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THE BOOK CLUB
London’s East End welcomes a new meeting ground for cultural showcases, spontaneous dance parties and good food. The Book Club is an amazing eatery offering a full spectrum of dishes, coffee and drinks from morning until night. Open 7 days a week, the TBC crew is working hard to become a staple in their neighborhood. Boasting a spacious interior with clever design, the former Victorian Warehouse has been converted into an interesting hybrid. It effortlessly combines the best parts of a lounge, community hall and restaurant into once space. We recommend stopping by next time you’re in the East End. We posted a few photos and additional information below.
Words: Taj Reid
Photography: Courtesy of The Book Club
The Book Club, 100 Leonard St, London EC2A 4RH, UK
FITCH & SHUI
NNAKA
ALEXIS BOOKS AND COFFEE
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LOST IN ART
Liu Bolin paints himself into sceneries that render him nearly invisible. It’s performance art captured through photography. And in each piece, Liu finds a way to embed larger messages. If you look closely – not just for Liu, but for what he’s suggesting – you’ll find a dialogue about relationships. The kind that highlight an individual’s interaction with society at large. For example, the Eli Klein Gallery makes the following point about the above image, “[Liu’s] Panda examines the Chinese newfound preoccupation with commercialism. It confronts the viewer with a palpable materialism, whereby the viewer can sense an infatuation with commodity that has recently supplanted many elements of traditional Chinese culture. Through the numerous identical stuffed pandas, Liu Bolin forces us to acknowledge the pull of material objects and the power that they wield in contemporary China.” You can see works like this and many others by Liu Bolin, from now until May 11, at the Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery in New York City. We posted additional information and a few images below. Click Read More to view.
Words: Taj Reid
Photography: Courtesy of Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery
Eli Kliein, 462 West Broadway, New York, NY 10012
From Now until May 11, 2012
DESIGNBOOM
ELI KLEIN FINE ART GALLERY
ARTNET
SNAPSHOT NÉPAL
SNAPSHOT SERBIA
CROWDED ISOLATION
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THIS WEEK’S BRIEF
This week welcomes the first day of Spring which naturally signals a feeling of rebirth and new energy. The newswire is packed with encouraging stories ranging from Japan’s earthquake recovery to America’s new hopes for private space exploration. We’ve selected a few stories for our readers that will likely impact their respective region and possibly the world. Click Read More to view.
Words: Taj Reid
Photography: P. Lopez for the NY Times
SpaceX continues its march forward to develop Dragon, the company’s first private spaceship. The project is headed by American engineer and entrepreneur Elon Musk known for co-founding Paypal and Tesla Motors. As PSFK reports, “SpaceX recently completed a crew test as part of its work to build a cabin for the Dragon spacecraft. Engineers gained valuable feedback from the NASA astronauts and industry experts who tested the prototype, which is fitted with seven seats and representations of crew accommodations such as lighting, environmental control and life support systems, displays and cargo racks.” View pics of the cabin at the link below.
This week The Hebrew University of Jerusalem released Albert Einstein’s complete archives online. They’re a fantastic look into the mind of one of the world’s greatest thinkers. As the Atlantic reports, “Not only are the archives fun to flip through – the pages are animated so it looks like they actually turn – but also, it’s extraordinary to humanize Einstein a bit. Since he’s generally regarded as one of the great geniuses of our time, it’s easy to forget that Einstein was also just a guy who went on vacations, kept a journal, and occasionally wrote world-changing theories. Take, for instance, a page from Einstein’s Travel Diary to the U.S.A. We flipped through and found that Einstein enjoyed sketching. He was also kind of a terrible sketcher.” View a sample of the archives at the link below.
Through a compelling photo essay, the Guardian provides a look into the prolonged drought hitting Kenya’s Masai Mara reserve. It also highlights how the drought has hit the animals particularly hard, adding more pressure to the troubled wildlife. View the photo gallery at the link below.
CNN’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran writes an interesting piece about China’s rising entrepreneurial class that’s striving to make the country a hot bed for innovation. As he reports, “Travel to Shekou, a port city in Shenzhen, and you will find the stirrings of something unexpected: entrepreneurial capitalism. This part of China, home to many mega-factories like those of Foxconn (which makes Apple’s iPads) is known as the world’s workshop. But if you visit Microport, a startup firm funded by venture capital, you will find a group of tech entrepreneurs with a global mindset trying to disrupt an overpriced, legacy-ridden industry.”
A year later, the New York Times looks at Japan’s recovery after the devastating earthquake that rattled the country’s infrastructure. With side by side images, they vividly portray Japan’s renewal. As the Times describes it, “Toru Yamanaka, a photographer for Agence France-Presse, visited places in Japan destroyed by the March 2011 tsunami, photographing them from the same perspective that other photographers used a year earlier.” View the article at the link below.
The Global Brief is an editorial feature for wejetset magazine. Each week our team scans international news and aggregates the stories that will likely impact their respective region and possibly the world. From economic issues to politics, we strive to deliver news links that will be useful to our readers as they navigate their local and global spaces throughout the week.
CHINA’S GHOST CITIES
KAZAKHSTAN SUBWAY
ICELAND INVITES YOU
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SNAPSHOT NÉPAL
Julien Mauve photographed the beautiful geography and people of Népal. The french web developer traveled there in 2011 and snapped an amazing series of images that are perfect for this week’s edition of Snapshot. Each image presents a different angle of the country’s charm and delivers a healthy dose of travel inspiration. It’s undeniable. You’ll want to visit immediately, so be prepared. We posted a few photos below.
Words: Taj Reid
Photography: Julien Mauve
View the entire series on Behance.
SNAPSHOT SERBIA
SNAPSHOT JAPAN
BARCA’S BEAUTY
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KIEV’S CITY SPACES
Guilty as charged. Tilt-Shift videos get our attention every time. And our latest edition of Audio Visual presents a fantastic one by Tel-Aviv based artists, Efim Graboy and Daria Turetski. Over the course of 2 nights and 5 days they captured 25,000 frames of Kiev with their Canon 550D camera. Entitled, MiniLook Kiev, the duo present the city’s beautiful architecture, parks, transit systems and other tourist attractions. It took them months to select the final 4,500 frames composed for the stop-motion video, but it was well worth it. We’ve posted the video and a few images below. Click Read More to view.
Word: Taj Reid
Photography & Video: Efim Graboy & Daria Turetski
KARL HAB
BARCA’S BEAUTY
JAPAN BY MIKE MATAS
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