G.D. Falksen's Blog, page 1187
January 8, 2013
January 7, 2013
A fashion trend I hope catches on.
ROBOTIC SPIDER...
A fashion trend I hope catches on.
ROBOTIC SPIDER DRESS
Exploration within the realms of robotic dresses; a spider dress gave birth. A cute little host creature created by fashiontech designer ANOUK WIPPRECHT and hacker & engineer DANIEL SCHATZMAYR - A prototype of a mechanic dress equipped with sensors indicators and controllers, created with the aim to give more power and ‘psychological thrills’ to the sugar sweet character that performative wearables often have. Sensoric, servo controlled, mechanic, microcontroller based and reacting//attacking upon approach, inspired by the game LIMBO.
Presented during VIVE LE ROBOTS / Cafe Neue Romance in Prague during the EU Robotics week NOVEMBER 2012 and prototyped during TEDX Vienna in collaboration with the ‘METALAB’ - Vienna’s famous hackerspace. And with the use of black plexiglass by EVONIK industries (Germany)
MOVIE CREDITS - model BARBORA RIHAK | make up artist LINDA CHUDOMELOVA | shot in PRAGUE, official photoshoot by MOJMIR BURES video shots and edit by Anouk Wipprecht
ralphlauren:
Ralph Lauren at Highclere Castle
Ralph Lauren...
Ralph Lauren at Highclere Castle
Ralph Lauren recently held a private fashion show the event at Highclere Castle where the TV series Downton Abbey was filmed.
Photography by Chris Allerton courtesy of Ralph Lauren
Just found a drawing of me from 2008 that was done...
Just found a drawing of me from 2008 that was done at Salonconvention , or back in the day as they say.
unhistorical:
November 14, 1889: Nellie Bly sets sail on what...
November 14, 1889: Nellie Bly sets sail on what will become a record-breaking circumnavigation of the globe.
American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, who worked as a journalist under the pen name “Nellie Bly”, first made a name for herself when she feigned insanity and went undercover in an asylum, where she experienced the appalling conditions of the institution firsthand. After leaving the asylum, she reported on her experiences in an exposé that resulted in a grand jury investigation of the facilities. At age 21, she travelled to Mexico as a foreign correspondent.
In 1888, the intrepid reporter decided that she would emulate the protagonist of Jules Verne’s novel, Around the World in Eighty Days and circumnavigate the globe in eighty days or less. The newspaper that sent her on the trip, the New York World, had been reluctant to send her at first, mostly on the basis of her gender; however, the World soon proclaimed her to be “a female Phileas Fogg” and launched a dramatic publicity stunt to chronicle her journey around the world. On November 14, she set sail on a steamboat, beginning a journey that would cover nearly 25,000 miles. Carrying only minimal baggage, she travelled across continents, stopping in Amiens to meet the inspiration of her trip in France, Jules Verne. Bly travelled by railroad, steamship, rickshaw, and whatever other means of transport she could, unchaperoned for most of the trip, and arrived in New York after seventy-two days of travel, a world record.
Unbeknownst to her (until halfway through the trip), Bly had been competing with another woman - Elizabeth Bisland - to break the record. Although she arrived after Bly, Bisland also circumnavigated the globe in under eight days.
Needful suit things…
Needful suit things…
