School Portrait (2011) from Michael Berliner on Vimeo.
I was traveling in Italy last year when I had an idea about a school photographer who was having a bad day – seemed like a great excuse to work with Jonathan Rhodes. Producer Michael Berliner came on board and together we found Shirley High School and Stuart from Stagecoach, who introduced us to a wonderful group of kids who were excited about being involved — via Nick David Scott
Vespa GTS 300 Super, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Magic Carp-pet
Rug. Winner of Red Dot Design Award: Best of the Best 2011. There is no electricity, monitor or projector required to make the print on the rug animate. The animation is achieved through an optical illusion effect called Moire Animation
by John Leung
If a house shows just how overpriced the UK market is in comparison to the US, it is Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kenneth Laurent House in Rockford, Illinois, which is up for auction this month.
More on that price later, but let’s look at the detail. The house was built between 1949 and 1952, a one-storey house for a wheelchair-bound war veteran covering around 2,500 square metres and sat in a plot of 1.3 acres. it became the template for further Frank Lloyd Wright houses throughout the 1950s.
To be honest, words only get you so far with this property. You really need to see the images, of which are there are plenty at the auction house site. That price? The estimate is between $500,000 – $700,000, which works out at around £320,000 – £448,000. If this place was in the UK, you could probably triple that price – and more. The auction date is 15 December — via WowHaus
One of the most complete collections of Swatch watches in the world sold for HK$51,707,500 or nearly $6,650,000 in Hong Kong recently. Swiss businessman Peter Blum and his wife Linda assembled the collection over a period of years. The collection’s 4363 pieces includes a large number of prototypes, hybrids and production variants never brought to market — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new ad campaign for the College for Creative Studies by Team Detroit lightheartedly gives its academic programs the DARE treatment. Stay off the art, kids — via Breaking Copy
Chisel and Mouse offer an interesting product — they make detailed plaster models of distinctive buildings, such as the model of Deco-style Hoover Building No.7 which is pictured above.
The range of this Sussex-based company also includes models of both Bankside and Battersea Power stations, as well as another 1930s icon, Broadcasting House. These models are larger than you might expect — to give an idea of scale, the Hoover Building stands at 18cm high.
The models vary in price, going from £59 up to £95, which is the price of the Hoover model — via Retro To Go
If you’re a fan of 1980s superbikes, the closest thing you can buy today is the Yamaha XJR1300. It’s a throwback muscle bike, with an air-cooled DOHC parallel four motor that pumps out a smidge under 100 hp and a whopping 108 Nm of torque. It’s not sophisticated and it won’t lay waste to a 600 sport bike, but it packs a solid dose of old-school cool. So I’m surprised we haven’t seen more café racers based on the XJR1300, like this one from RF-Biketech. They’re a Kawasaki dealer based in the small Bavarian town of Nüdlingen, but turn out a steady stream of customs and café racers. This bike is called Nothing Else Matters
— via Bike EXIF
This 1962 Ducati 48 Sport — which was known as the Falcon in the US. And despite its diminutive capacity, this two-stroke was capable of a healthy 50 mph. Radical Ducati has listed the Sportiva as a show bike
, so it’s not suitable for road or track, but it’s eye candy of the highest grade. The engine is stock, sitting in a modified frame. It can be in your living room or garage for just $4,000 — via Bike EXIF
Bridge over the Vlaardingervaart, originally uploaded by Theo Lagendijk.
The bridge’s strong three-dimensional character not only adds to the design’s expressiveness, but also has functional purposes. Made of square steel elements it twists on a horizontal axis, and the constantly changing sections are the perfect format to absorb vibrations, thus reinforcing the bridge’s movement, when a cyclist crosses.
The bridge was designed by West 8 Architects with structural engineers ABT — via Amusing Planet
This whimsical store appeared in downtown Pittsburgh on 18 November. The sign on the door says the owners are on vacation, but that just covers the fact that this is an art installation by Toby Atticus Fraley — via Neatorama
Anti drink-driving advertising campaign from NZTA featuring ghost chips
— via NZTransportAgency
Some 15 years ago, Kawasaki’s Zephyr range kickstarted the trend for retro naked motorcycles in Europe. The styling was loosely based on the original Z1, and although the Zephyrs were criticized for lacking the fearsome character of the Z1, they sold well. This Zephyr, however, is much closer to the spirit of the original super bike. It’s a resto-mod from Sanctuary in Japan, and as usual, the work is immaculate — via Bike EXIF
Dunja Weber has designed the Megaweave outdoor seat made of intertwined wrought iron bars — via CONTEMPORIST
paperclip bike rack, originally uploaded by Ardent Eye.
If you want a thoroughly modern Ducati with retro good looks, there’s an alternative to the Sport Classic range. It’s the Baines Imola, and this is the first one ever built. It’s the work of John Baines, the Silverstone-based Ducati racer and tuner. This bike is running a 1993 900 Supersport motor, and it’s also fitted with an original bevel Ducati fairing, seat and Conti-type pipes. The Baines Imola was produced for just four years, stopping when the Sport Classic hit the showrooms in 2005. Just 38 were made — via Bike EXIF
It’s nearly Christmas, which means a screening of the Great Escape. You can try it for real with the Triumph Bonneville T100 Steve McQueen Special Edition — although we would strongly recommend against it.
Yes, this is a Steve McQueen bike. Not the original Triumph T6, but a new version of the vintage-style Triumph Bonneville T100, inspired by that iconic movie motorcycle. New tech meets classic looks — via Retro To Go
MadPax does a line of cool kids’ backpacks covered in soft spikes, available in vibrant colours as well as textured, lizardlike fabrics — via Boing Boing
It’s hard to believe that the Wrenchmonkeeshave been operating for three years now. But in that short time, they’ve become one of the most recognised names in the custom motorcycle world. The history of this 1977 Kawasaki Z1000A is entwined in the history of the company, because it’s been in and out of the Copenhagen workshop since the start — via Bike EXIF
The new M70 is a tribute to its most famous forebear, the iconic M72 military motorcycle. Almost 10,000 M72s were built in the same Irbit factory as today’s Ural motorcycles, and in 1942, fleets of them were despatched to the WWII front lines. Like those machines, today’s M70 is available only in olive drab. It also comes with a spare wheel, a canvas tonneau cover, a wooden floor mat, a shovel and — wait for it — a machine gun mount — via Bike EXIF
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