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For those who’ve missed it Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide (2005) has been claimed to be one of the most important Chinese films of the past decade. It is a slow art house feature film with an intimate feeling that does offer a reward if you sit through it. Still a film school student, Jiayin was 23 when she made it and last year Oxhide II was presented. She has received several awards for the movies including including the Fipresci Prize at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival for the first one. The films feature herself, her mother and her father playing their respective characters as we follow a piece of time in the middle-class life of a Chinese family through a small number of shots with no camera movements whatsoever. Both stories are being played out in their actual apartment in Beijing. Above a clip from the first scene of Oxhide.

Curious Displays is a product proposal for a new platform for display technology. Instead of a fixed form factor screen, the display surface is instead broken up into hundreds of ½ inch display blocks. Each block operates independently as a self-contained unit, and has full mobility, allowing movement across any physical surface.

It has been 2 years since Design and the Elastic Mind was shown at MoMa. I think that the concepts Julia confronts in her creative exploration is not only influenced by her previous degree in science and technology (UCLA), but an example of what Paola Antonelli was trying to demonstrate through her curation of that exhibition. Designers in the 21^st Century are constantly being forced to adapt to the way science is shaping our world. To me, design has always been a device for introducing real emotional qualities to the interpretation of information. Listen to Paola speak about Design and the Elastic Mind on Charlie Rose.

Curious Displays was Julia’s MFA thesis project in the Media Design program at Art Center.

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Despite having worked on older projects including the music video for “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley (with director Robert Hales), Mothership has only recently established themselves as an official transmedia studio representing sunny Venice, California. The young collective has hit the ground running partly due to its affiliation to the Academy Award-winning powerhouse Digital Domain, whose visual sorcery you may have experienced in films such as Titanic and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Through their work, Executive Creative Director Alejandro Lopez says Mothership will demonstrate how “transmedia offers brands the opportunity to integrate directly with entertainment properties instead of standing alongside them.”

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A well decorated short-term living space is provided without charge for creators of any kind with a good enough motivation. Creators Inn was founded on the initiative of Swedish clothing brand Elvine and has so far hosted creatives in Gothenburg and Stockholm in spaces a notch more comfortable than the otherwise commonly used sofa-of-a-friend solution.

Moonmilk series by Ryan McGinley. The photographer and director is also of current interest with a video for the spring 2010 collection of Pringle of Scotland featuring Tilda Swinton.

They are numerous but do not come across that often, those utterly fascinating works, persons and instances from gone times that you did not have a clue about. When you suddenly stumble upon them it’s like a gem from the past reveals itself. Jean Painleve (1902-1989) and his hard-to-classify films feel like a treasure like that. Inspired by surrealism this French filmmaker-scientist-inventor created a scientific-poetic kind of cinema. The Criterion Collection has put together a DVD with a selection of his work. You can also have a peek here.

Spring and summer 2010 are beautiful at J. W. Anderson.

Sending out a humble wish to be a few miles closer to a shop with a pile of Vestojs on the shelf.

Jewellery brand of namesake Anna Tascha Larsson. Visit the website here.