: nowness and LVMH
Who doesn’t like to be in the know, and in the now? Along comes this great site, Nowness.com. It’s a curated experience put together by the luxury brand of luxury brands, LVMH.
Its editors however are supposedly independent and cover the subjects of architecture, art, beauty, books, culture, design, fashion, film, gastronomy, music, photography, sports, and travel. Updated daily with the latest and greatest tidbits, its mission is to inspire and to introduce you to a world of ideas often beyond the reach of the mere mortal.
The focus is on creative culture even if on the high-brow side of things. However, it does have playful moments such as the “explorer” mode in the second screen-shot below, and a voting system that relies on you saying whether you “love” or “don’t love” a feature.
Well, I just love it! Visit the site here, or by clicking the images below.
: plastic bag
via my friend L.A. Baker Brown
Poetic, beautiful, sad, moving, philosophical, ironic, beautiful, thought provoking. Oh, and it’s about a plastic bag.
One of a series from FUTURESTATES. This one is by Ramin Bahrani, and narrated by Werner Herzog
: movie magic lecture series
This sounds very much worth checking out. Probably a lot of learning opportunities around what it takes to actually make some of these amazing films for either the cinema, and/or advertising.
Visionary Visuals, Cahners Theater
With Doug Roble, creative director of software, Digital Domain. This presentation is part of the ongoing series Movie Magic.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | 7:00 pm
While you are at it, check out the Digital Domain website where the speaker Doug Roble is the creative director of software. Interesting titles as well. Never heard of a software creative director. I wonder what that really means. I am sure it will come up at the lecture. The screen below is from the movie i-Robot. Not a terribly good film, but the effects were pretty mind blowing.
