Tokujin Yoshioka's window installation for Hermès

The magic is in the video. Made my heart skip a few beats. via Design Observer: Observed

Somehow, I always return to this

Au Revoir Simone - Shadows

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Pop-up alphabet book by Marion Bataille. via VIVA VENA CAVA

Linda Perhacs - Chimacum Rain

HEAD OVER HEELS for this song. Only knew the Prefuse 73 version, which was already ridiculous, but never thought about the source until I recognized it immediately in le film (via Ringo, have a banana!) - a Vanessa Bruno fall promo video directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto, which is gorgeous but you need to be into Lou Doillon aka pouty, skinny French models. Anyway, the emotions for this aforementioned version of this song runs deep:

Everyone has THAT time in their lives; that was mine. Now, to find the 1970 LP of Linda Perhacs' Parallelograms in a thrift store would pretty much complete the circle...

Two Are One

"Two Are One" by Dri, directed by Neil Krug. via the blue hour

From top to bottom:
1. Clip from The Red Balloon (1956), Directed by Albert Lamorisse (via Three Potato Four) - you can also watch the entire film on Google Video
2. Still from Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), Directed by Hsiao-hsien Hou
3. Photo by Max Wanger (via Cup of Jo and swissmiss)
4. "Monsieur III" print by Blanca Gomez (via Oh Joy!)

From the experimental short film "SCINTILLATION" by Xavier Chassaing. (via my sister)

The result:


"Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View."

See for yourself on Google Maps. Project by artists Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley. (via swissmiss)

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The humid muggy NYC summer embraces us. We have been so busy as of late but have a lot to share as you will see in the posts that follow.

Is everyone sick of this song already? We were, until we saw this video...



[via swissmiss]

Geometry of Circles

Philip Glass + Sesame Street: I was so happy to receive a heavy dose of nostalgia this morning, and be able to appreciate it in a different way, two decades later:



[via VSL]