Monday, May 25, 2009

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Charlie Le Mindu




French Born, Hair director and owner of his Trendy pop up salon in East London, Charlie Le Mindu is an Hair Master, surfing on the same trend as Martin Margiela with his Hair Dress, Le Mindu have a hairy imagination, he works from his studio come Salon based in Shoreditch, East London, and is also acting as Hair Director at Super Super Magazine. He has recently designed a new jewelery range alongside up-and-coming womenswear designer Gemma Slack, working with hair and leather. Looks like the ‘Hair Trend’ is going strong in Europe and we will definetely keep an eye on Charlie’s work…

The New iPhone Nano (via T3)



With Apple ready to stage its annual Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) on the 8th of June to the 12th, gadget fans across the world have been speculating for months about what to expect. Will we see a new iPhone - Nano?

Well T3 thinks so, they came up with this renders of what they think the iPhone - Nano could look like.

Gundam Construction Starts On 59-Foot Statue



In 1979, director Yoshiyuki Tomino (由悠季 富野) and production company SUNRISE captured the imagination of countless fans around with the introduction of Amuro Ray and his mechanized Mobile Suit Gundam. Unlike most of its predecessors, it wasn’t just another anime about a boy and his giant robot. Amuro Ray brought realism to the animated series with his adolescent angst, the guilt of taking lives, and teenage crush, amidst a galactic war between Zeon Empire and Earth Federation.

This year, SUNRISE and BANDAI NAMCO will curate a summer-long festival for the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise’s 30th anniversary, which include a life-size mock-up of Gundam. Measuring at 59-foot in height, the giant figurine will feature active light signals and limited animatronic functions. The statue is now a work in progress at Shiokaze Park (潮風公園) in Odaiba (台場), Tokyo, with the unveiling date set on July 11th. It will also usher in a special Gundam Big Expo starting on August 21st.

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics / Morphosis Architects




Since the construction of the Palomar Observatory in 1948, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has continuously pioneered new ways of observing and explaining the heavens. Caltech scientists and engineers have deployed ever-changing telescopes on satellites, rockets, and balloons, and with these have made fundamental discoveries leading to new theoretical models. Paramount discoveries that have come out of Caltech include the cosmological nature of distant quasars, gamma-ray bursts, and brown dwarfs. In 2007 alone, Caltech astronomers found the largest object orbiting the sun since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, as well as the most distant galaxy in the universe. Yet, over the decades, the various specialists dispersed across the Caltech campus. The Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics brings together a dozen different groups with vastly different cultures, focuses, and scopes into a single structure designed to facilitate collaboration and spontaneous discourse.