Tag: youtube
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Louis Vuitton / Super Flat Monogram
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCn06bEl15A&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] Here is another anime made for LV by Takashi Murakami. My earlier post about his anime and LV is here: Super Flat First Love. This one shows one of TM’s cute character (a bamboo-chewing LV panda ?) swallowing a young Japanese girl whole and transporting her to a world of dancing LV monograms. It…
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eyeCandy #1: Super Fluids
Too tired to write. Knee deep in stuff. Turning home upside to get ready for the movers. Here is something catchy to look at. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f82TNyJ_pVw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1]
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Louis Vuitton / Super Flat First Love
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqaXxSBZTZc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] While I was uploading my Louis Vuitton/Solari video on Youtube for an earlier post, I discovered a series of anime by Takashi Murakami that involves the LV trademark monogram. The anime are all breezy, magical, and cute. Last year, the Brooklyn Museum put on a retrosepctive show of Takashi Murakami’s work. The show…
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Christmas Bash / Nor’easter
Last night we went to the annual christmas bash in Montclair. As always, we had a great time: conversations, live music, carol singing, food and drinks, karaoke, etc. Calebc and Shecrow are great hosts, thank you. Outside was a roaring Nor’easter tearing up the East Coast. The snow storm persisted much of the evening and…
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Louis Vuitton / Solari di Udine
We went to see the christmas tree at Rockerfellar Center and the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue a few nights ago. As we passed Louis Vuitton’s New York flagship store on the corner of Fifth Ave and 57th Street, I noticed something flickering in the shop windows. What caught my eye was the flipping of rows…
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A History of Chocolate in Neuchâtel
While in Neuchâtel, we visited the local art and history museum (Musée d’art et d’histoire, click above to see full size image). They are running an exhibition on the accomplishments of a local chocolatier, Phillipe Suchard, titled “Le monde selon Suchard” (The world according to Suchard). Phillipe was born in 1797 near Neuchâtel and opened his factory…