In celebration of GOOD Magazine’s Sandwich Week, they’re rolling out the sandwhich porn on their site, and for someone who dreams up drool-worthy sandwich combinations on a regular basis, that’s dangerous rabbit hole to go down. But I can’t resist. And really, why should I? What’s the worst that could happen – I wake up in a pile of pastrami after a rye/mustard/pickle-induced coma? Bring it on. Check out the carb-heavy coverage…
As the weather gets chilly, so does our schedule of October films, packed with plenty of spine-tingling flicks to get you in the mood for Halloween. This weekend we’ve got back-to-back gruesome gore with…
Though Lars von Trier’s MELANCHOLIA doesn’t come out in wide release until November 11, 2011, the anticipation for his seemingly more accessible follow-up to 2009′s ANTICHRIST is mounting. (For me, it’s the combination of the end-of-the-world theme/people looking up at outer space in wonder, the mystery of melancholia and my girl crush, Charlotte Gainsbourg.)
In case you have no idea what movie I’m talking about:
This week we’re featuring just one trailer, and yeah, full disclosure, it made its debut at Sundance, but with record walkouts and a tangle of incredibly divisive reviews, it’s not exactly what you would call a Sundance success story. It could be argued, however, that the notoriety its initial screening incited is only to its benefit, and now that the trailer is out and it’ll be On Demand in just about a month, the people are talking…
Fashion week in NY may be a thing of the past, and the designers who showed at London and Milan are now breathing a sigh of post-show relief, but the runways of Paris are just starting to heat up. Paris Fashion Week may just be the most exciting of all, and a daily check-in at Full Frontal Fashion will ensure that you don’t miss a thing….
If you haven’t tuned in Fridays at 9p and seen Garo and his tireless team whip up fabulous, fearless (and sometimes downright insane) costumes and gowns for his clients, honestly, you’re missing out. Get into the spirit of things and check out Garo’s favorite burlesque stars, goth girls and drag queens…
We wanted to share this brilliant infographic from the Quirky site that maps out where today’s inventors hail from and answers the question: “Does innovation flow from cities?”
“Obviously, most of the ideas seem to be flowing from the big cities around the country: New York, L.A., San Francisco, Washington, etc. But adding up those figures, over half of Quirky’s submissions come from states with mega-cities (NY, CA, IL, TX, PA, AZ, TX, GA, VA, MA). Doing a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation, about half of America’s 300 million people live in those same states. In other words, the innovations seem to be flowing at a steady per capita rate; cities are not over-represented…
We scoured the pages of Kickstarter to bring you this week’s best projects. Have a great Kickstarter project of your own or see one you think deserves some extra attention? Let us know about it the comments and we may just feature it in our weekly roundup.
FILM
Herb and Dorothy 50×50: You probably remember the Vogels from the moving 2008 documentary, HERB & DOROTHY, about how one couple with an extremely modest income managed to amass one of the most impressive and expansive art collections in the world. Now the same director, Megumi Sasaki, is trying to raise funds for a new documentary about the Vogels’ latest undertaking, “a historic gift project to give 50 of the Vogels’ works to one museum in each of the 50 states – a total of 2,500 works.” Apparently, their collection, which they donated to the National Gallery, has grown to include some 4,000 worls, more than the Gallery can handle. So they’re giving them away to museums around the country.
What’s up with actors doing double duty in the movies this Fall? First it was George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Daniel Craig and now Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in two films that couldn’t be more different. In the scattered, disconnected mess that is the PREMIUM RUSH trailer, I gather he plays some kind of fixed gear fanatic, the kind of guy you meet at a party and all he can talk about is how his bike is fixed in one gear all the time and doesn’t have brakes! (The kind of guy, btw, one meets all too often living in Brooklyn.) But Gordon-Levitt doesn’t play your average bike messenger; He’s more like a bike messenger superhero, his super power being delivering packages by taking the most dangerous, complicated and taxi-clogged routes. According to the movie, bike messengers treat all their deliveries like ticking time bombs, barreling through streets, tire-hopping off moving vehicles and skidding to sudden stops. It looks like Gordon-Levitt gets hit by a car, like, four times in this trailer. All while trying to save a cute girl (aka Cho Chan from HARRY POTTER) from a crime she didn’t mean to commit! What a stud!
If it seems like you’re seeing a lot more of Ferran Adria than you have before, you’re right. Perhaps it’s because he’s trying to keep the buzz alive sans El Bulli, or maybe without the responsibilities of running the best restaurant in the world he just has more time. That’s not to say he’s slowing down – quite the opposite (see where you can accidentally bump into him on his busy schedule). He’s still teaching culinary physics at Harvard (a class I’d love to audit), he’s giving more interviews than ever and he just wrote another cookbook, The Family Meal. Whereas Adria’s other cookbooks hardly ever make it to my kitchen and act instead more like objets d’arts for my coffee table (I barely made it through chemistry, I doubt I’ll be diving into molecular gastronomy for dinner any time soon), The Family Meal features recipes like Caesar salad, cheeseburgers & potato crisps, pasta bolognese and saffron risotto, aka things I can actually make. And none of it requires liquid nitrogen or a dehydrator or a Spherification Kit (part of Adria’s line of domestic products that allows you to make any food into little caviar-like pellets)…
If you missed the Maker Faire this weekend, catch up on some of the best gadgets and whosie-whatsits I saw with the second installment of the best in show.
6. The Enough Already: The practical applications of this lovely little piece of hacker technology are seemingly endless, especially since reality TV shows no signs of slowing. I’ll explain…
With the Brooklyn Book Festival now behind us and the NY Art Book Fair just around the corner, I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of the printed word and whether or not books matter as much now as they used to. I’m not talking about how we’re warming up to our e-readers and giving ink and paper the cold shoulder; I mean the relevancy and power of the content itself – no matter how you choose to access it.
Okay, maybe a t-shirt can’t stop violence against women, but what if it was a t-shirt that looked cool enough to grab your attention long enough for you to find out that it’s in support of UNiTE, a campaign started in 2008 by United Nations Secretary-General Ben Ki-moon to end violence against women. Then, my friend, we have not jut a t-shirt, but a campaign. Over the last several months, UNiTE has asked men aged 18-25 to submit…
For anyone who secretly looked forward to their annual grammar school science fair – whose heart leapt at the prospect of thinking up a hypothesis, testing it through a series of experiments conducted with whatever household products you could rummage together, recording your results and then pasting them up on your beloved tri-fold poster board – the Maker Faire is for you. Of course, if you’re one of those people then your inner nerd has probably been unleashed by now, and you’re too busy framing your Maker Faire weekend pass to even read this. But for everyone who didn’t spend their Saturday and Sunday learning how to solder or watching a life-size, Rube Goldberg-inspired mousetrap, here are the first five of the ten best things I saw at Maker Faire, NY, 2011.
We scoured the pages of Kickstarter to bring you this week’s best projects. Have a great Kickstarter project of your own or see one you think deserves some extra attention? Let us know about it the comments and we may just feature it in our weekly roundup.
TECH
Teagueduino: Don’t know how to solder to embed code? Meet Teagueduino, “an open source electronic board and interface” that shows you “the ropes of programming and embedded development (like arduino). Teagueduino is designed to help you discover your inner techno-geek and embrace the awesomeness of making things in realtime – even if you’ve only ever programmed your VCR.”
Variety applauds the “gritty verite drama,” especially its “knotty psychological profile of [Ashley] Arbaugh, whose own video-diary entries from the mid’-90s – when she was modeling – provide a haunted glimpse into exploited youth. A visit to Arbaugh’s home in Connecticut, a spacious, rambling modernist dwelling with all the warmth of a bus station, is a creepfest: A pair of baby dolls sit upright on the couch in a living room devoid of almost all other decor. Arbaugh comments that she thought it was appropriate when she bought the house to buy the dolls, too. She has an overt desire for children and an apparent inability to have them; her need is palpable and pitiful, and the doll sequence has the mind reeling.”
If you’re not creeped out yet, check out the trailer, and imagine that right now, in some badly lit room in Siberia, a group of “Russian girls hoping to hit the big time, are parading their skinny innocence around in bargain-basement bathing suits.”
Since its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, the five and a half hour long CARLOS has earned rave reviews; “Both the LA and NY film critics named it Best Foreign Language film last December and this January it won the Golden Globe for Best TV Movie/Mini.” CARLOS aired last October on Sundance Channel as a three-part series, and it’s to its credit that people are still talking – and talking excitedly – about the series, especially about its leading man, the very talented (and very hunky) Edgar Ramirez, who nabbed an Emmy…
George Glooney stars in two of the majorest motion pictures to hit theaters this Fall, and while the films couldn’t be more different (a family drama and a political thriller), they do have one thing in common: George Clooney gets screwed. In THE IDES OF MARCH, which opens on October 7th, Clooney plays an upright presidential candidate whose press secretary, played by Ryan Gosling, turns against him right before the Ohio primaries, threatening his entire campaign. Does the aptly chosen title ring a bell to anyone? The phrase was made popular by Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, and refers to the date that Caesar was killed, or rather assassinated, when he was stabbed (23 times) to death in the Roman Senate by a group of conspirators and fellow politicians. The trailer for IDES OF MARCH doesn’t include any such scene, but while political backstabbing may have become less bloody, it’s not any less treacherous.
How did we rate what fashion powerhouses Calvin Klein, Proenza Schouler and Philip Lim sent down the runway?
Rag&Bone shows us how to rock the poncho with their tailored, fringed version, and Paula Abdul provides a regrettable how-to-most-definitely-not.
The walk through Lincoln Plaza from the street to the guarded entry of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week can be an intimidating stretch of pavement, lined with fashion bloggers and street style photographers snapping away. It’s almost like fashion’s final judgment day: make it all the way without getting your picture taken at least once and it’s as if the gods of fashion are booming down, “Your outfit sucks!” See who our street style team deemed worthy enough to stop and shoot.
Ben Kaufman’s company, Quirky, is all about finding great ideas from regular people and turning them into real, marketable products, and Core77 is all about covering the best and latest in design and technology. Throughout the Quirky series, we’ll be bringing you stories from designers, inventors and entrepreneurs who’ve either already brought their product from concept to completion or are right in the middle of that process – and all without the help of a company like Ben’s.
Today we bring you the story of the Pure Water bottle, winner of the Core77 Design Award for Social Impact. Designed by Timothy Whitehead.
Watch UNLEASHED BY GARO every Friday at 9P.
There’s no way Garo could pull off his extreme and outrageous designs (working, flapping wings, anyone?) without an incredibly talented team. In fact, they’re such a hardworking bunch that even though Garo’s assistant, Sequinette, has been on tour in South America, she still managed to work a quick interview into her busy performance schedule so we could get to know one of the unsung heroes at Garo’s studio.
Best of Day 6:Â mod looks from Milly, Southwestern sexy from Jeremy Scott and sleek lines in fab color blocks by J. Mendel wouldn’t be complete without some snaps of the faces (Zoe Saldana, Alexa Chung, Sofia Coppola, Ashlee Olsen anyone?) lined up to see them.
Rodarte’s bold prints and bright colors carry on into their Spring 2012 collection with Van Gogh’s iconic sunflowers featured in a show-stopping, prairie-meets-sci-fi dress.
See what we think of crowd-pleaser Tory Burch’s collection of 20s-inspired frocks.
Go backstage at Juma, Toni Francesc and Herve Leger.
Ben Kaufman’s company Quirky is all about finding great ideas from regular people and turning them into real, marketable products. Throughout the Quirky series, we’ll be bringing you stories from designers, inventors and entrepreneurs who’ve either already brought their product from concept to completion or are right in the middle of that process – and all without the help of a company like Ben’s, like Spencer Nikosey and his Killspencer line of bags made from repurposed military truck tarp.