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The Plaza, one of NY’s finer hotel/residences has entered the digital age starting this September when guests, upon checking into the hotel, will be offered iPads with a concierge app. The app will allow you to access hotel services, as well as pre-loaded newspapers, internet access, schedule wake-up calls and so much more.
The Sands Skypark Pool at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
The infinity pool is 55 Stories up in the air and 150 meters long.
"Creamier," the latest volume in Phaidon's acclaimed "Cream" series, takes the pulse and forecasts the future of contemporary art. The book's 100 featured artists are the culmination of a carefully selected panel's survey of the most important contributors to the art world over the last five years.
This year's jury includes Debra Singer, director and chief curator of The Kitchen; Catherine Wood, curator of contemporary art and performance at Tate Modern; Yukie Kamiya, chief curator of the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Tirdad Zolghadr, who oversaw the United Arab Emirates Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale; Adam Szymczyk, director of Kunsthalle Basel; and Kitty Scott, director of visual arts at the Banff Centre.
"Everyone knows that our curatorial choices are always about more than the artwork," explains Zolghadr in the book. "But I did want to offer a gesture, or impose an artificial limit of some sort. At the very least, my criteria pushed me to think beyond my usual suspects."
"Creamier" showcases an enterprising cross-section of breakthrough artists. Shedding the weight of a coffee-table tome and packaged in a box, the newspaper-style format of "Creamier" makes for a lighter, pleasurably tactile reading experience. With its release slated for 14 July 2010, you can pre-order your copy online for $40.
Carrying data on the sleeve will probably make a very formidable geek. In any case, the data will always be available close and at hand, or more precisely, at the cufflinks. The cufflink flash drives obviously work as cufflinks, but they are also capable of carrying 2GB of data each. The pair costs $195.
Via: GadgetVenue
Kung-fu Live is a game that would let you immerse in the gameplay. It isn’t simply customizable, but customizable to the extent that your character in the game can be you in a digital avatar. Patented technology of the Helsinki based Virtual Air Guitar Company Ltd. allows a webcam to replace the game controller.
With the webcam taking on the role of the controller, players themselves are transformed into gaming characters, albeit with the “abilities” the character would have. Apparently, the system is capable of doing real-time monitoring of the human body, and differentiate background and other visual issues from the player. Freemotion technology used in the game seems to be ready for primetime as the game itself is scheduled for a launch later this year.
HOVERBOARD - NILS GUADAGNIN from nils guadagnin on Vimeo.
Pimped-up two wheelers of Japan look like they could have easily driven out of a manga. These aren’t just randomly decorated vehicles, but they look every part of the painstaking attention to detail that must have gone into each of these. It is the Big Scooter 250cc bike class that gets most of these decorations, and the modifications may cost up to $25,000. Well, that’s money well spent. More images after the jump.
Via: CNN Go
Upon the announcing of Jeffrey Deitch’s new role at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, an immediate focus turned to Deitch’s shining star in the world of contemporary and street art, the Deitch Projects. However, a new report from the Wall Street Journal seems to ease the fears of a gapping hole in the contemporary art scene with the conception of “The Hole” gallery. Founded by two former associates of Jeffrey Deitch, Kathy Grayson and Meghan Coleman were former directors under Deitch. Their first exhibition under The Hole will begin on June 26th with an exhibition titled “Not Quite Open for Business” and subsequent shows from former Deitch exhibitors. The Hole is located on 104 Greene St. in New York City and should serve as a fine addition to the art world with a number of fun and quirky side-projects including dating services for artists.
Source: Arrested Motion
Dutch florist Peter van de Werken seems to be good business with his multicolored roses, or “rainbow roses” as many call them. These are all basically cream roses, but the florist gives them the hue using vegetable dyes. The dye is placed in the water, and goes up the stem to give the rose its color. How the petals get unique colors is Werken’s closely guarded secret. The process takes between 12 to 24 hours and each stem of the rose costs £24.49 ($36). Another image after the jump.
Via: DailyMail
Lamborghini Navarra concept speaks the design language of Lamborghini, and adds some curves and shapes inspired by classic sculpture. The concept from designer Adam Denning, who works with Lockheed Martin takes into account the raw power, and killer looks a Murcielago replacement should have.
Denning has taken inspiration from Michelangelo’s La Pieta sculpture and fashioned curves on the Navarra “The way Mary’s garments flow down and fold over each other was the main inspiration for the Navarra’s overlapping surfaces and organic shapes.” Dimensions of the concept car are similar to those of the Murcielago. Power for Navarra is proposed through a V12 engine with 700 hp. The lightweight concept has carbon fiber frame and body panels.
via: itsallrandom.
Polke’s works have been exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Tate Modern in London, among many other international retrospectives. Polke participated in many Documenta exhibitions, and the 2007 Venice Biennale. Most recently he was awarded with the Swiss Roswitha-Haftmann-Preis last month.
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