Tech AhBoon | 31 Mar 2008
Electronic Calculators from the Past
When I first looked at these gadgets, I really think that was an antique calculator.
It is actually fantastic anachronistic adding machines designed by Andy Aaron. An adding machine is a type of calculator, usually specialized for bookkeeping calculations. Conceptual residing between the abacus and supercomputer, these machines are the products of Aaron’s ‘Back to the future’ type of obsession, a marriage of 70’s era calculator technology, LED display, and old, odd switches in still older wooden boxes. Some have a nautical vibe, some agricultural, others look like they might be magic contraptions - all are unique and ingenious.
At the time when lighting-fast calculation is taken for granted, Aaron’s machine offer deliberate purposefulness to everyday calculation.
Arts AhBoon | 19 Mar 2008
Stunning Underwater Photography by Zena Holloway
Photographer Zena Holloway’s stunning underwater photography. I can’t say much about this except - wow!!
Zena Holloway, the underwater photographer, is an enthusiast. She enjoys being a photographer, but it is the underwater part which really gets her passions bubbling. To talk with her is like taking part in the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale; you feel that she is doing her best in a dry world but deep down she yearns to be back where a mermaid belongs - under the waves.
A freelance underwater photographer since 1994, Zena now has a very impressive list of clients and a collection of awards. The most recent was a merit in the 19th AOP Awards, but the Royal Photographic Society, The Portugal Film Festival and the Underwater Film Festival, France, have also added to her trophy collection.
Babes & Military AhBoon | 17 Mar 2008
Make Love Not War - Photoshoot by Steven Meisel
We all agree on the concept “Make Love Not War” … here is set of impressive photoshot by photographer Steven Meisel.
Steven is a an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in the latter’s 1992 book Sex.
Steven stirs up controversy with his glamorized imagery of the war in Iraq. His ‘Make Love Not War’ series (mostly) depicts sweaty, dirty soldiers in the middle of a war-zone interacting with models in a very “heated fashion” Apparently, claims are being made by ‘Women In Media and News’ suggesting this series of photographs are pornographic and evoke sexualizations of horrific situations, also saying that violence is erotic.
More than 60 people including models, make up artists, stylists, hairdressers … took part in this amazing photoshoot. It was published on `, September 2007.
Travels AhBoon | 02 Mar 2008
Unusual Hotel in Berlin - Propeller Island City Lodge
Can your vacation be as fulfilling if your hotel only provides you with the bare minimums and lacks the small yet unexpected luxuries?
Perhaps it can. But with a little extra time spent on researching and for an added cost, your next hotel stay can be just as exhilarating and exciting as your vacation.
The [PROPELLER ISLAND CITY LODGE] is a - truly - VERY extraordinary location. All rooms and objects were created by the German artist Lars Stroschen. Much more appropriate than “hotel” is the designation “living in a work of art”.
30 rooms with an absolutely unique and personal ambience. “Unique” is meant literally, for the entirety of all furnishings and other objects you will discover here are custom-made, individual handiwork. None can be found anywhere else on this planet - one could consider the CITY LODGE to be a MUSEUM with guest accomodations or a stay-in work of SCULPTURE.
