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Monday, August 20, 2012

Cameron R. Neilson

Straight Up: Cameron R. Neilson:
Cameron Neilson, 379 Broome Street, Straight Up, Contemporary Architectural PhotographyCameron Neilson, 379 Broome Street, Straight Up, Contemporary Architectural PhotographyCameron Neilson, 379 Broome Street, Straight Up, Contemporary Architectural PhotographyClick to enlarge
New York based photographer Cameron R. Neilson has photographed a collection of images with his camera leveled and pointed straight up. The series of photographs is aptly titled Straight Up. The abstract angles and shapes created by photographing city architecture this way is surprising and dramatic. Both recognizable and yet new. Though we tend to look up to some degree when walking city streets, ‘straight’ up is a less common angle. The concept for Straight Up started in NYC and has since grown to include cities across the country, and eventually Europe.
Straight Up will be exhibited at Openhouse, 379 Broome Street here in New York opening this Thursday, August 15th through August 22nd.


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FreelandBuck

FreelandBuck: Slipstream:
Installation by FreelandBuck at Bridge Gallery, NYC. 2D illustrations rendered as 3D. Installation by FreelandBuck at Bridge Gallery, NYC. 2D illustrations rendered as 3D installation, Installation by FreelandBuck at Bridge Gallery, NYC. 2D illustrations rendered as 3D installationClick to enlarge
New York and Los Angeles based architectural firm FreelandBuck, run by principals David Freeland and Brennan Buck, has created an installation currently on exhibit at the Bridge Gallery in NYC titled Slipstream.
…Architects have used digital software to imbue structures and spaces with some of the same qualities as Da Vinci’s meticulous drawings: fluidity, undulation, instability and temporality. But while software has allowed architects to create novel, dynamic forms digitally, they have struggled to translate these qualities to the physicality of the material world. Slipstream is a physical structure that confronts that leap directly, translating a 2-dimensional digital line drawing into 3-dimensional space.
Alluding to Lebbeus Woods’ 2010 ‘Slipstreaming’ drawings of flow, the installation is a single drawing extruded through the gallery space and cut away to produce a set of interconnected spaces. The linear extrusion acts as both structure and dynamic visual filter, shifting views through the installation and between the spaces it defines. It’s integrity as a structure is masked by both its redundancy and bright coloration.
The exhibit runs through August 24th at the Bridge Gallery on Orchard Street.
Photos courtesy of the architects; Carles Faus; and the Bridge Gallery.
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Sabine Ducasse

Sabine Ducasse: Melting Pot:
Fashion and costume design using melted Perler beads by Sabine Ducasse. Melting Pot, cool costume designFashion and costume design using melted Perler beads by Sabine Ducasse. Melting Pot, cool costume designFashion and costume design using melted Perler beads by Sabine Ducasse. Melting Pot, cool costume designClick to enlarge
Perler beads
Ducasse used the beads to create East-meets-West armor style fashion; a melting pot of cultures with a literal take on “melting”. These amazingly well-crafted pixelated design pieces won the designer a scholarship at the International Fashion Academy.
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