Hi this is Clementine. Sometimes you spot a beauty...anything, which makes you stop, which makes you forget anything else around you. This little discovery, be it a picture or a scene...or anything, just grabs you, looks into you. When this happens to me, I look around to see who else is going to see this, who else is going to feel the same way. That's how the reflection of what I just discover, reaches you. This is, reflectionof.me...of you and of everything that surrounds us. I hope you enjoy sharing what's reflected on you, like me.
If you want to contact with me my email is: clementine@reflectionof.me
The element of rain adds so much character to a city. As I look through the lens of Brooklyn-based photographer Navid Baraty, I see how rain takes on a classic and romantic feel when shot in black and white, while color transforms the setting completely, making the scenes appear more vibrant and lively.
Well, True Blood is something kind unusual. The series got my attention because it's from the same creator of Six Feet Under and writer of American Beauty, and both are 2 excellent pieces of art. But when I heard about the plot of this new one I thought that it would have all the possibilities to be a huge mistake. For world's sake Buffy and Angel are not among us anymore, but vampires are on top once again because there's this new franchise, Twilight (2008), and also there's the fact that everybody loves a great vampire tale and we all were missing that on TV.
Anyway, vampire tales freaks people's mind because this fascination over these creatures and all their ambiguous qualities really impresses every human being.Of course that's not all about it, and unlike Buffy or Angel this one is different from the vampire stories that we usually see on television because it's not for teenagers and also is not a crappy one. The vampires or even Sookie's psychic power are just forefronts to a plot that centers all the difficulties between humans and what is called different. So, it's not strange that entire series deals with all different kinds of people that once and still are being named "freaks" or "different", like: black people, gay people, southern people, older, addicted, women, whores, etc. And also is not strange that Sookie and Bill feel so connected because they are just the representation of these different social groups. Have you ever asked yourself why "freakies" have "freakie" friends? Because they share the same feelings and this is the base to construct any kind of relationship. That's why there's a psychic girl and vampires because otherwise it could had been just another series and people would say: "oh, okay... just another one about gay people or black people trying to prove something for someone". Remember X-Men and all its society issues? Well, it's quite the same thing because dealing with unreal things makes people incapable to point their fingers. So they just shut up and fit their selves in any kind of familiar circumstances it's shown with no constraint. So, positive points for Alan Ball once again.
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“Why Has the Barcode Never Changed?”
This is the question the Japanese design team at Design Barcode asked itself, just before it created a process that allowed a design element to be integrated into the barcode. Following their motto, “Big Ideas are small”, Design Barcodes is today a flourishing dynamic agency, which has already been welcomed by many design awards.
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The hand fork and hand spoon designed by Moe Furuya from mitsubai(Japanese).
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“Underwater” Erin Mulvehill New York, USA:
”My work aims to explore the human connections and subtle nuances that whisper into the ear of our every day. Much of my work is rooted in the ideas of mind, body, seamlessness and time. This is largely because my deepest beliefs lie in the principles of buddhism, the integration of art and life, and the preservation of beautiful moments. I am nomadic by nature and am inspired each day by the nothingness that resides in all things.”
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Hussein Chalayan was born in Lefkoşa in 1970 and graduated from the Turkish Maarif College of his hometown. He moved with his family to England in 1978, obtaining British citizenship. He first studied for a National Diploma in fashion and clothing at Warwickshire School of Arts, and proceeded to study Fashion Design at Central Saint Marins in London. His graduate collection in 1993, titled "The Tangent Flows", contained clothes which he had buried in his back yard and dug up again. An instant sensation, the whole collection was purchased and displayed in luxury designer store Browns in London
From July 15th – October 24th the Istanbul Modern plays host to the most comprehensive exhibition ever held in Turkey of Hussein Chalayan’s work. The exhibition presents the artist’s fashion collections, art and film projects created between the years 1994 and 2010. It explores Chalayan’s creative approach, his sources of inspiration and ideas on genetics, technological progress, displacement, immigration and cultural identity.
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Photography purists might see many HDR images as gaudy & cartoonish but I really dig the way they bring out a new experience of the subject. The hyper-realism of some HDR compositions seems to almost virtualize the world blurring the lines even further between real & synthetic. It's this same boundary dissolution that I enjoy in immersive games like the Grand Theft Auto series where you can suddenly find yourself gazing at the play of light on the city walls at sunset, awed by the natural beauty and simultaneously amazed by the number crunching under the hood.
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