Author: YMFY

Oct 16, 2010 William Gibson’s dress codes

William Gibson's new book Zero History explores fashion, branding, and the curious intersection of designer clothes and military procurement. The book completes a trilogy that brings Gibson's trademark science fiction obsessions with objects, design, and technology into an examination of contemporary life. The first book, Pattern Recognition introduced an evil marketing supremo called Hubertus Bigend,...

Oct 16, 2010 “The Wire” as an urbanistic enquiry

“… In The Wire, the city appears clearly for what it is: an organic Social Network in which commercial, political, criminal informations and goods are passed through, like it happens in a DNA chain, making a difference not only for the single point, but for the whole chain. Is noted by James Harkin in his recent...

Oct 15, 2010 KNOTS: The Architecture of Problems

Lebbeus Woods poses a particularly intractable ‘knot’ confronting us today: the problem of slums....

Oct 15, 2010 Influencers

INFLUENCERS TRAILER from R+I creative on Vimeo. ...

Oct 13, 2010 Chen Guang: Tianemen Soldier Turned Artist

Tiananmen Square Scars Soldier Turned Artist...

Oct 13, 2010 The Desks of Creative Individuals

Desk - Music and Sound Design from Aaron Trinder Film:Motion:Music on Vimeo....

Oct 12, 2010 The Powers of Ten, by Charles and Ray Eames

Oct 12, 2010 Hua Hsu on the last days of Fat Beats

"Mingling among the DJs, rappers, artists, promoters, writers and fans outside Fat Beats on Saturday afternoon, I felt like I was in the modern-day equivalent of one of those stories you hear about World War II soldiers stranded behind enemy lines, emerging from the woods years after the fact, unaware of the treaties and victory...

Oct 12, 2010 Hedi Slimane “I Love USA”

Oct 11, 2010 Hissing of Summer Lawns

by Jonathan Franzen October 11, 2010 The New Yorker In the early nineties, when I reached the point of having no money at all, I began to borrow people’s houses. The first house I sat belonged to a professor at my alma mater. He and his wife were afraid that their son, a student at the college, would...