BIANCHI BY GUCCI BICYCLES

Gucci and Bianchi are proud to unveil the exclusive Bianchi by Gucci bicycles designed by Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini. This new collaboration joins two uniquely Italian traditions of design and craftsmanship, from leaders in their respective industries.

The Bianchi by Gucci is available in two models, both with Gucci’s signature green-red-green web stripe. The white hydro-formed steel single-speed bike is ideal to move in the city with elegance. The frame features customized leather grips and saddle as well as Gucci detailing. The matt black carbon fiber monocoque model is an urban/off-road bike with carbon fork and disc brakes. It is the perfect model for a weekend getaway, fit for riding both in the city and in the countryside. Giannini has also designed a series of accessories to complement the bicycles, including a helmet, gloves and a water bottle.

The Bianchi by Gucci is available at select Gucci boutiques worldwide: Rome, Milan, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Chevy Chase, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Singapore. The Bianchi by Gucci models will also be showcased in Stockholm at the Bianchi Cafè&Cycles.

http://www.gucci.com

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Author : Valentina Matelli

01/15/2012
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA: THOMAS HARDY

 

“Between Us Now” 

Between us now and here -

Two thrown together

Who are not wont to wear

Life’s flushest feather -

Who see the scenes slide past,

The daytimes dimming fast,

Let there be truth at last,

Even if despair.

So thoroughly and long

Have you now known me,

So real in faith and strong

Have I now shown me,

That nothing needs disguise

Further in any wise,

Or asks or justifies

A guarded tongue.

 Face unto face, then, say,

Eyes mine own meeting,

Is your heart far away,

Or with mine beating?

When false things are brought low,

And swift things have grown slow,

Feigning like froth shall go,

Faith be for aye.

 

 

Author : Olivia Lewit

01/13/2012
Category: / POETRY BENCH

WORDS FROM THE 81 PITTI DIARIES part II

And then it began, and then Palazzo Corsini vibrated with triumph.

Back to Florence, back to that place where everything began. It was 1962, the beginning of the glorious tradition where shapes were slick, where men were perfectly modernist n view and clear and clean in their outfits, where lines were obviously simple and perfect. Back to those sharp silhouettes, those elegant forms. The timeless beauty of Valentino’s creations are this very time being updated with a contemporary process of restyling. The innovative stylistic language declares that weight leaves and the unecessary is eliminated. This happens with a rebelliously act against the rules of apparent normalcy. Materials are precious and compact and accessories are soft and precise. Colors are from stone to gray, to metal.Tuxedos are the hedonistic remembrance of Rome and the Dolce Vita years.

There will always be just one big V and no, it’s not for Vendetta, it’s obviously for Valentino.

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

01/12/2012
Category: / GENERAL

NOW @ ALASKA PROJECTS SIDNEY

Author : Redazione

01/11/2012
Category: / GENERAL

WORDS FROM THE 81 PITTI DIARIES

 

A  two trolleys luggage, a handbag and a clutch. Two mobile phones, my laptop and a Nikon camera. This is mostly what’s been prepared and carried on train for my three days of staying at the Pitti Immagine Uomo week. It’s number 81 this year’s first edition. I can say that I could stay here for a month or so considering all the outfits I brought with me. I never have enough of Florence and Tuscany, I must admit. This is my day two in here then, writing from the press room. I’ve seen many faces, fashionistas, cool hunters, journalists, party crashers, chance meetings, flying pigs and good to do nothing strollers. The circus mixes and melts with real workers and stakeholders. I’ve met our Altaroma beloved fellows, went to Emiliano Laszlo‘s aperitif at Ducci’s, went to the Vogue L’Uomo party, attended one of Mustafa Sabbagh‘s photo shootings. I’ve gone through all the stands and I’ve seen new and old styles. Moustaches, haircuts, clothes, men, men, men everywhere. I’m surrounded by men. This is sooo fair. The Pitti Immagine Edition is a sharp gate into the world of fashion and couture, style and egocentrism. a thick or thin line of happiness of the winter season. It’s a chance to see friends from far away. Or to meet people we have the possibility to see just twice a year, just for the summer and winter editions. It’s a getting-to-know situation, where you stay with those you happen to be with, not those you choose to be with. It’s maybe the season’s falling apart or maybe the idea of spring coming or the fact that there’s less time for a summer’s waiting. There’s joy. Not the summerish joy, but the sun shines high and it’s not so cold. Still there’s a conscious feeling of body reneiassance, it’s in the wool we are wearing or the music I am listening to, while maybe replacing back the Christmas tree or the new year’s beginning atmosphere. I actually don’t know. It’s the season of freeze,of jackets, of scarves and hats and yes, we are blocked before blooming, but cozy and warm, wrapped with clothes and coats. Elitism is here then, ready to stare at this changes and write about it. We have our eyes wide open. Last but not least the first 2012-2013 Valentino men’s collection. I’m so looking forward to attend the show. At 7.30 pm, today. And yes, I’ll wear high heels, and yes, I’ll feel like one of the Supremes.

Stay tuned, the catwalk is on and I’m licking my paws..

Photo : Collier Schorr, Two Shirts, 1998-2003

 

Author : Isabella Cecconi

01/11/2012
Category: / GENERAL

JONAS MEKAS: SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES

 

In Sleepless Nights Stories we stroll with Jonas Mekas through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars and clubs. Mekas, who suffers from chronic insomnia, creates a deeply personal visual diary, recollecting stories from his sleepless one thousand and one nights. He keeps late-night company with old and new friends who have the gift of gab, their imaginations sometimes fired up by wine and music. We meet old pals like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Carolee Schneemann, Marina Abramovic, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Harmony Korine, together with brothers and sisters, sons and daughters.

“SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES originated from my readings of the One Thousand and One Nights”- says Mr. Mekas- But unlike the Arabian tales, my stories are all from real life, though at times they too wander into somewhere else, beyond the everyday routine reality. There are some twenty-five different stories in my movie. Their protagonists are all my good friends and I myself am an inseparable part of the stories. The storyteller of the Arabian Nights was also part of his or her tales. Some of the people in the movie you’ll recognize, some not. The fact that some of them you’ll recognize has no bearing on the stories: after all, we all recognize John Wayne or Annette Bening, but in their stories they are no longer the people we know. The subjects of the stories cover a wide range of emotions, geographies, personal anxieties, anecdotes. These are not very big stories, not for the Big Screen: these are all personal big stories… And yes, you’ll also find some provocations… But that’s me, one “me” of many. The very question What is a story? is a provocative question”.  

The movie is a new gift from one of the greatest avant-garde filmmakers of all times, an artist, a poet, an intellectual. Mekas, who just turned 89, once said: “I make home movies, therefore I live”. There’s no doubt that once again, viewing the world through a camera, he shows us how to be alive,  catching the sweep (and beauty) of life.

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Author : Federica Mascagni

01/08/2012
Category: / THE SECRET SCREEN

KINFOLK BICYCLE CO.

We like Kinfolk Bicycles because we saw Kusakas hands. His hands are hard, leathery, used, and sturdy. Kusaka has spent his life building bicycles by hand for Keirin racers. In the boom of fixed gears craziness,it is easy to dismiss these things as just another fad, it is easy to throw their names around, talk about which is better, a Kalavinka, or a Nagasawa, A RAP by Nemoto or a Kusaka built Vivalo. It is also easy to forget that these men, not only never asked for any of this hype, they for the most part want little to do with it. They are all for the most part our seniors by many generations, and seem to be the last of a dying breed of men that are fully dedicated to their craft.

These bicycles are not only bicycles. They are precious jewels.

Japan tradition.

http://www.wegotways.com/kinfolkbicycles/

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Author : Valentina Matelli

01/08/2012
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

ROBERT THERRIEN: SELECTIONS FROM THE BOARD COLLECTION AND THE LACMA

Robert Therrien was born in Chicago in 1947, grew up in San Francisco and moved to Los Angeles in 1971, where he currently resides. He is known primarily as a sculptor, although he has also worked in painting, drawing, printmaking and photography.

For more than three decades, Therrien has explored the transformation of familiar forms. He is one of several artists represented in depth in the Broad Collection and the Los Angeles-based artist is no stranger to LACMA, where he had his early survey exhibition in 2000. Since that show, LACMA has acquired three sculptures as well as prints by Therrien, including, most recently, No Title (Black Beds), 1998, acquired in early 2011. This twisting, turning bed evokes the artist’s ability to craft materials in unexpected ways with engaging results. On its hind legs, the bed seems to take on an animal-like form, suggestive of a raging bear standing tall. Details »

Author : Marco Annunziata

01/05/2012
Category: / GENERAL

ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW

Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 is the first museum survey in the United States devoted to this Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow. Born in Kalisz  in 1926 to a Jewish medical family and  growing up in occupied Poland during World War II, Szapocznikow spent most of her adolescent years between Nazi ghettos and concentration camps.  When the ghettos were liquidated, Szapocznikow along with her mother was sent to concentration camps including Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Terezín. The life  of Alina had been marked profoundly by those years and no wonder her oeuvre is all about the ephemeral condition of life and the human body. Her work oscillates between permanence and impermanence, from carvings in Carrara marble to the precarious assemblages of lips and breasts cast in polyester resin.

The exhibition at Hammer Los Angeles organized by Allegra Pesenti, will  bring to light  one of the most significant sculptors of the 20th century.  Approximately 60 sculptures and 50 works on paper, as well as a poignant group of photographic works, will demonstrate the tremendous range and scope of this incredible artist.

February 5, 2012 – April 29, 2012

http://hammer.ucla.edu/

 

Author : JeanLuc Ciquot

01/04/2012
Category: / EMPTY CANVAS

FIRE AND SUGAR IN GIAMBATTISTA VALLI’S COUTURE


A new year has just started and probably you welcomed it by wearing something red. It’s a typically Italian tradition, but this primary colour has a symbolical meaning in many different cultures. Red means love, passion, fire, heroism (as exemplified by Private Henry Fleming in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane), sin (think of Hester Prynne, the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hathorne) and wedding (in Chinese culture).

From the point of view of fashion, red is surely a dramatic colour, able to give any outfit a twist. Valentino Garavani, the iconic Italian designer, created a unique shade of red for his most impressive creations and another Italian designer, Giambattista Valli, seems to be following his steps. Valentino’s obsession with this colour started after a journey to Spain (and a trip to the Opera House in Barcelona), but who knows where the same obsession started for Valli? The Roman designer presented his first haute couture show in Paris in July 2011 and included many red dresses in his collection, thus turning this colour yet again into something highly symbolical.
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Author : Teresa Cannatà

01/02/2012
Category: / SCHOOL OF FASHION

THE POWER OF FRENCH WIZARDRY: JEAN-PAUL GOUDE

Precursor, image manipulator, illustrator, art director, photographer and filmmaker, Jean-Paul Goude is above all a creator who invented a style, a universe. For over 40 years, he’s produced enough intelligent art. For over 40 years, he has revolutionized the advertising world reinventing visual identities of brands, commercials, style icons. It’s hard to imagine Lady Gaga without reference to Goude’s erotic vision of Grace Jones which is classical and punk, gorgeous and grotesque at the same time. He’s always been considered a provocative artist, a graphic designer. He has mesmerized the 80’s style set with its racial and sexual taboo-busting imagery. Nowadays, his influence still grips as new generation of art discovery with taunting wit and his evergreen dark-humored capability. The first major retrospective, the Goudemalion , now on show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, features some of the multimedia artist’s most legendary works, like the photo of Azzedine Alaia and Farida Khelfa, as well as the memorable images of his muse: Grace Jones. In fact, Goude turned the doyenne of New York’s underground disco scene into an international superstar. Being considered Grace Jones’ Pygmalion, hence the name of the show Goudemalion. The exhibition looks back at the insurmountable image maker’s work ranging from fashion to photography, advertising and performing arts. The exhibition presents, in a journey of intimate spaces and dramatic sequences: drawings, objects and images, spanning through all his career.

Time to go to Paris then. Enjoy.

http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/

http://www.jeanpaulgoude.com/

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

01/02/2012
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

ELITISM XMAS 2011

Our best wishes. See you in 2012!

Author : Redazione

12/23/2011
Category: / GENERAL

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA: SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Rain by Shel Silverstein
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.

I step very softly,
I walk very slow,
I can’t do a handstand–
I might overflow,
So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said–
I’m just not the same since there’s rain in my head.

Author : Olivia Lewit

12/23/2011
Category: / POETRY BENCH

MY BEAU MONDE – ELITISM

There aren’t many places where you will discover that an old poem perfectly matches with a new image of an unknown photographer; where electro music, or new waves zoom with fashion and haute couture or sport or entertainment or a food recipie or an architect’s design. This place does exist indeed, and its name is Elitism. As we enter the winter months and gathers together for our Christmas holidays, I couldn’t resist writing a short editorial. This is maybe one of the best thing an editor can do, actually. The scent of soup, the delights of our future season travels, the new year planning and scheduling. We will be present at the Firenze’s Pitti Immagine, we’ll go to Paris’ Fashion Week, we’ll eat hot dogs in New York, browse art in Miami and discover Madrid’s treasures. We’ll try to cover with all our strength a 360 degree vision of the what not. I believe that there is nothing like a treasured discovery and a friendly sharing of information. We are a code sharing flight against the mainstream. This is our rule number one.  Our ideas come from a summer day, from a gentle breeze of the Southern of France, from the smell of green lavender. We like to pretend to be a brilliantly enjoyable novel with a happy ending, or with a  tranquil flowing. We are global style hunters, gracious writers, clothes addict and culture followers. What we bring home, today, is a special find that reminds us that we are followed and read, that we can procrastinate our work with the same joy and wonder of our early days back in 2010. So I thank you and I wish you our best Holiday Season. Merry Christmas to you all and to my special Elitism fellows with whom my seeding ideas would never grow without: Francesca, Marco, Jean Luc, Valentina, Federica, MarcoA., Olivia, Teresa, Maxime, Marta, Gianni.

….Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary…

Author : Isabella Cecconi

12/21/2011
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

CREEP – ANIMALS ( FEAT. HOLLY MIRANDA)

CREEP

Author : Maxim Deluxe

12/20/2011
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC

CALIFORNIA DESIGN, 1930–1965: “LIVING IN A MODERN WAY”

This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects—furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design—the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country. Details »

Author : Marco Annunziata

12/17/2011
Category: / GENERAL

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA: J. V. CUNNINGHAM

From A Century of Epigrams

 29

History of ideas

 God is love. Then by conversion

Love is God, and sex conversion.

 33

On a cold night I came through the cold rain

And false snow to the wind shrill on your pane

With no hope and no anger and no fear.

Who are you? And with whom do you sleep here? 

55

I had gone broke, and got set to come back,

And lost, on a hot day and a fast track,

On a long shot at long odds, a black mare

By Hatred out of Envy by Despair. 

62

You ask me how Contempt who claims to sleep

With every woman that has ever been

Can still maintain that women are skin deep?

They never let him any deeper in

76

Good Fortune, when I hailed her recently,

Passed by me with the intimacy of shame

As one that in the dark had handled me

And could no longer recollect my name.

Author : Olivia Lewit

12/16/2011
Category: / POETRY BENCH

THE LITTLE MULE COMPANY PTY LTD

This is the story of two IT guys who, after seven years of working the same jobs day-in day-out, decided to do something totally unexpected.
Hugh McIntyre and Matt Bates are self-professed computer nerds – yes it’s true. “Deep down we like computers” says Hugh, but the two IT professionals also have something else in common: a love for bikes and coffee.  This is where the story begins.

Looking for a new challenge, the two biking buffs started brainstorming  and the Little Mule Cycle Co & Café was born. Set within Somerset Lane in the Melbourne CBD, Little Mule is a café-cum-bike shop, and the source of a certain number of creative collaborations. The bike component of this space came through Matt’s brother: he designs all the frames and creates fully-customisable bikes for clients.

Now you can choose your new bicycle while you are drinking a hot good coffee!

http://www.thelittlemule.com/

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Author : Valentina Matelli

12/15/2011
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

DANSK MOBEL KUNST

Dansk Mobel Kunst, based in Zurich and Paris, is a gallery specialized in hunting, stocking, and offering the absolute highlights of Scandinavian furniture. Klaare Klint, Poul Henningsen, Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Grete Jalk, Bruno Mathsson, Verner Panton are only few of the treasures contained in this marvellous space that I had the fortune to know in Miami Design Fair two weeks ago. Danish furniture designers have traditionally stressed the function’s aesthetic expression and for this reason had been labeled “The Functional Tradition”.  DMK  is a leading authority in Danish historical design from 1920–1970, with particular emphasis on rare modernist furniture and lighting. Simply one of the best spot for deisgn collectors and not only.

http://www.dmk.dk/

 

 

Author : Redazione

12/15/2011
Category: / GLARE LIVING

CURVES ARE ALWAYS ATTRACTIVE: THE P.90 CAMERA

“Cameras should be curved and made of wood and brass”

I just discovered this amazing Oregon-based builder of wooden cameras,  Kurt Mottweiler, who has constructed a limited edition of 50 irresistible pinhole cameras. At first sight it seemed to me a sort of Leonardo da Vinci’s project. But the P90 cameras is a modern and 100% handmade and crafty creation. The P90 can captures a grand total of 8 frames on a single roll of 120 film,it is constructed out of cherry wood, brass and Phenolic. The back panel is removable, the profile is thin and easy on the hands and to stow in a bag or to carry. The P90 is curvilinear and panoramic and it has a tripod adapter too. Its curves give images equally bright from edge to edge and have the perspective typical of panoramic camera with historic techniques. I guess my fellows at Elitism can consider it if reading my Christmas wish list.

 http://mottweilerstudio.com/

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

12/13/2011
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

BRIAN CALVI, CHARLES GARABEDIAN, ZACH HARRIS, JOHN MCALLISTER

David Kordansky Gallery is courrently exhibiting a selection of paintings by Brian Calvin, Charles Garabedian, Zach Harris, and John McAllister. While it will consist mostly of new work, the show will also feature paintings by Charles Garabedian dating back to 1982 that synthesize these four Los Angeles-based artists’ pursuit of a highly personal, even idiosyncratic visual vocabulary. For more than 40 years, Garabedian has served as a trailblazing example of an artist willing to take on the central narratives of the art historical tradition from the geographical, intellectual, and spiritual periphery. In particular, his poetic use of the figure, often with a nod to ancient or classical literary sources, has long provided an alternative to what is traditionally understood as the development of postwar American painting. Brian Calvin, instead, has become known for paradoxically figurative paintings in which the figures are perhaps not the primary subjects of inquiry while Zach Harris embodies an approach in paintings that depict imaginary landscapes set in layers of geometric relief.  John McAllister’s is featured in American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami and adds to this incredible trio of American painters that more.

Untill 21 January 2012

David Kordansky Gallery

3143 S. La Cienega Blvd. Unit A
Los Angeles, CA 90016

Author : JeanLuc Ciquot

12/12/2011
Category: / EMPTY CANVAS

STILL CORNERS – CUCKOO

Still Corners on Sub Pop Records

Author : Maxim Deluxe

12/12/2011
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC

ELITISM SECOND ISSUE IS NOW ONLINE

 

Click here and start reading!

Author : Redazione

12/09/2011
Category: / GENERAL

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA : SHAUN SHANE

All To Fast

all at last
and then too
fast
she set about
to quibble

but too full
her throat
now from
the rush
of words
it
choked

and what
started out
as
a chewing out
became then
but
a
nibble

Author : Olivia Lewit

12/08/2011
Category: / POETRY BENCH

OUR HIGH RESPECT FOR A WELL READ PERSON IS PRAISE ENOUGH FOR LITERATURE: ORLANDO&OFELIA

 

It was the Fall and I fell (in love) with them. Orlando, Ofelia, are a two and a one, a beating body with a big heart and two minds. My chance encounter with them lead to a nice conversation here reported;(and a nice aperitif, some time ago).  It was amazing meeting and getting to know these two creative and ingenious minds who adore rare books, nice books, illustrations and the whatsoever. They believe in quality, something we really appreciate here at Elitism. I’m so looking forward to seeing them shining like glowing stars, because I believe that effort and love for culture deserve first place.  

What’s Orlando&Ofelia? How did everything start?

Orlando&Ofelia curious bookshop was created by the dream and intention to disseminate and promote the growth and development of culture and visual arts in Italy. We are omnivorous and curious, we look to the future and to the past as stimuli for the present, putting on the research for our bookshop the basis to understand the global movement of art, fashion and image. A small anecdote. One day, strangely affected by a TV show, we heard a person saying something very stimulating: in order to realize a dream, it must be close and clearly easy to its implementation in reality, otherwise the risk is to become just abstraction… We thus started imaging a white place, full of books, ink colors and paper and the good conviviality of people. Maybe OrlandOphelia was born at that precise moment, but in reality it is a path to a lifetime of intimate research, work and passion for creativity in the round.

Five adjectives to describe your work.

Curious, playful, surprising, honest, caring

What’s creativity to you?

Creativity is the ability and courage to build new solutions and perspectives of phenomena. A sheet of paper isn’t always just a sheet of paper, it is the courage to trim it, to tear it, to fold and draw that makes the difference: each time a paper plane, a ball to play, lots of confetti, a philosophical pamphlet, the best illustration of the century!

What is the future of paper books? Do you think that the digital will ever take it all?

We continue believing that in a hypothetical trip to the moon or on a desert island, when asked what would you bring with you? Many people would answer again, a book, a CD and a toothbrush! But reality is slightly different! Surely the evolution of textbook is linked to digital as the simplest form of use, faster and probably more democratic and responsible. We however think that for some ways of expression, paper is still needed and also offers unexplored possibilities. The book itself can be an object with a life regardless of  content, form an smell or color. OrlandOfelia is oriented to books as it has always been meant, printing works / sculpting art, capable of giving excitement and wonder, to live a tactile experience and profound emotional and aesthetic reflection.

You sell special editions and very rare books. Do you suffer in separating form such big treasures?

Absolutely! But there is a particular moment, the moment where a buyer understands and loves something that we love, that makes us happy to go beyond the attachment we can possibly have.

Which was the very first book you remember about?

Orlando: I distinctly remember how many times I read and reread the picture story of Grease! I knew all the jokes and the songs by heart!

Ofelia: I have two. The animal illustrated book to color that I have scribbled over and over again and “Tales on the phone” by Gianni Rodari, the rain of confetti in Barletta and the palace of ice cream in Bologna, are still in my glutton-sweet tooth dreams!

To you, what’s an Elitism book?

A book for Elitism: Papercraft 2 Design and Art with Paper Editors: R. Klanten, B. Meyer Gestalten. And a curious and creative proposal: How to Make Books: Fold, Cut & Stitch Your Way to a One-of-a-Kind Book written by Esther K. Smith

Thank you and let’s always keep on dreaming on reality…

You can find fantabulous ORLANDOFELIA on Facebook  orlandofelia@gmail.com

or at the Dissent Gallery Via Leonina, 85, Rome, Italy

http://www.loveanddissent.com

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

12/07/2011
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

BEST 4 YOUR IPAD, DODOCASE

It took me some time to understand what was this: I was buying it to contain  my collection of boarding passes. Ohoh. After many passages at the counter, and many questions, I finally understood that this DODOCase is meant to dress an IPad. I don’t have one but I have noticed how horrible those original magnetic plastic covers are and think  this worthed a post.  The DODOcase cradles your Apple device in a strong, yet gentle, bamboo tray and precious tissues. The multifunctional design also allows  to use the case as a stand for typing or watching videos. It gives  IPad a retro touch and it comes in a varieties of colours and editions ( The J.Crew ones are just AMAZING). Let’s wrap technology in a more romantic way, please.

http://www.dodocase.com

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Author : Redazione

12/06/2011
Category: / GENERAL

DILLON – TIP TAPPING

Dillon

Author : Maxim Deluxe

12/05/2011
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC

KENNETH ANGER: ICONS

Kenneth Anger: Icons showcases the films, books, and artwork of one of the most original filmmakers of American cinema. A defining presence of underground art and culture and a major influence on generations of filmmakers, musicians, and artists, Anger’s films evoke the power of spells or incantations, combining experimental technique with popular song, rich color, and subject matter drawn equally from personal obsession, myth, and the occult. Complementing the films is an archive of photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia from Anger’s personal collection that illustrates the filmmaker’s unique vision of Hollywood’s golden era. The inspiration and source material for the filmmaker’s infamous celebrity “gossip” books Hollywood Babylon, (1975) and Hollywood Babylon II (1984), the collection centers on stars such as Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo, as well as now lesser-known icons like silent-film actress Billie Dove. The world of the classic studios and the mystique of its major figures radiates throughout the photographs, press clippings, letters, and memorabilia on display, which Anger has gathered across many decades.

The exhibition will be on view at MOCA Grand Avenue through February 27 , 2012.

MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

Image above: Kenneth Anger, still from Scorpio Rising, 1964

Author : Federica Mascagni

12/04/2011
Category: / THE SECRET SCREEN

BERET BAGUETTE

I love french style!

30 km inside Paris, vintage and fashion clothes, beautiful bicycles and then fresh baguettes, good wine, finest cheese and a big picnic just in front of the Tour Eiffel!

This is Bèret Baguette Ride.

http://www.beret-baguette.com/

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Author : Valentina Matelli

12/04/2011
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

INTO A WORLD OF IMAGES: ISAKI LACUESTA

 

Considered as one of the most promising and eclectic Spanish cineaste, Isaki Lacuesta was born into a family of Basque origins in Girona, Spain, in 1975. He has been experimenting with several film genres since his earlier works, exploring the multi-faceted forms of the visible and often breaking the boundaries between artifice and reality, between fiction and documentary, and between filmed image and synthesized image. His work with and on the image has developed in the course of time, but is based on a conviction that challenges the notion of ‘pure’ cinema according to which literature, painting, or music would be successive additions. For Lacuesta short films are the ideal ground for experimentation, research and for the encounter of several gazes rooted in the persistent necessity of searching for the new.

The short 2012 exposes the ambiguity of reality once it is turned into an image through a set of portraits of a woman, taken in different moments of the year. Yet something is colliding, as the year is 2012… Una vez filmé a la mujer que amo. He repetidos aquellos planos…filmando a otra mujer, a la que no sabría amar. No sé si alguien verá la diferencia.

 Make sure to keep an eye on the guy. Here at Elitism we’ll do!

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Author : Federica Mascagni

12/03/2011
Category: / THE SECRET SCREEN