Top of Tirol...time to scream!

Yummaaaa! My heart sinks to ground level..
This is a mountain top viewing platform above a glacier recently completed in Tirol, Austria.. designed by Astearchitecture. A heart-stopping architectural edge walker in Mountain Isdor, its an interplay of construction and landscape. A 9-meter cantilever over the ridge of the glacier giving you a new perspective about beauty, and the essence of what we can do today that wasn't available yesterday. Yeah...I'd think at least 3 times before walking on a cantilever thats oh 3200-meters from the ground!!!

Microscopic Photography

Images from National Geographic

Chanel Art Pavilion NY

Insane architecture done by major architect Zaha Hadid..commissioned to design this handbag-inspired Chanel Art Pavilion in NY. Inside..there are works of art by international artists inspired by the elements of the quilted Chanel bag that shows its emblamatic status, along with a dark room where a water puddle shows the reflection of a parisian cityscape, complete with the Chanel boutique.. A video display showing naked people beating eachother up with chanel handbags, and a women shooting Chanel handbags from a rifle..Art could sometimes be delusional.

Chanel MobileArt

Culinary Adventures

Being a gourmand foodie, I have to note some of the most interesting yet weird to bizarre places to dine around the world..For the fun of it.

1. Passionate about apples at Pomze, Paris. A gourmet restaurant devoted to apples! created by Daniel and Emmanuel Dayan. With more than 120 varieties, this innovative cuisine adds flavor to all its menu items by bringing out the best in apples. Treat yourself on the likes of gazpacho soup with granny smith juice ice cubes, or the swordfish skewer with grilled veg, with a light red apple curry sauce.

2. How about a chance to dine uh..blind?! Dans Le Noir offers just that. Made to increase awareness of the blind, you get surprise menus that come in four colors and themes: white for normal, red for no seafood, blue for no meat, and green for vegetarian. In other venues, you are being served by the blind.
3. For those of you who know Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck and Chef Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli, where food takes the form of weird science experiments: foams, liquid nitrogen, even an ultrasonic mixing technique used to create unique emulsions. The Clinic in Singapore has taken a bizarre step further. Designed like a hospital, the chefs “operate” on gourmet oddities in an open demo kitchen under the glow of operating room lights! Food is served on stainless steel surgical tables, and diners are seated in gleaming gold-plated wheelchairs.


4. One of the most difficult places to reserve a table is Fortezza Medicea. Why? that’s because, in addition to serving fluffy gnocchi and robust Chiantis, most chefs, waiters, and sommeliers are also serving 25 to life! Launched in 2006 in a 500-year-old prison outside Pisa, Fortezza Medicea is a kind of social experiment: can a restaurant staffed by some of Italy’s most hardened criminals provide viable job training? How about being served in a big room filled with plain benches, guards (no really) survey the crowd. Oh yea..NO CELLPHONES! and you have to eat with plastic cutlery..worth it?! Um..to me..maybe for the scary fun of it maybe not for the sake of my life!

Parroquet

I'm in awe at these truly deep colorful photography by fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø. Born out of a long-life fascination of science photography and nature documentaries, Parroquet is the photographers' latest project. Different than other genres of photography, Parroquet is all about a small slender type of long-tailed parrot. Shown in such intensity and striking imagery, this possesses an almost sartorial quality, in a way relates to fashion.
Sundsbø sees this project as fashion on an evolutionary scale; compared to the fast-paced, demanding nature of the fashion industry with many trends and looks each season produces, one can just ooh and aah at this stunning bird of natural beauty.

Avant-Garde Yayoi Kusama

In the spotlight is renowned Japanese Avant-Garde sculptor, painter and novelist Yayoi Kusama, cited by Yoko Ono as one of her big influences. Mostly recognized for the habit she began early in her career of covering a wide variety of surfaces – walls, floors, canvases, household objects and even naked assistants – with polka dots.
Here is her installation of "Gleaming lights of the Souls", described by her as vast fields of dots, or ‘infinity nets’, which are supposedly taken directly from hallucinations she had as a child. She approaches her hallucinatory approach with a new mirror room installation that immerses the viewer in the illusion of infinity.

Picture 1: "Gleaming lights of the Souls" at Liverpool Biennial International 08: MADE UP
Currently showing
Picture 2: Akasaka Art Flower 08. Past exhibition
Pictures 3+4: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Currently showing

Yayoi Kusama

Perceptional Play

Challenging our perception of reality, Leandro Erlich creates playful installations where he combines reality with fiction in a melange that provokes our sense of actual perception. Imagination is played with reality..now this is truly BC!

Pictures 1 +2 : Swimming Pool, 21st Century Museum of Art of Kanazawa. Permanent Collection
Picture 3 : Smoking Room Exhibition Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokio 2006.
Picture 4 : The Staircase . 2005
Picture 5 : Batiment, Nuit Blanche, La Cour de l'Observatoire de Paris 2004.

For more, check out his website Leandro Erlich.