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December 18, 2004

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IV Festival Edición Madrid

Good job by the organizers of FEM’s fourth edition for young designers, Hosted this year at trendy Hotel Campomanes

The Festival Shows a selection of artists, fashion designers and many other disciplines out of which we highlight Tiago Valente with an installation about the creative process of his new fashion collection which only exists as a concept, but trust me, it’s more than enough.
Guzman de Yarza in his documentarist trace, shows a video about an amazing character and uses the space as a sign of the real story behind the video by having the character as his guest at the hotel.
And also Bruno Milani, a creation of Filosofia Canalla, questioning aspects of the fashion world with a wonderful and mysterious collection for fancy little monsters.

December 15, 2004

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London Orbital

In case you didn’t know, Orbital music duo name comes from London’s orbital highway. Or maybe you just know the highway but not the music.

I found this edition of Ian Sinclair’s London Orbital book (said a bestseller) with a nicer looking cover using the big “O” symbol some Orbital albums had on their covers. To round off this entry, here’s a link to a live Orbital concert beginning with a song called the most popular sign in London: Way Out.

London Orbital, the book

November 24, 2004

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Frigdgepoetry

A must-have extra for your fridge with way more interactivity than a magnet chess game

I first saw a fridge full of tiny magnets with one word each at a party this weekend, but it seems it’s an invention from a Swedish company that’s being sold since 1998 and received the “Gift of the year” award in 2000. The 510 magnets contain all kinds of verbs, nouns, pronouns, etc., and many spare letters, suffixes and prefixes that you combine to build and rebuild sentences every time you need cold milk (all in standard Times New Roman). Visit the spanish website (Frigopoesía) or google fridge poetry.

November 24, 2004

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AVTG is back

Another opportunity for this weblog

Not updated since April, Avantglance’com —a site born in early 2003—Â, was a wannabee cool magazine… with a much-loved by-me interface and updated through static HTML XD. Now with all this blog mania I have finally decided to modernize my publishing methods and therefore standarize the design. Thanks to WordPress this site is now more enjoyable to blog into. Fernando and I will try again to tell things worth whoever-wants-to-read-us’ precious time. Big welcome to you all!

By the way, all the entries from the past are still here, but as you will see most are a bit outdated or oldfashioned. Here’s a list of some (still) interesting ones:

The T.N.K. beat: John Lennon’s rare “Tomorrow Never Knows†beat in four flavours
Radio3: Listen to this radio station, watch MTV, and you get the whole idea of 21st century music
War by kids: Children are supposed to have a special ability to see things with an amazingly naive yet quite enlightening point of view
Guggenheim in Rio: Jean Nouvel has designed an incredible building for the new Guggenheim Museum in Rio
Megalomania: I always find quite satisfying to find something I can beat a world record with
Incomprehensible: There’s something more fascinating in sun eclipses than the eclipse itself

October 16, 2003

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Possitive FFWD

(A quick thought)

More important than advantages or disadvantages, people’s approach to globalisation and the other symtoms of present and past history progresses is what really counts.

March 29, 2003

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Unnamed store

Where else could you find a store with no name than in SOHO?

After a lot of money and time hours Rem Koolhaas opened some years ago a huge Prada store there. I’m not sure if it really works as a shop because you only see tourists making photos… but that’s not the point. Continue reading