabet that makes up the sound of the character alone) is considered to be one of the most difficult but interesting languages for someone to learn.
A female designer ShaoLan from Taiwan developed Chineasy, an illustrated type that showcases what the chinese symbol means promises to help you learn chinese easier and faster. Her method of learning Chinese uses a number of various static and animated pictograms along with different shapes, forms and colours
that help students attaching meaning to each Chinese letter making it easier to remember it and tag it for future use. If you want to try it out visit Chineasy and start learning chinese right away! [toggle title="source"]Delightful pictograms demystify the Chinese language | Typography | Creative Bloq
Balaji Ponna is a visual artist from India, born in 1980 living and working in Baroda.
Balaji received his B.F.A in Graphics from Andhra University with Gold medal and M.F.A in Graphics from Visva - Bharati University, Santiniketan. He has also been the recipient of H.R.D. National Scholarship for young Artists for 2004-05
Daas is an expat american visual artist living in Japan, his life and experiences in his new home led him to create his most recent series of paintings "The Origami Dream that has been in exhibited in both the U.S. and Japan.
https://vimeo.com/uzrswl/kolorktm The most recent stop on Daas' journey brought him to Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of Sattya Arts Collective's "Kolor Kathmandu"." The project intends to create 75 site-specific murals in Nepal. Visiting artists work alongside local artists and community members to create the murals that will inspire and attract visitors for years to come. Daas and other artists participating in the project are all volunteers. Although
paint and minimal supplies are provided by Sattya, travel expenses and accommodations for 21 days in Nepal were Daas' first challenge. So, he launched a fundraiser online in an effort to help offset the cost. Daas new work is to be shown in May at Cafe Absinthe in Osaka, Japan. For more about Daas and his artwork, visit his website and Kolor Kathmandu project website.
A reading machine made by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D. C. back in 1922.
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Bradly A. Fiske thought that this reading machine was a good way to help readers get rid of their reading eyeglasses offering them a more convenient way to enjoy book reading by making them more compact. Admiral Fiske invention consists of a small machinery, a lorgnette that has mounted a magnifying lens for one eye, a comfort shield for the other eye and a small rack to hold the reading subject. Below I m attaching single page article from the June 1922 issue of Scientific American. Page 407, Volume 126, that describes the Fiske Reading Machine. "The instrument, consisting of a tiny lens and a small roller for operating this eyepiece up and down a vertical column of reading matter, is a means by
which ordinary typewritten copy, when photographically reduced to one-hundredth of the space originally occupied, can be read with quite the facility that the impression of conventional printing type is now revealed to the unaided eye. The device is only six and one-quarter inches long, one and seven-eighths inches wide, one-quarter of an inch thick, and weighs five and one-half ounces." Fiske filled for a US Patent United States Patent that was published back in 1937(No.2080172). In my opinion no other device, neither Kindle nor iPad can replace the feeling that someone has when reading books using his/her hands. There is no better thing than having a wall full of books on your apartment, no digital device can reproduce those feelings and thats a fact.
Chun Hua Catherine Dong is a Chinese born performance artist living and working in Canada. Her current research, “Performance Ethnography: a Method of Inquiry in Research of Visualization,” is supported by Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts and British Columbia Arts Council.
The Double performance by Chun Hua Catherine Dong is a series of gestures made by sixteen females that wear red mouthpieces and white bath towels. Each female is standing in a row next to the other, facing the same direction and repeating every five minutes three still gestures: Standing, Kneeing, and lying on the floor. Artist quote about her artwork: The gestures in the performance are inspired by gargoyle, a legendary stone-carved grotesque with a spout that normally is designed to convey water from a roof. Mouth serves as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of
sound and speech. However, when performers wear the mouthpieces, or when women’s mouth is forced to open, the mouth loses its function. In fact, it silences and disables the women because they are unable to talk when their mouths are widely pulled open. This performance explores another side of the unseen and unspoken—the vulnerability, struggle, shame, and suffering that we are uneasy to share and expose while examining multifaceted struggles of a woman associated with identity, gender, and sexuality in order to reveal the struggle and conflict rooted in oppressed individuals and groups. [toggle title="Performers"] Alida Esmail, Karoline Lebrun Emily…