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Voglia di un brunch a Barcellona? Nel quartiere del Borne trovi il Picnic, nuovo e ottimo ristorante situato in Calle Comerç, davanti al Parco della Ciutadella.
Al Picnic tutti i sabati e le domeniche dalle 12 alle 17 si può gustare il meraviglioso brunch: pancakes, uova, bacon e tanti altri piatti per saziare la fame post-festivalera. Dal lunedì al venerdì invece, a pranzo e cena, si possono scegliere piatti differenti: da provare assolutamente il lombo di canguro!
Dopocena il Picnic diventa un cocktail bar aperto fino alle 2 , dove sorseggiare esotici cocktail tipo Pisco Sour, Mojito alla fragola e cetriolo, Caipiroska di Maracuyá o il Bellini di anguria e menta.
Il nome è dovuto alla decorazione in puro stile picnic: cesti in vimini e fiori sparsi ovunque nel luminoso locale dominato da un grande bancone centrale, dove i cuochi cucinano a vista! Da provare!
Propellerhead recently decided to create a giant, 4×4 light-emitting device so large that you have to literally jump between each of the pads in order to trigger the drum samples. Then they just randomly set up shop outdoors somewhere and hooked everything up to a projector showing the Kong drum synthesizer that it was hooked up to, and hundreds of people just stood there in awe.
Kong is a new instrument added in Reason 5, which by the way, has benn launched on 25th of August. It is a $129 upgrade if you currently own ANY previous version of the program, $349 if you are buying it for the first time, and $449 in combination with Record, which is also getting an update tomorrow
Ohm, the measured frequency of the elliptical orbit of the Earth as it travels around the sun, as well as our musical centre of gravity. Ohm is said to be the purest of sounds — the vibration and resonance created first and foremost by our place in the universe. But how many of us have actually heard the subtle tone created by our planet? And what about the possibly millions of other undetected sounds that surround us each day?
Duncan Wilson knows that sound resonates from every surface in our environment — if even in the form of the must subtle whisper. Wilson wondered how many of these undetected sounds could be identified, combined and amplified to create a new sonic experience in the form of ambient music.
OTTO (meaning ‘ear’ in Greek), created by Wilson, along with Manolis Kelaidis at the Royal College of the Art, is a device that uncovers diminutive vibrations by placing magnets and suction mechanisms on various surfaces and magnifies them through an integrated speaker. By placing several units on your window, a glass of melting ice water, a goldfish bowl, or any other unassuming item in your surroundings, OTTO devises a multidirectional audio atmosphere. By Andrew J Wiener
The venerable Italian brand Brionvega thinks the 60s and 70s are worth bringing back, or that at least some of the design sensibilities of the era warrant new life. The classic, groundbreaking Radiofonografio, divined in 1965 by two of the three Castiglioni brothers, Pier Giacomo and Achille, is making a new entrance as RR226. In 1965, the ‘musical component robot’ was a home electronic marvel that in one sleekly designed device included a radio, amplifiers and a record player (for both 45s and 33s).
The modernized model has also a CD and DVD players but otherwise it is as close as possible to the original. The amplifiers are moveable which makes it possible to create different configurations both for visual and listening pleasure. Showcased at the Salone del Mobile in Milan in April, RR226 may be a while coming to a store near you. But like so many of the Castiglioni brothers’ objects, still produced and/or displayed by Zanotta, Flos, Artemide and MoMA, the Radiofonografio is most likely going to stay with us for yet another long period.
Marcelo Burlon Enterprise is an evolving one-man venture fuelled on Burlon’s unique personality. An effervescent character, Marcelo switches between the worlds of fashion, music and art effortlessly, often blurring the boundaries in between disciplines. Consultant, editor, stylist, PR, party instigator and much more, there are no rules to what he does apart from one: that it must be good. A trained eye, a knowing mind and a finely-tuned ear – he is a DJ too after all, you’ll know from his club Pink Is Punk – Burlon’s left-of-centre sensibility is one that brings underground cool to pop culture. It results in a heady, explosive cocktail. Having cut his teeth at Dolce & Gabbana and Alessandro Dell’Acqua as event promoter and celebrities PR, Burlon progressed to collaborate with a roster of clients including Karla Otto, KCD, Slam Jam, Nike, Adidas, Diesel, Attila & Co all the while keeping up his role as PR person for budding designer Riccardo Tisci, who is now creative director at Givenchy in Paris. With a role in public relations for contemporary art space Cardi Gallery, an outlet he still keeps to this day, Marcelo is also the Editor-in-Chief of Rodeo Magazine, a project which has allowed his ephemeral talent to be expressed through print, curating the essence of the current climate into a magazine. Independent since 2006, Marcelo counts Alexander McQueen, Maison Martin Margiela, Givenchy, Versace, Calvin Klein, Gucci, Prada, Jil Sander and Marc Jacobs amongst his latest clients. Difficult to summarise yes, when you meet him you’ll understand. There’s no-one quite like Marcelo, he leaves an indelible mark on every soul he touches.
GRANDE MARCELO !!!
Check is blog at www.marceloburlonblog.com
Compared to their regular earbuds, the experience of listening to music using Etymotic’s custom-molded earths is something like the difference between sitting in an amazing sports car and actually driving one. I’ve had the opportunity to demo an ER4 unit over the last month and was impressed with the range, clarity and quality they offer in such a compact package. A music industry standard since their release in the ’90s, Etymotics was the first manufacturer to introduce in-ear earphones and their current range includes a variety of eartip styles and sizes. I found their standard flanged eartips to fit snugly and provide reasonable sound isolation—until I tried the Custom Fit solution.
Available as an add-on for many of their models, the Custom Fit program starts with a visit to an audiologist to have impressions of your ears taken—an eerily blissful process that takes about 20 minutes. They send the impressions to ACS Custom, a company that specializes in making ear molds for a range of audio uses. Roughly 2-4 weeks later, you receive the soft silicon ear tips by mail, ready to be placed on your earphones.
Because the Custom Fit eartips sit deep in the ear canal, you almost have to screw them in. It’s really just a quarter turn, and once they’re in, you know it—the world around you melts away as music consumes your core. I found the difference between the flanged tips and the Custom Fit ones to be remarkable. In addition to significant audio quality improvement and sound isolation, the bespoke silicon tips are so comfortable they disappear.
While the earphones ($300) and Custom Fit tips ($100) aren’t cheap, they’re more affordable and the modular design makes them more flexible than many of the other custom professional monitoring solutions out there. And conveniently, ACS will keep your ear impressions on file in case you need to reorder.
TEPPEI KUROGANAGI.
Japan.
The wonderful thing is that art has many ways to communicate and make themselves understood to humanity, I had the opportunity to see a very creative work of my fellow who studied with me in Toronto, “Teppei”; who showed me a part of their talented work, short videos with clear messages , graphic design with music, animation accompanied by a color and photography, not to mention the deep artistic meaning of each of these works, art like this definitely cannot be lost sight. One of my favourites is C + + it shows in every way weak communication between humans, while MOVE PLAY tells us about the complicated relationship between women and men, other work that you can see in the website are Teppei is rifle TV / Interactive Art Japan, White Briefs, Watching is living and his latest work it totally different than I had seen before, with his own words he explained to me by e-mail “We used two vacuum cleaners as music instruments. There are may LED light on funs. Main them is “Man’s worldly desires”, It’s a metaphor installation work that compares the customer emotional conflicts at the crazy electronic store and martial art fighters” , personally I can say some of these videos have left me in shock, this work in particularly you must have a very open and singular taste for this kind of art, definitely unique in a way but perhaps for me… I prefer the melodic sound and rhythm nevertheless non conventional music but either so extravagant in any case you must see to make your own opinion. Always Is better see for your self. Isn’t it?
I would like to add that the detail, music, graphics, design, talent of every work of art by Teppei explain the differences between human thought and opinion, reflecting other ways of expressing themselves showing us there is no limit to the art and may speak on any subject without saying a single word, just images explain the real meaning of what the artist wants to express with their work, as well as photography and contemporary art, totally innovative and trend .
If you are interested in art and in different expressions do not forget to visit his website at (www.nipppon.com)
My favourite artist in town! …porquè Barcelona tienes alma..
Markus Haub is born in Germany and studied Transportation Design at the school of applied arts in Pforzheim till 1997.
Comming to Spain he worked at the Design Center Europefor Volkswagen in Sitges and at Renault Design in Barcelona
and Paris for 11 years.
Now he is working as Designer and Artist and displaying his work in various galleries and exhibitions in Barcelona, Germany,
Czech Republic and France. In Galeria Espai(b), Galeria Artevistas, Carré D’Artistes, Hotel Angli, Gentlemen Drive, Meilenwerk,
BAC! Festival or Iguapop Gallery …
