Category culture

Blade Runner – The Aquarelle Edition

Oh, what do we have here? Just 12,000+ aquarelle paintings used to render a 30-minute version of Ridley Scott’s iconic film Blade Runner. NBD. Artist Anders Ramsell made a few changes to the storyline, and says: “It was never my…

Give It a Hundo

Practice makes perfect, yet for most of us patience is scarcely extant these days, and the same goes for free time. Formal education has been supplanted for so many skills, even if they can’t be mastered instantaneously. What’s the de minimis…

Prehistoric Minimal: Rick Owens

Design that leaves you petrified. Bad pun, we know, we know. Going beyond fashion, Rick Owens has brought his minimalist aesthetic to furnishings – we first saw him experimenting in this medium in 2010, and now he’s furthering his commitment,…

The Bronx Riviera: Authenticity

Summer in NYC inevitably means a beach escape – Hamptons and Montauk on one side of the scale, Jersey Shore perhaps stereotypically on the other. Then, there’s Orchard Beach, the “Bronx Riviera.” Says Charles le Brigand: Back in the late…