Word: metallism
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...COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF CRUDE oil has been among the most liberating technologies the world has ever known. When pumped though an internal combustion engine stuck in a metal box, refined oil has given freedom of movement to billions. Before the automobile, the life experiences of most of those who lived in the rich world were limited--as in much of the poor world they remain--to neighborhood and family. When shot through gas turbines on wings, oil has shrunk the planet in a way that was once the stuff of science fiction. Neither of my parents ever flew; both...
Danzka vodka's specially designed metal bottle is made to chill vodka to optimal temperatures 50 minutes faster than vodka in glass packaging and also keep it ice-cold for almost an hour longer...
...commercial exploitation of crude oil has been among the most liberating technologies the world has ever known. When pumped though an internal combustion engine stuck in a metal box, refined oil has given freedom of movement to billions. Before the automobile, the life experiences of most of those who lived in the rich world were limited - as in much of the poor world they remain - to neighborhood and family. When shot through gas turbines on wings, oil has shrunk the planet in a way that was once the stuff of science fiction. Neither of my parents ever flew; both...
...there anything quite so stupid and time-wasting as the 1980s metal detector - the all but obsolete device that had gold diggers scouring beaches and suburban dumps for treasure? You can find yourself asking such questions with the work of Australian sculptor Ricky Swallow. And in the case of Diagonal Choir, 2000, his full-scale replica of a metal detector, made from PVC and epoxy and sprayed a ghostly white, you could ask: has anything as purposeful and beautifully crafted been shown in a gallery recently? Swallow, 29, is fascinated by the objects contemporary culture spits out. So when...
...Yabu and Pushelberg created this subtle detail in Four Seasons Tokyo, completed in 2002, was to commission a local artist to build translucent white-onyx slabs framed with metal and finished to look like antique Japanese pewter screens for the lobby and lounge. "So much design is about exaggeration," says Pushelberg. "We're interested in a narrative approach, researching where our clients come from and using forgotten techniques from the past...