Abhishek Jain.
This tumblr is my attempt to post, share, link everything that crosses my path. A mere reflection of thoughts too. Just blabbering!!
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The youngest-ever architect to design a summer pavilion for the Serpentine, Sou Fujimoto plays with the distinction between inside and outside space...
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Smart ideas for Smarter cities
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Chairs by Annie Evelyn
Combining traditional upholstery techniques with unconventional upholstery materials, creating soft surfaces with hard...
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“Sputnik is a series of cultural events in Tallinn, live gigs, performances and art and for last summer’s issue Anton Burmistrov made this super...
Ever since the 1500s, and for hundreds of years after, the only people who used @ were bookkeepers, who used it as a shorthand to show how much they were selling or buying goods for: for example, “3 bottles of wine @ $10 each.”
Since these bookkeepers used @ to deal with money, a certain degree of whimsical fondness for the character developed over time. In Danish, the symbol is known as an “elephant’s trunk a”; the French call it an escargot. It’s a streudel in German, a monkey’s tail in Dutch, and a rose in Istanbul. In Italian, it’s named after a huge amphora of wine, a liquid some Italian bookkeepers have been known to show a fondness for.
Even with such cute names to recommend it, though, @ languished in obscurity for three and a half centuries, only ending up on a new invention called the typewriter when salesmen realized that accountants and bookkeepers were buying them in droves.
In 1971, however, a keyboard with a vestigial @ symbol inherited from its typewriter ancestors found itself hooked up to an ARPANET terminal manned by Ray Tomlinson, who was working on a little program he’d come up with in his goofing-off time to send messages from computer to computer. Tomlinson ended up using the @ symbol as the fulcrum of the lever that ultimately ended up lifting the world into the digital age: email.
Soo Sunny Park: Unwoven Light from Walley Films on Vimeo.
Soo Sunny Park’s installation Unwoven Light animates Rice Gallery’s expansive space, transforming it into a shimmering world of light, shadow, and brilliant color. Suspended from the walls and ceiling, thirty-seven individually sculpted units are arranged as a graceful, twisting flow of abstract form. On view April 11 - August 30, 2013. Original score by Mark Walley. Learn more about the exhibition at RiceGallery.org. Learn more about the filmmakers at WalleyFilms.com.
THIS IS ERIC KOSTON from Desillusion Magazine on Vimeo.
Desillusion magazine, supported by Nike are proud to present their latest video “This is Eric Koston”, a video portrait that pays tribute to the Legendary street skateboarder, Eric Koston.
As one traces the evolution of modern street skating from its earliest foundation to the unbelievable heights to which it has risen, Eric Koston has served as a constant innovator each step of the way. Since turning pro in 1992, Eric Koston has remained unfadeable in a cut-throat contest capacity as well as on the raw street level that prides itself in taking no shorts, all while never seeming to take any of it all that seriously. The wheels are always in motion, even when off his board, as Koston has helped advance innovation in skateboarding through his dedicated approach to footwear design (his creativity has yielded several classic skate shoes already) and by co-founding The Berrics with long-time pal and former roommate, Steve Berra.
After the great success of “This is” a serie of short movie portraying Icon of counter culture like Trevor “Trouble” Andrew (vimeo.com/36407056), Andrew Reynolds (vimeo.com/39201565 ), Ozzie Wright (vimeo.com/desillusion/thisisozzie ), Dylan Rieder vimeo.com/desillusion/thisisdylan), Peter Line ( vimeo.com/desillusion/thisisPeter ), Alex Knost ( vimeo.com/desillusion/thisisAlex ) ; Desillusion Magazine is proud to present THIS IS ERIC KOSTON, a dedication to one of their most influential inspirations in the board culture scene.
The video comes with a full report on Eric Koston on the latest issue of Desillusion magazine available on dslmag.com/v5/shop.php
More info: dslmag.com
Music :
“We (Too) Shall Rest”
by Olafur Arnalds
From the album For
Now I Am Winter
itunes.apple.com/fr/album/for-now-i-am-winter/id603089153“Equilibrium Is Restored”
by Valgeir Sigurðsson
From the album
Ekvílíbríum
itunes.apple.com/fr/album/ekvilibrium/id284606801“Sunporch”
by Walls
from the album
Sunporch
itunes.apple.com/fr/album/sunporch-single/id45698202“The John Wayne”
by Little Green Cars
itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-john-wayne-single/id56569899“So Very Strange”
by Úlfur,
from the album
White Mountain
itunes.apple.com/us/album/white-mountain/id597755420“It’s Not My Fault, I’m Happy”
by Passion Pit
from the album
Gossamer
itunes.apple.com/fr/album/gossamer/id534798874
