A poetic temporary snow drawing
The artist Sonja Hinrichsen recently made a beautiful large scale snow drawing at Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado. Like the tracks you did as kid, but this time with a far more poetic touch. Sonja made the snow drawing with the help of five choreographed friends. Below are some images of the snow drawing by Cedar Beauregard . I’m not...
1400 feet grass carpet by Gaëlle Villedary
Artist Gaëlle Villedary recently made a nice installation called ‘Tapis Rouge!’ in a small French town called Jaujac. It was made as a celebration of their arts and nature trail programs. Gaëlle Villedary wanted to connect the center of the village to the rich natural surroundings. Magic pictures below by David Monjou.
Who is designing the future?
DESIGN is not a veneer – but something that is fundamental to our wellbeing and prosperity – and the spine that supports industry and innovation. With this in mind, the inaugural Cheltenham Design Festival (CDF) is set to bring together an impressive roll call of some of our most innovative and forward-thinking designers and creatives from a wide...
Rotterdamse Museumnacht
On the 10 of March this year the streets of Rotterdam were filled with people wearing blinking badges. It is the night of Rotterdamse Museumnacht, a yearly event where most of Rotterdam’s museum and galleries open their doors from eight in the evening until two in the morning. Besides their current exhibitions, the institutes put...
Interior from Oaxen Krog is set for auction
The interior of the world famous Oaxen Krog is set for auction March 29-30. It will be sold online in collaboration with Stockholms Auktionsverk. It will be a lot of objects filled with memories from the 17 years that the restaurant Oaxen Krog attracted foodies from all over the world to the Stockholm archipelago. All...
Art, pattern and complexity
The David Report contributor Kristina Dryza was at the artists talk for the new exhibition opening at the Royal Institution of Australia: Art, pattern and complexity. Photos detailing the night are below and the exhibition is open until 16 May, 2012.
Coffee Korea
The instinct of the coffee is temptation. Strong aroma is sweeter than wine, soft taste is more rapturous than kiss. Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1754~1838 Most people would relate Asia with tea and tisane; however, coffee consumption in South Korea has...
Warm winter, japanese style.
Commonly referred as nabe (なべ), nabemono (鍋物) is the term referring to all varieties of Japanese one pot dishes. There is nothing as effective to warm the winter like a soup. But in East Asia, it is also believed that sharing from one and the same pot makes for closer relationships. Very much like the...
A delightfully quirky gallery
In November 2010 Heli Mäenpää, Creative Director of leading Finnish photography agency Viewmasters in Helsinki received a very to the point email from long-time partner Nokia: “Do you have any ideas for Helsinki World Design Capital?”. “We have one. But it´s a good one” Heli replied. Last week, I attended the opening of new gallery...
Catharsis: the purifying aesthetic experience
In Aristotle’s “Poetics” (from around 330 BC) the term catharsis is introduced – a term that has always fascinated and interested me, and which I find highly useful when seeking to explain why comfort zone breaking aesthetic experiences are a human need (discussed in my previous post) Catharsis is a greek word meaning “to purify”. Aristotle describes...
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