(inside) my window.

Fall. In a jar.

app review.

first (and probably last...) app review of this blog.

this is a video I shot one night this summer in brooklyn bridge park overlooking downtown manhattan. 

the video was elaborated with the iSupr8 app. for iPhone. I love the vintage feel that the app adds to your video instantly! 

the app is fairly easy to use and gives that extra kick to the most simple video (see above...)

when I got it (maybe about a month ago) it was free and I personally don't like to pay for apps...but I think this one is totally worth the $1.99 ;)

UDw2.0

very good article summarizing all the events of urban design week.

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/23787

much better job than what I could ever have done :P

UDw.

and it's urban design week in nyc!

it's a festival started by the institute for urban design that will go on from today / sept.15 / to sept.20.

"Urban Design Week is a new public festival created to engage New Yorkers in the fascinating and complex issues of the public realm, and to celebrate the streetscapes, sidewalks, and public spaces at the heart of city life. Through an open-call ideas competition and a rich roster of discussions, tours, screenings, workshops, and events across the five boroughs, UDW will highlight the fact that cities are made by collective effort, and that each of us can play a part."

from urban design week website

there will be a lot of crazy/very interesting events all over the city and I still haven't exactly decided which ones I will actually go to. but I've been to the kick-off event on monday night (pecha kucha night at le poisson rouge) 

"dimensions of urban design".

for those of you that like me before going to this event (shame on me), don't know what pecha kucha means, it is a presentation format in which speakers will show 20 slides for 20 seconds each (20x20). this keeps the presentation on a fast pace (aka. not boring people to death) and allows more speakers to have the exact same amount of time to present their ideas. 

it was personally the first time for me to attend such kind of talk and I thought it was great! super interesting projects were shown, very different from one another, from the new snohetta building for the wtc site to a virtual tour of the bronx showing what's next for the borough.

hope the full presentation will be posted online soon by the pecha kucha ny chapter. I'll keep an eye on it and will link the video/presentation as soon as it will come out!

in/section.

just saying...

 

guggenheim. ny. FLW.

mercedes-benz. stuttgart. UNstudio.

out of my (train) window.

I am not sure where I want this post to go, but I want to talk about this ad that I saw last week in a train station in Italy.

image from chele belle's lair blog

it's the new davidoff cool water ad campaign starring paul walker.

the style of the ad is the same very similar to the brand's campaigns of basically the last decade. but what caught my attention right away was the very poor photoshop job done to re-create the effect of water dripping down paul walker's face. in my opinion it makes the shoot look very cheap and therefore the add and the brand. couldn't they find someone with slightly better photoshop skills?!?

maybe it's just me and I know that sometimes I get too anal about this kind of details, but I really can't believe that no one had any concerns before releasing these images worldwide!

anyway...I guess paul walker is hot and sells no matter what.

plain grey t's.

favourite new item of the season: 
the boyfriend plain grey t-shirt.

can't get enough of it. I would pair it with any outfit, from sporty to casual to dressy (actually thinking of pairing it with a Blumarine sequined skirt for NYC Fashion Night Out! still thinking about it though...).

I prefer a loose/boyfriend fit - I actually don't own one and steal my boyfriends' everytime I want to complete an outfit ehehe - which I think makes a look a lot more interesting.    

hello tribeca.

tribeca. ny.

sometimes I think that I would love to live 
in a Scott Schuman world.

wait, what?

reading this at the moment. 
and it's all this guy's fault! --> [RoDif]

wish me luck!

foresee, son.

I am defintely no illustrator, but I am sure that the message behind this picture/symbols requires no explenation. we all know what these lines represent altogether.

is it the power of a symbol or the death of creativity in the age when everything has already been coded?

jpn.

The other day I was reading a Lonely Planet article about the
best free attractions in the world

 and my trip to Japan came back to mind. I was there at the end of march last year and it has been one of the most amazing experiences of my life. The culture, the people and ... the cherry blossoms!

We were lucky enough to plan our trip during the sakura (aka cherry blossom season). It only lasts a couple of weeks per year and strongly depends on the weather of that particular spring.
We really wanted to be there for the sakura, the festivals at the temples, the picnics under a curtain of pink flowers, but definitely just took a blind guess when we booked our tickets. A couple of months later, once in Japan, we found out that we were the luckiest travellers at that instant, since we got to experience the sakura in full bloom.
Well this is what I LOVE about travelling and what fuels my wonderlust: as much as you can plan a trip, you will never know what you'll be able to experience, where your journey is going to take you and most of all that the most amazing thing you can experience and will never forget can be totally free!

JT4C

two of my favourite things.

clothes and ballerinas.

hello frank. where art thou?

new york. ny.

the talk of the town. at least for a little bit.

out of my window. pret a new york.

midtown. ny.

I always wondered: what makes a LANDMARK? 

At the end of the day it is just another building, bricks and glass like any other structure, but some of those buildings make your head turn, make you stop and admire them and you can’t get enough of them whenever you can catch a glimpse of them from anywhere around the city.

bu(z)

buz luhrmann makes me high.

just obsessed with the depth of the images he is able to create.

hello chinatown.

 

(I (L)) new york. new york.

out of my window (literally). hello chicago.

 

(up in the air over) chicago. il.

good work SOM. totally in love with the Ledge at sky deck 

out of my window. on the shore.

 shore winter.

I have to say that I am not a huge fan of winter (especially on the east coast. never a day in which you feel like you're properly dressed for the weather, waking up to find a 2mm - aka .1inch - thick ice layer covering your entire window - it has happened - and the helpless quest for the perfect winter shoe - but let's talk about this some other time, shall we?), but I love how it could bring with it all the many different facets that can be found on each street I walk.

winter perfect.

why is it so hard to find the perfect winter outfit????

winter perfect 

from mr.neWton

(L) ers

I don't have any particular love pour la fete des amoureux, but I have to say that I go crazy when people come up with original ideas on such a (let me say it) boring theme. Mulberry (love them) launched this initiative love blossoms in collaboration with artist Danny Brown. from their page you can create your own e-flower bouquet digitally generated using patterns from their new collection. the result is so perfect and beautiful and I think THIS would be the perfect vDay present for anyone who loves art, design and fashion. I am crazy about it.

 

blossom elaboration . from images on dezeen

for more info on this very cool initiative please see the dezeen article on it. also, Mulberry  has a blog!!!! am I the only one who didn't know that? totally obsessed with it right now.