Armed with their Fresh Push Play iPhone App, HIFANA took to the streets of a once again bustling and vibrant Tokyo to sample the city sounds, followed by an electrifying live set at night performed with only iPhone and iPad. We invited a small group of fans to the exclusive Yakatabune boat party on Tokyo Bay and recorded their performance. (Wieden+Kennedy)
Fragile, Cai Guo-Qiang, 2011. Doha, Qatar.
The porcelain tiles are handmade in his hometown in China, his signature gunpowder drawings made on site. The text reads “Fragile” in Arabic.
His work is not only unique in creativity and technologically advanced but still results with beauty and aesthetics. For me, not very many artists can incorporate these three factors in one work but Cai Guo-Qiang and Ai Wei Wei can.
Both from a communist origin.
It is my assumption that their talents come from a form of rebellion/result against their born-society.
Whatever it is, I am so heavily moved.
もの凄く強く、何かを訴えているような、
不満や孤独から生まれている何かを、強く感じてしまう。
(Source: savvywould)
This floral art, designed by the hands of Thierry Boutemy crew, consists of over 3000 pear, quince and cherry blossoms to adorn the new flagship Zara store.
This work of art is absolutely stunning. I was so inspired with awe the moment I saw these pictures from Saipua flowers. And they would be for ZARA!
Oh I wish I could see them real!!
Thierry Boutemy is famous for his floral installations with multiple runways and ads like Lanvin, Viktor & Rolf, and Lady Gaga.
I can’t get over this beauty. I love it so much.
I would love to see his work in person one day. ONE DAY.
All photos by Saipua.
by Karl Lagerfeld
成功するためには、何が必要か？
………運です。
僕はこの38年間、スターと呼ばれる人たちを見て来ました。
僕も何人もプロデュースして来ました。
そこで見たものは、運です。
どんなに実力があっても、
運がないとスターにはなれないのです。
じゃあ、努力をしていても無駄なのか？
努力は報われないのか？
そんなことはありません。
努力は必要です。
言い方を変えれば、
努力は成功するための最低条件です。
いつか、必ず、チャンスの順番が来ると信じなさい。
自分の境遇の悪さだけを嘆いていても始まりません。
頑張れとしか言えないんだ。
僕がチャンスを作っているのではありません。
僕からのチャンスを待っている間はだめですね。
「私だって選抜に入れば…」
「私だってドラマに出れば…」
「私だってコマーシャルに出れば…」
それがチャンスだと思っているかもしれませんが、それは違います。
それは、チャンスの出口です。
みんなに見つけて欲しいのは、
チャンスの入り口です。
今の自分にできることを考えなさい。
−秋元康
(Source: newsweek, via fastcompany)
Photo by Drop Tokyo
Outfit from Ka Na Ta.
She pulls it off so well.
Maya Kohagura 古波蔵麻椰
LA/Tokyo
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Born and raised in beautiful sunny california, but my heart is in tokyo♥
Dressed in a lovely outfit changes my day 180 and a delicious meal with that would add up to 360. Or listening to jazz on a perfect sunny weather could be just as good. I dislike online shopping and I'm still working on getting my first perfect Lanvin dress. I'm a college student who doesn't know where her future is leading to but I'm doing everything that I can that's being offered to me.
Choi Jeong-Hwa, Spring Flowers. Wish the trees would bloom this way in New York.
Who would have thought that ‘leg warmers’ could actually look good in a time outside of the 90s? Only in Paris.
Photo source: Grazia.it
This. Changes. Everything.
“Anamorphic Helvetica” by Charlie Mitchell.
