Filip Dujardin‘s set of structurally impossible architecture photographs will have you looking at every detail in search of those details that are basically implausible. Working with a set of photos of real buildings in and around Ghent, Belgium, and using digital collaging techniques, the photographer created a mind-dazzling collection of photos entitled “
Fictions“. Filip Dujardin studied history of art at the University of Ghent, specializing in architecture and now works as an independent photographer. His work on this project expresses the intricacy of architecture while pushing the limits of reality well beyond the immediate visual effect. Transforming existing buildings into fictional structures, Filip took out details and added some unusual ones instead.
Hockney's fashion credentials have been undisputed for decades - this is the man, after all, who successfully exported the English dandy aesthetic to Los Angeles - but this week, with the opening of 'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture' in London, the veteran painter has found himself firmly in the style spotlight once again.
Fashion types flocked to the show's preview at the Royal Academy of Arts last week, which celebrates the artist's depiction of the English landscape, finding focus in the Yorkshire wolds of his childhood. Among those paying homage were Jasper Conran and Dame Vivienne Westwood, a close friend who has even named a checked jacket after him. Hockney himself was working the colour blocking trend, with a red knitted tie and a yellow rose in his lapel.
Hockney's depiction of the ever-changing seasons in 'A Bigger Picture' provides a pert parallel with fashion's relentless pursuit of the new - almost as though he is acknowledging his status as 'flavour of the month' in his paintings.
_Funhouse mirrors are mounted on the gabled ends of this playground pavilion in Copenhagen, as well as behind the doors.
Completed by Danish architects MLRP, the Mirror House is a flexible space and restroom used by kindergarten classes. The pavilion is clad in charred timber but its polished steel ends reflect the surrounding playground and trees.
Both convex and concave mirrors are mounted onto the backs of doors, which swing open when the building is in use to create an outdoor hall of mirrors.
When commissioned to outfit the iconic tunnel-like staircase at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Irish artist Bryan McCormack took on a wholly different base material as his launching point: condoms.
Preservation is Life is an installation that spans all six floors of the tubular exterior stairway, lining the tunnels with 80,000 colored condoms pulled over a sea of cylindrical light bulbs. According to
Feel Desain, as visitors ascend the museum, they pulse through waves of color and listen to streaming audio of different frequency heartbeats. The immersive experience is a striking visual essay on materiality, a wonderful site-specific installation, and a bold statement aimed at raising AIDS awareness.
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_Andy Warhol was often blamed for Edie Sedgwick's descent into drug addiction and mental illness. However, before meeting Warhol, Edie had been in mental hospitals twice and came from a family with a history of mental illness. She was only close to Warhol for about a year, from approximately March 1965 to February 1966.
Another fallacy was that Warhol ditched Edie after using her up whereas the truth was that it was Edie's decision to leave the Factory, lured by promises of stardom by Bob Dylan and his manager, leaving Andy feeling slightly betrayed.
_The “FBed” is a design concept by Croatian graphic designer Tomislav Zvonarić that allows you to “always to be up to date and close to your online friends even when you sleep.” The bed comes complete with a built-in Facebook terminal that lets you begin posting status updates as soon as you wake up. Or just before you go to sleep. Or while you’re spending all day in bed because why get up.
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_Kaye Blegvad is an illustrator & designer from London. She graduated from the University of Brighton in 2010 with a
BA (Hons) in Illustration. Since September 2010 she has lived in New York City.
Select clients include The New York TImes Book Review, Lucky Magazine, BUST Magazine, Thinktopia, Topman,
BOMB Magazine, Tiny Showcase, and Amelia's Magazine.
