Author Archive: Dewani Shebubakar

He’d be a fun guy to have at the dinner table, Ace Norton. That, or he’d be painfully obnoxious, arrange his meal into the shape of something suggestively phallic and flick gravy-dipped (if you’re lucky) peas at you. Either way, we’d still happily invite him around in the hope that some of his unfailing, relentlessly fun, tongue-in-cheek, up-yours creative madness would rub off on us.

After spending (reportedly, and, unsurprisingly) millions of dollars on utilizing the digital expertise of a bunch of excited A/V nerds and the wonders of today’s architectural light-mapping technology, Ralph Lauren managed to create what they like to call ‘the world’s first 4-dimensional experience’.

Belgian street artist Roa began graffitis incredibly detailed, large-scale black and white creatures onto the walls of derelict and deteriorating buildings and laneways. In a mere 8 hours another of Roa’s urban animals is born in a display of live performance art and commentary on the difference between art and vandalism.

As part of the 2010 IHT Heritage Luxury Conference Dutch designer, illustrator, and art director Christian Borstlap has created this simple yet elegant animated timeline of iconic fashion moments throughout history for NOWNESS that summarises the development of fashion heritage through the years.

Through sweetly endearing illustration and mixed-media animation, director Sean Christensen invited us into his personal memories triggered by a sandwich his sister made for him when he was 12.

Lykke Li is evidently all grown up and gyrating in leather and studded hotpants, channeling jungle fever and voodoo occult and hollering that she’s “your prostitute, you gonna get some” in the clip for her new single, directed by Johan Söderberg.

Amsterdam-based studio Champagne Valentine have conjured up a ridiculous installation for Diesel Europe that involves thermal and tracking technology, body heat and beams of multicolour neon light, stupid sculptures and selling your soul to the devil who lives in the space between reality, art and digital technology.

Jason Eppink and I Am lead us through the dark maze of the ‘Underbelly Project’ to give us a taste of one of the secret installations buried deep beneath New York City with a short video of their Shadow Machine installation.

Every now and then something comes along and knocks you off your feet and spins your world around a few degrees and makes it seem different. Ex-pro snowboarder turned filmmaker Orlando Von Einsiedel’s documentary ‘Skateistan: To Live and Skate in Kabul’, filmed in January this year, stirs the soul through the stories of Afghan children who find hope and direction in the non-profit organisation Skateistan.

Style The City is a new ‘vlogazine’ put together by some Helsinki-based upstarts that showcases in short, elegant, well-shot video montages street fashion in various locations around the world. Now you can not only spy the photographs of global street trends, but you can see it brought to life and move around the city which inspired it.