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Dad Writes One-Handed Sonata So He Can Still Hold His Baby

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Being a parent and keeping up with your other hobbies and passions can be hard. But this dad found a perfect way to balance his parental duties with his music practice -- he wrote a one-handed sonata.

The piece turned out very nice, and the contented smile suggests baby likes it, too.

H/t Say Omg

Ridiculous Drum Solo Makes Church Song Epically Awkward

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Sometimes music can transport you to another world -- where nothing but you and the beat exist.

Well, that seems to be what happened to a very enthusiastic drummer in a church band. Watch the video above to see him spice things up with a drum solo that sounds like it could belong in a magical realm of its own.

But at least the drummer helped to successfully made an otherwise slow song totally epic in a really awkward way. And that is no small feat.

H/t 22 Words

'Big Eyes' Trailer Has Sights On Amy Adams' Next Oscar Nod

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Amy Adams has five Oscar nominations to her name since 2006, but its "Big Eyes" that could finally put her in the winner's circle. The Tim Burton film, which The Weinstein Company will release on Christmas Day, tells the story of Margaret Keane (Adams), the famed painter whose husband claimed credit for her work to great acclaim and fortune. Christoph Waltz plays Keane's husband, Walter, in full mustache-twirl mode. Jason Schwartzman, Krysten Ritter, Danny Huston and Terence Stamp round out the eclectic cast. The story, though, is Adams, who many expect to see score a sixth Academy Award nomination for her troubles (and her third nod in as many years). Props, too, to The Weinstein Company for using Danny Elfman's score from "Silver Linings Playbook" at the beginning of the "Big Eyes" trailer, a perhaps not-so-subtle reference to the studio's last big, quirky Oscar darling. (Elfman also wrote the score for "Big Eyes.")

"Big Eyes" is out on Dec. 25. Watch the film's first trailer below. We're suitably excited.

Bordalo II Transforms Street Trash Into Gigantic Works Of Art

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Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo, aka Bordalo II, finds his inspiration by rifling through Lisbon's refuse.

Where others might see discarded crates, tires and plastic containers, Bordalo sees ideal materials to incorporate into his artwork. His creations, located throughout the city, are composed of trash and recycled materials, which he spray-paints and molds into new forms, transforming heaps of garbage into oversized ducks or gigantic insects.

In addition to his ongoing trash series, Bordalo also spray-paints railroad tracks around Portugal to create whimsical scenes and playful sheet music designs along the track lines.

Check out some of his remarkable urban art below and head over to his Facebook for more pieces.

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h/t Colossal

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Do You Remember? A Micro History Of 'The Happiest-Sounding Song In The World'

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"Do you remember?" is a lyric from the classic Earth, Wind & Fire hit, "September," that is practically impossible to forget. But just in case fans wanted to know more about the wedding staple as it enters its 36th year this fall, the song's co-writer, Allee Willis, spoke to NPR's "Morning Edition" on Friday, and gave something of a mini history of what she called "the happiest-sounding song in the world."

"As a white Jewish girl getting a break, you could not get better than Earth, Wind & Fire," Willis recalled to Dan Charnas for NPR.

As Willis noted, singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams revealed during his tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey in April that Earth, Wind & Fire was among his biggest influences. The "Happy" creator played his inspiration track for Winfrey's audience on his iPad: It was "September."

Willis, who also co-wrote the theme song for "Friends" -- "I'll Be There for You," performed by The Rembrandts -- recalled the one part of "September" that didn't fill her with joy: bandleader Maurice White's nonsense lyric, "Ba-dee-ya."

White's response to the word being gibberish: "Who the fuck cares?"

"September" (which, despite its name, was actually released in November of 1978), went on to sell more than a million copies for the Chicago-based band, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard chart.

As for the specific date mentioned in the song, Willis said the 21st day of September has no special significance.

Still, it's something we all remember.

Listen to full interview at NPR:

20 Photographs By Young People You'd Have To See To Believe

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Whether you're posting the occasional selfie to Instagram or mastering the art of dog portraits, it's a good time to be a young photographer. And now, Flickr's spotlighting the power of young peoples' photography with its first annual 20 Under 20 celebration.

The 20 nominees, hailing everywhere from Australia to Germany, will have their work displayed during a gala event at NYC's Milk Studios on Oct. 1. You can vote for the three Audience Choice Awards by tweeting "#Flickr20u20" along with the name of the photographers you think should win #mostcreative, #besttechnique and #strongestportfolio.

Scroll down for a sampling of photographs taken by the 20 talented young artists.

1. Evan Atwood


This photo, titled "Battle," shows Evan's love of self-portraits and his flair for the cinematic.


2. Rachel Baran


Rachel expresses herself through "conceptual self-portraits," like this one above, which she called "Wild youth."


3. Olivia Bee


This photo, titled "Sunrise Dream" shows Olivia's ability to transform everyday settings into mystical dreamlands.


4. Alex Benetel


Alex's photographs are filled with beautiful oddities, like the one above, which she called, "Once and for all, they abandoned what they knew."


5. Oliver Charles


Oliver's photos are surreal, sometimes dark, images of the natural world.


6. Alex Currie


Alex's photos are often confrontational, creating an instant connection with the viewer.


7. Silvia Grav


Silvia's photos are tinted to perfection in ways that Instagram will only ever be dream of.


8. Zev Hoover


Fifteen-year-old Zev captures the sometimes-terrifying-vastness of the world with a sense of humor.


9. Katharina Jung


Katharina's "guided by a beatin' heart" proves that landscape shots are anything but boring.


10. Lissy Laricchia


This photo, titled "Seeing Clear," turns an average hallway into a dreamland.


11. Brian Oldham


Brian's beautifully surreal photographs will make you do a double take.


12. Laurence Philomene

Laurence has already won the Curator's Choice Award for her ethereal pictures.


13. Greg Ponthus


Greg's photographs capture the vulnerability of the people around him.


14. Berta Vicente Salas


Berta uses photographs to explore the beauty she encounters, whether she's above land or underwater.


15. Nicholas Scarpinato


This photograph, called "The Helpers," is artful yet melancholy.


16. Alex Stoddard


Alex's dramatic shots have a dark magic about them.


17. David Uzochukwu

Also the EyeEm 2014 Photographer of the Year, David often works in surreal self-portraits.


18. Chrissie White


Chrisse loves taking magical shots of the natural world.


19. Vanessa and Wilson, i.e. Wiissa

This duo, Vanessa and Wilson, collaborate to create colorful '70s themed photographs.


20. Lauren Withrow


Lauren was first inspired by the landscapes of her native state, Texas.


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Seventeen-Year-Old Is Exposing The Scary Secrets Of Teen Prescription Drug Abuse

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Seventeen-year-old Cyrus Stowe saw a dangerous trend happening at his Dallas high school. His classmates were abusing prescription drugs and nobody was talking about it. So Cyrus decided to expose the problem by making a documentary.

His film, "Out of Reach" was made in collaboration with director Tucker Capps (of A&E's "Intervention") and the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids' Medicine Abuse Project. You can watch the powerful trailer above, which offers a no-frills, raw look at the jarring realities of teen drug use.

This morning, Cyrus' project was spotlighted on the "Today" show as part of a larger investigation on teen prescription drug abuse. Cyrus told NBC special reporter Maria Shriver about some of the frightening trends he uncovered while making the film.

“What we found out was we'd go into the restroom and students right before a test would go into a stall, pop an Adderall, sometimes snort it, and trade more hard drugs like Oxycontin, Hydrocodone, and just take them as if it was vitamin C," he said.

The experiences Cyrus documents are sadly all too common amongst teens today. Twenty-four percent of U.S. high school students -- some 5 million kids -- said they had abused prescription drugs in a survey released last year by The Partnership at Drugfree.org, in conjunction with the MetLife Foundation.

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Mia Wasikowska Reveals What It's Like To Work With Shia LaBeouf

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Mia Wasikowska's take on working with the notoriously difficult Shia LaBeouf is pretty simple: "It's all more or less how it would appear."

When the actress stopped by HuffPost Live on Friday to discuss her new film, "Tracks," host Ricky Camilleri asked about her work with LaBeouf on the set of the 2012 film "Lawless," where LaBeouf drank lots of moonshine to achieve a "drunk bloat" for his role. LaBeouf himself spoke to Page Six in 2012 about the toll his antics took on Wasikowska:

She was calling her attorney, like, "Get me the fuck out of here." ... Mia was ready to walk away from the movie. I was really pretty aggressive about it, and not in any kind of weird, strange way, but I don’t think she had ever experienced anything like that.


Wasikowska told HuffPost Live the uncomfortable dynamic was part of LaBeouf's process.

"He's a very method actor, and so I was on the receiving end of the method," she said.

She added that learning to adapt in situations like that is par for the course in filmmaking.

"You meet so many different people, and sometimes you connect with them and you share that you have a similar approach and sometimes you don't, and you just have to let them do their thing and hope it doesn't affect you too deeply," Wasikowska said.

Catch the full HuffPost Live conversation with Mia Wasikowska here.

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This Guy's Comic Mashups Of TV And Movies Will Make You Wish They Were A Real Thing

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If you're like us, you're constantly wondering things like: what would happen if the film "Terminator" got mashed up with the show "Full House"? What if "Lord of the Rings" was combined with "Happy Days"? "Boy Meets World" and "Star Wars"? The combinations are endless!

Well, many of our hypotheticals have become reality, thanks to the comic work of writer/actor Ben Greene and the content creators at Altanimus. For the project, Random Pairing, Greene writes a bunch of TV shows, books and movies on slips of paper, mixes them in a bag, then picks two out at random. And -- boom! -- comedy magic is born.

Here are a few of our favorites:

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" meets "Parks and Recreation"




"Lord of the Rings" meets "Happy Days"




"Beauty and the Beast" meets "The West Wing"




"Star Wars" meets "Boy Meets World"




"Terminator" meets "Full House"




Check out the rest at Random Pairing.

Boy's 'True Colors' Cover Reminds World His Sister With Down Syndrome Is Like Any Other Kid

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He may be young, but this rapper's cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" teaches a lesson that anyone of any age ought to learn.

In a video uploaded to YouTube, 11-year-old rapper MattyB, shares his take on the classic '80s song. The video shows his younger sister, 8-year-old Sarah Grace, who has Down syndrome, being shunned by her peers. When one compassionate girl opens up her heart to Sarah, beautiful friendships start to blossom.

While the storyline sends a sweet message, the 11-year-old's rap further emphasizes the importance of an open mind. After encouraging viewers to look beyond the differences they see in their peers, he ends his song with simple, but moving words: "there's always room for change."

We think MattyB's advice is awesome!

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9 Things You Didn't Know About Slash, Despite Knowing Everything About Guns N' Roses

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If you thought you knew everything about legendary rock star and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, think again. In a conversation with HuffPost Live's Marc Lamont Hill about his most recent album, "World On Fire," Slash revealed some surprising tidbits about himself. Ahead, the nine facts you probably never knew:

1. Cher sort of helped him quit smoking.

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When asked how he quit smoking, Slash revealed that it was when he got pneumonia following a Cher concert five years ago, which he kept leaving to go smoke.

We're not sure which image is more disorienting: Slash without his signature cigarette or Slash at a Cher concert. Either way, we fully support both.

2. He, too, is starstruck by the Muppets.

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Right before Slash joined HuffPost Live, two "Sesame Street" celebs were on-set and Slash was so excited that he asked to have his picture taken with Grover and newcomer Abby Cadabby.

"Most of us have some history with the Muppets and 'Sesame Street,' and that was like the babysitter for me when I was a kid," he revealed.

3. The only people who still call Slash by his birth name are, well, cops.

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It won't surprise you to learn that Slash was not his name at birth; he was born Saul Hudson. But "the last person to really call me Saul was my late grandmother. I've been called Slash since I was in high school."

However, because Saul Hudson is still the name on his driver's license, the guitarist added that the police use his birth moniker. Speeding tickets, you know?

4. He also produces horror films.

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Slash loves horror films and actually produces them.

"I did one last year and I'm working on another one now, and I want to keep excelling at that," he said.

He added that he wants to be "one of the people to bring back really character-driven, story-driven dramatic horror movies."

5. He's as confused as we are about the "November Rain" video.

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We thought we were the only ones stumped by the "November Rain" video, but nope!

"To tell you the truth, I have no idea [what it's about]," he admitted. "It was a concept. The song itself is pretty self-explanatory, but the video is so complex."

6. Slash is a "homebody" and says L.A. nightlife isn't his "thing."

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Slash was once known for his notorious past of drug binges and heroin, but now he "likes to stay home."

"I’m a homebody. I don’t like to go out when I’m home," he said. "I take the kids [10-year-old Cash and 12-year-old London] wherever they want to go. As far as being out on the town in L.A., it’s not my thing."

7. He is an avid reader.

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Do you ever wonder what rock stars do in their off-time? Well, Slash reads.

"We're on the road all the time, so you take a lot of books with you and you just sort of kill time reading," he said.

Based on his love of horror movies (see number 4), it's not surprising that he enjoys reading books in the same genre, but he added that lately he's been enjoying WWII books and "some courtroom drama stuff."

8. His first guitar was a Spanish flamenco acoustic guitar.

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But, we thought it was a Les Paul? Nope. It was a Spanish flamenco acoustic guitar that his grandmother gave him.

"It had one string on it and I first started learning on a one-string because I didn't know how to put the other five on," Slash revealed. "That was the guitar I learned on. I finally did learn how to put the other five on."

Rest assured, his first electric guitar was a Memphis Les Paul copy.

"So, I was attached to the Les Paul pretty early on," he said.

9. He's thought about cutting his hair every summer.

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Slash without his dreamy curls?! It couldn't be. But, the guitarist revealed he frequently thinks about chopping his locks.

"In the summertime every year, it gets so hot that you just start thinking, 'I just want to cut it,'" he said. "But, then it just never happens."

He added, "I couldn't imagine walking around with really short hair. It would feel weird."

Let's hope that dreadful day never comes.

Rock on Slash, rock on.

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'Fashion Police' Will Continue Without Joan Rivers

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After Joan Rivers' death on Sept. 4, the fate of her E! show, "Fashion Police," was unclear. Following a few weeks of uncertainty, the network has issued a statement, announcing that the show will continue to air. "Fashion Police" will return in 2015 for Golden Globes coverage on Jan. 12:

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Joan Rivers and, for the last two weeks, have turned our attention to honoring her memory on all of our platforms. We have also thought long and hard about what Joan would have wanted as it pertains to the future of Fashion Police. We decided, with Melissa Rivers’ blessing, that Joan would have wanted the franchise to continue. Fashion Police will return in 2015 commencing with Golden Globes coverage on Monday, January 12. No further details will be announced at this time.


The show's most recent hosts included Rivers, George Kotsiopoulos, Giuliana Rancic and Kelly Osbourne. At the time of Rivers' death, Rancic she spoke about the future of "Fashion Police," and said, "A lot of that will be up to [Melissa] and how she's feeling and how she decides what she wants to do, along with the execs here at E! There is no word now -- they are seeing what Fashion Police looks like without Joan." Rancic told ABC News, "A part of me is like Joan would want Melissa and us and the team to go on and I know she would, but it's just a matter of can there be a show without Joan? Do we want to do a 'Fashion Police' without Joan? I don't know."

These Photos Prove That Everyone Sees The World Differently (WATCH)

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Everyone sees the world differently, and when we put our images and unique visual perspectives together, it can create an amazing patchwork of visual stories.

The Huffington Post has teamed up with EyeEm, a global community of photographers, to bring visual storytelling to life. Anna Dickson, HuffPost’s photography director, joined HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani to discuss the collaboration.

“We came up with the moving image series, talking about Huffington Magazine and trying to figure out a way that we could highlight really beautiful photography in a very moving way,” explains Dickson.

A recent call for submissions from HuffPost readers asked "What makes you look up and thrive?" and drew in thousands of submissions with wildly varied perspectives.

“It’s always a little bit different every time,” says Dickson. “When we think somebody might just submit a beautiful tree, it ends up being like a city scape or something that we wouldn’t necessarily associate with beautiful automatically… We are all looking at the world slightly differently and it gives us an opportunity to highlight how people are seeing.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the full HuffPost Live segment here.

BREYER P-ORRIDGE And Pierre Molinier Turn Shapeshifting Into An Art (NSFW)

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Warning: This post contains nudity and graphic imagery, and may not be appropriate for work.

If you are not familiar with the epic tale of the artist known as BREYER P-ORRIDGE, you're in for a treat.

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BREYER P-ORRIDGE Pharoah, 2005


The avant-avant-garde artist was born Neil Megson in Manchester, United Kingdom in the year 1950. As a child, the budding artist became enamored with the work of French surrealist Pierre Molinier (1900-1976), known for his erotic photographs of himself as a malleable body, a collage of parts. Molinier captured himself as a transvestite donning masks, dildos, dolls, prosthetic limbs, corsets and other prop parts. The images explored the underbelly unconcerned with authenticity or morality -- instead seduced by the infinite, gnarled complexities on the surface.

P-ORRIDGE was introduced to Molinier's work through a book on surrealism s/he was gifted as a schoolboy. Molinier's work revealed the body as more than just a vehicle through which to restructure and revolutionize, but the site of the revolution itself. S/he was also drawn to his self-proclaimed lack of morality, having "claimed to have pleasured himself on his sister’s corpse and eventually shot himself in what’s been described as his final work." P-ORRIDGE took note of this artistic manifestation of shapeshifting, using the fractured nature of the self to push the body past its physical limits into the realm of art.

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Pierre Molinier Untitled, ca. 1968 Vintage gelatin silver print (photomontage) 9 3/8 x 7 inches (23.8 x 17.8 cm) Unique Photo credit: Joelle Jensen


Throughout he/r life, P-ORRIDGE reinvented he/rself over and over and over again. In the late 1960s, s/he was known as Genesis P-Orridge, a member of the British art collective Coum Transmissions. "I used to do things like stick severed chicken's heads over my penis, and then try to masturbate them, whilst pouring maggots all over it," s/he recalled. (It actually gets far more intense). S/he then went onto play with the Industrial music innovators Throbbing Gristle -- which folded pornography and imagery from concentration camps into its performances -- and later psychedelic innovators Psychic TV.

In the 1990s P-ORRIDGE took he/r fascination with collaged identity to the next level after falling madly in love with Lady Jaye Breyer. The two embarked on an artistic and romantic collaboration, a Pandrogeny. "As a couple, we want to become more and more one," P-ORRIDGE said in 2004. "Everything becomes raw material, malleable and neutral," P-ORRIDGE explains in a statement. "There is no specific gender anymore. No male or female, merely surfaces and a canvas of skin stretched across multiple skeletal frames." The two took the malleability of identity to the extreme, merging identities and genders to become Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE.

"I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life," P-ORRIDGE continued, "and I am blessed to work with a partner who is prepared to be involved in that process too. We both went and got breast implants on the same day, on our 10th anniversary, and we woke up in hospital holding hands. By chance, we have the same size shoes, but now we can also share lingerie as well!"

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BREYER P-ORRIDGE Post-op Pinhead, 2004


Lady Jaye died suddenly in 2007, yet she lives on in P-ORRIDGE, their ongoing collaboration, and in their first person "we." Pronouns -- like the preferred s/he -- are radical for the artist.

"Around 10 we’ll sit on the bed and drink some ice water and turn on mindless television, because that’s the time of day when we really miss Jaye," P-ORRIDGE recalled in a New York Times piece recounting the events of her daily life. "That’s when it’s really quiet and you feel the emptiness and sometimes we just forget and think [Lady Jaye's] going to come through the door. Not to watch TV, there’s nothing on. Just to keep the space agitated so the loneliness is not so bad."

For P-ORRIDGE, so much of this urge toward transgression and transformation stemmed from Molinier's work. "For in his explorations of the most basic of all subjects… the human body… he applied patterns and interplays so meticulously that they felt as familiar at times as my own," s/he told Invisible Exports.

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Pierre Molinier Méditation vampirique, circa 1967


"The irreversible compulsion of Molinier’s montages, where men become women, become clones of themselves, become animalistic, become erotic, become gross, become romantic, generates a maelstrom of fluid possibilities. We are in the eye of his tornado, red slippers flash past, a witch, a dildo, a mask always a mask. Pierre Molinier insists we face the impenetrable fact of our obliteration. Yet simultaneously he describes a frolicking masqued ball, a carnival of interchangeable characters. All of who can be him and equally therefore all can be ourselves as well."

Invisible Exports' "BREYER P-ORRIDGE & Pierre Molinier" is a collage of body parts without beginning or end. Dildos, bruises, surgeries and fishnet tights make their marks on the human flesh, shaping it into new and ever intoxicating patterns. Together, the work shows the power of appearances to morph what's underneath, which, as it turns out, may be irrelevant. The cut-and-pasted bodies depict freedom and passion in their rawest, most dangerous forms.



The exhibition runs until October 12, 2014 at Invisible Exports in New York.

Ten Famed Designers Envision Their Dream Products

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This post originally appeared on ArchDaily.
by Rory Stott

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Tableware / Zaha Hadid + Gareth Neal. Image © Petr Krejčí


Terence Conran asked nine of his friends in the design world “What have you always wanted in your home, but have never been able to find?” The result is The Wish List, a set of ten projects dreamed up by big name designers such as Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid and Richard Rogers, but designed and crafted in collaboration with emerging designers.

Sponsored by the American Hardwood Export Council, the only restriction was that the product had to be made of wood, leading to designs ranging from Foster’s modest geometric pencil sharpeners to Paul Smith‘s dream garden shed.

As part of the 2014 London Design Festival, the resulting ten products will be on show at the V&A Museum until October 24th.


1. Kitchen stools / Alison Brooks + Felix de Pass

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2. Workspace / Terence Conran + Sebastian Cox

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3. Pencil Sharpener / Norman Foster + Norie Matsumoto

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4. Tableware / Zaha Hadid + Gareth Neal

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5.Chaise Lounge / Allen Jones + Lola Lely

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6. Fruit bowl / Amanda Levete + Win Asskul

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7. Shelves, pegs, hooks and door / John Pawson + Studio Areti


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8. Dining table / Alex de Rijke + Barnby & Day


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9. Ladder / Richard Rogers, Ab Rogers + Xenia Moseley


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10. Shed / Paul Smith + Nathalie de Leval

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All images © Petr Krejčí.

Cite: Stott, Rory. "Ten Top Designers Get the Products of Their Dreams With “The Wish List”" 19 Sep 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed 19 Sep 2014.

How The Gotham Typeface Came To Define Our Era

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This post originally appeared on Slate.
By Jacob Covey


This is the third in a series of posts analyzing and celebrating typefaces. These posts were originally published by HiLobrow.


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GOTHAM | TOBIAS FRERE-JONES | 2000



Sans-serif type generates a lot of passion among graphic designers. While serif faces are defined by ornamentation, sans-serifs are specifically defined by what they are not. They aren’t serifed. They aren’t rooted in traditional ideas of lettering and calligraphic flourish. They are exercises in minimalism with nuanced turns and terminals. At its most histrionic, a sans face might have a lone bar (or “ear”) protruding from the lowercase “g” or a particularly unconventional question mark.

The sans as we know it has been around since the very late 18th century and the first forms were dubbed “grotesk” or “grotesque,” an appellation which reveals what people popularly thought of this homely new idea in letterforms. But with time many sans-serifs have become associated with major modernist movements in graphic design—most importantly, the 1920s Bauhaus aligning with the Geometric typeface Futura and the 1950s Swiss school with the Neo-Grotesque typeface Helvetica. There have been many hundreds of sans-serif families created, all revolving around this simplified framework and some dozen tend to be the same ones favorited by any given typesetter.

Very few faces become so ubiquitous as to define an era. Gotham is defining ours now. The most remarkable, flexible sans-serif family to be released in at least a generation, it has never aimed to align with lofty ideas. Although nostalgic, it is a sans-serif free of historical baggage. First appearing on newsstands as a commissioned font for Esquire magazine, it was introduced with A-list celebrity. It was later influential to the election of Barack Obama as the official typeface in his 2008 run (most notably set in blue at the bottom of Shepard Fairey’s “HOPE” poster), then reborn in a slab-serif for the 2012 election. And currently it feeds your Twitter page. You see it every time you watch a movie trailer.

With its variety of weights and families Gotham is practically peerless. Notably, it has narrower widths that allow for better legibility when set as text, taking it out of the realm of headline-only typefaces. (See Paul Rand’s “dogshit” comment about Helvetica care of Kyle Cooper.) It has a powerful presence yet it is approachable and even friendly, sharing similar roots to Futura. It manages the Futurists’ love of assertiveness and yet, too, the humanity of faces like Gill Sans without the bogus compromise of Humanism. (A typeset sans is not the domain of the calligraphic, for god’s sake.)

Certainly Gotham is overused and now inescapable but that only speaks to the rarity and strength of its character. Gotham’s creator, Tobias Frere-Jones, is an avatar of the creative type who blindly follows his muse; he will forever be tied to this accomplishment. His sad story of falling out with his longtime business partner only underscores the contemporary resonance of Gotham: These are grotesque times.

This Man's Record-Setting Turban Weighs More Than A Child

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A neck is a narrow thing but that does not stop Avtar Singh Mauni from loading 100 pounds of turban onto his. A Sikh, in the city of Patiala, in the Indian state of Punjab, Mauni looks to have broken the current world record for turban size. Eyes (downturned from head-weight) on the prize!

Unwrapped, Mauni's turban measures about 645 meters (2115 feet), “the same length,” points out one turbanmetrician, “as 13 Olympic-sized swimming pools.” The current Guinness record holder is, frankly, not close. That’s the legendary Major Singh, whose pride and joy unwinds to 400 m -- or a mere nine Olympic pools.

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Demonstrating the steps to success.


Why is Mauni so possessed? Based on the weapons and jewelry he weaves into his headgear, it’s likely that he, like Singh, belongs to the Nihang branch of Sikhs, famed warriors known for wearing outsized turbans and clothes of electric blue. All Sikhs are called by their religion to wear turbans out of respect for the divine gift of hair. The devout also abstain from cutting their hair (including this wise bearded woman).

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Not fitting in as a literal condition: Too large for cars, Mauni goes everywhere on his trusty motorbike.


Mauni’s extreme look yields interesting responses. Turbans aren’t exactly de rigeur for young Sikhs anymore and in the clip above, a few express appreciation for what appears to be a willful display of extreme religiosity. For his part, Mauni implies that he has transcended the earthly realm, claiming that he feels no discomfort, and misses the turban when it's not on his head.

More often than not though, observers aren’t interested in deep conversation. This is the age of the camera phone. “It takes me six hours to tie my turban,” Mauni laments. “And some people just click a photo and run away after a minute.”

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One of the few onlookers who gets it. A fellow Sikh touches Mauni's feet in the classic request for blessings.

These Stunning Overhead Beach Photos Are Enough Last You To Next Summer

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Beaches are pretty, everyone knows that. But, it turns out, beaches are really pretty from above.

Enter Antoine Rose. His photo series "Up In The Air" was shot while dangling out of a doorless helicopter that skims as low as 300 feet above the ground, taking "adventure travel" to the extreme.

The series includes breathtaking shots of beaches in Miami and the Hamptons -- the photos show humans teeming on the sand like insects craving that bluer-than-blue water.

We're already nostalgic for summer.

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Rose's photos are currently on display at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in New York. If you're looking to take a trip, they'll be on display at Miami's CONTEXT and SCOPE art shows in December.

Wanna see more of how it's done? Here's Antoine shooting from his helicopter:

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