Roundup

01. In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars “Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars.” (nyt) 02. Songzio Fall 2009 “he monochromatic…

01. How Avedon Blurred His Own Image “On a morning in April 1967, Twiggy, the doe-eyed British modeling sensation, sat on a stool before Richard Avedon in his studio on East 58th Street. She had on a plain black dress and black fishnets,…

Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo. 01. JVC intros 8K/4K video projector and 4K camera “JVC Japan has recently announced it will soon begin shipping its D-ILA 3 (Direct-Drive Image Light Amplifier) 8K and 4K video front-projector that…

01. Lovely Legs: From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose “The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized.…

01. Johnnie Walker Black Label “We’ve just designed a limited edition bottle to mark the 100 year anniversary of both Johnnie Walker Black Label and Selfridges. Each of the 100 bespoke bottles produced has a real leather label and is individually…

01. Harvest Green Project / Romses Architects “The ‘Harvest Green Project’ by Romses Architects was a winning entry in a recent competition held by the city of Vancouver: ‘The 2030 Challenge’ to address climate change plans and to guide greener and denser development,…

01. Selgas Cano Architecture Office “This is the office of the Selgas Cano architects in Madrid, I guess it’s not downtown Madrid.  They definitely have a different perspective on their surroundings. Photos by Iwan Baan.” (t&y) 02. Past works of Zaha Hadid to exhibit in Italy…

01. Here & There – A Horizonless Map of New York “Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th.”…

01. The Physical Value Of Sound – Yuri Suzuki “A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This…

01. SELECTISM on Twitter #follow –  www.twitter.com/selectism 02. Newson Chair Sells for Design-Art Record 1.1 Million Pounds  “An aluminum “Lockheed Lounge” chair by Marc Newson, once used in a Madonna video, sold today in London for 1.1 million pounds ($1.6 million), an auction record…