get addicted to ... DAILY MIX OF CREATIVE CULTURE http://www.getaddictedto.com Sat, 18 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 She Dances On Jackson By Vanessa Winship http://www.getaddictedto.com/she-dances-on-jackson-by-vanessa-winship/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/she-dances-on-jackson-by-vanessa-winship/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Peter Nitsch http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37470 In She Dances On Jackson (Mack, ISBN 978-1907946363, $50) the award-winning British photographer Vanessa Winship travels through the ruins of the American Dream. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana. The illustrated book presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/diy-skater-constructed-spaces/feed/ 0 The Animal Pocket Knife http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-animal-pocket-knife/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-animal-pocket-knife/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 10:10:00 +0000 Suzie Wong http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37614 The Animal Pocket Knife ($TBA) by Israeli designer David Suhami is a stainless steel and wood wildlife versions of the traditional Swiss Army Knife. With handles made from fine Ipe wood and  blades silhouetted to look like an Antelope, a Rhino and a Giraffe, complete with legs and tails, the pocket knives are adorable. In [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-animal-pocket-knife/feed/ 0 This Is Peter Line http://www.getaddictedto.com/this-is-peter-line/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/this-is-peter-line/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Helge Zirkl http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=36994 Famous french Desillusion Magazine is proud to present their latest portrait that pays tribute to legendary pro-snowboarder, Peter Line. Having won four WX medals and two X-Games medals it is well known that Peter Line was one of the forefather of modern freestyle snowboarding. Outside of contest success Peter Line was also a founding member [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/this-is-peter-line/feed/ 0 Weathertone Converts Climate Into A Pantone Chip http://www.getaddictedto.com/weathertone-converts-climate-into-a-pantone-chip/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/weathertone-converts-climate-into-a-pantone-chip/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000 Ploi Malakul http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37444 We all know the Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, primarily printing. Pantone colors are described by their allocated number (typically referred to as, for example, “PMS 130″). PMS colors are almost always used in branding and have even found their way into government legislation and military [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/return-of-the-percival-mac/feed/ 0 The Smart Wallet For iPhone 5 http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-smart-wallet-for-iphone-5/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-smart-wallet-for-iphone-5/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Helge Zirkl http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=36987 The Solo Wallet ($39) for iPhone 5 is an exercise in simplicity of innovation. By wrapping the HEX custom molded case in genuine leather, they created a premium play on an everyday item. By incorporating a camera hole and adding two integrated card slots, we created a new standard for efficiency and convenience. Use the slots [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-smart-wallet-for-iphone-5/feed/ 0 Coffee Tables Made Of An Art Crate http://www.getaddictedto.com/coffee-tables-made-of-an-art-crate/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/coffee-tables-made-of-an-art-crate/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000 Ploi Malakul http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37384 Crateive is a small furniture London based design studio by Bartek Stanny. The idea on which the studio built its collection was conceived few years ago. Stanny uses art crates that finished their life cycle and after travelling many miles to art fairs, galleries and clients around the world came to retire in London. He [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/coffee-tables-made-of-an-art-crate/feed/ 0 Bare Bones Concrete Dominoes http://www.getaddictedto.com/bare-bones-concrete-dominoes/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/bare-bones-concrete-dominoes/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 12:20:03 +0000 Ploi Malakul http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37361 In collaboration with lifestyle brand Billy Reid, The Principals re-designed the classic “double 6” domino set. Named Bare Bones ($55) after the raw feeling of the concrete they are cast from; the dominoes have been rethought in terms of shape, weight and numbering to produce a beautifully designed family of objects. The “bones” are handmade [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/bare-bones-concrete-dominoes/feed/ 0 The Paper Shredder – A Stop Motion Film http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-paper-shredder-a-stop-motion-film/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-paper-shredder-a-stop-motion-film/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Helge Zirkl http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=36905 One snowboard shredders adventure in an unusual setting. Stephen Gemignani started with action sequence photos of his brother Paul riding his snowboard. He printed each frame of the sequences on paper and cut out the rider from each one, which he used to re-create the sequences with different backdrops, creating the stop animation effect used [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-paper-shredder-a-stop-motion-film/feed/ 0 360 Full Spherical Rig For The GoPro http://www.getaddictedto.com/360-full-spherical-rig-for-the-gopro/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/360-full-spherical-rig-for-the-gopro/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000 Suzie Wong http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37360 Never miss a thing by not just shooting a panorama but a complete sphere of everything around you. The Beginners 360 Video Pro Pack (6lbs, $945) plug-n-play video gear is a good start and can be use for indoor and outdoor shoots. If you are just starting out then this is your best option, it [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/360-full-spherical-rig-for-the-gopro/feed/ 0 Car Crash Studies – Between Beauty And Destruction http://www.getaddictedto.com/car-crash-studies-between-beauty-and-destruction/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/car-crash-studies-between-beauty-and-destruction/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 12:25:55 +0000 Peter Nitsch http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37068 “After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years,” says J.G.Ballard. Car Crash Studies by photographer Nicolai Howalt is a thought provoking study of automobiles that [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/car-crash-studies-between-beauty-and-destruction/feed/ 0 Alain Goikoetxea Goes BIG http://www.getaddictedto.com/alain-goikoetxea-goes-big/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/alain-goikoetxea-goes-big/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Helge Zirkl http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=36900 Alain Goikoetxea has been skating for Volcom since ’98. In order to celebrate these 15 years of loyalty, he put together a full online video part with footage he’s been gathering over the last few years. For those who don’t know Alain, he is born and raised in the Basque Country and lives right up [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/alain-goikoetxea-goes-big/feed/ 0 The Southern Sky Silkscreen Print http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-southern-sky-silkscreen-print/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-southern-sky-silkscreen-print/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000 Ploi Malakul http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37286 The Map No. II – The Southern Sky silkscreen print by German designer Steffen Heidemann and Viktoria Klein is an amazing depiction of the southern sky in all its glorious details. The handsigned artwork stellar map is manually pulled on solid-colored Gmund Color System, 200g/m2. The first run is limited to 500 pieces. ❚

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-southern-sky-silkscreen-print/feed/ 0 Automatic Panning With Kessler Parallax http://www.getaddictedto.com/automatic-panning-with-kessler-parallax/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/automatic-panning-with-kessler-parallax/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 11:30:00 +0000 Suzie Wong http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37249 The Kessler Parallax ($400) system provides automatic panning and fixed-point shooting capabilities to the Kessler line of sliders. This piece of photography gear that will make it easier to do repeatable slider movements while panning at the same time — without any additional motors. The Parallax’s non-intrusive design allows you to choose between automatic panning [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/automatic-panning-with-kessler-parallax/feed/ 0 The Old, The Young & The Sea – A Surf Documentary http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-old-the-young-the-sea-a-surf-documentary/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-old-the-young-the-sea-a-surf-documentary/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Helge Zirkl http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=36717 From Hossegor to Ericeira: A team of cinematographers, photographers and storytellers go on a 16 week journey along the European surf coast in two old VW buses. Outcome: A documentary about surf and life in Europe. For the first teaser Juan Giriber was picked as a protagonist, whom we met on our first trip for [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-old-the-young-the-sea-a-surf-documentary/feed/ 0 The Adobe “Project Napoleon” Digital Ruler http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-adobe-project-napoleon-digital-ruler/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-adobe-project-napoleon-digital-ruler/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000 Ploi Malakul http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37124 The Digital Ruler code named Napoleon by Adobe Lab is designed to bring back some of the feeling of drawing with analog tools like the t-square and triangle. “Adobe has been talking about building a physical drawing aid like this ever since we built our first digital drafting table, almost two years ago,” says Michael Gough, [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/the-adobe-project-napoleon-digital-ruler/feed/ 0 Korea – Korea: A Photographic Exploration Of A Divided Country http://www.getaddictedto.com/korea-korea-a-photographic-exploration-of-a-divided-country/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/korea-korea-a-photographic-exploration-of-a-divided-country/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Peter Nitsch http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37102 Capturing Dieter Leistner’s photographic exploration, the new book Korea – Korea (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-487-8, $30) tells a true story between North and South Korea without making judgments. Until 1989, both Germans and Koreans suffered the same fate of living in a divided land. The historical reasons for the separation of Germany into east and west [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/korea-korea-a-photographic-exploration-of-a-divided-country/feed/ 0 Parabola Chair Exhibits Curvatures In Two Directions: Hyperbolic Paraboloid http://www.getaddictedto.com/parabola-chair-exhibits-curvatures-in-two-directions-hyperbolic-paraboloid/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/parabola-chair-exhibits-curvatures-in-two-directions-hyperbolic-paraboloid/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Ploi Malakul http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37094 The design intention of the chrome-plated steel Parabola Chair by Los Angeles-based product designer Carlo Aiello was to create a simple and porous yet highly sculptural chair. “The challenge was to achieve a single surface that serves as seating, armrest, and backrest supported by a minimal structure,” says Aiello who graduated from the Graduate School of [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/parabola-chair-exhibits-curvatures-in-two-directions-hyperbolic-paraboloid/feed/ 0 NYLPT – Remixing Our Urban Environments http://www.getaddictedto.com/nylpt-remixing-our-urban-environments/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/nylpt-remixing-our-urban-environments/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 18:00:00 +0000 Peter Nitsch http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37321 Jason Evans celebrates happenstance in this stunning app, NYLPT ($5.99) presents a unique viewing, remixing of our urban environments, as he proves every single day on his Daily Nice blog. Randomly generated sequences of Evans’s street photographs collected in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo – double exposures made in camera on film – are combined with [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/nylpt-remixing-our-urban-environments/feed/ 0 Andy Warhol: Photographic Portraits Displayed For First Time Lost Then Found http://www.getaddictedto.com/andy-warhol-photographic-portraits-displayed/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/andy-warhol-photographic-portraits-displayed/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 Guest Post http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37260 A collection of never-before-seen photographs of pop artist Andy Warhol are set to go on display for ten days in New York, beginning on May 3rd. The title of the exhibition, Lost Then Found, alludes to the fact that the photos were forgotten in a storage cabinet for over thirty years before they were discovered. [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/views-on-vegas/feed/ 0 STEPS – The Ride Greener Film http://www.getaddictedto.com/steps-the-ride-greener-film/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/steps-the-ride-greener-film/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Helge Zirkl http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=36748 The Ride Greener documentary is the first climate friendly snowboard and ski movie of its kind. It dives into the world of people whose deep connection to the mountains ties them together. Worried about impending climate change, they are looking for an alternative way to pursue their passion in harmony with nature and experience the [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/steps-the-ride-greener-film/feed/ 0 Gulper – Handmade Bicycle And Urban Backpack http://www.getaddictedto.com/gulper-handmade-bicycle-and-urban-backpack/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/gulper-handmade-bicycle-and-urban-backpack/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 07:30:00 +0000 Suzie Wong http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37028 The Gulper Backpack ($199) sports a sleeker design and boasts an expanding elastic strap, burlier side release clips from National Molding, reflective decals and a lighter separated 420 denier high density Nylon liner with a durable waterproof backing. The backpack will keep your belongings super dry and has the ability to morph in size and [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/gulper-handmade-bicycle-and-urban-backpack/feed/ 0 A Life In Pictures – The Douglas Kirkland Monograph http://www.getaddictedto.com/a-life-in-pictures-the-douglas-kirkland-monograph/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/a-life-in-pictures-the-douglas-kirkland-monograph/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 14:16:00 +0000 Suzie Wong http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37115 Douglas Kirkland has given us some of culture’s most iconic images. A Life in Pictures (Glitterati, ISBN 978-0-9881745-8-0, $125) is, finally, a comprehensive volume of collected images honoring the photographer who has assiduously recorded and shaped contemporary culture. Kirkland is more than the iconic images of celebrities that have made him so famous. He has [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/a-life-in-pictures-the-douglas-kirkland-monograph/feed/ 0 Solo Folio – An Intimate Collaboration Of Art And Design http://www.getaddictedto.com/solo-folio-an-intimate-collaboration-of-art-and-design/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/solo-folio-an-intimate-collaboration-of-art-and-design/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 Suzie Wong http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=37017 Industrial Facility designed an annual limited-edition project for Toluca Editions where they unite an artist, a writer and a designer. The artist prepares six photographs, the writer contributes poetry with a relationship to the art, and the designer proposes a box or case to complete it. It is an intimate collaboration of art and design, [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/solo-folio-an-intimate-collaboration-of-art-and-design/feed/ 0 World Famous Instrument Makers http://www.getaddictedto.com/world-famous-instrument-makers/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/world-famous-instrument-makers/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000 Helge Zirkl http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=36741 Right in the heart of Germany, in the upper Vogtland, the Music Town Markneukirchen is found wich takes pride in having been world-famous as the Centre of German Orchstra Instrument making since 1655. Here lives the spirit to translate matter into sound! Generations, Stories & Faces is a collection of short movies which showcases world-famous [...]

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]]> http://www.getaddictedto.com/world-famous-instrument-makers/feed/ 0 Citizen Black Canvas Strap Eco Drive Watch http://www.getaddictedto.com/citizen-black-canvas-strap-eco-drive-watch/ http://www.getaddictedto.com/citizen-black-canvas-strap-eco-drive-watch/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000 Suzie Wong http://www.getaddictedto.com/?p=36977 Citizen men’s Canvas Strap Eco Drive Watch ($175) sports a black canvas in fine, good quality for the wrist and is lined on the inside with a soft-touch suede for added comfort. Imaging never having to worry about winding a watch or making sure it has a functional battery. The perfect everyday timepiece that rarely [...]

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