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The David Gill Gallery in London has premiered its 'Chandelier' exhibition, featuring new works that utilise Swarovski crystal and innovative mediums, illustrating 'different materials and forms, not just to challenge the traditional chandelier but also the contemporary chandelier.' Describing the exhibition, Gill says "sometimes what makes something contemporary is harkening back to the past, transforming forms and materials, and applying new technologies together with traditional craftsmanship." I will share my favourites in this post.
Featured Barford works primarily with ceramics to create unique narrative pieces that draw an ironic portrait of our contemporary lives. Working with both mass-market and antique porcelain figurines, Barnaby cuts up and exchanges elements, or adds to and repaints them, creating sculptures often sinister and sardonic but invariably humorous in tone.
In his piece entitled 'Jungle VIP', the chandelier is tilted to the side by a swinging jewel-encrusted monkey which is covered in over 3,600 black Swarovski crystals. Barford says "I wanted to give chandeliers a new life, change the context and make a sculpture out of it."
Another memorable piece entitled 'Lisse' was created by artist Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects. Hadid is internationally known for her built, theoretical and academic work. Each of her unique projects builds on over thirty years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design. This has lead her to experiment with cutting-edge technologies, which often results in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms.
Drawing visual reference from this concept, Zaha Hadid's refraction of light chandelier 'Lisse' illustrates a careful interplay between shadow and light. A polished black corian body comprises an intricate netting of lines stretching outwards to the ends of the structural frame. As a manifestation of Hadid's research into parametric patterning, 'Lisse' references the ancient ornamental art of filigree, with a delicate fluidity that seamlessly emerges as a compositional facet.
Paris-based Mattia Bonetti is a self-described 'troublemaker turned traditionalist' and trained as a textile designer in Lugano before relocating to Paris in 1973. He rose to international prominence after creating a new graphic identity for Christian Lacroix and designing his Maison de Couture in 1987. Bonetti now works independently, designing innovative sculptural furniture. His designs are constantly evolving and are often described as an expression of luxury.
For the Chandeliers exhibition, Bonetti presents 'Opera' in sculpted bronze and Swarovski crystal. Regarding the design, Bonetti says "it's quite improbable, a lady that dresses to the nines to go to the opera or to the ball, coming back very late, and in her high spirits she dips her arms on the floor below, and magically brings up lights."
When artist Jacopo Foggini was a young man working in his family's plastics industry, he discovered the versatility of methacrylite, an industrial material normally used to make automobile tail lights. Fascinated by the extraordinary aesthetic and chromatic qualities of this material, which is similar to glass, but considerably lighter, he began to experiment. In his atelier, using a machine of his own invention, he produces a filament of methacrylate which he models with his own hands to create luminous shapes – mazes of threads in an elegant, linear and poetic intertwining of colours.
His piece 'Supernova' has been hand-formed from fired thread at 280 degrees and twisted into a maze of delicately intertwined matter. Foggini says "there is no possibility for any error or, possibly one could say, there is an intentional and recurring error like any light star ever realised before."
I couldn't help having a chat with Foggini sitting on the luxurious creation of Fredrikson Stallard
The Chandeliers exhibition can be seen at David Gill Gallery in London from the 17th of September through 20th October 2014.


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"If anyone would like to point out my boobs, please feel free." Olive Winterleaf.
Blessed with the ability to mangle the English language, Olive Winterleaf has no idea what she is writing and admits to making it up as she goes along.
The idea of TALES OF NONAGON came to her when it was discovered that a microscopic lesion in the shape of a nonagon had lodged under one of her fingernails. A closer inspection revealed that this 'nonagon' harboured a population of biscuit crumbs. This inspired her to write complete drivel.
Later, she discovered that the biscuit crumbs were running an illegal gambling club from her fingernail. This inspired THE NONAGON MOB - a sequel to the TALES OF NONAGON trilogy.
Then she noticed that some of the biscuit crumbs had packed their little suitcases and had moved out. This spawned HOUSE OF MULTIPLE NONAGONS.
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The Verdict is a 1982 courtroom drama film that tells the story of a down-on-his-luck alcoholic lawyer who takes a medical malpractice case to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is doing the right thing. The lawsuit involves a woman in a persistent vegetative state and is thus reminiscent of the Karen Ann Quinlan case. The film stars Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea and Lindsay Crouse.
Directed by Sidney Lumet, the film was adapted by David Mamet from the novel by Barry Reed and is not a remake of the 1946 film of the same name.
The Verdict garnered critical acclaim and box office success. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Newman), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (James Mason), Best Director (Sidney Lumet), Best Picture and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (David Mamet).
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Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) was once a promising graduate of Boston College Law School and a lawyer at an elite Boston law firm. Some years back, he was framed by the senior partner of his law firm for a crime (jury tampering) he didn't commit. Although he retains his license to practice law, Frank is now an alcoholic ambulance chaser who has had only four cases over the last three years, all of which he has lost.
As a favor, his former teacher and friend Mickey (Jack Warden) sends him a medical malpractice case, where it's all but assured that the defense will settle for a large amount. The case involves a young woman who was given an anesthetic during childbirth, after which she choked on her own vomit and was deprived of oxygen. The young woman is now in a coma, on a respirator. Her sister and brother-in-law are hoping for a settlement to properly care for the victim, and Frank assures them they have a strong case. Meanwhile, Frank, who is lonely, becomes romantically involved with Laura (Charlotte Rampling), a woman he meets at a local bar.
Frank visits the comatose woman and is deeply affected. He then meets with the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston, which owns the Catholic hospital where the incident took place. As expected, the Bishop's representative offers a substantial amount of money – $210,000 – to settle out of court, but Frank declines the offer as he fears that this may be his last chance to do something right as a lawyer, and that merely taking the handout would render him "lost". Everyone, including the presiding judge and the victim's relatives, is stunned by Frank's decision (Frank fails to communicate the offer to his client's family before rejecting it).
Things quickly go wrong for Frank: his client's brother-in-law finds out from "the other side" that he has turned down a $210,000 settlement, and angrily confronts Frank; his star medical expert disappears; a hastily arranged substitute's credentials and testimony are called into serious question on the witness stand. His opponent – the high-priced attorney Ed Concannon (James Mason) – has at his disposal a large legal team that is masterful with the press; the presiding judge (Milo O'Shea) makes deliberate efforts to obstruct Frank's questioning of his expert; and no one who was in the operating room is willing to testify that there was any negligence.
Frank's big break comes when he discovers that Kaitlin Costello (Lindsay Crouse), the nurse who admitted his client to the hospital, is now a elementary school teacher living in New York. Frank travels to New York to track her down, leaving Mickey and Laura working together in Frank's Boston office. Frank confronts Costello, asking her, "Will you help me?" We don't see her answer.
Meanwhile, back in Boston, Mickey, is looking for cigarettes in Laura's handbag and discovers a check from Concannon's law firm. He infers that she is a mole, providing information on their legal strategy to the opposing lawyers.
Mickey flies to New York to tell Frank that Laura has been betraying them. He suggests to Frank that it would be easy to get the case declared a mistrial, but Frank decides to continue. Shortly thereafter, Frank meets Laura, who has also traveled to New York. In a display of cold fury, Frank strikes her in the face, knocking her to the floor.
Toward the end of the trial, Frank calls upon Costello to testify.
In an emotional scene, Costello testifies that, shortly after the patient had become comatose, the anesthesiologist (one of the two doctors on trial, along with the Archdiocese of Boston) told her to change her notes on the admitting form to hide his fatal error. Specifically, she had written down that the patient had had a full meal only one hour before being admitted. The doctor had been so busy and so tired that night, he didn't read the admitting notes. Thus, in ignorance, he gave her an anesthetic that should never be given to a patient with a full stomach. As a result, the patient vomited and choked.
Costello further testifies that, when the anesthesiologist realized his mistake, he met with Costello in private and forced her to change the number "1" to the number "9" on her admitting notes. Before she did so, however, Costello managed to make a photocopy of the notes, which she brought with her to court. She was subsequently fired. "Who are these men? I wanted to be a nurse!" Costello exclaims, stunning the courtroom.
Concannon, the defendants' lawyer, appears surprised and distressed, implying that Laura had not told him about Frank's discovery of Costello, but he quickly regroups and – in a skillful, even brilliant argument – manages to get the judge to declare the nurse's testimony stricken from the record on technicalities. Although Frank's case now seems hopeless, he delivers a brief, weighty closing argument, telling the jury "you are the law," and entreating them to seek "truth and justice" in their hearts before they vote.
In the penultimate scene, the jury – disregarding the judge's instructions to ignore the nurse's testimony – announces that they have found in favor of the plaintiffs, Frank's clients. The foreman then asks the judge whether the jury can award more than the amount sought by the plaintiffs. The judge resignedly replies that they can, but the amount they decide on is not revealed. As Frank is congratulated by his clients, Mickey, and colleagues and strangers alike, he catches a glimpse of Laura watching him from afar.
That night, Laura, in a drunken stupor on her bed, drops her whiskey on the floor, drags the phone toward her, and picks up the receiver. The final shot is of Frank in his office looking thoughtful, drinking coffee out of a paper cup, and ignoring the persistent ringing of his phone.
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You have stumbled on our little corner of the Internet - we have a so much time, so little to do - strike that, reverse it. Stick with us, and we'll make the future an awesome place to hang out. Learn more about Florida Creatives
Hawkers is one of the most unique restaraunts in the area - a combination of street food from all over southeast Asia - served in the same style you would get out of the back of a hawker's cart.
This week they are holding a canned food drive - anyone with canned food for Second Harvest will get 10% off their dinner.
Come an meet some of the talented creative minds of Orlando in one of the longest-running happy hour meetups in the state of Florida. We hope you can find a safe place to share new ideas, talk about your passions and meet some mentors or collaborators. We have been attracting a pretty diverse group recently, so you don't want to miss it!
Latin meets Asian, Restaurant meets Food Truck. Sounds like an awesome mashup to me. Tako Cheena is a great example of the kind of energy we encourage at Florida Creatives - take things that don't traditionally belong together, put them in the same room, and watch the sparks fly!
Come an meet some of the talented creative minds of Orlando in one of the longest-running happy hour meetups in the state of Florida. We hope you can find a safe place to share new ideas, talk about your passions and meet some mentors or collaborators. We have been attracting a pretty diverse group recently, so you don't want to miss it!
Tako Cheena will be opening up special for us. They have also told me it's OK to BYOB for tonight - normally they only serve sodas juice and water.
In light of the screaming popularity of Food Trucks in Orlando lately, I was thinking of putting together a list of food trucks - where are they, when are they open?
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It would certainly need to be mobile friendly, or perhaps primarily optimized for mobile at first.
The big question is how to get the Food Truck owners to check in, and make it meaningful.
Only one food truck owner was Tweeting from a location, and it was state wide. Some would say (in plain text) where they were headed, but it could be the day before, morning of, or after they had set up already.
National food blog event comes to Orlando
ORLANDO, FL – Food Blog Forum, a national online hub for food bloggers, writers and photographers, is coming to Orlando for a one-day seminar on Saturday, April 9, 2011.
The seminar, sponsored locally by Whole Foods Market and McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants, will offer in-depth presentations from local experts including food styling and photography, blog design and usability, SEO, branding, marketing and monetization.
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Come join us this Saturday, December 11th at Fairvilla Megastore in Cape Canaveral for our Holiday Beer Pong Tournamet! This event is to raise money for Kid Finders, an organization to help find missing children.
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John Rife is one of the original founding members of Florida Creatives in Orlando, and now he joins us to talk about his adventures in blogging about local food, and his experience planning the first-ever Winter Park Harvest Festival. The festival will be held in Central Park on Nov 20th, just a few days before Thanksgiving. Local farmers and tons of others will have their wares on display. You can think local, grow, learn, taste, listen and play, with a "Farm to Table" dinner at the end.
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Get psyched for the Central Florida premiere of Patrick Barlow's Tony® Award-winning play The 39 Steps by participating in a game-changing theater tailgate, in the parking lot prior to the 2pm matinee performance at Orlando Shakespeare Theater.
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What: What's Next? - On the eve of his sixth year as a performance artist, Brian Feldman ponders the number one question he gets asked: "What's Next?"
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The Brave New World of Apps and Ideas
It seems like the perfect time to post on a subject that defines our modern lives, is endlessly analysed, yet in spite of being the elephant in the room and the reason for so much buzz, is itself rarely feted. So it gives me great pleasure to bring technology to centrestage in this piece.
After decades of dizzying advances in science and technology, we have learnt to take inventions/interventions in our stride. Nevertheless, some inventions have the effect of stopping us in our tracks when we first behold their potential. The communication device, whichever model may have been our special first, leads the pack. Suddenly, thoughts and messages could speed over thousands of kilometres in a few seconds, be heard at the other end, and be responded to. Today thanks to the wishing well that is the Web and the ubiquity of WiFi, just about anything you would want an answer to is on tap – via phone, tablet or laptop, which is never far from reach.
We tap on apps to travel into a world of endless possibilities. And to travel in the real world as well. From booking tickets to planning an itinerary and stay, even experiencing a new or familiar city, travel apps put us in touch with the most suitable deals and recherché travel revelations. In this field where responsiveness is relevance, hotels well known in the real world for their long standing commitment to the highest standards in hospitality, regularly light up screens, geo-location maps and wish lists. Not only have hotels made themselves highly visible and active on social media destinations and crowd sourced utilities, hotels have also taken the leap to capitalise on popular devices, platforms and standards to improve the guest experience.
My own experience with the outstanding utility of travel apps came on one of my trips abroad. A couple of years back, I was in the buzzing centre of a new country – I had a friend's car at my disposal and was up for brief trips to the main market, but I simply didn't have the yen for poring over maps to get to anything further, although I did have my sights set on a much-discussed wine trail. It wasn't long before it struck me that a solution had been sitting in the car all along – docked neatly between controls was a GPS navigation system that made travel anywhere in the city and beyond, a cinch. All I needed to share was the destination and it indicated every turn while also taking me down memory lane to the arcade gaming of adolescence. Today, I would be using the navigation app on my phone.
Some time back on a packed visit to Rome, I carved out a little time to look around the historic city but was clear that it should be hassle free: I should be happier staying indoors than put up with hurdles. I remember the relief and euphoria I felt when I first discovered that I didn't need the help of a guide to know more about a monument. With an app called TripWolf, I simply had to point my phone at the monument and everything I needed to know about the piece turned up on my screen.
Clearly, technology as an enabler simplifies quests and enriches experiences and for hotels, technology-enabled solutions go a long way to enriching the guest experience every step of the way. For us in the hospitality industry, these innovations are almost never generic, out-of-the-box solutions provided by standard solution providers, but customised experiences crafted in engagement with truly service-oriented technology partners.
The systems and processes that have seamlessly delivered our signature hospitality experience over the years are keenly attuned to the Voice of the Customer. This has been possible by the measures we have taken to capture our guests' feedback, for instance, through performance scorecards that are broadcast to all units – providing a complete analysis of the guest's experience and future expectations. Such feedback and our attention to Customer Loyalty entitlements assist immeasurably in delivering what we call 'WOW' moments – the thrill of which all of us can vouch for. To be offered an experience that is custom-made to one's requirements, is truly priceless. So too is the experience of systems that are as thoughtful as they are technologically assured, such as our user-friendly, graphic user interface for guest room systems.
From genuine touches of warmth to an attentive digital presence, we strive to resonate with discerning travellers who regularly return for a reaffirmation of the power of unwavering standards and a commitment to constant improvement.
It has been a pleasure sharing with you my thoughts on technology, travel apps and the world of hospitality and I look forward to reading your comments.