Making Scents: A look at Grasse, a hub of perfumery

Making Scents: A look at Grasse, a hub of perfumery

Making Scents: A look at Grasse, a hub of perfumery

Monocle takes a look at Grasse in the south of France, a town known for it’s robust creation of perfumes. The video is beautiful, framing the town in an incredible light. But it’s also quite an interesting piece as you get to see the changing culture of perfumery. There are artistans who’ve been making scents for hundreds of years, which is based on traditions and experienced noses. On the other hand you have science now playing a large part in the market, being able to manipulate and change how scents are created. As the correspondant Gillian Dobias mentions in the piece, these artists work to create something invisible from raw materials that are so very visible. What a fascinating career.

Bobby Solomon

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April 4, 2013 - See more posts by Bobby

The Teton County Library in Jackson, Wyoming physically responds to the Internet

E/B Office Filament Mind Jackson Wyoming Library

If you’re looking for a fun place to hang out and interact with data (and who isn’t?) try the Teton County Library in Jackson, Wyoming. The library has a new addition built by Gilday Architects. And inside the new entrance lobby, you’ll find a stunning installation created by E/B Office. The New York-based practice has filled the lobby with five miles of fiber optic cable cut into a thousand segments.

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Alex Dent

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April 4, 2013 - See more posts by Alex

Aranda\Lasch build crystals, infinite variation, and practice on the edges of architecture

Aranda\Lasch The Creators Project yeasayer

Aranda\Lasch The Creators Project yeasayer

I’ve spent the last several hours watching two dozen or so videos from the Creators Project, and I regret nothing. The videos are great, highlighting work created by some embarrassingly talented folks. One of the newest videos is focused on the light installation on the San Francisco Bay Bridge that Bobby wrote about last week, and another one I particularly like focuses on the work of Aranda\Lasch.

Lead by Benjamin Aranda and Christopher Lasch, the architecture firm has built a body of work along the boundaries of what most would call architecture, spilling over into a kind of computer and fabrication science where the firm experiments with ideas about everything from crystals to infinity. While their website is molting into something new, the two are pointing the curious to their flickr account. There, you can find more pictures (like the ones above) of an excellent project featured in the aforementioned video: a set for the band yeasayer. If you’re unfamiliar with the band, they are bueno and I added one of their songs to the TFIB March Playlist so you can take a listen.

Alex Dent

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March 28, 2013 - See more posts by Alex

Animated Abstractions by EyeBodega

EyeBodega

I’m a sucker for weird, tripped out, colorful imagery–especially in motion. NYC-based multidisciplinary design studio EyeBodega is thoroughly all of those things, describing their work as “post-apocalyptic modernism.” With a focus on work for underground art and music culture, founders Rob Chabebe and Joe Perez have created a body of work spanning print, interactive, photography, and video that is jarring, glitchy, and perfect for the contemporary music scene it often finds itself in.

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Skip Hursh

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March 21, 2013 - See more posts by Skip