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The Rain Room installation created by rAndom International at the
Barbican Centre in London invites visitors to enter a downpour of rain
only to discover that their bodies interrupt the flow of water anywhere
they go—they never get wet even as the rain continues to fall all
around them. |
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Durga from gautam rangan on Vimeo. The interactive installation by Gautam Rangan retells the story of Durga Mahisasura Mardini, a Hindu goddess. The rotating canvas is an interface that reveals the two different versions of the story. When rotated counterclockwise, the wheel tells the story of Durga and Mahisha fighting one another. When rotated clockwise, the story transforms—and Durga and Mahisha fall in love. |
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Interior design of Bianca, a cruise ship on Lake Biwa in Japan, by Elena Manferdini. The design integrates a prismatic reflection of the exterior landscapes and horizons onto the interior of the ship. |
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Some of my favorite movie moments involve a swimming pool, a character and a pause in storytelling. In The Graduate, Harold & Maude and Rushmore (just
to name a few), a character walks to the pool’s edge where they drop,
splash and quietly float for some several long, uncomfortable seconds.
The camera’s indifferent, slow pan mollifies any sense of
alarm—narrative concerns like “drowning?” fade into the background.
These scenes are different than the others. They are voluptuously
sensory experiences, which provide a surreal moment of sympathetic
sensation within the otherwise plot-driven medium of film. |
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Giant glass sausage typography. Awesome. This gorgeous glass sculpture was designed by French industrial and furniture designer Sam Baron, who works as the design director at Fabrica. When Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer of Sight Unseen asked Sam to participate in NoHo Design District, he decided to create a glass installation in the windows of the Japan Premium Beef butcher shop using sausage shapes. Sam worked with Italian glass maker Massimo Lunardon to execute the glass sculptures. For the features page of the Design and Living issue of T Magazine, they came together again to create the sausages in the shape of the letter “T.” |
