Conquered Playground
A graffiti-covered concrete bunker among windswept coastal dunes in the photograph conquered playground, shared by Flickr account concept_art.
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Stone Island Shadow Project SS2010 Lookbook
The Stone Island Shadow vector continues with the project's fourth seasonal capsule collection. Fueled by new reactions within the project's original conceptual core, fresh manifestations of fabric, style, detail, and interface emerge as the lightest, yet most comprehensive, offering thus far.
This unique trajectory begins, of course, at a unique point of origin — the inimitable constellation of research and development that is STONE ISLAND. Hidden detail and potential action lies at the heart of each and every Stone Island Shadow style.
Enfolding this in a simpler, softer way, a new focus can be brought to bear on both resolution of shape and fidelity of color. The goal is vibrancy and directness; stripping away the superfluous without sacrificing capability, and the lightness that can only be found by moving through one's environment with zero resistance.
Modular Performance Grid, PARSEQ is the organizational framework upon which the idea is built: PROOF, AUGMENT, RESIST, SKIN and EQUIP. All Shadow fabrics work together as part of the grid — breathable, moisture managing, skin-friendly and maintainable — chosen for their balance of performance technology and the aesthetic treatments for which Stone Island has been known since its inception.
North Palisade. Sierra Nevada, California.
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stone island navigation series [reinvent the wheel] by liam macrae
Stone Island’s Navigation Series: Reinvent the Wheel, photographed by Liam MacRae, is part of the brand’s ongoing study of orientation and movement. The work frames navigation as both physical and symbolic—referencing terrain, direction, and systems of guidance. Within the series, “Reinvent the Wheel” emphasizes reinterpreting established structures of travel and perception, continuing Stone Island’s research into exploration and the mechanics of wayfinding.
EMERY MOUNTAINS
April 2024, FRIEZE No. 9 Cork Street Gallery, London
EXHIBITION: The Mountains Between Us, FRIEZE No 9 Cork St
Weaving together photography, video and sculptural objects, lena_c_emery highlights the accelerated loss of mountain glaciers and the desperate conservation efforts currently employed to impede their decline. Under the continued influence of greenhouse-gas forced global warming, ice that took centuries to develop is vanishing in just a number of years. A fate experts predict for at least two-thirds of all glaciers by the end of this century. EMERY: In ‘The Mountains Between Us’, I capture the current environmental efforts undertaken to reduce the rate at which glaciers melt. Glaciers have held space for centuries, silently bearing witness to history. They’ve seen the world change in ways we can barely comprehend. Because my grandfather spent his life in these mountains, watching this particular glacier retreat and form lakes where there was previously only ice and at a pace that’s steadily increasing, feels deeply personal. The idea of covering these mammoths in fabric to stall the inevitable, feels both tragic and emblematic of our relationship with nature: The magnitude of loss countered by gestures that, though earnest, feel powerless. Visually these wrapped peaks evoke images of muddied tents, makeshift shelters that we’ve come to erect for those displaced by upheaval. This fragility, their fragility, our fragility, is a direct reflection of the imbalance we have sown, where those least responsible for ecological destruction are forced to bear its heaviest burdens. The title became a way to frame those divides. Mountains have always symbolised barriers, but perhaps they could also be reimagined as thread, shared histories and a collective belonging. The elemental particles composing our very being once danced amidst these ancient landscapes and if they disappear, part of us does too.
Issey Miyake A-POC Garment Structure Studies
Voice Figures by Margaret Watts Hughes
Made more than 100 years ago by a Welsh singer named Margaret Watts Hughes — not by her hand but rather using her voice and an Eidophone, a “recording” device of her own invention. She would sing into the Eidophone’s funnel and so make its diaphragm vibrate. She’d then bring this vibrating diaphragm in contact with a glass plate covered in pigment to create these wondrous images, akin to visual sound recordings, or what she called Voice Figures (and the more complex Impression Figures).
Dialogue Version, Andrew Basinski
From the spitting image exhibiton curated by Pop Gun and Heart Gallery
Nike Zoom Hyperflight Sketches
Takahashi Murakami for Issey Miyake / Naoki Takizawa ss2000
Silent Poets for Issey Miyake
Silent Poets for Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2001 is a hardcover lookbook photographed by Françoise Huguier. It presents imagery from Issey Miyake’s Spring/Summer 2001 collection and includes the collaboration CD Red Eyes Tribe at the back of the book. Japanese electronic duo Silent Poets produced the music for the runway show.
and wander x Muraco Designs Heron Tent Shelter Sets
This tent boasts a straightforward structure, allowing for quick and effortless setup. To assemble, lay the flysheet on the ground and firmly secure the four corners with pegs. Then, raise the center pole at the top. The remarkable simplicity of this setup is unmatched by self-supporting dome-shaped tents, and its generous overhead clearance adds to its allure.
HERON 2POLE TENT SHELTER SET
Form #7, Josef Schulz, 2003
Josef Schulz is a photographer known for capturing images of modern warehouses and factories, which are typically considered mundane industrial structures with little architectural significance. These buildings, produced worldwide, follow standardized plans and materials, lacking distinct external features to reveal their specific purposes.
Schulz's approach involves studying the essence of his craft through these photographs. He employs digital image processing to remove any elements hinting at the buildings' age, location, or surroundings, transforming them into virtual blueprints. By emphasizing colors, shapes, and symmetries, he turns the buildings into block-like structures, resembling toy architecture and presenting them as idealized versions of themselves.
In this process, Schulz blurs the line between photographic and painted reality to optimize the images. Simultaneously, he reduces the physical buildings to their design concepts and the photographic reality to its virtual representation. His intent is to diverge from the typical pursuit of making digital images appear as real as possible. This approach might leave the viewer perplexed, as they struggle to distinguish between authentic elements captured by the camera and those created through digital tools.
arc'teryx leaf modular velcro pouch additions
F/CE ONEDAY TECHNICAL TRAVEL BACKPACK
TAKAHIROMIYASHITA The Soloist eArth dyed sheepskin jacket
Marble Caves at General Carrera Lake in Patagonia
The Marble Caves, known as Marble Chapel and Marble Cathedral, are located at the center of the lake and were formed by waves over the past 6,000 years.
Thomas Demand
Oscar Niemeyer's MAC Niterói — Louis Vuitton Cruise 2017 Venue
Tokyo Rooftops Ginza
Bruce Weber for Calvin Klein Jeans — 1991 Campaign
Haleakalā Crater — Volcanic Landscape, Maui
MIG 1.42 - PROTOTYPE
Prototype Russian fighter jet spotted on Bing Maps. Built to rival the American F-22 Raptor, the jet lost out to the Su-47.
Maharam Frame Bag by Konstantin Grcic
ESA HERTZ Anechoic Chamber — Antenna Test Facility at ESTEC
Redhill MRT Station — Singapore
Nanzenji Temple Autumn Foliage, Higashiyama, Kyoto
Salomon Speedcross 3 Camo Titanium
The Salomon Speedcross 3 Camo in Titanium/Dark Titanium/Swamp applies a muted tonal camouflage treatment to the footwear's aggressive trail-running silhouette. A grippy lugged outsole and supportive upper keep it performance-driven, while the low-contrast palette makes it feel more tactical for desert environments.
Robert Häusser J.R. 5-9-70
Gelatin silver print, printed 1999. 43.5 x 58.8 cm. Signed and dated in ballpoint pen lower right. Signed, dated, titled in ballpoint pen as well as photographer's thumb print on the verso. - Framed under glass.
A Kikuyu tribesman dresses up for a festival in Kenya
Toni Garrn by Philip Gay, Just Do It, Interview Germany 2012
Floral Botanical Print Textile — Kimono or Wrap Garment
Sacai Paris — Before the Show, Street Snap by Masataka Matsumura
Irving Penn × Issey Miyake — Two Miyake Warriors
"Wendover II (For John)" by Barry Underwood
Nickel Tailings 34, Edward Burtynsky, 1996
From “Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky”
Aleppo, Syria. 2013. Photograph by Moises Saman
Salomon S/LAB EXO Tank — Women’s
The women’s S/LAB EXO Tank treats support as a mapped structure. A polyurethane EXO Sensifit grid braces the upper chest, shoulders and spine, while Smart Skin places Actilite Pro jersey through the core and open stretch mesh at the heat zones. The skin fit keeps the grid engaged; flatlock seams and reflective marks finish the racing layer without adding bulk.
Dean Bouchard — Inside Out
Nike x Undercover Gyakusou SS2014
Vennesla Library and Culture House by Helen & Hard
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai Interior by Jouin Manku
Common Projects Spring/Summer 2012 Preview
Neighborhood N-2B / N-JKT Olive Drab
Peninsula House by Watson Architecture + Design
Rhyolithberge, Region Landmannalaugar, Fjallabak Naturreservat, Isländisches Hochland, Island
Tan Pleated Shorts
Tan pleated shorts on the street in Harajuku, Tokyo, shot for Fashionsnap in September 2012. Full, high-waisted and worn long.
hobo x Diemme Spring/Summer 2014 Utility Boots
M240 Machine-Gun Range Training
Akari Hayami — Japanese Fashion Magazine Editorial
Blender Fluid Simulation Render — CGI Water
Ralph McQuarrie — Battlestar Galactica (1978) Concept Art
White Mountaineering Striped Pocket T-Shirt
SOPHNET 2013 FW 7HOLE ZIP UP WORK BOOTS
Bally Spring/Summer 2014 Menswear — Hooded Utility Poncho
Nike Cheyenne Backpack in Tan
Israeli Soldier With Rifle Praying
Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hilary
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, sat here drinking tea during a break before their successful summit of Everest in 1953.
This photo was taken by George Band, OBE, the youngest of the mountaineers on the 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first known successful ascent of the mountain.
TRON Designs Corian — DuPont x Disney Milan Design Week 2011
Parasite Dolls (2003) — Cyberpunk Anime
Worlds End by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren “BUFFALO COAT” fw1982
Bas Princen — Colonnade Infrastructure Photograph
Cave Diving — Diver in Cenote Light Rays
UNESCO Headquarters Entrance Canopy — Breuer, Nervi & Zehrfuss, Paris 1958
Raf Simons Menswear Lookbook — Photography by David Armstrong
Building / 建物 — Shinjuku by perscape
perscape's Building / 建物 looks up along a tiled Shinjuku facade at night, where an illuminated sign reads カラオケ ビッグタイム 4F. The source tags identify a Pentax KX with an SMC Takumar 28mm F3.5 lens.
Black and White Mountain Snowscape — Fine Art Alpine Photography
Vince McKelvie — Running Figures
Zin Valley, Negev Desert, Israel — 30° 50' 51.66" N, 34° 46' 56.07" E
Reynisdrangar Basalt Sea Stack, Reynisfjara, Iceland
Joséphine Le Tutour in Alexander Wang — Numéro Tokyo July/August 2013
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
grey93 for 017 Shop
Salomon S/LAB EXO Tight — Men’s
The men’s S/LAB EXO Tight carries the trail-built Sensifit system into a cold-weather full length. The laminated honeycomb locks across the quads, hamstrings and lower back, then breaks around the joint before returning as a stabilizing knee frame. Actilite E jersey handles moisture, Smart Skin changes density by zone, and flatlock construction keeps the close compression fit low-bulk under a shell.
Kamchatka Volcanic Landscape
WTAPS FW13 Lifist Lookbook
WTAPS FW13 Lifist lookbook image with Tetsu Nishiyama riding a vintage motorcycle, part of the collection’s lifestyle-focused presentation.
Julian Wasser — Arrest on Hollywood Boulevard (1970)
Unseen Luna by Ash Kingston
The Center Hong Kong
Ruth Bernhard — Eighth Street Movie Theater, New York (Frederick Kiesler, Architect), 1946
Mount Etna — Volcanic Landscape Sicily
Star Magnolia — Magnolia stellata Macro
BMW 3 Series E90 on a Vine-Covered Hong Kong Rooftop Car Park
Zolloc — 15
Hiroshi Fujiwara Portrait at a Fashion Presentation
Oshkosh M-ATV Vehicles in Transit
Eero Saarinen — CBS Building, New York, 1965
Neon Fluorescent Tube Lights — Minimal Light Installation
