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For Spring 2010 Android Homme introduces some new sneaker styles, as well as their new luggage collection. In terms of sneakers they have released new models, much simpler in terms of aesthetic than previous models. The luggage collection is a new addition of the brand, and includes duffle bags, as well as small pouches.
Opening Ceremony has collaborated with artist Aurel Schmidt. Opening Ceremony developed 11 graphic letters from the original work of Aurel Schmidt.
“As a major congrats to Aurel’s inclusion in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, we hung the tees together in our shop window, spelling out O-P-E-N-I-N-G -C-E-R-E-M-O-N-Y . With each letter printed on a custom destroyed, frayed, and pre-loved off-white unisex t-shirt, you can get excited to rep them too.”
Another fun lifestyle item from Bape has released – chop sticks. The wooden sticks come with an embossed Bape head logo at the top. They come nicely wrapped in Bape camo cloth and are now available from Cliff Edge.
The latest work from Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami is a bizarre music video featuring Kirsten Dunst performing "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors. The actress is costumed in a brightly colored, anime-inspired outfit complete with electric blue wig. As she performs the song in the busy Akihabara district of Tokyo, she's surrounded by, you know, actual Japanese who look on curiously.
The video was directed by American filmmaker and music video director McG, whose feature credits include the two Charlie's Angels movies and Terminator: Salvation. He may not have the art world cachet that Murakami does, but he's a pop artist in his own right, filling each frame with larger-than-life images.
The internet has been all "WTF?" about the clip, but as it turns out it was part of an art exhibit last year at the Tate Modern, "Pop Life: Art in a Material World." This installation, titled "Akihabara Majokko Princess," was meant to illustrate Murakami's belief that "real art is centered in entertainment."
Well, it's certainly entertaining. And by Murakami's dictum, that should make it art, right?
The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
"Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis," NASA officials said in a Monday update.
The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds).
The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph).
The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced. It is offset from the Earth's north-south axis by about 33 feet (10 meters).
Strong earthquakes have altered Earth's days and its axis in the past. The 9.1 Sumatran earthquake in 2004, which set off a deadly tsunami, should have shortened Earth's days by 6.8 microseconds and shifted its axis by about 2.76 inches (7 cm, or 2.32 milliarcseconds).
One Earth day is about 24 hours long. Over the course of a year, the length of a day normally changes gradually by one millisecond. It increases in the winter, when the Earth rotates more slowly, and decreases in the summer, Gross has said in the past.
The Chile earthquake was much smaller than the Sumatran temblor, but its effects on the Earth are larger because of its location. Its epicenter was located in the Earth's mid-latitudes rather than near the equator like the Sumatran event.
The fault responsible for the 2010 Chile quake also slices through Earth at a steeper angle than the Sumatran quake's fault, NASA scientists said.
"This makes the Chile fault more effective in moving Earth's mass vertically and hence more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis," NASA officials said.
Gross said his findings are based on early data available on the Chile earthquake. As more information about its characteristics are revealed, his prediction of its effects will likely change.
The Chile earthquake has killed more than 700 people and caused widespread devastation in the South American country.
Several major telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert have escaped damage, according to the European Southern Observatory managing them.
A salt-measuring NASA satellite instrument destined to be installed on an Argentinean satellite was also undamaged in the earthquake, JPL officials said.
The Aquarius instrument was in the city of Bariloche, Argentina, where it is being installed in the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D) satellite. The satellite integration facility is about 365 miles (588 km) from the Chile quake's epicenter.
The Aquarius instrument is designed to provide monthly global maps of the ocean's salt concentration in order to track current circulation and its role in climate change.
via: yahoo news.
Kuso Designer Toys has posted up the final sculpt shots of the Mictlan figure from artist Jesse Hernandez. If you compare these photos with some of the earlier photos we saw, the one glaring difference is the face. The final version appears to have straight lines in the face, which give the piece a stylized look.
As part of its ongoing creative collaboration with Jay-Z and Madison Square Garden, and the ABSOLUT Concert Series, ABSOLUT Vodka announced today – “NY-Z” – a behind the scenes Jay-Z documentary showcasing what it truly means for an artist to play at the Garden.
ABSOLUT worked with famed photographer Danny Clinch to capture never before seen footage of Jay-Z and John Mayer as they prepared for Jay-Z’s benefit concert at MSG this past 9/11. NY-Z, will be unveiled on March 22 at Facebook.com/ABSOLUT.
Check out the trailer here above!
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