Another Thing - Issue #9

Almost everybody was talking about this last week, and I’m sure you already saw it. But if not, do it now!

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Get a glimpse into the second BMW Museum, which will be opening its doors very soon in Beijing, China. Beijing- and Frankfurt-based firm Crossboundaries’ design for the gallery space on the third and fourth flour of the BMW building brings forth the exclusiveness of the cars while it references the Chinese aesthetic heritage in an innovative but elegant way.

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This is getting interesting: Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja, the founding member of the Bristol band Massive Attack, pictured at Banksy’s Dismaland last year, has been accused of being the guerrilla graffiti star because art keeps appearing near their gigs.

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We have said it here before and will say it again — with fashion, particularly menswear, currently being dominated by a search for hype instead of innovative ideas, many new brands are still started every week, but less and less are really adding something to the field. When the Paris-based OAMC —which houses its atelier in Milano and produces in Italy, Portugal and Japan— launched in 2013, they approached it by intrinsically staying away from the dominant trends; refusing prominent branding and basically starting an ongoing quest to produce iconic menswear items created from the juxtapositioning of existing ideas combined with innovative touches. Primarily focussing on the marriage of utility wear with traditional luxury elements resulting in an aesthetic truly fit for the future.

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This is an article shared a little earlier this year, but I think its a must read. The things happening right now — Brexit, Trump, Turkey, Russia, anywhere… — are so crazy, on so many levels and the only thing we can do is watch it happening. Or can we do something? 

As Tobias Stone puts it: “We need to beware not to become divided, we need to avoid getting lost in arguing through facts and logic, and counter the populist messages of passion and anger with our own similar messages. We need to understand and use social media. We need to harness a different fear… Trump and Putin supporters don’t read the Guardian, so writing there is just reassuring our friends. We need to find a way to bridge from our closed groups to other closed groups, try to cross the ever widening social divides.”

This said, there’s another thing I’ve been thinking and reading about a lot lately, which is the impact of algorithms on our world view. There was a nice article last year in the Huffington Post on this — Read it here.

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Free diving is one of those things high on my list of things I want to learn. This week Nowness shared this amazing short film by British director and photographer Ian Derry of Finnish freediver Johanna Nordblad, who holds the world record for a 50-meter dive under ice, after finding the sport during recovery from a downhill biking accident that almost took her leg. Truly inspiring!

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As we are (to our great excitement!) almost wrapping up (and therewith will be able to finally share) the complete perfume project we have been working on in the last months —which without a doubt turned out to be one of our favourite projects in the last few years— we would like to share another project that deeply inspired us. Scheduled for presentation during the London Design Festival 2016 from the 15th until the 25th of September at The Conran Shop, in the project created for the festival British artist Zuza Mengham collaborated with fragrance house Laboratory Perfumes on a highly inspirational artistic exploration of the relationship between scent and the other human senses.

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Last week I shared this article on life extending pills, but this is something different. A rising trend in Silicon Valley involves employees taking tiny hits of LSD before heading to work. Are they risking their health or optimising it?

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