STEPHEN KING POSTERS

Saw these amazing re-designed movie posters on Cool Hunting this morning.

graphic designer Nick Tassone evokes the spirit of the disturbing films with a set of movie posters that perfectly illustrate each daunting plot.

Tassone cuts out the gore and reduces each image down to an essential stylized symbol, using a two-color palette of black paired with a pastel. For “Carrie,” an upended bucket hangs from a rope, while “Firestarter” and “Cat’s Eye” receive a literal treatment, showing a single large match and a wide cat’s eye. These condensed interpretations reinforce King’s ability to create intelligible stories, easily recognized even years after they were originally published.

Adding a layer of detail to play up a bygone tone, the vintage-inspired graphics include scratches and imperfections. The simplicity of Tassone’s design lends a familiar Hitchcockian dread and unease, making for an ultimately creepy yet visually-pleasing poster.

Pick up the Carrie poster and (soon) more for $30 from Tassone’s online shop.

ROMAIN KREMER FOR MYKITA

Our good friends at Berlin´s own Mykita had a slick new set of shades designed by Romain Kremer… “Once again, eyewear label Mykita looks towards the design efforts of cutting-edge Frenchman Romain Kremer for an interesting set of shades. The sunglasses, inspired by Yuri Gagarin, the first man human in outer space, following the ideology that they are “made to protect the 3rd eye and the brain, reinforcing the idea of a new type of man, with a sci-fi warrior touch.” Two solid colorways are offered, with the black version having already been spotted on Lady Gaga. A release is scheduled for this Fall/Winter season with retail set at 575 Euros.”

(via Hypebeast)

GO TO GOA… INTRODUCING ALILA DIWA GOA

Ahhh Goa…  the Ibiza of the Indian Ocean.  Beach parties, sarongs, and sun and now one of our newest properties, the Alila Diwa Goa.

Located 500 m from the beach, the resort is looking out to beautiful, verdant paddy fields leading to the Arabian Sea, and bringing a new level of luxury to the beautiful and exotic beach destination. The laid-back beach atmosphere is perfectly enhanced by the resort’s excellent service. Alila Diwa Goa has blended the best of contemporary Goan architecture with the finest of its incredibly rich cultural traditions within the exquisite and vibrant surrounding landscape to fashion an extraordinary experience in luxury destination travel.

Extending outward from the heart of the hotel is the stunning infinity pool, which invites guests to peer over at the astounding landscape, preferably while sipping on the perfect martini. Alila Diwa Goa offers guests a few options for wining and dining: The Spice Studio coastal specialty restaurant, VIVO with Live Kitchen, and The Edge Bar and Lounge. Each guestroom and suite is designed for the optimum in relaxed indulgence, epitomised by the view of nature.

Visit the hotel here!

CREATIVE TIME AT THE STANDARD HOTELS

Anne Pasternak, the director of the public arts organization Creative Time, claims she has never watched porn on pay-per-view in a hotel room. “But it is such a no-brainer for a hotel to have a good art channel!” she insists. And now, with the introduction of the Standart Video Series, the Standard Hotel will add exactly that to its list of in-room entertainment. Curated by Creative Time, this art channel will feature a seasonal menu of works by cutting-edge artists of various visual persuasions. In the first batch alone, guests will have their choice of action/adventure (the Neistat Brothers’s “Yougurt vs. Gasoline”), political thriller (Bruce High Quality Foundation’s faux-Marxist critique of the art world, “L’eau de Vie un Film de Jean-Luc Godard”) and drama (Lee Walton’s “F’Book, What My Friends Are Doing on Facebook”). Marilyn Minter’s high-definition “Green Pink Caviar,” with its macro views of slurping tongues, comes the closest to actual porn. The videos will be available for your viewing pleasure at all four Standard Hotel locations. Best of all, they’re free. So don’t be shy about watching Martha Colburn’s “Triumph of the Wild” 17 times. It won’t show up on your bill.”

Check out The Standard Hotels here!



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STEIFF AND PORTER TEDDY BEAR PACK

Great gift idea for the hip kiddies out there with Japanese streetstyle fetishes…

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NOW SHOWING AT HOTEL CINEMATHEQUE…

The latest pairing in our ongoing Hotel Cinematheque program combines the fantastic super-sexy New Majestic Hotel in Singapore, with the equally sexy film, “Getting Any”

About the movie: Asao is a sexually frustrated man who wants to have the kind of sex he sees on television. To seduce women, the unlucky Asao begins a series of wild schemes based on TV-inspired fantasies. His obsession leads him on a comic path toward self-destruction…

Check into Hotel Cinematheque here…

ROBBO VS BANKSY… STREET ART SHOWDOWN IN LONDON

From Wall Street Journal…

LONDON—In the predawn hours of Christmas morning, a 40-year-old shoe repairman who goes by the name Robbo squeezed his 6-foot-8-inch frame into a wet suit, tossed some spray cans into a plastic bag, and crossed Regent’s Canal on a red-and-blue air mattress.

Robbo, one of the lost pioneers of London’s 1980s graffiti scene, was emerging from a long retirement. He had a mission: to settle a score with the world-famous street artist Banksy, who, Robbo believes, had attacked his legacy.

The battle centers on a wall under a bridge on the canal in London’s Camden district. In the fall of 1985—just 15 years old but already a major player in London’s graffiti scene—Robbo announced his presence on that wall with eight tall block letters: ROBBO INC.

The work, written in orange, red and black on a yellow background, had been in good shape for nearly 25 years and was considered a local icon, surviving long after Robbo himself vanished from the scene 16 years ago.

But recently, Robbo’s work was dramatically altered by an unlikely rival: Banksy, the stealthy Bristol-born artist who has made a lucrative art of graffiti. The work of Banksy—who, like Robbo, doesn’t disclose his name—sells for big money and is widely merchandised. His first film, “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and is due out in U.K. theaters this month.

In early December, Banksy did a series of four pieces along the Regent’s Canal’s walls. Inexplicably, one of them incorporated Robbo’s piece into Banksy’s own work, painting over half the Robbo original in the process. The resulting work, in Banksy’s typical stencil technique, shows a black-and-white workman applying colorful wallpaper that is, in essence, the remnants of Robbo’s piece.

Check out our London Hotels and join Team Robbo or Team Banksy…

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ANATOMY OF A TACO: TRAVELLING FOOD

From Fast Company…

The unsettling results: a single taco contained ingredients that traveled 64,000 miles. Some of the ingredients came from the Bay Area, including the salt and cheese. Others came from much further–the avocadoes came from Chile and the rice arrived from Thailand, even though both ingredients can easily be produced locally. View full-size image here.

As we’ve discussed before, food miles aren’t everything. Production contributes 45% of a meal’s carbon emissions, compared to a 6% contribution from transportation–so a producer that grows a piece of fruit with a less carbon-intensive production process 5,000 miles away is preferable to an inefficient local grower. And the majority of transportation emissions come from customer trips to the grocery store, so it’s more efficient to walk down the street to the taco truck than to constantly drive to get local ingredients from the grocery store across town.

PHARRELL AND GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN: TANK CHAIR

Two pop-culture heavyweights, Pharrell Williams and Emmanuel Perrotin from the eponymous gallery, have teamed up to create an interesting new chair… the Tank Chair.

“The Tank chair, will be at colette from March 22nd to the 28th and then at the gallery from March 30th to April 24th, by appointment. After making the “Perspective” chair in 2008, designed as a reflection on love, and the work “The Simple Things” in 2009, the fruit of a collaboration with Takashi Murakami, Pharrell Williams tackles the theme of war. Made of Plexiglas and foal or calf, the four models of the Tank chair are released in a limited edition of eight pieces in each style.”

(via Hypebeast)

GUMMI BEAR CHANDELIER IS SO SWEET!

This gummi bear chandeleir so sweet you could just eat it!

Compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) are more energy-efficient than incandescents and cheaper than LEDs, but sometimes the light emitted from the mercury-filled bulbs is a little harsh. So what better way to mellow it than with a gummi bear-laden chandelier? (via Fast Company)