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Friday the 15th: “Crash” the Art of Bethany Shorb and Cyberoptix Tielab 2010
Here’s to a lady who multi-faceted talent and dedication have inspired me to re-create myself several times over. Her works an exhibition of grace in the realms of business and pleasure. Come celebrate the success and bask in the fellowship of Bethany Shorb and birthday bud Michael Doyle on this wonderful evening.
Are you fucking dumb get a map
ps check out these beauties:
sexy photo
hex tie
Don’t forget to buy something, you ought to to look this good.
Original Article:
Bethany Shorb’s Cyberoptix Tielab 2010 Preview and Photography Exhibition:
Special Musical Performance by Justin Carver from “Something Cold” and Deth Lab
Friday Jan, 15th 2010 6pm @ 323East in Royal Oak, MI.
These are not your father’s ties – let’s make that clear first. Cyberoptix? Right – and with a fresh bottle of Old Spice wrapped up with it. Knot quite.
These are the works of an imaginative artist and photographer named Bethany Shorb who took the mundane reality of neckwear and proceeded to give it a twist or two in new directions – with bold color, bolder materials, and the novel idea that a traditional symbol of subservience could be transformed into “a subversive object of desire.”
Reaching that goal was aided immeasurably by Shorb’s other talents; besides photography, she is trained in sculpture, costume design, and prop construction. And THOSE accomplishments, we hasten to add, are complemented nicely by her brutally direct understanding of what see sees or what she wants us to see. Shorb has tackled a variety of subjects and (as evidenced by a recent exhibit inspired by J.G. Ballard’s novel CRASH) her “eye” is not a blinking one by any stretch. Something is heated to an almost unbearable degree in her works. And if you can’t stand the heat … well, best you seek out an environment where the climate is more controlled.
But you don’t want to do that. What you want to do is to see the latest creations by this intriguing talent – the ones that 323 East will unveil on January 15. The cravats are cool. The pix are pulsating. Nice way to make a knot in our opinion.
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Schooled in both sculpture and photography, Bethany Shorb creates elaborate prop, costume and set constructions that blur the line between both editorial fashion photography and performance art documentation. Her recent Crash series refers to J.G. Ballard’s novel of the same name with scenes titled by the lyrics of The Normal’s song of similar influence, “Warm Leatherette.” Technology, celebrity, sex, and death are perversely glamorized and fetishised in unison in a single explosion of red Swarovski crystals and inflated black latex rubber. Models, wardrobe and set decoration all retain the same visual and emotional weight, a hyper-saturated amalgamation exploring the interstitial space between the alluring and repulsive; hedonism and restraint; the seductive speed of expressways and the still finality of Last Rights.
Bethany Shorb was born in Boston, MA in 1976. She received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture, with an elective in Photography, from Cranbrook Academy of Art and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Boston University with minors in Art History and Photography. Her photography and product design work have been widely published in the United States and abroad; her visual art and product work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in numerous private collections. This past summer she taught several printing workshops in her Detroit studio and was recently reviewed in the New York Times and Wired. Her dj alter-ego has performed as half of “Dethlab” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Shorb also founded The Cyberoptix Tie Lab in 2006. As a designer of witty hand printed neckwear, she has applied her experience as a sculptor, couture, costume and graphic designer to transform a much maligned business necessity into a subversive object of desire. Cyberoptix ties and scarves are represented by more than 150 stores in a dozen countries: from Fred Segal in Los Angeles to Libertine in Western Australia. A paradox for the times, Cyberoptix Tie Lab operates one of the largest eco-friendly, solvent-free print shops in the country in Downtown Detroit, while providing a seditious, punky fashion statement for executives bound to the neck noose, and a sharply styled alternative for those who don’t need to wear a tie, but choose to do so.
cyberoptix.com
toybreaker.etsy.com
trunkt.org/cyberoptix
toybreaker.net/blog
dethlab.net
myspace.com/teamdethlab
323East.com
Original Metrotimes article via Facebook
Samsung Omnia (i900) Unboxing, with tiny girls
can’t see the video? [click here]
so it’s official, everything is touch and anything less is not touch. so whats left? ah yes, now we must do it with more style, check out the unboxing of the samsung omnia900. i love the sound the horse makes, something about miniature horses being flicked across a room that i wont ever get tired of.
my fav is the youtube responses;
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So what is the final consensus? Is this fake or what?TaylorSPL (19 hours ago) Show Hide
You make my brain hurt. It’s real, there’s tiny exploding people inside of every box.alfomp (19 hours ago) Show Hide
That’s great!Majornalis (19 hours ago) Show Hide
I’d put her in my pants.
Father’s Day – Think Local, Bethany Shorb Cyberoptix Tie Lab
Father’s day is someday soon, i dont know when, but less twenty days away. You don’t want to seem ungrateful for all the years he didn’t abuse you, but you don’t have to break the bank for a gift so timeless and classy. In fact, anything other than a tie for father’s day would be an unacceptable gift, and i will direct you to the classiest threads online.
There really is something for everyone at the cyberoptix tielab. At her detroit studio, Bethany Shorb by hand carefully creates neckwear worthy of a frame. The colors are brilliant, the designs sharp and enunciated. Every time i wear her work it sparks conversation. Ties come available in silk, charmeuse silk, animal friendly micro fiber, and an exclusive in twill cotton. Take a quick peak.
[hot seller: exhaust]
[extremely sexy: escape artist]
Rob Corddry at the red carpet world premiere of Twentieth Century Fox’s “What Happens In Vegas”, rocking out one of Bethany’s hot sellers “Bombs Away!”
[cyberoptix.com]
[toybreaker.net/blog]
[dethlab.net]
New 3G iPhone
The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday. The 3G iPhone will be the “first of an impressive wave of new products” from Apple, wrote Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee. They also expect an updated Mac laptop and iPod lines. The Apple conference is scheduled for June 9-13 in San Francisco. In addition to a 3G iPhone release in early June, the 2.5G model could have a “minor casing change” and a price drop to between US$299 and $349, compared to the current $399, wrote Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, in a research report.
Those predictions are consistent with a February prediction Gardner made that 3G iPhones will be announced by midyear. The 3G iPhone release will help Apple meet its target of shipping 10 million iPhones in 2008, Gardner wrote at the time. Apple is confident it will sell 10 million iPhones this year, officials said during a conference call on Wednesday to discuss the company’s second-quarter earnings. Apple sold more iPhones than expected during the quarter and iPhone inventories were not enough to meet the strong demand.
Source: Yahoo
No comments“Special” mp3 player
praise the lord, it’s an mp3 playing cross
Description:
- 100% BRAND NEW! Never Used Before!
- 512MB Flash Memory
- Cross Shape design, special and Fashionable
- Color: Black
- Support MP3 and WMA format
- LCD Display
- Built in Speaker
- Turn on Animated Image
- Digital Recording Function: Built-in microphone with about 100 mins high quality voice recording
- Replay Mode: Manual Replay, Auto Replay
- Record Mode: Long VOR, Fine VOR, Long Rec, Fine Rec
- Repeat Mode: Repeat One, Repeat Folder, Repeat All, Random
- Multi-language Support: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese
- Sound Effect: Natural, Rock, Pop, Classic, Jazz, Soft, DBB
- Sleep Timer
- A-B Repeat
- ID3 Supported (Title Display, Lyrics Display)
- Built-in rechargeable battery
- Able to create folder for file management
- Compatibility: Supported Window XP; Window ME, Window 2000
- No Driver needed (except Window 98 and Window 95)
- Fully supports PC interface USB v1.1 and v2.0
- Audio Connector: 3.5mm headphone jack hold
- USB data cable: 5 pins
- Size: 69 x 44 x 13 mm
- Weight: 20g
Package Content:
- 512MB MP3 Player
- English User Manual
- Earphone headset
- USB Extension Cord
- Charger adaptor
- Driver Installation CD
This is crazy: $22.49
i would buy this but i just bought an mp3 player.
Innovative USB Finger Optical 3D Computer Mouse: [9.99]
check out this other shit from hong kong:
Desktop Corded Hamburger Phone Telephone : [$15.99]
smokeless ashtray (looks like a car): [$8.99]
bitchin ipod nano transmitter: [$9.99]
No commentsCompany out of KZ mich does cheap iPod repair
Is your iPod dead? A victim of a bad battery? Or showing that telltale “sad Mac” icon? Or some other mystery ailment that prevents you from accessing your music on the go?
Don’t trash it. Kalamazoo-based Rapid Repair may be able to save it. If not, they can at least keep it out of a landfill, and maybe even put some change in your pocket for the spare parts.
Considering the cost of a new one, what have you got to lose?
The brainchild of discussions in online forums, Rapid Repair started out as iPodMods in 2003. Back then, service manager Aaron Vronko says, the small shop focused primarily on tricking out iPods. They installed new backlights on the plain gray LCDs of the prevideo iterations of the iPods to make them glow in reds and blues and greens. They installed new cases to make the iPod cases transparent. And, naturally, they moved into battery replacement as the growing base of iPod owners discovered that Apple’s batteries eventually lost the ability to hold a charge for very long.
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An online storefront followed in 2004, and, Vronko says, “we’ve been going since then.” They employ 15 people in a brick-and-mortar storefront on West Main Street in Kalamazoo.
In 2007, Vronko, 25, and partner Ben Levy, 28, changed the company’s name to Rapid Repair to reflect their growing business base: They had progressed to repairing other devices, such as the iPhone, Microsoft’s Zune, various PDAs and even game consoles — as many as 500 repairs a week — and offering parts to do-it-yourselfers.
But iPods remain a core of the business, Vronko says. They even designed their own clear replacement case, the iVue Clear, for the current generation of iPods.
No commentsDesign, Nienke Sybrandy, Wouter Nieuwendijk and Suzanne Vanoirschot
Nienke Sybrandy
I have to commend Dutch designer, Nienke Sybrandy, who created the original model of ASCII sun curtains. From a distance, the macro takes the shape of a tree. However, upon closer inspection, you can clearly see all the design is composed of hundreds of thousands of ASCII characters. Very dope, would eventually like to see her designs in color, perhaps on black. She also makes tea towels and handkerchiefs. She studied textile design at Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her designs are inspired by those basic items that are often taken for granted. Call it geek sheik, whatever… just don’t get to excited, I ordered them before you had a chance to.
Wouter Nieuwendijk and Suzanne Vanoirschot
Wouter and Suzanne van Oirschot collaborated to create these very special ‘2D-furniture’ collection, all amazing pieces! I am showing you the complete series. The 2D-Furniture pieces are made out of black MDF and are printed with a Formica Photo.
You can buy the 2D-Furniture collection in Amsterdam at Das Wella Warenahaus, but you can also contact them directly should you be interested, also check out Wouter’s and Suzanne’s websites to see more of their work… looking at their bios I noticed that both Suzanne and Wouter were interns at Piet Hein Eek’s studio during their student years… no doubt he has a great eye for talent… anyway, thought you wanted to see these before the weekend starts
[suzannevanoirschot.nl]
[nsybrandy.nl]
