Archived entries for Glowing
Incoming: The Plastic Blizzard
Holy crap, look at this gigantic upside-down pile-o-prisms just in from Tokujin Yoshioka studio! What you’re looking at is a huge tangle of 6-sided minimal snowflakes made from acrylic prisms. It is called, appropriately, “Snowflake” and will be viewable at the Kartell showroom in Milan during the Salone del Mobile from April 14-19.
It will be installed to coincide with the release of Yoshioka’s The Invisibles polycarbonate furniture collection for Kartell, which one day we will buy when we’re doing the interior renovation of the Fortress of Solitude.
Olafur Eliasson makes me shit my pants full of rainbows
Are you in Kanazawa, Japan right now? If the answer is yes, then a) I’m super jealous b) you can still catch Olafur Eliasson’s show “Your Chance Encounter” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art of Kanazawa until March 22.
I have a rocky relationship with Olafur, personally; one minute I’m hating on his stupid waterfalls, the next I’m getting all weepy and transcendent at his warm glowy womb room at the MoMA. His work is so good when it dematerializes and then reappears all up in your personal space. It’s also often terribly beautiful. There’s no doubt in my mind that when this sucker is on, he is ON.
I can’t say I’ve seen any of this work in person so I can’t help you out by explaining how it works, so instead just ENJOY. And maybe gnaw your fingernails in jealousy. Because, giant rainbow light rooms? Rhombic kaleidoscopes? Come on!
Images via Olafur Eliasson’s website.
The weekend is 1 hour short, but 2 minutes 50 seconds cooler
No Smarties has been looking kind of glum lately, and the weather’s crappy and this weekend is an hour shorter than every other weekend, so how’s about let’s spruce things up with THIS AMAZING STOP MOTION MUSIC VIDEO for Nobody Beats the Drum, directed by Rogier van der Zwaag. You are looking at 4,085 still photographs. Heck yes!
Rainbow Church: Not just Episcopalians any more!
The office of No Smarties‘ fave Tokujin Yoshioka (whose window display for Hermés was mentioned, breathlessly, here) was kind enough to send over his newest project, which debuts in Seoul this May: The Rainbow Church. Which is to say, he’s designed a 25ft high stained-glass window made entirely of light-scrambling prisms. Over 500 of them. Chyah!
Tokujin’s words:
The idea of this architecture project “Rainbow Church” dates back to when I was in [my] early 20s.
I visited the Chepelle du Rosaire, which Henri Matisse, a French painter, created in his last years, located in Vence, a commune located near Nice, France. I was engrossed in the beauty of the light that the chapel created.
I experienced a space filled with the light of Matisse: Being bathed in the sunlight of the Provence, the stained glass with Matisse’s vibrant colors suffused the room with full of colors.
Since then, I had been dreaming of designing an architecture where people can feel the light with all senses.
Wish wish wish I was there to see this baby open in May. If anyone goes, send pics! And, you know, plane tickets.
On display May 1 – June 30
MUSEUM. beyondmuseum
Gangnam-gu Chungdam-dong 49-21, Seoul, Korea
Pics of the whole installation after the jump.
Seein’ dis: Banks Violette @Gladstone Gallery, NYC
Readers, if you’re anything like us and are ready to have about 500 of Banks Violette’s babies then now would be a good time to head over to Gladstone Gallery, where he’s got a show up until April 17. It’s your chance! You’ll also be able to see numerous new pieces including that boss (& energy-efficient) chandelier above.
Banks Violette, February 12 – April 17, 2010
Gladstone Gallery
530 West 21st Street
New York, NY
Lighthouse!
The ethereal indoor/outdoor Lighthouse by Swedish architect Thomas Sandell just looks fucking good. Look at it! It’s the type of thing that works equally well amongst clutter or clean. It’s a moment of calm – whether in the lunar landscape above, or your sock-and-beer-can-strewn living room.
And plus it’s totally the shape of houses that children draw, which to varying degrees is the scale by which I judge things. Holla to your iconography!
It is available for a weirdly unknown price from this Swedish lighting store. If anyone’s adventurous enough to call them and buy this thing please send pictures! And then invite me to come live with you. thx.
Harry Allen is on fire!
Harry Allen, the creator of everyone’s favorite dead piglet piggy bank (natural causes, natch) is wowing us again with this badass LED light molded 3D-printed off of a firefly he caught in his backyard. When writing articles makes me rich I will buy a swarm of these for a de facto insect chandelier. Until then, I guess I’ll just settle for this thing as my lonely only firefly-themed design object. Le sigh.
via design news now
Laser threads & Red bulls
The award for Best Use of Blacklights this year (or maybe ever) goes to Device for this installation at the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona (no, not that Red Bull). What you see there is all thread that looks like lazerz – does it remind anybody else of that party scene in Hackers? More pics after the jump.
