http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuAbBcM6q60 Desolation, battling personal demons, grinding guitar riffs, corrupted innocence, polished 80’s electro beats, forbidden love, lyrics that bleed into dreams… No one quite puts it together like the lads from Basildon; Depeche Mode are back and we haven’t stopped playing the new album #deltamachine #curatedaddiction Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Surf The Sky, Eat The View
This large piece of inhabitable public art, designed by Atmos, is the centrepiece commissioned for this year’s City of London Festival, and opens opposite St Pauls Cathedral on 24th June. The Mobile Orchard re-imagines what urban fruit trees could be. It centres on a vast sculpture of two inhabitable intertwining trees, with climbable electric-veined trunks, … Continue reading
Blooming Marvellous
If exploring London’s Kensington area this week, check out Chelsea Fringe—the alternative garden show that is happening in and around the neighbourhood from 18 May to 9 June. The displays are intended as a creative compliment to the famous Chelsea Flower Show which decorates Kensington in blooms every May. Several galleries and shops in the … Continue reading
Charmed, I’m Sure
Anyone who has ever experienced unrequited love or the 1980s has a special, lonely, disappointed place in his/her heart for The Smiths. The Manchester-based mope-pop band has been provoking floods of feelings for decades. Although after an acrimonious split in 1987, former frontman Steven Patrick Morrissey has often vowed that fans would never see The … Continue reading
Robbie – A Short Film By Neil Harvey
http://vimeo.com/40524878 As it’s the weekend, revisiting this great short about a robot in space. Set 6000 years in the future, Robbie charts the existential reflections of an aging robot drifting alone through space on the last of his battery life. Surprisingly moving. Made mainly with NASA footage and VoiceOver. Continue reading
Up, Up & Away… Clerkenwell Design Week 2013
The fourth Clerkenwell Design Week, all geared up to offer three action-packed days of product launches, exhibitions, installations, debates and workshops this May, has been masterfully curated for design fans visiting from all over the globe. With over 250 product showrooms, creative and design studios and the most populated area of architectural practices in the … Continue reading
Design P*rn_ ‘MONDRIAN’ By Boca Do Lobo
Goodness! What would the Victorians have said about this piece from Boca Do Lobo, bringing sexy back (front and sides!)… what with their fetish for covering up furniture so as to save immodest thoughts about a ‘well turned’ table leg?!! Who cares! All we know is that we love the come hither looks of the Mondrian range, with their contra-drawer … Continue reading
Bring On The Dancing Horses
Happy
Happyday To Me! Today I get to be the queen of everything and so I wish for a day of sweetness (hopefully with candles atop), friendships (real, authentic, human – NOT of the social media kind), sunshine and all good things for mankind. Oh… and the soundtrack of the day? Pharrell Williams’ new tune, ‘Happy’ from the … Continue reading
Let The Show Commence
Over 250 showrooms, studios, galleries, workshops and exhibition venues open their doors tomorrow as Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) launches its fourth successful edition. A one-stop destination to see the latest industry trends, innovations and product launches, the festival promises a packed schedule of exhibitions, debates, seminars and networking events, bringing together the leading figures from the world of design and … Continue reading
Curated Futures 