Emily Allchurch is a British artist, living and working in London. She creates complex photographic light box images that closely reference old master paintings and prints. Using the original masters as a guide, she carefully reconstructs the scenes by digitally splicing photographs she takes of contemporary architecture and landscape, thus imbuing the work with a modern social context.
Tokyo Story is homage to Hiroshige’s last great work, ‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo’ (1856-58). Transposing his distinctive techniques of abstraction, vivid colouring and composition into photography, Allchurch’s recreations are a record of her own journey around Tokyo, revealing a gentle social narrative for the city today.
Without typical hands or markings, the Gravity watch uses two rings that resemble rotating comets to indicate the time.
The fatter, inner ring marks the hours while the narrower outer ring shows the minutes.
The main theme is minimalism, so there are no distracting elements in the design, and after a short time you will acquire a feel for reading the time.
If you want an uncommon and beautiful clock on your wrist, this is the watch for you! Since March 2010, ZIIIRO has become a brand with the goal of making unique and stylish wrist watches.
A model demonstrates the pair of world’s smallest shoes by Guinness World Record in Hong Kong, south China, Jan. 20, 2011. Thirty-five pairs of mini shoes were displayed in Hong Kong Thursday including the world’s smallest pair that measured 3.8 millimeters long, 1.8 millimeters wide and 2.2 millimeters high.
Beijing artist Huang Xin displays two pieces of works he made out of hair, Jan 22, 2011. It took 6.5 kg of hair and four months for him to complete the sculptures
Yu Kusanagi shows us abundantly beautiful snow. Falling from the clouds, freshly settled on houses, cars and electric poles. The visible onslaught of snow, the sheer quantities and somehow even vigor almost seem threatening, and in truth, they probably are. Yet, what is more peaceful in appearance than a world padded with soft, immaculate white?
The photographs do not let us feel the biting cold that the photographer had to bear when producing these images, even though it is clear that when seeing snow falling it has to be a cold night. The viewers perception might even be a warm and romantic sentiment. When we are looking at these photographs we are not even looking at a single common reality.
Sroop was born and spent her early life in Birmingham. She moved to New Delhi in her teens where her love for Indian street culture and printed ephemera all started. From textile to matchbox labels, hair oil to medicine packaging, it was the haphazard printing quality, striking colour palettes, astute use of typography and amiable pigeon-English, that characterizes the quirky visuals found on every day consumer goods, that now heavily influences her work. Sroop graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2009 where she studied illustration. All of her illustrations are constructed with an awareness to the screen printing process which not only references the texture and quality of mass printed ephemera, but also enhances the finish and authenticity of her illustrations.
This watch was part of The Robert White Collection – the world’s largest privately owned collection relating to JFK’s life and career – which is being auctioned by Guernsey’s in New York from 15 to 17 December 2005. This unique and historic piece was bought for 350’000 USD, the highest bid of the auction’s first day.
50 years ago today, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was wearing this watch when sworn in as the 35th President of the United States. Now you can recapture that moment in time — and the class of Kennedy’s Camelot — with the Omega JFK Watch ($9,100). Featuring a clean, numberless silver dial, an anti-reflective sapphire crystal, a yellow gold case, and a stately leather strap, this commemorative timepiece will have you looking as presidential as possible, and not in a nutsack-cutting, riding a wire fence sort of way.
the hands of this watch tell the time, but the face doesn’t. The numbers are melty, much like your concept of time. In 30 seconds, the 3 becomes a 9, or the 11 becomes a 5. (You may or may not be able to convince your boss to let you out of work early.)
Product Specifications
* Numbers on the watch face rotate each second
* In 30 seconds, 3 becomes 9!
* Great for people who can’t really tell time anyway
* Also great for time travelers (since a regular watch is useless)
* Japan quartz movement
* Black band
We ran a post a while back about the pending Antiquorum auction of a Longines watch given to Albert Einstein back in the early 1930s. The estimate provided by Antiquorum was $25,000-$35,000, which for a watch that was by all definitions nothing special at all (besides the famous owner factor), seemed to be pretty reasonable.
Well, Antiquorum had their auction today and lets just say the Einstein watch beat the estimates…..by a lot. This watch sold for $520,000. Yes you read that right, over half of a million dollars. So the watch sold for $520,000, but then there is the auctioneers fee the buyer has to pay on top of that, bringing the total to an absolutely mind-blowing $596,000 (Recession? What Recession?).
This just goes to show you why valuing vintage and rare watches is so hard. All you need is one real fan (or one real nut job in this case) and all bets are off.
The year 2011 marks 25 years since the establishment of the Donald Keene Center. Spring semester will kick off with a special 25th Anniversary event: a lecture and performance by world-renowned dance duo Eiko & Koma
Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 6, 1922 in New York City) is a Japanologist, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture. Keene is currently University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught for over fifty years.
Keene has published about 25 books in English on Japanese topics, including both studies of Japanese literature and culture and translations of Japanese classical and modern literature, including a four-volume history of Japanese literature. Keene has also published about 30 books in Japanese (some translated from English).
Keene is the president of the Donald Keene Foundation for Japanese Culture.
Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko & Koma, are a Japanese performance duo. Since 1972, Eiko & Koma have worked as co-artistic directors, choreographers, and performers, creating a unique theater of movement out of stillness, shape, light, sound, and time. For most of their multi-disciplinary works, Eiko & Koma also create their own sets and costumes, and they are usually the sole performers in their work. Neither of them studied traditional Japanese dance or theater forms and prefer to choreograph and perform only their own works. They do not bill their work as Butoh though Eiko & Koma cite Kazuo Ohno (a Butoh pioneer) as their main inspiration.
Eiko & Koma are permanent residents of the United States in New York City. They have presented their works in theaters, universities, museums, galleries, and festivals worldwide, including numerous appearances in American Dance Festival, five seasons at BAM’s Next Wave Festival, four seasons at the Joyce Theater, and a month-long “living” gallery installation in the Whitney Museum of American Art. They were 1996 recipients of a MacArthur Fellows Program “genius grant”.
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