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Making of Too Late Baby with the Powerplant crew

Check out Yaniv and Rudy from Powerplant (custom bike builders) in this making of for Breitling ad.
Awesome ad, epic cinematography, sweeeeet bikes!

P16 chopper vs P51 fighter

Check out the Powerplant bike in this new Breitling ad… cool plane 2

Rhian Touches Herself

Lingerie model and page 3 girl Rhian Sugden shows us her raunchy side in this darkly seductive short film shot by world renowned photographer Rankin.

Start touching yourself boys !

Burning Man Experience // Part 1

Part one (Day) of a two part series. A short glimpse of a Burning Man experience. Hope you enjoy it. Part Two (Night) coming soon…
Shot in August/September 2011.

MEK | DNM 2012 Spring and Summer Collection

Behind the Scenes Footage

MEK | DNM 2012 Spring and Summer Collection Photo Shoot

JOHN JOHN – VENICE

DIRECTORS: JACQUES DEQUEKER & MARCOS MELLO / PHOTOGRAPHER: JACQUES DEQUEKER / STYLIST: FELIPE VELOSO / BEAUTY: RICARDO DOS ANJOS / EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: DIEGO QUERZOLI / SUPER ASSIST. TAVINHO COSTA / ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: NICK GRAHAM-SMITH / LETTER: MARCOS MELLO / CASTING: ALEX RODRIGUES, ALLY WALSH, CHELSEA TURNDO, CHRISTIAN YAGER, CHRISTOPHER BROWN, JESSICA MORROW, KURT COLLINS, LUCKY BLUE, MONIKA, SARAH GINGRICH, TAYLOR M. / PRODUCTION by CAVALLARIA NY

Gap fall campaign 2011

Gap’s 1969 denim design studio, the designers who work there, the jeans they are designing, and the cool people who wear them.

EAMES: The Architect and The Painter – Trailer

Nice find from Bespoke Design Build (www.bespokedesignbuild.com), a London based furniture design company lead by the young and talented Alex Savory. (Facebook page)

Most of us know the name Eames from the wellknow Eames lounge chair. But the name stands for so much more, like for the 10min promotional film made for Polaroid on the SX-70 Polaroid land camera in the 70ies that you can find at the bottom of this post.

Trailer:

In theatres on November 18th

Here’s some Wikipedia info for you:
Charles Eames, Jr (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Charles was the nephew of St. Louis architect William S. Eames. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one day becoming an architect).

Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) was an American artist, designer, and filmmaker who, together with her husband Charles, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. She was born in Sacramento, California to Alexander and Edna Burr Kaiser, and had a brother − Maurice. Having lived in a number of cities during her youth, in 1933 she graduated from Bennett Women’s College in Millbrook, New York, and moved to New York, where she studied abstract expressionist painting with Hans Hofmann. She was a founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936 and displayed paintings in their first show a year later at Riverside Museum in Manhattan. One of her paintings is in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art.

In the 1950s, the Eames’ continued their work in architecture and modern furniture design. Like in the earlier molded plywood work, the Eames’ pioneered innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass, plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. Charles and Ray would soon channel Charles’ interest in photography into the production of short films. From their first film, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to the extraordinary Powers of Ten (1977), their cinematic work was an outlet for ideas, a vehicle for experimentation and education.

The office of Charles and Ray Eames, which functioned for more than four decades (1943–88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, included in its staff, at one time or another, a number of remarkable designers, like Henry Beer and Richard Foy, now co-chairmen of CommArts, Inc.; Don Albinson; Deborah Sussman; Harry Bertoia; and Gregory Ain, who was Chief Engineer for the Eameses during World War II. Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Eames Lounge Chair (1956), the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles’s friend, film director Billy Wilder, the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy experiment, and a number of toys.

The couple often produced short films in order to document their interests, such as collecting toys and cultural artifacts on their travels. The films also record the process of hanging their exhibits or producing classic furniture designs. Some of their other films cover more intellectual topics. For example, one film covers the purposefully mundane topic of filming soap suds moving over the pavement of a parking lot. “Powers of Ten” (narrated by the late physicist Philip Morrison), gives a dramatic demonstration of orders of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a carbon atom.

From the beginning, the Eames furniture has usually been listed as by Charles Eames; indeed in the 1948 and 1952 Herman Miller bound catalogs, only Charles’ name is listed, but it has become clear that Ray was deeply involved and should be considered an equal partner. The Eames fabrics (many are currently available from Maharam) were mostly designed by Ray, as were the Time Life Stools. But in reading the various books on Eames, and seeing the photos of furniture development, it is clear that Ray’s involvement is absolute. In 1979, the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded Charles and Ray with the Royal Gold Medal.

Charles and Ray Eames 10min promotional film on the SX-70 Polaroid land camera: