bound for glory

hou jinxiang photographed by tiziano magni & styled by joseph carle for numéro homme china #6.

lunchbook

lunch book by designers sebastiano ercoli & alessandro garlandi. 

lunchbook won the 1st prize in the competition "expopack" for the design of a paper lunch box for expo milan 2015, which is dedicated to food & sustainability. lunchbook is a recipe book made of paper dishes showing recipes from all over the world. the dishes are made of paper coated with a water-proof biopolymer; thus, lunchbox is 100% recyclable & compostable.

read about the designers here.

have i found you, flightless bird, grounded, bleeding or lost you......

flightless bird, american mouth by iron & wine. 

this song slays me every time i hear it.

dedicated to nuance

malgosia bela photographed by willy vanderperre & styled by george cortina for vogue japan, december 2012.

nihilistic optimistic

my beautiful mistake, 2012 

wheelbarrow, two chairs, stool, books, tube of paint, pencil, wood, steel, aluminium, rubber, cotton sheet

nasty pieces of work, 2008-2009 

two wooden stepladders, discarded wood, broken tools, light projector

self-imposed misery, 2010 

wooden stepladder, discarded wood, light projector

wild mood swings, 2009-10 

two wooden stepladders, discarded wood, light projector

youngman, 2012 

wooden stepladder, discarded wood, light projector

tim noble & sue webster 

photo by peter mallet

tim noble and sue webster/nihilistic optimistic

10 october 2012 - 24 november 2012

nihilistic optimistic is tim nboble & sue webster's first major solo exhibition in london since 2006. featuring 6 large scale works, the show builds upon the artists' sustained investigation into self-portraiture, further deconstructing the relationship between materiality & form which has been so intrinsic to their practice.

constructed principally from discarded wood & other materials, the artists describe these sculptures as 'street compositions'. each work appears abstracted or even unfinished as the debris of the artists' studio - gathered sawdust, wood shavings & tools - lie scattered around the sculptures. a sense of urban chaos is implicit within the construction of the surrounding gallery environment.

the exhibition's dualistic title, nihilistic optimistic, responds to the oppositional forces present within these works, & indeed within the artists themselves; the show is at once constructive & destructive, hopeful & despairing. light & shadow, form & absence, figuration & abstraction all inform one another & exist in a constant state of tension.

looks like she's made it

kate upton photographed by steven meisel for vogue italia, november 2012.

where children sleep

indira, kathmandu, nepal, 7 yrs. 

kaya, japan, 3 yrs.

lamine, bounkilling village, senagal, 12 yrs.

rhiannon, darvel, scotland, 14 yrs.

ahkohxet, amazonia, brazil, 8 yrs.

"x", rio de janeiro, brazil, 17 yrs.

dong, china 9 yrs.

bilal, kidar settlement, wabi abu hindi, the west bank, 6 yrs.

alyssa, harlan county, usa, 8 yrs

nantio, lisamis, northern kenya, 15 yrs. 

joey, kentucky, usa, 11 yrs.

kana, tokyo, japan, 16 yrs.

alex, rio de janeiro, brazil, 9 yrs.

where children sleep

all photographs by james mollison.

he also photographed james & other apes

danny & dioni

danny beauchamp & dioni tabbers photographed by james white & styled by elgar johnson for hero #8.