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The loveliest wedding gift ever

The 10th March was my wedding day and it was so beautiful. Though we had some misshaps along the way but everything went well in the end and everybody had fun. There was so many people that came and so many that couldn't join our celebrations sent their love from afar.

In this post I want to share you one of the most beautiful gift we received. It is from our dear friend, Nuki, who lives so far from us since she moved with her husband to this beautiful island away from our big city. She is a remarkable scrapbook artist, and I love every creation she makes that she posts on her blog or facebook page.

She made two pages of scrapbooks for us which we then use as decorations on the wedding, and both of them are beautiful. She made one with turqoise and peach color theme which actually were the color theme of my wedding and the other with black color theme with a cute bird cage hanging on top, which is also perfect because we used bird cages as decorations on the wedding party. And she made them both only in a short time, since I didn't send the news to her about the wedding untill about a week prior of the D-day. Amazing, huh? :p

This is how we received the package...

(Sorry for the blurry pictures, I only had seconds to take them before leaving the house)

I don't have any of the pictures showing them how we set them on the wedding party yet but this is how we set them on our living room now...

Thanks again for the amazing gift, Mbak Nuki...love them dearly :*

PS: you can see more of the details of the scrapbooks and the stories behind them from here and here.

xoxo,
Dee~~♥

Video: Karakuri

Karakuri from Matthew Allard on Vimeo.

Japan has always been on the forefront of cutting edge robotics. Its roots can be traced back 200-300 years during the Edo period when skilled craftsmen created automata (self-operating machines). Using nothing more than pulleys and weights they were able to make the Karakuri (Japanese automata) perform amazing tasks.

Japans modern day robots can be traced back to the Karakuri. Today Hideki Higashino is one of the few remaining craftsmen who is determined to keep the history and tradition of Japanese Karakuri alive.

Shot and edited by Matthew Allard.

Camera Sony PMW-F3

Edited in FCP (slight color correction in Color)

Must be made for our house.

Definitely!

Video Documentation: Rem Koolhaas Public Lecture at Blitz

On june 20th 2011, JongArsitek! and the Indonesian Institute of Architects, organized a lecture by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.After more than 50 years, Rem Koolhaas finally set foot back to the country, he so oftenly mentioned, to make impact in his provoking architectural thoughts.Accompanied by his partner and Director of OMA Hongkong, David Gianotten, they address approximately 500 Indonesian Architects, young and seniors, in two lectures that comprehensively delivered the journey of OMA as an architectural firm and their projects in Asia.
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[JongArsitek!]

A very late post, actually. Here are the official video documentations of the OMA – Rem Koolhas & David Gianotten Public lecture held in Jakarta on June 20th, 2011 by JongArsitek! and the Indonesian Institute of Architects (see some of the documentation made by myself [here] and [here]).

jongKuliah! OMA - Rem Koolhaas from jongArsitek! on Vimeo.

jongKuliah! OMA - David Gianotten from jongArsitek! on Vimeo.

Go Beyond The Cover

Behind The Scenes:

Meet Rick Genest, a Canadian artist and fashion model born in Montreal on August 7, 1985. Genest is also known as 'Zombie Boy', with eighty percent of his body is covered, including intricate designs of an entire skeleton (skull included) and is thematically, the depiction of a body decomposing - complete with flesh eating insects.

Started to get his first tattoo at 16, he then meet up with Montreal's tattoo artist Frank Lewis by 19 and was committed to his full body tattoo project, with Lewis responsible on designing the majority of his body over the next six years.

The ad video from above was made as a campaign video for Dermablend Professional products, since Rick Genest has become the muse for the brand. The amazing transformation took a team of makeup artists a full day to cover the tattoos on Genest’s head, chest, arms, face and part of his back.

Genest shot to fame after Nicolas Formichetti, creative director of Mugler and stylist to Lady Gaga, put him on the Paris catwalks and in Gaga’s Born this Way video.

Sleepbox

Sleepbox - video courtesy of ArchGroupRussia

"Imagine yourself in an unfamiliar city or in an airport or in any other public place far from home. There is no opportunity for you to rest and relax, even if you are extremely tired. You can have a snack or drink virtually anywhere, but there is simply nowhere to sleep. Sleeping in public causes security, privacy and hygiene issues. Sleep away from home in busy and crowded places is a non-existent luxury." [Sleepbox]

A very interesting design concept by some creative people in Russia. The main concept of Sleepbox is special units designed as mini hostels, designed for travellers (especially solo travellers) or any people with such mobile activities to be able to have a special place to rest without having to go to a hotel. But the units themselves were already provided with the same level of security and comfort as a hotel does.

Other designers from other countries have also come out with mini hostels as such with different ideas in shape and sizes. But I do think that these design will actually work and is going to become a new trend with so many people who does travelling more these days.

Source: http://sleepbox.com/
More info and other articles:
http://www.arch-group.org/portfolio/diz/1/
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1699/sleep-box--mini-hotels

Creative Homes: Stable Acre

Today's inspiration comes from this house (and its interior) which I found in the middle of daily brainstorming through Inspace Locations a few days ago. It is the converted stables home of gallerist Stuart Shave, designed by architect David Kohn. Open-plan orientated around a simple modernist fireplace, light spills in through walls of glass. It's warm and simple, mid-century and modern. Rough brick is smoothed with white paint, rustic and sparse yet sophisticated and softened. And for an art dealer strangely devoid of art.

All photos courtesy (and can be found more at): http://www.inspacelocations.com/stableacre/