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A MAGAZINE FOR CREATIVE GIRLS FOOD-ART-DESIGN-INSPIRATION-TRAVEL
JAN 2015 ISSUE 1 10€
Uneven vol.1 ISSN 2074-496X January 2015 10€ Cover image Cover image was provided by Rocío Montoya (Spain) Chois Publishing Inc. United States Office joanne@choisuneven.com Barcelona Office 1201-03, Plaça Espanya, 760 Phone: +34 657 782 147 www.unevenmagazine.com Publisher: David Choi david@choisuneven.com Editorial & Art Department Editor-in-Chief: David Choi david@choisuneven.com Exectutive Editor: Sarah Dong editor@choisuneven.com Art director: Fanghong Wang Editors: Diana Dai, Emily Lu, Frida Guo, Yolana Zhang, Huixuan Guo Designers: Chen Ni, Derek Han Marketing & Sales Department: Sales Executives: Claudia Chen Phone +34 658 892 567 claudia_chen@choisuneven.com Nomi Wu (Great Britain) Phone +31 896 678 567 wuguo@choisuneven.com Subscriptions: Pete Yu Phone +31 345 345 343 pete@choisuneven.com
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Editorial I have a lot of goals. Some of them are outrageous, and some are less extreme. People are always raising their eyebrows when I share these goals, and it’s disconcerting. I put your article up on my wall and will remember its advice; it’s just what I needed to hear!I think of my goals as little pebbles, and my life as like the sack I carry the pebbles in. It’s like a leather pouch, actually, like the kind people used to have in medieval times. And the pebbles are actually jewels, and I would also have a gold crown that had little notches in it so that when I poured the jewels out and fit them into the notches on the crown, whoever I was with would be like, “Oh my god!” because they’d know I was a queen, because the same crown went missing years ago, and the legend was that whoever had the crown would be the queen.. I related to “Would You Rather Be Fat & Happy? Or Thin & Sad?” [April, page 136]. … I know from experience that being obese makes me unhappy, not only because I don’t like the way I look but also because it could affect my physical health. Thank you for showing me . Truly, the fashion media seems to be dogged by a very persistent set of stereotypes. So let me take this opportunity to clear the air: It’s not true. At Lucky, we eat, more than regularly (follow us on Instagram to see the stream of macarons and cupcakes that we tuck away). We laugh (usually at terribly nerdy Game of Thrones puns—it’s a pretty direwolf situation). We genuinely enjoy each other’s company in the office (which we do not leave at midday to get blowouts) and outside its walls. Really, we’re an altogether normal bunch. To tell you the truth, I never really understood why fashion had to be so serious. After all, its main by-product—shopping—is such a joy. Think about it: Is there any better feeling than when you’re at a store—it could be high street like Madewell, it could be high end like Marc Jacobs (I’ve been spending way too much time and, er, resources at both recently)—and a salesperson hands you a crisp, delicious shopping bag? And suddenly, the item you’d been coveting is yours. ADRIANA CABEZA, DIRECTOR
Contributors
EMMA HERSH WRITER
GEORGE SAUNDERS PHOTOGRPAHER
DAVIS REMNICK EDITOR
Emma M. Hersh wrote her first piece for The New Yorker in 1971 and has been a regular contributor to the magazine since 1993. His journalism and publishing awards include a Pulitzer Prize, five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. As a staff writer, Hersh won a National Magazine Award for Public Interest for his 2003 articles “Lunch with the Chairman,” “Selective Intelligence,”.
George Saunders has published over twenty short stories and numerous Shouts & Murmurs in The New Yorker since first appearing in the magazine, in 1992. His work includes the shortstory collections “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline” (a finalist for the 1996 PEN/ Hemingway Award), “Pastoralia,” “In Persuasion Nation” (a finalist for the Story Prize), “Tenth of December”.
Davis Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. He has written many pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe, and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, and Benjamin Netanyahu.Remnick began his reporting career as a staff writer at the Washington Post in 1982.
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TESSA HADLEY WRITER
LILLIAN ROS PHOTOGRAPHER
SHARON OLDS ILLUSTRATOR
Tessa Hadley has contributed short stories regularly to The New Yorker since 2002, when an excerpt from her first novel, “Accidents in the Home,” appeared in the magazine. Since “Accidents in the Home,” which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Hadley has published four highly-praised novels: “Everything Will Be All Right,” “The Master Bedroom,” “The London Train” (a New York Times Notable Book).
Lillian Ross worked with Harold Ross, the magazine’s founder and first editor. She began as a Talk of the Town reporter and, over the course of her career, she has written hundreds of pieces, contributing to nearly every section of the magazine.In the early nineteenfifties, Ross went to Hollywood to cover John Huston’s filming of “The Red Badge of Courage.” Published in five parts in 1952, her article “Picture,” was a breakthrough work, the first piece.
Sharon Olds has been contributing poems to The New Yorker since 1979. Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent collection, “Stag’s Leap,” she has been the recipient of several other honors and awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her work, often autobiographical in nature, is well known for its treatment of marriage, motherhood, intimacy, and the human condition. Olds’ poems have been anthologized in more than a hundred collections of art in the world.
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Them bones JEWELLRY DESIGNERS
The sisters Lucia and Helena Cuesta create in 2012 Them Bones Jewelry. It comes with the objective of changing the ossified conception that people have about the jewelry, on what it means, and on the aspect that it should be. Them Bones Jewelry has given way to a jewelry brand that aims to revolutionize the outdated perception people have about the jewelry, exploring ways to make things crazy, trying to demonstrate that the contemporary jewelry also can be fun and experimental and continue to be commercial. www.thembonesjewelry.com
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Iriarte Iriarte HANDBAGS DESIGNER
Iriarte Iriarte bags are designed and handcrafted in Barcelona combining traditional skills with natural materials. Quality finishings and solid brass fittings complete the Iriarte Iriarte specification. Original bags and accesories that offer contemporary interpretations of timeless styles.Iriarte Iriarte is the precise combination of physical elements -tacto, smell, shape, color-elements with diaphanous -function, representation, memory, history, technically as well as the calculation of all interactions. “So,” Iriarte Iriarte aspires to produce things with vocation not obey the dictatorship of the time or the place. Things that do not belong to those who use or who produces them. “ www.iriarteiriarte.com
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Emma Mulholland FASHION DESIGNER Emma Mulholland is one of Australia’s most optimistic and promising young designers. She creates vibrantly coloured, ornately decorated clothing and accessories inspired by Australiana and 90s surf culture, which have caught the eyes of local editors and designers alike. Mulholland is one of four young designers selected to be a part of the TAFE New Innovators show at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week this year, and based on some of the ideas she’s throwing around, she’s expected to make waves. www.emmamulholland.com
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Claudia Albons FASHION BLOGGER Claudia Albons is 24 years old, she graduated in journalism from the University Ramon Llull Barcelona. Five years ago created one of the blogs of reference in the world of fashion,’missmarbles.net’ receives about 50,000 visits per month and will be integrated into the website of Mallorca blogger based in Barcelona. Besides brand ambassador or working as a model and DJ. Hunting trends and pro-Israel activist granddaughter Jacqueline Tobiass. www.claudiaalbons.com
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Girls at work Words: Susie Wolf Photography: Raúl Bosque
CHAIRYOURLIFE RANRAN DESIGN LA MALCONTTENTA ATTINA
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CHAIRYOURLIFE Chairyourlife is a design studio. We are Holga Gallega and Andrea Invierno, an interior designer and a photographer based in Valencia, Spain. All the pieces we create are handmade, with great dedication and using natural materials, especially wood. We also work on interior desgin projects, graphic design, art and photography. Chairyourlife was born randomly one night at a bar, we realized that we share a view and decided to achieve it together. The first thing we work at was our chair Bogart, 3rd prize at the international furniture design award CETEM, which encouraged us to create this brand and keep working.We produce attractive designs with natural and traditional materials always provided from local suppliers. We reuse obsolete furnishings, upcycling it adding aesthetic value and retrieving its functionality.We enjoy working with other people and we are always open to any proposal that we find interesting.
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RAN RAN DESIGN RANRAN DESIGN was born out of passion for interior design and taste for the handmade. The founder and chief designer, Bethlehem, combined her extensive background in interior design and fashion with her dreams and passions to create RANRAN DESIGN. Our mission is to create beautiful wall art and homewares with minimum impact on the environment, while maintaining great quality designs and supporting small and local businesses. Our products are 100% designed and hand crafted in Barcelona, Spain, using the highest quality natural materials.We design products to become classics and hope you love them for how they look and specially for how they have been made. Inspired by nature and travels around the world, our work has the charm and individuality of the handmade and the vintage feel, combined with a modern twist.We want to help people to feel genuinely happy and connected with the spaces where they live. We want to collaborate to create beautiful atmospheres. The name “RANRAN� comes from what affectionately became the nickname of Bethlehems father. It represents the sound of the motorcycle he rode around his home town and that always announced his arrival home at night. The name was given to the company representing the inspiration and love that those memories carry with them.
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LA MALCONTTENTA Lydia is the founder of LaMalconttenta, a Spanish brand of handmade desing. She studied artistic photography graphic design and digital media. However, she was always enjoyed the handcrafting process, that’s the reason why she decided to mix design and traditional handcraft to tell my stories.The philosophy of La Malconttenta is to enjoy old traditions, nature, and share it with people. Ceramic pieces with original illustrations from La Malconttenta. The pieces has been fired at high degrees for to handle the pieces often (is recommended not to abuse dishwasher). Enjoy the everyday, the traditional, natural, and share with others, is the philosophy of The Malcontentta, Lydia and passion shows in the result of his creations. She decided to bet on the combination of his two passions, studying graphic design and digital communication with manual processes. Opted for the mix design and traditional craftsmanship as support to tell their stories. Today he works in his studio by adding their designs and illustrations carriers such as ceramics, paper, wood and fabric, but certainly ceramics what you are most passionate. In the online shop you will find plenty of products made with love, take a look !. In addition also makes custom orders, eg for weddings...
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ATTINA RANRAN DESIGN was born out of passion for interior design and taste for the handmade. The founder and chief designer, Bethlehem, combined her extensive background in interior design and fashion with her dreams and passions to create RANRAN DESIGN. Our mission is to create beautiful wall art and homewares with minimum impact on the environment, while maintaining great quality designs and supporting small and local businesses. Our products are 100% designed and hand crafted in Barcelona, Spain, using the highest quality natural materials.We design products to become classics and hope you love them for how they look and specially for how they have been made. Inspired by nature and travels around the world, our work has the charm and individuality of the handmade and the vintage feel, combined with a modern twist.We want to help people to feel genuinely happy and connected with the spaces where they live. We want to collaborate to create beautiful atmospheres. The name “RANRAN” comes from what affectionately became the nickname of Bethlehem´s father. It represents the sound of the motorcycle he rode around his home town and that always announced his arrival home at night. The name was given to the company representing the inspiration and love that those memories carry with them. —
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Margaret Keane “One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I meet a girl who had many eyes.“ Tim Burton Words: Loraine Smith Illustration: Margaret Keane
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Margaret Keane started a style kitsch despised at the time and now the subject of worship For years her husband authorship of his work was attributed to the humiliated and threatened to kill his reputation would recover in court. A life of film filmmaker films today, their fan. In the film Sleeper (1973), Woody Allen takes us to a snooty party in an unlikely future where Diane Keaton, the host receives a gift of a box: “It’s a real keane” exclaims ecstatically to the canvas of a girl with big eyes peeking out from a door made with a rudimentary outline. The filmmaker’s intention was simply to make a joke at the expense of what at the time was considered an ordinary kitsch and reviled by critics. Over time, the art named big eyed big eye or (portraits of children, women, dogs and cats with huge eyeballs) went to jewel coveted trinket underground. Keane confessed fans such as Mark Ryden and artists Takashi Murakami and the creator of The Powerpuff Girls, Craig McCracken, have been updated and awarded a cool style varnish. But much earlier, in the sixties, there was a kid who grew up obsessed with these popular prints that were sold up at the pump. Over the years, the kid would yield tribute to some of the icons who amassed his boundless imagination: Batman, Ed Wood, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll ... We speak, of course, Tim Burton. The director meets these days the long cherished dream of bringing to the screen the life of Margaret Keane, who now has 86, the initiator of this painting style and his eternal muse. Has been trying to give encouragement to the project. Even five years ago announced that it would roll with Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds as protagonists. Finally, what will Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. The film, titled obviously Big eyes, begins shooting this summer and will be released in 2014. His love affair with the art for minorities issued the day on which the director stood at Margaret Keane in Sebastopol (California), requesting him to portray his then girlfriend, Lisa Marie, the Martian that sneaks in the White House in Mars Attacks! “They’d just shoot that movie,” recalls Margaret Keane phone.
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“They came with their chihuahua, and decided we had to also pose for the picture. A lovely lovely puppy“ he says. Years later came to me for another portrait of Helena Bonham Carter and her son, Billy, who was then three years. ” The speech naive and sweet cadence at which Margaret Keane speaks contrast with the turmoil that sealed its existence until the day he became a Jehovah’s Witness, in the early seventies. Before I had to escape a marriage that became hell painter in the shade while her husband, Walter Keane, the success of his paintings (signed as Keane, period) was attributed. During more than a decade it became literally a prisoner of its success. He confined her at home to paint, denting their self-esteem. “Walter was a marketing genius and self-promotion, but a bad man,” he says. “I was extremely introverted and just made me happy painting. And he took advantage of that. Before leaving home telling me things like ‘you’re ugly’, or, if we had an appointment, ‘you better with your mouth shut. “He spent his days locked up at home. It took a few years to realize what I was doing. One night we went to a jazz club where he sold the pictures. With his usual ritual, he told me to stay in a corner and not talk to anyone to not be ashamed. Until someone came up to me, the conversation turned to painting and asked, ‘So you also paint, Walter?’. There we were in a bar full of my own paintings. I felt humiliated. “ When he stood up to her husband and threatened to leave, he begged her to teach him to paint. “I tried, without success. His talents were others. “He had managed to place their works among some of the stars of Hollywood. Joan Crawford, Kim Novak, Natalie Wood Jerry Lewis or were part of its customer base. He even sent a picture of his infants John Jr. and Caroline Kennedy to the White House.
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Margaret’s paintings became darker. Night crying children in alleys or peeping hidden boxes. “It was a translation of how I felt.” Walter that threatened to kill her and her daughter (from a previous marriage of Margaret) if he dared to reveal the truth. She gathered courage and put an ocean between. He left California to settle in Hawaii in 1965, where he had spent his honeymoon with Walter. “I thought it would be unable to go back to love,” he says. Today she is married to the former director of communications for the San Francisco 49ers and sports columnist Dan McGuire.
Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, met numerous times with her not to leave any detail out of the story. And Tim Burton, who organized a luncheon to present the project at the last Cannes Film Festival with his distributor, Harvey Weinstein, has been asked to make a cameo in the film.
It was another war to wage: the recovery of the authorship of his paintings. Walter still walking around posing as artist. By then, the popular galleries and department stores dispatched million posters and plates reproducing their images. In an interview with Life magazine proclaimed that neither Rembrandt, and El Greco, Michelangelo painted or eyes better than him. Harta, Margaret confessed in a radio interview in 1970, she painted the pictures and the advice of a San Francisco Chronicle reporter, challenged him to a painting competition in public at Union Square in San Francisco. He responded by suing-the judge dismissed for lack of absenting pruebas- and 12 years in Europe.
She resists. “Just get me can disguise or as an extra, in the distance, I can not see much,” he says with a shy and excited. He is content to know that their works, which have caused so much rejection among scholars today will finally reach the figure of $ 200,000. Also, to continue to receive commissions, particularly Jehovah’s Witnesses centers. “I just finished a life-size Christ,” he says shortly before hanging up. “The Bible study and search for truth guide my steps today.” —
In the mid-eighties reappeared, ensuring in an interview in USA Today that if Margaret was adjudged authorship because he thought he had died. It was the straw that broke the camel. This time she sued him for defamation. 20 years ago you could not see the faces. He was 70 (he died in 2000), her 58 The trial lasted four weeks. “My lawyer asked from day to put us paint together before the jury, but the judge refused and refused. Finally, he planted two trestles. Walter was presented with a case of paints, brushes and everything, but claimed he had a shoulder injury and he could not paint. “She finished a careful child’s face in less than an hour. The case was ready for decision. Walter was sentenced to pay four million dollars Margaret for moral and psychological damage. “Of course, I never saw a penny, but I did not aspire to that. I just wanted the world to know that those were my pictures “.
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“Designs that connect industrial aesthetic with experimental and artistic elements�
Concrete aesthetics Concrete has relatively high compressive strength, but significantly lower tensile strength, and as such is usually reinforced with materials that are strong in tension (often steel). The elasticity of concrete is relatively constant at low stress levels but starts decreasing at higher stress levels as matrix cracking develops. Concrete has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion, and as it matures concrete shrinks. All concrete structures will crack to some extent, due to shrinkage and tension. Concrete which is subjected to longduration forces is prone to creep.
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A major problem I find with seasonal decorations is that… well… they’re seasonal. I’d rather keep things looking festive year-round, with some neutral options that I can switch up for mood rather than for an upcoming holiday. A fireplace mantle is one of those locations that, for whatever reason, lends itself to holiday-specific decoration so of course that’s where I decided to start. When I began to consider materials, my mind immediately went to concrete. You want neutral? There it is. And because I like a challenge, I decided I was going to figure out how to make a simple garland out of concrete shapes that was lightweight enough to hang across a fireplace, railing, or doorway. The answer was much more obvious than I’d anticipated, and the materials were all super inexpensive and easily sourced. —
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Rachel Levit “Sometimes it just comes from randomness and happy accidents.” Illustrator Rachel Levit was born and raised in Mexico City, studied at Parsons the New School of Design and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She’s got numerous illustrations awards and achievements under her belt, both American and Mexican given, and it’s not hard to see why. Rachel’s style is often described as nostalgic, given her pared-down color palette and use of traditional imagery, but she’s got a modern attitude, drawing popular culture and fashion-related subjects, and often pretty, solitary, and seemingly lonely girls. She uses delicate and detailed line work with soft, mushy guaches and colors. Finding inspiration in things around her like popular art, films and books, Rachel says “sometimes it just comes from randomness and happy accidents.”
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“My thesis was inspired by botanical illustrations. I created a world of little children. I wanted to tell stories that evoked childhood and growth.”
But Rachel doesn’t limit herself to drawing pretty girls and clothes. She illustrates children’s books, contributes to zines and other publications, turns illustrated patterns into textiles and fabric designs, and even makes sculptural figurines based on her drawings.
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achel then sculpted the children to bring her characters to life. Rachel Levit is also a regular contributor to Sad Girls, a zine featuring work by “girls who make things and have lots of feelings.” For Sad Girls, she creates images of friendship, heartbreak and loneliness, among other things girls can relate to.—
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THE BEAUTY OF ORGANIZE AND PHOTOG
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GRPAG ITEMS THAT YOU HAVE AT HOME
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The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those without. As I am sure you're the first guy, you know that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who enjoy a magic trick and they want to know how the hell the magician has done the trick. Because obviously you want to know. Because it is in the nature of man. We want to know how things work. Why move when pedaling bicycles. How does the pickup to read music. What the hell is inside the lock cylinder to be open when turning the key. In short, we see the tiny man who is inside the TV. And for that, we need to open and remove the TV. More than one will sound this. Perhaps you remember that time you gave a washing machine toy and the first thing you did was gutted to see what was inside. Maybe that day your walkman stopped working and, given that neither were the batteries or the tape was tangled, decided to take the screwdriver and disassemble piece by piece to find where the mechanism was failing.
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It’s 1989 and Andrew Kromelow works as a 5S method. Seiri, classification; seiton, order; seiso, cleaning; seiketsu, standardization; and shitsuke, discipline. In fact, photographs resemble Knolling graphics and mounting guides IKEA, to bulletin tools repair shops or catalogs of medical instruments. Janitor in the study of Frank Gehry furniture. At that time, Canadian architect has not yet perfected his technique of the comb, but mainly towards designing buildings, furniture and objects. As is the case in most studies of architecture, interior office is quite messy; so one afternoon, Kromelow is collecting all the utensils and tools are scattered around the shop and placed on top of a desk. Sorted applications, shapes and sizes, and at angles of 90 degrees. The result is an area organized with all the objects in view. Kromelow decides that this process needs a name and as, at that time, Gehry’s office is working on pieces for furniture company Knoll, orderly desk gives the name of Knolling.Initially, the Knolling was merely a system of organizing the tools and elements of a workspace for the activity efectivily.
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Because it is in the nature of man. We want to know how things work. Why move when pedaling bicycles. How does the pickup to read music. What the hell is inside the lock cylinder to be open when turning the key. In short, we see the tiny man who is inside the TV. And for that, we need to open and remove the TV.The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those without. As I am sure you're the first guy, you know that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who enjoy a magic trick and they want to know how the hell the magician has done the trick. Because obviously you want to know. More than one will sound this. Perhaps you remember that time you gave a washing machine toy and the first thing you did was gutted to see what was inside. Maybe that day your walkman stopped working and, given that neither were the batteries or the tape was tangled, decided to take the screwdriver and disassemble piece by piece to find where the mechanism was failing.
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It’s 1989 and Andrew Kromelow works as a 5S method. Seiri, classification; seiton, order; seiso, cleaning; seiketsu, standardization; and shitsuke, discipline. In fact, photographs resemble Knolling graphics and mounting guides IKEA, to bulletin tools repair shops or catalogs of medical instruments. Janitor in the study of Frank Gehry furniture. At that time, Canadian architect has not yet perfected his technique of the comb, but mainly towards designing buildings, furniture and objects. As is the case in most studies of architecture, interior office is quite messy; so one afternoon, Kromelow is collecting all the utensils and tools are scattered around the shop and placed on top of a desk. Sorted applications, shapes and sizes, and at angles of 90 degrees. The result is an area organized with all the objects in view. Kromelow decides that this process needs a name and as, at that time, Gehry’s office is working on pieces for furniture company Knoll, orderly desk gives the name of Knolling.Initially, the Knolling was merely a system of organizing the tools and elements of a workspace for the activity efectivily. Canadian architect has not yet perfected his technique of the comb, but mainly towards designing buildings, furniture and objects. As is the case in most studies of architecture, interior office is quite messy; so one afternoon, Kromelow is collecting all the utensils It’s 1989 and Andrew Kromelow works as a 5S method. Seiri, classification; seiton, order; seiso, cleaning; seiketsu, standardization; and shitsuke, discipline. In fact, photographs resemble Knolling graphics and mounting guides IKEA, to bulletin tools repair shops or catalogs of medical instruments. Janitor in the study of Frank Gehry furniture. At that time, Kromelow is collecting all the utensils and tools are scattered around the shop and placed on top of a desk. Sorted applications, shapes and sizes, and at angles of 90 degrees. The result is an area organized with all the objects in view. Kromelow decides that this process needs a name and as, at that time, Gehry’s office is working on pieces for furniture company Knoll, orderly desk gives the name of Knolling.Initially, the Knolling was merely a system of organizing the tools and elements of a workspace for the activity efectivily.
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And makes perfect sense. In January 2011, researchers at the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University published a study on neurological responses that occurred when working in an orderly compared to those derived from a chaotic environment environment. In its conclusions, claiming that the environmental disorder interfered with care, causing a deterioration in activity and increased stress. However, Knolling detached from its exclusively utilitarian condition and acquired a more complex dimension when the sculptor Tom Sachs, who had worked for two years in the study of Frank Gehry, appropriated the concept and became an integral part of his work . Sachs's research was based on a supposedly utilitarian premise, but nevertheless, his quest was eminently aesthetic. Perhaps he was inspired by Joseph Cornell boxes, pioneer of artistic assemblage, created in the 60s as objectual witnesses from mundane reality. Anyway, Sachs changed a scene in the film Glengarry Glen Ross to present their manifesto ABK: Always Be Knolling. Moreover, in his book Ten Bullets, he enunciated a simple procedure for knolling. —
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Rocio Montoya AESTHETIC HARMONY BETWEEN DREAM AND REALITY Words: Loraine Smith Photography: RocĂo Montoya
Collages dancing between digital and craft, between the experimental and natural photography and the deconstruction of the same, to create surreal images that speak for themselves. Nature and human, are the basis of their work to transport us to the dream world of herself, Rocio Montoya. She studied photography and design and little by little it has been discovering herself as an artist with the passage of time. Much of it owes to his experience as founder and co-director Doze-Magazine, since the fact of knowing so many artists and move in that world, he was helping to create a style; visual, creative and artistic perspective view and their ideas. Photography is the essential basis of each of his works, but to blow scalpel and digital edition, creates unique pieces that you can not stop looking and something that is disturbing. Sensuality, calm, peace, beauty and surrealism, this is the world Rocio Montoya reflected in his collages, often accompanying with poetic texts of their own creation. His images draw us into the mind and soul of those portrayed characters and deconstructed, that move us, make us think, stir our feelings and tell us the story behind. —
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LAYERED GLASS PICTURE FRAME / a couple of pieces of glass / a clip / a picture 1/ Assemble the glass squares and rectangles with a picture in between and clip together. I framed this snapshot I took of Romeo’s new haircut instead of the usual taping it to the wall. Next thing I’m doing is adding more glass and one or two more pictures to have them overlap and looking like a 3D collage.
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diy projects MULTIPLE-WAY CLOTHING RACK / plastic plumbing tubes / 6 x 90째 corner connection / 2 x three-way connection 1/ Cut your tubes to the right lengths: 3 x 1.70 meter / 2 x 1 meter / 4 x 30 centimeter 2/ Assemble.
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HAIR WRAP / leather / press buttons / elastic 1/ Take measurements and cut the leather. Take into account that the leather will be folded in half. 2/ Fold it in three like shown on the second image. 3/ Make two incisions right in the middle and put the elastic through. 4/ Add a few stitches to the outer sides to keep the folds in place. 5/ Apply the press studs.
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SLIDE SANDALS / a pair slide slippers / super glue / leather / scissors 1/ measure the straps of your slides and cut out two pieces of leather. 2/ glue them on.
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MINIMALISTIC, VEGAN, COCONUT, VANILLA CUBES / agar agar powder / coconut milk / a vanilla bean / agave nectar (or sugar) 1/ Prepare the Agar Agar as instructed on the package. But instead of using water, use coconut milk. Bring the coconut milk to a boil, add the powder, the agave nectar and the seeds of the vanilla bean. 2/ Pour the mixture into a container. Let it cool off outside the fridge for a while to give the vanilla seeds a chance to sink to the bottom before the pudding sets. 3/ After about an hour in the fridge, cut the agar agar into cubes. 4/ Take them out, flip them over to expose the black vanilla speckles and eat!
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CLEAR BAG VEGAN, MINIMALISTIC, COCONUT, WITH COPPER VANILLA HANDLES CUBES / two agarcopper agar powder tubes / plastic coconut milk / sewing a vanillamachine bean or needle and / thread agave nectar (or sugar) 1/ Take Prepare measurements: the Agar Agar 40cm as instruc(width) xted 30cm on the (height). package. Instead But instead of cutting of using two rectangles water, useofcoconut 40cm x milk. 30cm, Bring cut the coconut one large rectangle milk toofa40 boil, cmadd x 60cm the powder, and fold itthe in half, agave don’t nectar forget and to add the seeds a few centimeters of the vanilla forbean. the tubes, the 2/ Pour final measurements the mixture into of athe container. plastic Let it cool would be approximately off outside the 40cm fridge x 65cm. for a while 2/ Fold the to give plastic the in vanilla half and seeds cut a chance out a square to sinkintothe themiddle. bottom before theFold 3/ pudding over sets. the four flaps left on 3/ After the top and about sew ancreating hour in four the fridge, ‘loops’ cut thethe where agar tubes agarwill intogocubes. through. 4/ Close Take them the bag out,with flip them a seam. over to expose 5/ Put the thetubes black through vanillathe speckles loops. and eat!
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CLEAR HAIR BARRETTE / perspex / stanley knife / ruler / metal file / vase / drill 1/ Make an incision along a ruler with a stanley knife on the perspex and break it off by putting it on the edge of a table and pressing down the part you want to break off. 2/ Also break off the end of the ‘lemon crusher’. 3/ Preheat the oven to 200°C then place your square and your lemon crusher on a non-stick baking tray inside the oven for 5 minutes. 4/ Take both pieces out and bend them over a round object like a vase. 5/ Drill two holes on each side of your bended plastic.
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LEATHER PANELED BEANIE / knit beanie / bit of supple leather / scissors / sewing machine / pen 1/ Mark 5 cm from the top of the outline you just drew on the leather. Divide this measurement by half and mark this next to the outline of the beanie you drew on the leather. 2/Cut out the leather and make two slits on the diagonal lines. 3/ Sew on the leather panel on the top and the sides but let the cutout darts loose so that there is room left for movement.
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FOLDED FOIL SKIRT / roll of silver / glue / scissors / pen 1/ Take a piece of foil long enough to almost go around your waist twice and glue it together. 2/ Put on the soon to be skirt and make sure the ‘back seam’ you just glued together is in the exact middle of your back. Now create two large pleats at the front making the skirt tighter. 3/ Fold the pleats over inwards and with a pen draw their outline. (Can be easily removed afterwards) 4/ Take off the skirt, fold it back using the drawn outlines as a guideline and glue some strong velcro on the inside of the folds.
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SHIRT SKIRT / shirt / scissors / pen 1/ All I did was slice a long shirt in half. 2/Then made a seem on the top of the skirt part, pulled through a string (that I quickly made from some left over leather).
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#GRUB UP
Eat With Me A global community that invites you to dine in homes around the world. Connect with amazing people, share unforgettable experiences, and enjoy delicious homemade cuisine.
Words: Lara Taylor Photography: Richard de Paul www.eatwithme.net
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HOW DOES IT WORK?
Our idea is simple. We want people to eat together, not alone. If you agree that it’s more fun to combine eating with meeting interesting people, then Eat With Me is the perfect place for you. ATTENDING AN EVENT
If you are new around here, you might want to look around first, browse events that other members have put on, and join the one(s) you like. Although we are a very friendly bunch, we understand that if you don’t know anyone yet, showing up the first time to meet up with strangers might be a bit intimidating. Bringing a friend along might make it easier. Of course, if you are like most of our other members then rocking up alone won’t be a problem. Most of us have done this. By the end of the night the strangers will become new friends! HOST AN EVENT
Why not host an event yourself? This gives you the freedom to meet people in a setting that suits you best. You can also select your guests and pick the date when you’ll be available. Being a host doesn’t mean that you have to cook for everyone. You can ask guests to bring food and drinks or share the cooking. If that’s not your cup of tea, and you’d rather visit a new restaurant around the corner or head to the pub for drinks, be our guest. SUBMIT NEW EVENT IDEAS
If you have an event idea but are not sure whether to host, or you need someone to help you out, post your idea to our New Event Ideas section. This gives you an opportunity to put your idea to the vote without initial commitment. Others might help you with their own great ideas to make your event even better. Once you feel comfortable, you can turn the idea into a real event. Don’t be surprised if someone likes your idea so much that they want to host it themselves. This is totally encouraged! —
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“I really enjoyed my first Eat With Me event thanks to everyone who obviously put in masses of effort to make it slick, convivial and fun!” Theresa
“What a fun night! Thanks to everyone for coming. Now, let’s all share our recipes!” Lucie
“Had a great time. The food was fabulous, the company was really stimulating and the venue was delightful. Thank you for opening your home to us. Hope to see you all again soon.” Mike These are some of the comments from people who attended the event and shared EatWithme table with our reporter Lara Taylor.
#COUCHSURFING
Sleeping in others couches Words: Sophie L贸pez Photography: Michael Scissors www.couchsurfing.org
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“THE PURPOSE OF LIFE, AFTER ALL, IS TO LIVE IT. TO TASTE EXPERIENCE TO THE UTMOST, TO REACH OUT EAGERLY AND WITHOUT FEAR FOR NEWER AND RICHER EXPERIENCES” ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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CouchSurfing is a worldwide network of online entertainment born in San Francisco (California) in 2003. Today it has nearly nine million members in 246 countries referenced. The idea is simple: locate free housing. We envision a world made better by travel and travel made richer by connection. Couchsurfers share their lives with the people they encounter, fostering cultural exchange and mutual respect.
Communicate with your host. Once someone has accepted your request, begin coordinating your visit. Are your dates firm, or might you stay another few days at your previous stop? Are you confident that you will know how to get there, or do you need directions or advice about area transportation? Will you be arriving by car, bus, train, plane, bike, or on foot?
Pay attention to what your hosts tell you..Your host lives in the place you will go and may be able to offer helpful advice. If the buses don’t run that late, make other plans.Respect house rules. If your host tells you to come in through the side gate and not let out the cat, do your best to come in through the side gate and not let out the cat.Pay attention to what your hosts may not think to tell you, too.
Couchsurfing is a global network of millions of adventure seekers and lifelong learners in over 100,000 cities in every country in the world.The service connects travelers across the globe who share experiences ranging from hosting one another in their homes to having a beer to becoming close friends and travel companions. Hotels and tour companies can give you a bed or show you the sites, but they can’t make your trip truly meaningful or memorable. People do that.Tell your prospective hosts when you’ll arrive, why you’d like to meet them, and how long you’ll be staying. Explain a little about your visit. Are you touring the area?In town for an event? Passing through on the way to someplace else? Also make sure you’ve filled in your profile, so they know a little about you.Read his/her/their profile and pay attention. Your host is a volunteer and is most likely open to hosting because it means getting to meet people.
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Pay attention to what your hosts may not think to tell you, too. Do they take their shoes off at the door? Do the same. Find out about the accommodation. Should you bring your own sleeping bag, pillow, or towel? Is there anything else you should know before you arrive? Ask questions if you’re not sure about something.
you when you leave. Help with the dishes, especially if you’ve used the kitchen during your visit. Or ask if you can help with other light housekeeping.Be flexible and patient, and help your host to accommodate you. If your host can’t be home to let you in during the day, find out when he or she can be there, and then find yourself something else to do for an afternoon. Don’t leave stuff behind without asking, unless it is intended as a gift. Your host will not want to have to clean up your trash or mail your jacket back to you after you leave, and you will not want to have to ask. Check the room where you stayed, and be sure you check the bathroom and shower, as well. Clean up after yourself. Ask your host for appropriate cleaning supplies if you need them. If your host provided a pillow, blankets, a towel, or a floor mat, ask where to put them. Return any items you borrowed.
Show up when you say you will, or communicate if something is going wrong. Do your best to communicate both changes of plan and transportation delays to your hosts. Offer something in exchange. You shouldn’t be charged for your accommodation when couchsurfing, and your host should know that, but your host is doing you a favor, and you as a guest should offer something in return. It need not cost anything and it’s polite.
Keep in touch. Not all surfers and hosts will make friends every time, but if you did find a friend, use Facebook or email to say hi once in a while and let your hosts know how the rest of your trip is going. —
Be friendly, and keep a positive attitude. It costs nothing to be cheerful, enthusiastic, and appreciative of your host’s hospitality, and it can make a big difference in how your host sees you and treats you. Offer to help out. At the very least, clean up promptly after yourself, and be sure to take all your stuff with
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Creative mornings Words and illustration Audrey Phoeu www.creativemornings.com www.soulsight.es
CreativeMornings is a monthly seminar series for creative people. Each event is free and includes a 20-minute talk (not to mention breakfast and coffee). Creativity has always been oriented professions related to art or design, so much so that there is still a creative profession but... why can not a butcher, a financier, a philosopher, or anyone having access to sources of creative inspiration? Under that approach, the team Soulsight wondered, how could extend more creativity circles? So in January 2013 we joined the Creative Mornings community, opening headquarters in Madrid. The Creative Mornings is a global community that is born with a very simple concept: a breakfast and
a short talk, one Friday morning a month. It is free and open to all. The talks are about a specific topic each month, but always under the umbrella of creativity. Each event includes a 20 minute presentation followed by a group discussion of 20 minutes. It starts at 9 am and concludes at 10:30 for everyone to go to work. In addition, all lectures are videotaped, so if you’ve missed any, you always have a chance to see her again. But not only Madrid, but of the world.We now have 86 locations, so you can have a monthly overview of creativity, with speakers as illustrious as John Maeda, Zach Frechette, Jason Fried, to name a few global or as Carlos Domingo, 80
Carina Spilzka or relajaelcoco, who have already gone through the chapter Madrid, to give more local examples. From the team at Creative Mornings Soulsight Madrid and want to promote creativity in an open space worldwide. Anyone can attend. Just register in advance to reserve your place... and with breakfast included! So if all this we get you pique curiosity, hope to see you at the next Creative Mornings Madrid so we can have breakfast together, inspire us and give us a break from the routine to go harder.
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Diary PALO ALTO MARKET
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FESTIVAL LEM 2014
Palo Alto is located in Poblenou, in an old factory area that has been renovated to house studios and workshops of artists and creators.In the market, visitors can see all kinds of creations, new designs, handmades, vintage items, alternative projects, recycled objects with a chance of a second life... Besides, there will be shows in the streets, live music and street food.
Three studies met the designers to present their projects and will sell their creations. Geometries and colorful landscapes of Studio Hey, architectures and fonts of PeBeStore PrintmyLetter make you think about what you can lock wall hanging one of his pos.
From 9 October to 19 December, the Festival Lem will find much more than cinema music, poetry, food, workshops, prizes, dance, exhibitions-, but with artistic experimentation as a nexus . By LEM this year 77 artists from 9 countries in a total of 31 performances. The poster highlights the first visit to Spain Globo group responsible for many film soundtracks of Dario Argento, who will play live music.
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FESTIVALET FLEADONIA Social, the neighborhood is full of curious neighbors who want to buy or sell at reasonable prices ... This is the philosophy of Fleadonia the flea market organized by the people of Freedonia. The plan? In addition there will be music stops, entertainment and vermouth people to fill the streets of the Raval.
Festivalet is an independent fair showcasing a curated selection of unique hand-made products that takes place every December in Barcelona.
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The market is dedicated to graphic work, expands its selection of works by a hundred national and international artists, to bring you the newest picture chart designed for all prices. Without any doubt, the ideal place to start your small art collection or to make with this unique and original Christmas gift you were looking occasion.
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Lost&Found Market is a selling, buying and exchange market of second-hand objects where people can exchange articles, find items at great price, listen to music, be delighted by an assorted gastronomic offer and the most important of all things, participate in a different way of citizen interaction.
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DEMANOENMANO New edition of the flea market and craft a proposal that brings together lovers of vintage and alternative artists, music and art. Barcelona, until
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MOLÉCULA 21 Mútuo centro de arte offers spaces, a form of Pop-up Stores for 21 days. The aim is to offer 21 outlets designers who do not have their own shop, to exhibit and sell their products. Given that December is one of the biggest sales month since the festivities. Barcelona, until
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