A couple's off-grid eco village ☼ An iconic vinyl player ☼ Chinatown's most stylish seniors
With tasting notes of portable vinyl players, elderly Asian fashion icons, multi-colour film cameras & an inspiring eco village in the Canary islands…
The good life beckons once more!
☼ AUDIO-TECHNICA REVIVES THE 1980s “SOUND BURGER”
The Audio-Technica Sound Burger re-emerged during the brand's recent 60th anniversary, becoming an unexpected hit with its compact and portable design that shrinks the mechanism required to play a 12 inch vinyl – complete with carrying handle.
☼ BARBIE DREAMHOUSE: A PALM SPRINGS FUSCHIA FANTASY
Greta Gerwig’s rendition of Barbie is one of the most hotly anticipated movies this summer with a star-studded cast featuring the likes of Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, but what about the dreamhouse? The production designers took inspiration from Palm Springs midcentury modernism, including Richard Neutra’s 1946 Kaufmann House and other icons photographed by Slim Aarons to create an iconic, surreal and saturated world.
☼ CELEBRATING THE STYLE OF CHINATOWN’S SENIORS
“It’s about layers of hand-knit sweaters and puffy coats in the summer; as well as bold floral patterns and baseball caps – sometimes all in one outfit”
Photographer Andria Lo and writer Valerie Luu celebrate the ingenuity, flair, and beauty of San Francisco Chinatown and its longtime residents.
Hotter Hyperlinks
Combed & collected with the highest precision for the leisure elite…
☼ CAMERAS OF OUR DREAMS
Taipei’s Shueido Camera is breathing colour & new life into typically desaturated film cameras with their repainting & customisation services. Shueido are known to mix multiple special paint colours typically reserved for use on sports cars.
☼ DOLORES’ SUN-DRENCHED FILM PHOTOGRAPHY
“In September 2022 I realized one of my dreams: to organize my very first exhibition, in Italy. I did it on the island of Ischia, with a theme that came naturally: beauty. I noticed that we too often forget that beauty is right in front of our eyes. And that's what I want to bring through my art: a return to the simple, to the authentic. It is up to us to change the way we look at the world. So something that we didn't take the time to look at can become an absolutely wonderful thing.”
☼ AN OFF-GRID ECO VILLAGE
Emma and Edo were once a hotel stage show dance team, until they quit to live out their dream of rescuing animals and farming on the island of Tenerife. They bought cheap land and began to transform the rocky, dusty soil into a lush homestead and animal sanctuary. Delve into their inspiring story as a unit of two bring along friends and volunteers to build a true community.
☼ THE PASTEL COLOURED SYNTHESIZER FOR EVERYBODY
Meet the viral Nopia chord generator, an innovative instrument designed by Martin Grieco and Rocio Gal to simplify the process of creating beautiful chord progressions within the same tonal harmonic scale, allowing even the most tone-deaf amateurs to craft satisfying melodies.
We dearly hope you enjoyed this week’s virtual escape. We’ll see in a couple days for the Sunday Special.
Warmest wishes ☼