Viviane Sassen’s first American show opens at Danziger Projects on March 4. The exhibition takes in three series—”Die Son Sien Alles” (The Sun Sees Everything), made in South Africa; “Flamboya”, made in Zambia and East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania); and “Ultra Violet”, made in Ghana. The show is up through April 10. … more
Kanye launched his new blog today. Not exactly what we expected, but then what does Kanye ever do that the public expects?
Cartype, the online archive devoted to everything car-related, has posted an impressive selection of decals from remote-control cars of the 1980s.
It is a rare occasion when we at Base discover ideas so original, so powerful, that no further words are necessary to describe their genius. Like this site: Selleck Waterfall Sandwich. Too good to be true.
For some of us, the best part of getting a haircut is checking out the salon’s posters of people with conspicuous hair. Designed for a hugely broad clientele, hair posters run the gamut from the informational to the inspirational. Depending on where you go for your coiffure, you might get plain, documentary-style snapshots that present haircuts like items on a Chinese-food picture-menu. Or you might find slick, composed shots flaunting poetic hair-structures that inspire patrons to make rash and probably regrettable decisions.
Some of these hairstyles resemble the plumage of exotic birds. Others, their nests. Some haircuts look like topiary or tortured lab animals, some like wedding cakes or charred sand castles. Others still look simply like it’s school picture day in an off-vintage.
We’ve cruised the interhairnet to bring you a deep gallery of the finest in hair posters. In doing so, we’ve noticed that most hair models seem unhappy or angry, quite possibly about the haircuts that have been inflicted upon them. In conducting our research we’ve also been reassured that what we consider our own bad hair days might not actually be so bad after all.
Without further ado, we present you further hairdos…
Happy New Year from all of us at Base to all of you.
To counteract the parade of heavy eating that comes with the Christmas holidays, BaseNow proposes a gym concept to help the snacky Catholics (and second-hand Catholics) among us to fend off the poundage. … more
The furniture industry has had a drab and uncomfortable few years. To be sure, the global recession hasn’t encouraged people to shell out for new sofas or kitchens, but even before the crisis many furniture companies seemed to lack strategy and focus. The standard and now exhausted trend has been for a company to contract well-known architects and/or designers to develop individual pieces or entire collections. In some cases this approach has yielded gems (Piero Lissoni for Boffi; Antonio Citterio for just about anyone) but in many others it’s turned out lemons (Frank Gehry collection by Heller, anyone?).
