IT GETS BETTER PROJECT! - together against hate!

from the website:

What is the It Gets Better Project?

Many LGBT youth can't picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can't imagine a future for themselves. So let's show them what our lives are like, let's show them what the future may hold in store for them.

Justin Aeberg. Billy Lucas. Cody Barker. Asher Brown. Seth Walsh. Raymond Chase. Tyler Clementi. All the names of American teenagers who in recent months have taken their own lives after being bullied in school.

For too long, LGBT youth have been forced to struggle through their formative years suffering from bullies in their schools, churches and homes — and with no support system to provide them any help.

Noted writer and media pundit Dan Savage founded the It Gets Better Project in September 2010 as a unique way for supporters everywhere to tell LGBT Youth that — it gets better.

Closed-minded school administrators and parents may not let LGBT adults talk directly to their children about their futures, but we don’t have to get permission to tell kids that life gets better. That’s why we’re compiling a video archive to share the stories of people overcoming bullying and finding happiness.

ItGetsBetterProject.com is a place where young people who are gay, lesbian, bi, or trans can see with their own eyes how love and happiness can be a reality in their future. It’s a place where LGBT adults can share the stories of their lives, and straight allies can add their names in solidarity and help spread our message of hope.

How You Can Get Involved

Many LGBT youth can't picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can't imagine a future for themselves. So let's show them what our lives are like, let's show them what the future can hold in store for them.

They need to know that it gets better. Submit a video now. Give them hope.

Statistics

• 9 out of 10 LGBT students have experienced harassment at school.
• LGBT teens are bullied 2 to 3 times as much as straight teens.
• More than 1/3 of LGBT kids have attempted to commit suicide.
• LGBT kids are 4 times as likely to attempt suicide then our straight peers.
• LGBT youth with “highly rejecting” families are 8 times more likely to attempt suicide than those whose families accept them.

SUBMIT YOU EXPERIENCES ON THE SITE - SPREAD THE WORLD -  more related topics on The Trevor Project

HUSSEIN CHalayan I B-side I Spring Projects London

hussein chalayan on display I spring projects I london

WALPURGIS NIGHT COMPILATION - tune up your Halloween with this eclectic mix!

an eclectic mix to play out loud at midnight on this long and scary weekend!

1. last nite i met a costume - glass candy   

2. we are water - health   

3. creeper - islands   

4. in the room where you sleep - dead man’s bones   

5. from russia with love - anton weber

6. the repairing of the red sea - the bear quartet  

7. deathdream - planning to rock   

8. donnie donnie darko - pnau   

9. bad, evil, wicked and mean - mignon   

10. nobody likes you (when you are dead) - zombina & the skeletones   

11. spooky - dusty springfield

shADE TO GRAY - Dimitris Petrou

Up and coming Greek designer Dimitris Petrou shows us his grey-skied-just-before-the-snow-brakes-through-visions of his fall/winter 2011 collection at the AMP Gallery during the launch of his new showroom in Athens. Inspired by the dressed-in-grey orchestra in the movie "La vie en Rose" he created  ice-cold silhouettes with birdlike-cape-elements...draped backdrops on casual-chique trousers. Simple heroics...let the winter begin!

fashion Video directed by Tina Sardelas for Greek fashion designer Dimitris Petrou // SUR MESURE A/W 2010-11
 

Video Art - Director: Tina Sardelas
Hair : George Marascas // Make-up : Tzeni Toumazatou
Models : Haley , Christos VN Models
Creative Supervision : Antonis Kozakidis
Styling Advisor : Manos Jojos
Music: Fade to Grey, Nouvelle Vague

thanks to yatzer

a VISUAL VAGINA - Lucy McRae & Nick Knight

Nick Knight @ Showstudio invited Lucy McRae and Champagne Valentine to create a new work inspired by the well coveted part of the human body, the Vagina for his project The Fashion Body. The result is an electrifying journey of Lucy's body morph sculptures in amongst a surrealist, psychic-sexual landscape.

Music by BFleischmann "Last Time We Met At A T&TT Concert"

Other collaborators on the project include Lady Gaga, Gareth Pugh and Rick Owens. Visit the work here showstudio.com/​project/​fashionbody

LED LIGHT CLOCK - by Hiromura & Takahashi

The Hikari no Tokei (”Light Clock”) is created by Yugo Nakamura and Yukihiro Takahashi, making use of eleven thousand LED bulbs. When the store opens and on the hour the clock also plays music. This "clock" can be spotted at the basement entrance to the Seibu department store in Ikebukuro

direction : madaaki hiromura

music : yujihiro takahashi

interior : tonerico inc

motion : yugo nakamuro

thanks to basic_sounds

- just me - getting ready for my new job -

UPSIDE DOWN LIBRARY = ESPRESSO BAR = NEW YORK

a new EsPREssO-bar near GRaND CeNTRaL STAtioN in NEW YoRK 

by 

NEMA WORKSHOP

read it 

at 

DEZEEN.com

HEDI SLIMANE - video for TheCorner.com - a Sidney and Wolf story

This "I love USA" video by cult-fashion designer-photographer-Phoenix-fan HEDI SLIMANE was commissioned by fashionweb-walhalla TheCorner.com. In this of course black/white video Slimane gives his idealistic vision on the USA brought to live by 2 typical & idyllic Californian youngsters Sidney and Wolf, who meet for the first time on Venice Beach.

Slimane came up with the title because of his nicknaming Sidney "USA", as she embodied for him the typical and iconic vision of an all-American beauty! She also appeared in some of his photographs & diary's. You can check them out on his website.

Enjoy the video HERE on TheCorner.com or HERE at Mr. Slimane's

indian summer

the Office 1 and 2 - RUUD VAN EMPEL

Dutch photographer and artist Ruud van Empel, first caught my eye on a trip to Bilbao, where some of his artwork from his "Office" collection was on display in the small, but cosy and nicely designed boutique Miró Hotel (just a few steps away from the shiny Guggenheim Museum).

Recently he made an addition to this collection simply called  "Office 2", where he uses the same concept but now in lucious, dazzling candycolors!

I just love this collection, because of his surreal approach, often even very funny but ever so edgy and precisely to the point and accurately detailed. There is so much to see and discover in these photographs!

check out his work at :

Flatland Gallery  

Utrecht, The Netherlands

SOLO EXHIBITION “Wonder” October 30 - December, 2010

and if you are in the neighborhood

Paris Bejing PhotoGallery  

Bejing, China

SOLO EXHIBITION December 11, 2010 - February 1, 2011

all pictures & artwork courtesy of Ruud van Empel

PACKAGING WITH A HEART for BEARS - Life NK

From Space NK, this London founded company, offering a carefully edited selection of high quality, original and effective beauty products from innovators and specialists around the world,  comes this lovely line called Life NK, styled by BOB Design in London, where a joyful polar bear likes to explain you where every product is used for!

Mireille Burkhardt, director at London-based Bob Design explains, that the bear in the graphics was inspired by the little bear-charm of Space NK-founder Nicky Kinnaird, that travels everywhere with her in her handbag. And so she wanted it to be a good-luck traveling-companion for every one who buys the products!

The Hundred in The Hands - new video - COMMOTION

from their self-titled album this new single/video by The Hundred in the Hands has been released into the world. Some sinister-green-trippin' video made by Daniels who also did a great job on the Pigeons video!

single officialy launched by Warp Records  on November 15!

MODO PARCOURS - BRUSSELS FASHION WALK 22-24/10

Walk the fashion-walk in the Dansaert-area & the Electriciteits Centrale at Place St-Cathérine in the heart of Brussels. Get your ticket first at La Centrale Electrique/Electriciteits Centrale (8 euro), open your map and go and see the fashionable shopping windows & the designers behind them. Get a drink in the shops, go to the dj-fused events and get some -make-your-best-friends-jealous hot new fashion-additions to your wardrobe!

Designers — Ada Rajszys, Andrea Kern, Annemie Verbeke, B by B, B.E. MEN, Cabanekaban, Carine Gilson, Cathy Pill, Cécile Bertrand, Céline Lellouche, Christa Reniers, Christophe Coppens, Ciss N’gagne, CLJP Originals, Conni Kaminski, Eric Beauduin, GIRLS FROM OMSK, Giuseppe Virgone, Guaranteed veritale super mix, Han Mannaert, Heidewinne, Homemade, Hüsniye Kardas, Isabelle Lenfant, Isabelle Azaïs, Jean-Paul Lespagnard, jeanpaulknott, Jessie Lecomte, Jojo Project, Johanne Riss, Kim Stumpf, Le Fabuleux Marcel de Bruxelles, Mademoiselle Jean, marianne timperman, Martin Bing, Michael Guérisse O’Leary, Monsieur Bul, Mouton Collet, Olivia Hainaut, own Shop, Pieceofchic, Samuel Dronet, Sandrina Fasoli, Simon-Pierre Toussaint, Sophie Heymans, The Cookie Therapy, The Wolf, Tine Prophete, Valérie Laroche, Vanessa Vukicevic, Walter Lecompte, Yael Landman, l’atelier Design Textile de l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, l’Institut Saint Luc and Atelier Lannaux.

personal highlights:

Christophe Coppens,

Sandrina Fasoli

Girls from Omsk

click on the pictures to go to the MODO-website!

the jewel and the beast(s) - Tithi Kutchamuch

I just got so dashed over by the now London based Thai designer Tithi Kutchamuch, who worked on and created all kinds of amazing stuf, from minimal "tea-time-sets", to "a pingpong-surface-adjustable-to-almost-every-table",...

But for now I would like to focus on this intriguing collection of "secret friend" jewelery.

Already the 3th "generation" of this collection, made for the "Collect" exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery this year. 

From her own experiences of her childhood where she was always surrounded by animals of all kind, she, now living in the busy and somewhat animal-unfriendly London, created a collection of personal and precious objects you can call your friends, made out of Brunt Oak, Zebrano, Bronze, Silver, Aluminium.

There are bracelets made out of rabbits and cows, reindeer-rings and a sinister parrot-guardian who keeps your necklaces and rings save in his golden belly!

You can check out her work from 17 November-5 December, at the Prediction on The International Design Biennale in St-Etienne, France

 all credits here

schizophrenic ceramics - studio nadadora

Spanish design studio nadadora by Cristina Alonso and Isaac Piñeiro created this unique schizophrenic BOOTLEG 2008 vase where 2 classical shaped vases are cut up and connectect again during the fabrication. A simple concept that gives an effect with a twist, they applied on a little collection of minimal-homeware. For people who like their design to change by every diffent angle of perception! 

But not only their ceramics are worth looking at. Besides graphic styling and ceramics, they also created this wooden food-pick set based on an animal-ish concept called FAUNA and their sober-minimal version of the ABR produced chair Silla Laten.

ROISIN MURPHY on BOADICEA - the new track by Mason + official VIDEO!

A fresh new tune by MASON ft. our modern time Boadicea Roisin Murphy!

now with new remix by Oliver $

  Mason featuring Roisin Murphy - 'Boadicea' (Oliver $ Remix) by Mason

SHAO FAN - an incurable classicist

An Incurable Classicist, is a collection of outstanding oil paintings by Shao Fan at the Contrast Gallery in Shangai. In his sober-styled paintings with their soft colors, he tries to bring together the contemporary and traditional Chinese style. Herefore he uses old techniques as wen ren and going-bi to evoke in his paintings the overall atmosphere of those of old (family) portraits.

thanks to designboom