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Legs Are Not Doors is the film for Proenza Schouler’s Spring ’15 collection. Directed by Harley Weir and Jen Brill, it is inspired by Real Sex and Taxicab Confessions. A long list of cool kids including Chloë Sevigny, Liv Tyler, Liya Kebede, Binx Walton, Fei Fei Sun, Laura Love, Olympia Scarry, Raina Hamner, Solveig Almaas, and India Menuez are being candid and sensual, tooking the cllection to the next level.

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An ambient EP released by River Bones under the Kaijū Themes moniker. Each song is set to score the destruction of a city by different Kaijus. 

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Here is my favorite EP of 2014. I can’t get over it.  Distributed by Rubadub Canadian distribution by Dance Distributor (pending payment of Discogs fees)

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Olafur Eliasson's immersive light exhibition "Contact" inhabit the Fondation Louis Vuitton from December 17th 2014 to February 16th 2015.  Photography by Amandine Richard. Biography of the artist found on his website http://olafureliasson.net/ :

Olafur Eliasson’s art is driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self. Eliasson strives to make the concerns of art relevant to society at large. Art, for him, is a crucial means for turning thinking into doing in the world. Eliasson’s diverse works – in sculpture, painting, photography, film, and installations – have been exhibited widely throughout the world. Not limited to the confines of the museum and gallery, his practice engages the broader public sphere through architectural projects and interventions in civic space.

Eliasson was born in 1967. He grew up in Iceland and Denmark and studied, from 1989 to 1995, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1995, he moved to Berlin and founded Studio Olafur Eliasson, which today encompasses some seventy-five craftsmen, specialised technicians, architects, archivists, administrators, programmers, art historians, and cooks. Since the mid-1990s, Eliasson has realised numerous major exhibitions and projects around the world. In 2003, Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale, with The blind pavilion, and, later that year, he installed The weather project at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, London. Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, a survey exhibition organised by SFMOMA in 2007, travelled until 2010 to various venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Innen Stadt Aussen (Inner City Out), at Martin-Gropius-Bau in 2010, involved interventions across Berlin as well as in the museum. Similarly, in 2011, Seu corpo da obra(Your body of work) engaged with three institutions around São Paulo – SESC Pompeia, SESC Belenzinho, and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo – and spread out into the city itself.

Eliasson’s projects in public space include Green river, carried out in various cities between 1998 and 2001, and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, designed together with Kjetil Thorsen. The New York City Waterfalls, commissioned by Public Art Fund, were installed on Manhattan and Brooklyn shorelines during summer 2008. Your rainbow panorama, a 150-metre circular, coloured-glass walkway situated on top of ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Denmark, opened in 2011, and Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, for which Eliasson created the facades in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects was completed that same year. As a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, Eliasson led the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments; 2009–14), a five-year experimental programme in arts education located in the same building as his studio (www.raumexperimente.net). In 2012, Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen founded Little Sun. The social business and global project provides clean, affordable light to communities without access to electricity; encourages sustainable development through sales of the Little Sun solar-powered lamp, designed by Eliasson and Ottesen; and raises global awareness of the need for equal access to energy and light (www.littlesun.com).

Eliasson lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin.

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French luxury maisons write an utopian tale for Comité Colbert’s 60th anniversary. The collaborative work is called DREAMING 2074, A Utopia Created by French Luxury.  

Beginning of the introduction :

"Created in 1954, the Comité Colbert is celebrating

its 60th anniversary in 2014. For this occasion, its

members—78 firms from the French luxury sector and

14 cultural institutions, which have joined together

through common values—wanted to follow the paths

taken by their visionary creators with an incursion into

2074.

Confident in the power of the imagination to model

reality, the Comité Colbert has chosen to dream 2074.

Thus, throughout 2013, it conducted The Utopia Factory

through which each firm first expressed its dream

in the form of a short text, an image and five words.

This material, both rich and inventive, was then shaped

through ten workshops giving rise to a collective utopia

incarnating the overall vision of French luxury. Optimistic,

borne by powerful, shared values, the noventique

luxury utopia, the industry of rêver-vrai, places

the human being at the heart of its dream."

Available, free of charge, at www.dreaming2074.com

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An enormous and completely fascinating collection of 'anti-sartorial' photographs of street life by the Dutch conceptual artist/street photographer  Hans Eijkebloom. His unique anthropological record of contemporary life is displayed in his current project, People of the Twenty-first Century. Using repetition to show difference, the book published by Phaidon represents two decades of street snapshots that show our mankind unified in specific visual themes. 

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Nacho Guzman rend compte du changement d'apparence d'un visage selon la direction de la lumière.

Henri-Georges Clouzot avait tenté le même effet dans son film inachevé «L’Enfer » sur le visage de Romy Schneider en 1964 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IEyt2z1fuNA#at=76

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The Knife - A Cherry On Top Extrait du nouvel album 'Shaking The Habitual' de The Knife, duo suédois d'électro pop créé en 1999 par Karin Dreijer Andersson et Olof Dreijer.

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olololo is an artist book created by Tamarin Norwood in 2012 following a commission by Modern Art Oxford. The book was printed in a signed edition of 150 by Book Works Studio, and was supported by Arts Council England.

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Michel Foucault interviewé à propos de son livre « Les Mots et les Choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines » (1966) par Pierre Dumayet. Source : Archives INA, 1966.

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PALEODICTYON - making of

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Daniel Craig in a drag for the 100th annual International Women's Day

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The cyclist -Visions Directed by Miko Revereza

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Born Free by M.I.A.

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"Versions" by Olivier Laric, via his website.

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