Video — The Fourth Phase: How Travis Survived The Avalanche

having survided something similar it teaches you even more respect for the mountains and mother natures ability to take it all away — in one second — be safe guys! m.


If you still have yet to see The Fourth Phase, we recommend you stop reading this, drop everything you are doing, and watch the movie already (the following contains spoilers.) However, if you have indeed seen the film, or have talked to anyone who has seen it, you know about the avalanche. In what is up there as one of the gnarliest avalanches caught on film, Travis is sucked into the slide and tossed over a massive cliff to close out his latest film. The portrayal of said avalanche was initially called into question for misguided glorification by critics of the film, however in this recent release from Red Bull, Travis and his crew dive further into the discussion of avalanche safety. Take a minute to watch Travis, and other professionals discuss avalanche danger, and in particular the slide that almost ended his life.

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Video — Collapsible Moon Lamp by Kazuhiro Yamanaka

clever minimalist design! m.




for his latest creation, japanese designer kazuhiro yamanaka brings about an unexpected twist to lighting furniture with his collapsible moon lamp. thanks to a photo reflecting structure, the user can manipulate the object in such a way to make it expand or collapse.

for the lighting feature, kazuhiro yamanaka has embedded a LED strip which is located inside the edge of the spring steel frame — towards the center of the circle. as a result, the extended surface of the lamp illuminates itself like a full moon. the colors of the LED can also be changed to obtain different hues and ambiances.

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Printing House, New York by Workshop/apd

fantastic adaptive reuse project + design. m.









Spurred by the rising market for luxury housing in Lower Manhattan, the architects transformed the Printing House — an iconic industrial building in the West Village — from cramped loft apartments created in the 1970s into a hip new address. The change of attitude emerges in the sleek steel canopy added at the building entrance and continues into the lobby, where white surfaces play as a neutral foil to a glazed, green tile vault that survives from the building’s original 1911 construction. The team’s texture-rich approach to the revamp of the building comes to bear in the laser-cut, blackened steel panels used in the lobby redesign. But the main challenge was solving the puzzle of converting the 100 available units scattered throughout the building into 64 new residences — all with double-height living rooms and large-scale windows that fill the spaces with natural light. The new units preserve the concept of bedroom lofts introduced in the ’70s, while improving light distribution deep into spaces, which are outfitted with modern amenities. “For me, the appeal is less about the specific unit design and more about the quiet sophistication of the common areas,” juror Josh Shelton said. “I like the way all that works together as a color palette and material palette.”

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