Handsome trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s take on the creation of a modern cult. Anderson denies it is the story of Scientology but the comparison is inevitable: ‘He’s making all this up as he goes along – you don’t see that?’ Starring Joaquim Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, the film is due out in the UK in November.
Rarely does a piece of design elicit universal praise. ‘Betty’ – the 2012 Olympic cauldron – codenamed by the organisers in honour of the executive producer’s dog – has melted even the hardest of hearts. Containing 204 petals for each of the countries competing in London 2012, designer Thomas Heatherwick was apparently told that on no account should he use moving parts. Despite multiple moving parts his design was approved.
We came across Canadian fashion illustrator Danielle Meder recently at the Scottish Fashion Awards. She was crouched at the side the red carpet producing amazingly lovely sketches at lightning speed. Below is an edited piece from her excellent blog Final Fashion in which she shares her unique point of view of this month’s haute couture shows in Paris. Danielle specialises in live runway sketching, design drawings and sophisticated paper dolls. You
Guilhem de Castelbajac has taken one of the most atmospheric lights from the city streets into the home. The French artist has fitted them with LEDs with eight different illumination options and a metal base to mimic the roof of the cab. ‘Off duty no more’ was on show at wanteddesign during NY Design Week 2012. Image copyright designboom.
by Jennifer Cairney ‘This is what panthers would sound like…if panthers could sing.’ Maya Angelou uses this phrase to describe a character in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and it fits these three to perfection. Sleek, powerful and more than a little bit scary their performances are unmarred by the fact that one of them totally disagrees with the lyrics they are singing, one of them is dressed as
We may as well accept that it is going to rain everyday for the rest of our natural lives and embrace the fantastically dreich work of Perthshire artist Claudia Massie. Massie is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art now based with her husband and two young children in Glenalmond. Her fabulous, distinctively Scottish, work can currently be viewed at Frames Gallery in Perth, the Ruthven Gallery in Auchterarder and
Such a brilliantly clever video this for Sour’s Hibi no Neiro (Tone of Everyday) featuring web cam footage supplied by the band’s fans around the world. Some people really know what they’re doing with computers…
Street art was always ripe for a send up. Mobstr, a street artist himself, obviously thought so too. What really gets his goat though is advertising. ‘We’re indoctrinated with the belief that graffiti (or now known as street art) is a blight on our space yet the majority of us happily walk around the visual bombardment of advertising without a moment of questioning its justification. We’ll happily put a six
These carved fruit skulls manage to be menacing and endearing at the same time, especially the aubergine. Carved by artist Dimiti Ksykalov who was born in Moscow in 1963 and lives and works in Paris. Via Bored Panda
A Secret Garden style restaurant opens in the centre of Edinburgh on Saturday 7 July 2012. The Gardener’s Cottage, so-called because it was actually the gardener’s cottage is jointly owned by chefs Dale Mailley and Edward Murray. Sitting at the foot of Carlton Hill in Royal Terrace Gardens, the B-listed building was originally designed by William Playfair but had been sitting derelict since the gardener’s widow died five years ago.