Darkened Cities by Thierry Cohen

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Thierry Cohen is seen as one of the pioneers of digital photography. Since 2010 he has devoted himself to a single project – “Villes Eteintes” (Darkened Cities) – which depicts the major cities of the world as they would appear at night without light pollution, or in more poetic terms: how they would look if we could see the stars. (via BD)

To make the work he combines two photographs, one with the retouched night city and second with the sky in a same angle of the cityscape and latitude just where it is possible to see the stars like the Mojave, the Sahara, and the Atacama Desert.

Anamorphic Paintings by Felice Varini

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No digital pixels were harmed while Felice created this huge anamorphic installations using only the paint and eye tricks. He has been creating these massive pieces since 1979; starting small with room based installations, but later growing to pieces that cover entire villages and require a hike up a mountain to properly appreciate. http://www.varini.org/

Philippe Starck's PIBAL an Urban Hybrid Bike/Scooter

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Philippe Starck unveils the bike-scooter hybrid PIBAL for Bordeaux citizens. 3000 of the bikes are expected to be manufactured by Peugeot by the end of this year, and will be added to Bordeaux’s bicycle sharing program. The City PIBAL Streamer is basically a scooter and a bike compacted into one though the Bordelais (citizens of Bordeaux) are happy to have their very own custom-created public bike and no longer need to feel snubbed by metropolises like Paris and Copenhagen who got their own custom-created public bicycles a while ago.

Read more on http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.ru/2013/02/philippe-starcks-pibal-urban-bike.html

The Street Art of IEMZA

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IEMZA is the alias of an artist living and working in Reims, France. He is fascinated by chaotic settings, reinforced concrete and abandoned building – basically, rubble. Which forms the mainspring for most of his output. He views these disregarded spaces as fertile ground in which his creations can be born – germinated paradoxically by what appears to have sunk into oblivion and desertion.

"The rendering of my wall compositions is close to a sketch, integrating a vast hierarchy of lines."

https://www.facebook.com/IEMZA

CHANEL Spring-Summer 2013 Haute Couture show

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We follow the fashion industry even has not that much coverage on a blog as for example our friend and author of Fashioncollector does on her personal blog. Here is a full video from the latest CHANEL Haute Couture show featuring tamed deers models in artificial forest built inside Paris's Grand Palais. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XqTkOpVuI4

Givenchy Le Rouge by Hellohikimori

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Cold steel advertising featuring red hot bullet of Givenchy's lipstick was directed by our friends at Paris agency Hellohikimori. Production company: ONIRIM Music: "Viol" by Gesaffelstein (SavoirFaire cie and Turbo Recordings)

http://vimeo.com/56977646

Graphik H

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"Stuck between illustration and graphic design the french artist Graphik H does an amazing work. From pictures to drawing, he creates amazing images focusing on portraits and other life moments. Discover in our article a selection of his best work featuring inked men & young women. More to see on his Tumblr."

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Chanel Paris-Édimbourg Métiers d'Art 2012/13

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The über-talented art director and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld did it again. The "creative marriage" of Queen of Scots and Queen of Fashion made by Karl went awesome in his new collection for Chanel Paris-Édimbourg Métiers d'Art 2012/13. It seems there were no three centuries between Mary Stuart and Coco Chanel, hand in hand they made a cat-walk in Linlithgow Palace formal residence of Queen Mary. Watch the triumph of tartan and lace, leather and anti-stilettos..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyowoW0OwtA

The Outer Child by Cristian Girotto

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Without bothering Jung and its "Puer aeternus" or Pascoli with its "Little Boy", we can certainly agree that, somewhere inside each of us, there's a young core, instinctive, creative but also innocent and naïve. Check the personal project of Cristian Girotto "L' Enfant Extérieur" (The Outer Child) where he did an impressive retouch on Quentin Curtat's photography.