The ISHU – a €340 scarf designed by Access All Brands with ‘anti-flash’ technology engineered to blow out the exposure of flash photography, supposedly thwarting pesky paps (and, presumably, opportunistic mates at the ugly end of a long night out).
quipsologies/prostheticknowlege
https://vimeo.com/174210524
The highlight of new exhibition at Roppongi Hills Tokyo City View (52 storeys up) celebrating 30 years of the great Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle) featuring, among other things, models of the elaborate flying machines that featured in many of Ghibli’s animated films.
Centrestage is an illuminated, automated model of the airship from Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky (1986). Elsewhere there are posters, collectibles, tribute art and a restaurant serving 11 dishes inspired by the films.
John Dunstan captures a deft move by the world’s luckiest squirrel at Lincoln Park in Jersey City.
A short about all things plantain by UK animators Future Deluxe, what sez of it:
This shit is bananas.
An aerial, tilt-shifted, time lapse homage to the largely overlooked magnificence of Albania by Joerg Daiber.
Vanity Fair invites Dana Carvey to provide momentary glimpses of famous people doing random things.
Previously: Nano Impressions
The story of ‘a little island with a big problem’ by David Fried of LA based MEL films. To wit:
Even in the best of times, escaping the grind for a small foreign island seems a preferred choice. And the 58 residents of Inishturk, a charming, heavily sheeped island off the west coast of Ireland definitely prefer it. But things may be changing for that sleepy island community soon. When Trump’s political campaign gained enough steam to make his opponents nervous, this little Irish island went viral with a rumor stating that any Trump refugee looking to escape his presidency would be welcomed in Inishturk. Turns out a lot of people took that rumor seriously.
https://vimeo.com/170779599
A gig’s a gig.
Written and edited by Aidan Lawlor, featuring Aidan Lawlor, Conor Dowling, and John Anthony Smyth.
(Thanks Aidan)
Returning home after a long voyage in space, an astronaut encounters a problem.
An impressive graduation short by Omry Fisher of the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design.
Musician and inventor Martin Molin (creator of the Musical Marble Machine) demonstrates two new instruments he’s created: a complex papertape-driven music box and a type of stringed theremin he calls a ‘modulin’.
The haunting tune, All Was Well, is his too.
