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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Ryan McGinley & Tilda Swinton for Pringle of Scotland

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

Take one Wünderkind photographer, one Academy Award winning actress, blend in a nearly 200 year old knitwear brand and what do you get? A short film directed by Ryan McGinley featuring Tilda Swinton running around Scotland in beautiful dresses made by Pringle of Scotland. Pringle is currently using Tilda Swinton as their muse, as she [...]

McNally Jackson Books Cafe by Front Studio

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

I know a lot of the time I post about minimal architecture, with lots of concrete and blank walls and well, it can be kind of boring. Then I come across spaces like the cafe for McNally Jackson Books, and I’m struck by the warmth and character of the space. Designed by Front Studio, the [...]

Patrick Fry

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the act of making physical goods, especially the argument of having a physical object to read versus something on a screen. I think that both have their merits, but the tactile nature of print is something that you definitely can’t replicate on a blog. That being said, looking [...]

The Pump Promotional Video

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

My buddy Dave Franzese sent me an email with a hysterical little promotional video his studio Dark Igloo did for New York eatery The Pump and I can’t stop laughing. The video centers around the fictitious Crap corporation, with ads featuring Crap being put on all manners of foods and made to look like modern [...]

#musicmonday

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

Good Monday, I hope you’ve had a nice weekend. It’s going to be crazy rainy for the next two weeks here in Los Angeles, so hopefully your weather is treating you little better. This week there were some newbies and some old friends. First up is Harlem, a band I had heard of but never [...]

‘Neighbors’ by Damon Winter

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

Damon Winter, a staff photographer for the New York Times, has been working on a photo column called The Lens Project which allows the photographers to make their own commentary through images. He created a series called Neighbors which utilizes double exposures created with a large format camera to make interesting juxtapositions of images. It’s [...]