Eva / Film Main Titles (by Dvein)
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An amazing and touching picture diary which resurfaced in the net a couple of days ago. How fitting in a way as it is about the father of the photographer who has no short term memory, no things ever “resurface” to him. Watching this diary you become an intimate spectator with pictures that are honest, personal and even funny sometimes without ever missing dignity.
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Thos from tschagsalmaa Borchuu on Vimeo.
I believe there is no other culture as closely linked to horses as it is the case with Mongolians. And I am not talking historically. Tschagsalmaa Borchuu a young mongolian fashion design strategist who grew up and studied in the west transfers part of her cultural heritage into a new contemporary and culturally unbound context. A brand called THOS (mongolian:dust) .
Every year in Mongolia there are numerous horseraces that have a vivid cultural meaning for the mongols which is hard to estimate in importance. It is a mongolian believe that when you stand within the dust of these races and if you get to touch the horses sweat after the race you’ll be blessed with the greatest luck imaginable. Her fashion brand THOS consists of high quality cashmere clothing (a traditional mongolian product) that has been worn by the child jockeys during the race. In this way the sweater becomes soaked in with all the elements, -and yes it will be sold dirty.
THOS plays with the connotation of cashmere as a traditional luxury good. Something precious will be sold “used and dirty” while at the same time loaded with what mongolians consider to be most precious. Two understandings of luxury merge in one new product which is ambigious and truly outstanding.
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Bill Cunningham New York Trailer (by Gavin McWait)
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(via swissmiss | Mapnificient)
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ok song + awesome video!
“Staring Out The Window” - Fulton Lights (by Ninian Doff)
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ＱＵＭＡ (by celsysCLIPLab)
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Go is an ancient board game that originated some 4000 years ago in ancient china. It is so to speak one of the grandfathers of all games. Black and white stones get placed one after another on a board with a 19x 19 grid. With just a few minor adjustments go has survived unchanged up until today which might be the biggest prove for it´s inherent quality. It is a game with very simple rules but the resulting complexity (There are more possible variations that the estimated number of atoms in our universe) still makes todays most advanced computers fail to beat a human professional. Fascinating indeed and you can probably tell by now that go is my passion. And as it is with every passion people have sooner or later they will tell you about how it equals to life. A passionate runner, dancer, musician or even pigeon breeder will tell you how what they love holds so much wisdom if you just look closely enough. One of the aspects of go, which I think is interesting regardless of if you are interested in the game or not is tewari analysis. It was pioneered by one of the go-saints Honinbo Dosaku in the late 1600 century in ancient japan. What you do in tewari is you analyse a certain situation in a game, in respect to the efficiency of the steps taken to achieve it. Often in life we find ourselves looking back at things thinking: “If I had known just then. I could have done it this way and saved so much time…” Due to the graphic nature of go, looking back and analysing is a comparably simple task. At the end of a game white and black stones are interlocked with each other. Starting to analyse you subtract an equal amount of stones from each side. With each stone taken you evaluate the efficiency and value of it regarding the final situation. Eliminating everything unnecessary, stripping a situation down to its core, can be a real eye-opener and when I first got in contact with tewari it helped me get a much deeper insight into the game and thus increased my strategical strength of the game. Looking back at things with a heuristic method like tewari is time well invested. Now think of a project you have accomplished lately and then recap all the individual steps. From A to B from C to D and so forth up to the final result. Then start subtracting to see if they really added value, start combining to see if things could have been done more efficient etc. Play with those steps as if they were stones placed on a board… Lessons learned by passion are very intuitive and very unique in respect to the individual and their passion. But I believe that transferring those insights to design and sharing them with others can widen our horizon and help us to become better designers. So my passion is go. I am curious, what´s yours?
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