Balenciaga F/W 2012-13 Pre Collection

Punchy; symmetrical; neon-lit; my favorite fashion film from this year. Shot by Steven Meisel for Nicolas Ghesquiere and Balenciaga

Lukasz Wierzbowski

A selection of snaps by Polish photographer Lukasz Wierzbowski, his flickr here.

Shinkansen ver.2

Simple but effective: kaleidoscopic footage shot whilst traveling in the Japanese high-speed train Shinkansen from Shinosaka to Tokyo. By Daihei Shibata

Shinkansen ver.2 from daihei shibata on Vimeo.

The video sequence was shot on an OLYMPUS EP-1(PEN). Music: VanShe "So High"

Fast water carries sediment while slow water deposits it

A satellite image from September 1999 of the Mississippi river, showing its many channels and many ox-bow lakes. 'Soft riverbanks are continuously eroded. Floods occasionally spread across the wide, shallow valley that flanks the river, and new channels are left behind when the water recedes. This history of change is recorded in the Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River, published by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1944.'

'The delta switching has occurred every 1,000 years or so in the past. As sediment accumulates in the main channel, the elevation increases, and the channel becomes more shallow and meandering. Eventually the river finds a shorter, steeper descent to the Gulf. In the 1950s, engineers noticed that the river’s present channel was on the verge of shifting westward to the Atchafalaya River, which would have become the new route to the Gulf. Because of the industry and other development that depended on the present river course, the U.S. Congress authorized the construction of the Old River Control Structure to prevent the shift from happening.' - 'Mississippi Meanders', August 31, 2006 Earth Observatory, Nasa

More 'aerial slices' of rivers: here and of islands: here

Balenciaga Fall/Winter 2012-13 details

shiny, synthetic, rubberized, and padded effects: rubberized wool; chiffon with trim in latex, patent leather, chintz fabric, metallic jersey, coated surfaces* *Tiziana Cardini, Balenciaga F/W 2012-13 review for vogue.it

Bennett Miller 'Dachshund U.N.'

Bennett Miller's scale model of the U.N. complete with 47 dachshunds at the Melbourne Wave Festival in 2010.
More about the installation here and here.

'A Single Man' (2009) Tom Ford | Part II