As part of the Islands Wish List: Conrad Maldives Resort & Spa on Rangali Island offers reservations two weeks in advance for one of its 14 tables at the resort’s Ithaa Undersea Restaurant. If you want to sepnd the night it will cost you about $1,000 an hour. Islands Magazine, December 2010
Uncut publishes 50 (More) great lost films. These are films which may have been released on home video, but have since gone out of print. The list includes the 1975 Authur Penn-directed, Gene Hackman-starring “Nightmoves”. Picked by Uncut readers, this film is Mark Ratcliff’s “favourite conspiracy/post-Watergate thriller.” Uncut Magazine December 2010
As the mouse head evolved- going from a static character piece to a full digital studio, with inputs, outputs and LED light and video- so did the live show. “Joel didn’t want to just turn on the head and have lights flashing, he wanted to turn the show into a solid ticket act, which is pretty scary for a DJ,” manager Wilson says. “There’s no walkup like at a club; the only people who are going to come are the people who are going to buy a ticket.”
Now the full-scale Deadmau5 experience includes a cast of six heads, some synched to a massive DJ booth/Rubik’s Cube structure created by audiovisual specialist Bionic League (which also worked on heavily visual tours like Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky and Kanye West’s Glow in the Dark). The giant neon-rimmed ears bob to the music. The Cube spews motion and color all over the room and the shows sell out nationwide.
“He’s never had a hit single, he hasn’t had even a top 40 Billboard record, and he sells more tickets than most of the top 10 Billboard acts,” Wilson says.
“[The Head] is a simple idea; it’s marketing really” Deadmau5 says. “I would love to be able to tell people I’m a marketing genius, but it’s only in hindsight that I’m able to see the brilliance. I’m really picky about all of my design stuff, my image, my brand. I’m a Nazi with my brand.”
When Herman Miller set out to tackle once and for all the problem of making a high-quality, low-cost office chair, there was one obvious man for the job: Yves Béhan. “The running joke was: He had designed a $100 laptop, so how hard could a $300 chair be?” says Jack Schreur, the company’s vice president of North American seating. “The running joke back was: Really, really hard.” The company had been trying for years to breach that market segment-one particularly suited to home offices and small businesses, not to mention recessions-but did not want to sacrifice adjustability or sub in flimsier parts. Up to this point, Herman Miller had never figured out how to engineer its offerings below the $599 mark. It took three years and a multimillion-dollar investment, but Béhar’s new Sayl chair retails at just $399.
Read moreWallpaper magazine has a fascinating article about trendy Museum Hotels and the husband and wife team that started it all.
Brown and Wilson’s 21C concept has clearly started a trend, with the ‘museum hotel’ tag now being ascribed to a string of new properties, including Le Meridien Chambers in Minneapolis, Sagamore in Miami, Gramercy Park Hotel in New York, the Bellagio in Las Vegas, and Thunderbird Motel in Marfa, Texas. All have an integrated art programme.
Photographers adopt the slit-scan technique as a creative tool, shape-shifting subjects into dramatic distortions. By Lauren Chen for American Photo Nov-Dec 2010
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