Another Thing We See - Issue #8

A little over a month ago NikeLab presented the debut collection of their collaboration with a new high profile name from the fashion world (are we going to see a focus on this, as competitor Adidas has been doing for the last decade?): British sportswear connoisseur Kim Jones. The colorful collection means the highly anticipated return to athletic sportswear for Jones, after he successfully collaborated with Umbro (owned by Nike) for several seasons some years ago, before he became menswear director at Louis Vuitton in 2011, where he has been marrying athletic influences with luxury. In order to celebrate the union between technology and tradition, our inspirational friends of The Travel Almanac decided to set up an exclusive fashion editorial collaboration with NikeLab and Jones in Rome’s E.U.R. [Esposizione Universale Roma] district which they gave the name ‘Saluti da E.U.R.’ 

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It is the last women practicing the art of free-diving in South Korea. Known as the Haenyeo, they would dive to the seafloor for hundreds of years, fishing for fresh shellfish.

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Came across this beautiful artwork and although its not currently on show anymore I thought lets share it here. Black Flags by William Forsythe at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

Athletes from Great Britain have dominated in the velodrome at the Rio Olympics, as they did at London 2012, and Beijing 2008. A Brit has also won the Tour de France four out of the past five years: quite a turnaround, given that until 2012, Great Britain had never triumphed in the world’s most grueling bike race.

Thanks Jorn for sharing

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Recently we discovered the stunning work of Canadian painter Alex Bierk via Tumblr, which keeps resonating in our minds strongly ever since. Born into a Toronto-based family of artists -his brothers Nick and Charles are also painters, his brother Jeff a photographer- all sons of the now deceased realist painter David Bierk have chosen to follow his example into the arts. In the case of Alex (and Charles) even his technique of braking (photo-)realistic paintings down into a grid while painting them was passed on. Before pursuing his own career in the arts, Alex worked as Kim Dorland’s studio assistant, after which he started his personal journey into painting under the mentorship of his father, who proved to be a inspiring formative force in his son’s early artistic practice.

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Crush is the beautiful new album by High Water and is on repeat for a few days already. Volume up!

Just bumped into this interesting new online app Pilgrim. Pilgrim is a bookmarklet / web-crawler that aims to provide a better experience for consuming long-form text and exploring related materials on the web. 

DJ Shadow launched this epic ‘Nobody Speak’ ft. Run The Jewels. Almost like real life I’d say… “We wanted to make a positive, life-affirming video that captures politicians at their election-year best,” DJ Shadow said of the video. “We got this instead.”

Listen to the full album here.

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Early summer we launched our very own luxury brand. Inspired by the Japanese ‘Mottainai’ (もったいない) tradition which is centered around the idea that every object has a soul and should never be wasted, we finally presented the Mottainai Nº 1: a timeless pair of sunglasses created to last a lifetime.

See ‘m here and get ’m there

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I can very much agree that David Lynch’s unsettling, hallucinatory meditation on Hollywood culture, Mulholland Drive (2001), really is the best film of this century so far.

BBC Culture surveyed film critics, academics, and curators from 36 countries across every continent (except Antarctica) to compile an international list of the top 100 films released since the year 2000.

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A very interesting longread on a magic pill that should keep you young. After reading it one thing got me. “Side effects may include an obsession with death, reinforced every morning when you swallow your pill.”

I think I stay with eating as conscious as possible, doing some sports and enjoy life as long as it takes. 

Worth reading anyhow!

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