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Natural Habitat: Following the Sun in Brooklyn [VIDEO]

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Natural Habitat: Following the Sun in Brooklyn [VIDEO]

Kelly Beall is Director of Branded Content at Design Milk. The Pittsburgh-based writer and designer has had a deep love of art and design for as long as she can remember, from Fashion Plates to MoMA and far beyond. When not searching out the visual arts, she’s likely sharing her favorite finds with others. Kelly can also be found tracking down new music, teaching herself to play the ukulele, or on the couch with her three pets – Bebe, Rainey, and Remy. Find her @designcrush on social.

World’s Largest Traveling Potato Sculpture, world record from Idaho

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World’s Largest Traveling Potato Sculpture, world record from Idaho
Boise, Idaho, United States–The Big Idaho Potato Truck from Boise, Idaho, United States, currently on its 10th cross-country journey, travels the country promoting the certified heart-healthy Idaho Potato and its mission to help small charities in towns and cities with its A Big Helping program; weighing in at 4 tons, the fiberglass potato is 28 feet long and 11.5 feet high, thus setting the world record for being the World’s Largest Traveling Potato Sculpture, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Featured Photographer: Laetitia Heisler – “Forest is a Temple”

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Featured Photographer: Laetitia Heisler – “Forest is a Temple”
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From her childhood in Toulon, France capturing snapshots of friends and family to studying ballet and being in a rock band as a young adult near Hamburg, Germany, art has always been present in Laetitia’s life. But during the lockdowns imposed worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she fell in love with shooting analog, and devoted her time to learning multiple exposures. “I went analog because I loved holding my instant self-portraits as I snapped them,” she says. “It’s a tangible relief in a digital world going virtual. I needed to see the real me, to grapple with my emotions, contradictions, and pain. I’m an explorer. Manuals? No way! I prefer figuring out cameras myself, even if it means errors and wasted film … analog forces me to slow down, choose shots carefully, and even space months between double exposures. Watching this change is exhilarating–nothing, not even ourselves, stays the same.” Forest is a Temple emerged from a mindset of continuous change: the pandemic, isolation, meditations on time and the human connection with nature. 

“For a considerable period, I dedicated myself to daily immersions in the forest for hours on end. Witnessing my reactions to the captivating beauty of plants and animals never ceases to ignite the artistic fire within me,” Laetitia explains. “The progression of the forest from week to week is an endless well of inspiration; I can revisit the same spot and be mesmerized by the evolving transformation each being undergoes in response to weather and time. The contrasting reactions of two individuals to a single situation, too, intrigue me, urging me to emphasize this diversity through my imagery.” 

Top 10 Technology Posts of 2023

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Top 10 Technology Posts of 2023

Drip-by-drip and accompanied by a soothing ASMR-inducing metronomic tempo, Japanese technology and home appliance brand BALMUDA’s coffee machine proved to be Design Milk readers’ most popular home/kitchen appliance of the year. We’ll drink a cup of our favorite roast in recognition and celebration of coffee and good design’s enduring appeal.

There’s nothing subtle about these limited edition conspicuous Lime Green made-to-order earbuds from Bang & Olufsen’s ongoing Atelier Editions line. And that’s probably at the heart of the appeal of these citrus hued earbuds in a world where everyone else is seen wearing white or black in their ears.

Ultra short throw projector set across marble top media console projecting onto nearby screen a field of flowers.

Televisions are supersizing every year, with numerous manufacturers pushing OLEDs and LCDs towards normalizing 100-inch displays in our living rooms. But another option exists, one allowing for an enormous picture pushing upwards of 150-inches that will allow you to retain a living space without a large black rectangle set up along or onto the wall, and that’s an ultra-short throw projector. Our favorite and yours was the LG CineBeam, a decor-friendly design with videophile specs.

Fractal gaming PC with white case and slat wooden front on desk with monitor, headphones, lamp, wireless gaming control pad and mouse nearby.

Made with a real oak or walnut paneled face and embellished with a faux leather tab, these gaming machines stand out as the epitome of Scandinavian design – simple, sophisticated, and evocative of the natural – a description rarely associated with the realm of PC gaming. The subtle approach earned the Gothenburg-based Fractal North a Red Dot Design Award 2023, and we concur.

Render of TELO electric truck driving on road with sunset illuminated sky.

With its pugnacious mug, this tiny tot of a truck designed by Yves Béhar won us over with not only its memorable exterior design, but also its specs: powered by a 106kWh battery pack capable of charging up to 80% capacity in a mere 20 minutes, the 380 kW dual motor AWD produces a serious 500hp, meaning you could accelerate from 0-60mph in just 4 seconds and be good for 350 miles of range. Wow.

Top half of the Lunar home battery storage system in dark blue.

Maybe we should not be surprised our readers are interested in learning more about developments in residential battery storage systems noting more and more households are welcoming PHEV vehicles into their garages while also upgrading energy efficiency/resiliency at a time when electricity costs are skyrocketing. Lunar’s modular hardware is designed to grow as needs increase over time, allowing homes to add blocks with the relative ease of LEGO bricks.

angled side exterior view of modern gray and blue teardrop camper

This adorably small teardrop camper’s compact size paired with its full range of electric-powered accoutrements made for a popularly tempting example of how “roughing it” won’t feel quite so challenging in the near future as EV technologies continue to allow for an assortment of creature comforts in tow.

Silver and blue The Boulder teardrop trailer parked against the backdrop of rocky arid mountains and partially cloud skies.

Similarly, but not the same, this other teardrop-shaped camper trailer also proved popular in 2023 for all of us daydreaming of leaving the desk and hitting the road. But where the aforementioned MINK-E presents itself as a Wall-E cute option, the Boulder leans more into a Tesla-inspired design, including its more angular profile, gulping doors, and aero wheels. More importantly, the camper is engineered to extend the range of an EV hitched to it, essentially easing any concerns of range anxiety when setting off on a roadtrip.

Close up corner view of geistmaschine mechanical keyboard in white and bronze focused upon numerical keys section.

We posted numerous keyboards over the years and none have stood out for being so luxuriously modern as these monolithic minimalist slabs embellished with bands of polished steel, copper, or rose gold that give each peripheral the feel of something deserving of a place within a jewelry case. The starting price of $669 did not seem to deter curiosity, noting the Berlin-based Geistmachine’s keyboards ranked as our second most popular post of 2023.

And the most popular technology post of 2023 is…

Exterior of LG Smart Cottage showcase home at IFA 2023 with man and woman looking at the home standing on faux grass.

The LG Smart Cottage made an appearance at the IFA 2023 technology show in Berlin, showcasing the brand’s latest and greatest smart home appliances and integrated app-controlled features all within a modestly-sized prefab residence. Optimized for energy efficient heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC,) and powered by solar, the “Sea Ranch exterior meets Silicon Valley condo” rated as our most popular technology post of 2023.

Gregory Han is a Senior Editor at Design Milk. A Los Angeles native with a profound love and curiosity for design, hiking, tide pools, and road trips, a selection of his adventures and musings can be found at gregoryhan.com.

Duchesse de Berry Bindings, Camus Proofs, Pier 24 Photographs: Auction Preview

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Duchesse de Berry Bindings, Camus Proofs, Pier 24 Photographs: Auction Preview

Things are winding down for this year in the sale rooms, but there are still a handful of sales to watch this week:

At Sotheby’s New York on Monday, December 18, 128 lots of Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation, the last of this series of sales to benefit several charitable organizations. Lots include a gelatin silver print of Edward Steichen’s 1928 photograph of Greta Garbo  and his 1924 image of Gloria Swanson (each estimated at $15,000–25,000). Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Rue Mouffetard” has been assigned the same estimate range.

There are a number of book-related lots in the Sotheby’s Paris sale of the Collection Hubert Guerrand-Hermès, Autour de la duchesse de Berry on Monday, including a copy of the 1822 Didot catalog of the Galerie de son Altesse Royale Madame la Duchesse de Berry (€1,000–1,500) in a binding with the initials and coronet of the duchess on the front board. An 1823 Paris edition of Dante’s Opere Poetiche bound by Simier could sell for €800–1,200. These are just two of many different interesting bindings, many by known binders, available in this sale.

Osenat holds an online Books & Autographs sale on Wednesday, December 20, in 215 lots. A corrected proof copy of Albert Camus’ L’Envers et l’endroit (1956) along with a drypoint portrtait of Camus by Hans Bellmer rates the top estimate at €5,000–6,000. A 1762 Pasquale Paoli letter to Gregorio Salvini, a 1924 Albert Einstein letter to industrialist Herman Anschütz-Kaempfe, and a 1609 Pope Paul V letter to Henri IV of France are each estimated at €4,000–5,000. A volume of nearly sixty Jacques Callot etchings in five suites is expected to sell for €3,000–4,000.

Footage Shows Israel Border Police Beating Photographer

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Footage Shows Israel Border Police Beating Photographer
Israel Border police beat up photographer
Press photographer Mostafa Alkharouf is dragged to the ground by Israel Border Police in East Jerusalem.

Shocking footage filmed on Friday shows a press photographer being beaten by Israel Border Police in East Jerusalem.

Mostafa Alkharouf who works for the Anadolu news agency was accosted by several police officers after covering a prayer protest.

Warning: The below footage is violent and disturbing.

The footage shows Alkharouf, who is apparently a well-known photojournalist in the area, being punched in the head by a police officer. Afterward, one of the officers points a gun at him before using the weapon’s barrel as a blunt object to hit the photographer over the head with.

He is then dragged to the floor and repeatedly kicked in the head as he calls out in pain. The person filming the footage is ushered away by another officer.

Alkharouf was taken to hospital and treated for the injuries sustained to his head and face.

The Israel Border Police has suspended two of the officers involved and the Department of Internal Police Investigations has opened an inquiry into the incident.

According to The Times of Israel, a police statement initially said that journalists had interfered with their operations and had refused an order to vacate the area.

Haaretz describes Alkharouf as “a well-known photographer in the city who also documented the aftermath of Hamas’s massacre on the Gaza-border communities.”

The incident comes after a Reuters news agency investigation concluded that an Israeli tank crew was responsible for the killing of one of its visual journalists in southern Lebanon.

While the photography collective Magnum Photos issued a statement last week calling for an end to the killing of journalists and media workers in Gaza and the surrounding areas.

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