Domino Resurrected

Oh happy day, a day I've long dreamed of (for real), when Conde Nast would realize that they were too hasty in pulling the plug on the design magazine that was like no other, and that spawned countless online design magazines after it was gone.

Domino is back, alas not in its former monthly glory, but for now it's set to appear on newsstands as a special edition called Domino Quick Fixes in the Spring and Fall (and fingers crossed it will make it to a quarterly). I can't wait for April.

images via pinterest

Gehry & Rodarte x Don Giovanni

How do you bring Mozart to a 21st century audience? If you're the LA Philharmonic you hire Frank Gehry to do your set design and Kate and Laura Mulleavy (aka Rodarte) to design costumes.

Neither are in unfamiliar territory here - Gehry designed his first opera set for a production of Osud at the Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College and the Mulleavy sisters are responsible for the costumes used in Black Swan - but this seems like a challenge on a much grander scale.

I can think of no better way for an opera company to appeal to the masses, though - who wouldn't want to go just to see the spectacle?

costumes for Black Swan

Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA

Frank Gehry's buildings are marvels not only to look at, but also to walk through. For this production he's planning to create a "moving still-life on the stage" in a concert hall that he designed back in the early 90s (the building opened to the public in 2003 after many financial delays).

Bâtiment

Experiential art installations are all the rage right now.


This fall there was Carsten Höller's exhibition cum funhouse at the New Museum in New York City. A mirrored carousel, giant mushroom sculptures, a slide that visitors could ride through two floors were just some of the artist's engaging work in the installation.


Currently on exhibit at 104 in Paris is Leandro Erlich's Bâtiment, which consists of a towering mirror onto which an image of a building is reflected. The building itself is merely a facade constructed on the ground, allowing visitors to walk all over it, sprawl out on it, and configure themselves into a scene that is at once dangerous, bizarre, and wondrous in appearance to onlookers of the reflected image. 

installation, 104 in Paris:

Bâtiment, Leandro Erlich au 104 by Palagret:

                                                       Carsten Holler: Experience at the New Museum, NYC:

Accidental Resolution

Kale. 

I feel sort of smug about this one, because without meaning to the superfood that's at the top of everybody's superlist has made its way into my smoothies. I bought a giant bag of kale at the farmer's market on New Year's Eve because it was emerald green and looked so pretty. Then I had no idea what to do with it, so I chopped a bunch of it and threw it in with my usual banana, mango, strawberry, almond milk (and - I sort of can't believe it either and was likely propelled by the kale - ground flax seeds) and ended up with a murky green but tasty drink. Yesterday I bought another giant bag of kale at the farmer's market to replace the one that I'd already gone through. So. Yep. Smug. 

Recipe:

1 cup kale, chopped

1 banana

1/2 cup frozen mango

1/2 cup frozen strawberry

1/2 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk

1 tbsp maple syrup

1/2 tbsp ground flax seed

p.s. 1 cup of kale breaks down to this:

image via wayward spark

Tangerine Tango - Pantone's Top Colour for 2012

Pantone has named the top colour for 2012: Tangerine Tango, a radiant red-orange to replace last year's pink hue, Honeysuckle. Does this reflect an optimistic outlook for the new year?

It looks like the fashion world helped dictate this one, including J.Crew's Jenna Lyons whose brand has a bright orange ensemble colour blocking with green and purple in its latest winter ad circulation (the pants the model is wearing that are visible in another ad are the same shade of orange...):

J.Crew Winter 2011

J.Crew Fall 2011

Milly RTW fall 2011